Facebook chat heads problem

[rsmurphy]

I have a Samsung galaxy s4 and Facebook chat heads used to work when I was not on an application like android forums etc they would work on my desktop, however now they only show up when I am using an application and will not show up on my desktop. How can I fix this?

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[Alexandre Fortin]

same problem

 

[Alexandre Fortin]

i'vi tried to change the home screen type to easy mode and it was working but when i'm back to normal mode it desapear ...

 

[lghotra]

Same problem after updating to 4.2.2.

 

[Steven Ak]

I have the same issue after updating to 4.2.2
please let me know how you fix it

 

[MUGZ85]

Same problem. Is anyone working to resolve this?

 

[MarkSta1]

Same problem here. Hoping for a fix soon!

 

[MUGZ85]

Hey guys,

I found a work around that you may be interested in. I installed the app "Everything Home (Beta) and set it as my default desktop. In my opinion, the app is awesome in and of itself, It allows you to have "Smart Folders" which not only have all the apps you installed in any given category, but a tonne of other relevant ones that you can use without installing. There's also a "What's on Your Mind?" thing at the top, which you can press the microphone, say virtually anything you can think of (movies, people, objects.. etc) and it will automatically temporarily change your wallpaper to whatever you entered, and lists a bunch of apps/pages in relation to it. Further, and most importantly, when you enable it as your desktop, the Facebook Chat Heads work properly.

Depending on whether or not you want to change your desktop, this may or may not be a viable solution for you, but It also looks a lot better than the TouchWiz Home in my opinion, and I intended to keep it before I realized that it resolved the Chat Heads problem.

Anyway, I posted a video below of the app if you want to check it out. Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Mugz

Everything.me Home - The Dynamic Phone Launcher - YouTube