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I would only like particular applications to show notifications when I'm not on Wifi and those would be:

  • Google Services - unfortunately there are several syncs here but AFAIK we can't control individual ones
  • Google Search - I'm not sure what this one does but I suppose I want to keep this one up
  • GMail - for obvious reasons

But all of the others I would like to disable. Including Facebook.

The problem I'm having is that Facebook notifications are still being displayed on my phone. What am I missing?

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  • Did you have turned off "Accounts and Sync" from "Settings -> Accounts" ?
    – yrajabi
    Sep 10, 2012 at 12:35
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    @yrajabi: Facebook account doesn't have such setting.
    – Robert Koritnik
    Sep 10, 2012 at 14:07
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    It has been known that some apps ignore the "Restrict background data" setting. However, I have this setting turned on for only the facebook app on my SGS2 with ICS and I never get any notifications.
    – THelper
    Sep 21, 2012 at 12:06
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    @THelper are you sure you are talking about restrict background data, and not having background sync in mind? For the latter, this is true (API says "apps should obey" that setting, not they must). To my knowledge, it's not for the app to decide whether it has to obey "restrict background data"; rather the system enforces this like a "mini firewall" AFAIK. The point with the FB notifications might be that they are pushed from the outside, using the central push service instead of being polled by the app (see Dan's answer, GCM).
    – Izzy ♦
    Oct 26, 2013 at 22:46

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Facebook's notifications come through Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). As such, the Facebook app itself isn't using the network at all, as all apps' GCM messages come through one connection, owned by the Google Play Services process.

There's no user control for individual GCM endpoints. It's up to Facebook to provide an option for notifications.

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