I’ve been having a lot of trouble with third party IM apps on my 8703e but finally I settled on IM+ after Yak-on mysteriously stopped connecting, Ramble kept crashing and Google talk could not successfully access enough Jabber servers to manage all my contacts.

Though IM+ has a TCP/IP mode which worked very well initially, it stopped working after a day and I am now forced to use the slower HTTP mode.

I’ve also had problems with other apps, such as BBToday’s weather and stock features, though I can’t really verify if they actually use the TCP/IP stack. When I called Verizon Wireless, they claimed they aren’t blocking any particular protocols or ports on their end.

Has anyone who uses IM+ been successful in connecting via TCP/IP regularly? Are there settings which must be adjusted on the 8703e? I searched the Options menu extensively and found no TCP settings as 8700 devices from other carriers seem to have.

Bogdan

I had issues with TCP apps on my 7130e.

Hmm... so there's no workaround?

i have no problems with yak-on.. email the developer he is very helpful. my buddy list was slow to load and he instructed me to use an older build version.. works perfectly!

I am having a lot of problems connecting to any IM software...it just never connects. From what i've read the only way to get around it is to get on a BES server.

my company is going to set it up next month, cant wait.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. It looks like I'm not the only one having this issue. I would give Yak-On another try, but seeing as I've already bought IM+, I'm a bit reluctant to spend more money.

If anyone gets TCP/IP working for IM+, please post here.

Bogdan

bogdan2,

try Multi-IM Network Instructions [Using Google Talk]

ive used it with msn & aim.

Try setting your TCP's APN. See HOWTO Use BlackBerry As Modem For Laptop!

Well, it's not for lack of trying that I gave up on the GoogleTalk route. I couldn't find any reliable Jabber servers for AIM or Yahoo.

If you could point me in the direction of a few I'll give it another shot. And I did try the usual servers listed in the GoogleTalk thread elsewhere in these forums.

for aim use aim.deepdarc.com
i didnt try yahoo

I'm agreeing with the original poster that we 8703e users are getting shitty service when we want to use chat clients because we have no tcp/ip options...