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IM+ 4.28 issues

Hey i just upgraded to this version since the upgraded AIM protocols made previous versions nonfunctional. The enhancements are great and all but the problems overtake its once greatness. It's tons of times slower and even locks up my wizard. The notifications are disfunctional and you cant have spaces in your screenname anymore -__- . I was just wondering if anyone else had these problems. I emailed Shapeservices and hopefully they will/have a solution. IM+ is a great program and it hurts me to see it like this =/

I noticed a major slowdown the first time I launched the new version. Every other launch since then has still been slower than previous versions, but it's definitely usable.
Probably something to do with their "full status" support (e.g. you can set a custom away message with AIM now and away messages are automatically updated and shown for your people in your buddy list).

I've been having a problem on mine where it won't let me go to the Desktop while the program is running. I can open other programs and have it show up on top of IM+, but I can't view the Desktop.

I'm using 4.23 and it works perfect.
No problems with it, and the notifications work fine.
Maybe try 4.23 out?

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This has been edited due to discussion of warez. This is not the board for that. If you want to give instructions then do it via PM, NOT ON THE PUBLIC BOARD.

GldRush98 said:
I'm using 4.23 and it works perfect.
No problems with it, and the notifications work fine.
Maybe try 4.23 out?
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Are you recieving IMs in AIM? Because AIM/ICQ supposedly changed their protocol which led to people not recieving IMs, including me. This issue is fixed in 4.28. If you recieve IMs in 4.23, then can you send me a cab? thanks.

yea same here i used it once i didn't get a chance to play with it some more just yet but i noticed a major slow down in my first time use also along with it locking up after i started using it for a while and i had to soft reset my phone
i upgraded from the 4.23 because i was no longer able to recieve messages but i could send them

i had the same problem with 4.23 but 4.28 works fine

4.28 is horrible.. the most annoying thing is that if i am typing an IM and an IM comes in that it moves the cursor back to the first postion of the box. so if was trying to type "The lazy brown fox" and an IM comes in then it might look something like this "own fox The lazy br"

4.29 is out now.. that problem is fixed

jacob-mda said:
4.29 is out now.. that problem is fixed
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which problem

shogunmark said:
4.28 is horrible.. the most annoying thing is that if i am typing an IM and an IM comes in that it moves the cursor back to the first postion of the box. so if was trying to type "The lazy brown fox" and an IM comes in then it might look something like this "own fox The lazy br"
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it doesnt move the cursor back.. or at least i havent noticed it.

thanks for the update, i will test it out today!

no problem.

all versions of im+ are slow when using them to Y!M handles...especially if your friends has above 200 contacts..over 2 minutes of preload time.agile messenger is better!..sorry for the offtopic

I still get the cursor jump with 4.29

IM+ 4.30
Terrible, Cursor still jumps, phone now locks up when switching from portrait mode to landscape mode when you goto your contact list. Random lock ups. Will turn your phone to standby and come back to check IMs and your phone wont come back from standby, ie: has locked up, and you need to soft reset.Switching from 1 IM to another is also another hassle in itself. You need to touch the screen and select from the menu to see the other IM boxes, as said before, agile doesnt have any of the these problems and pressing the down button in the message window box then left or right fast switches from different conversations. Problem is, 1. Agile isn't free anymore, 2. Agile sends your Login and passwords through their website, many accounts have been hacked and important information stolen because of this. Sorry to jump off topic, just throwing in my 2 cents for the newest version of IM+.
BTW im running Windows Mobile Black 1.2 on my Cingular 8525 (Cingular Edition)

can u change the ugly icons on this program?
i hate how everything is neon green looking.
thanks

i used 4.30 but i have over 200 contacts and the phone freezes and have to remove the battery. i've installed im+ 1.38 and it works fine

full screen apps keep minimizing

hey guys, any clue why my mda vario II would keep minimizing full screen apps?
so far have seen it for my games as well as tomtom navigator, which is definitely no good. for games i keep goign back to the main menu or just going to the today screen - same goes with tomtom where it runs for 2 seconds and then is back to the today screen!

chamelion said:
hey guys, any clue why my mda vario II would keep minimizing full screen apps?
so far have seen it for my games as well as tomtom navigator, which is definitely no good. for games i keep goign back to the main menu or just going to the today screen - same goes with tomtom where it runs for 2 seconds and then is back to the today screen!
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Has this just started happening?
Are you doing anything (tapping screen etc) when it happens?
Did you install a new prog after which it happens?
Have you tried anthing to solve it?
Does it do it i landscape as well?
Mike

> Has this just started happening?
Since my ROM upgrade to the latest HTC one (not WM6)
> Are you doing anything (tapping screen etc) when it happens?
With games, yes. with tomtom-no, it just minimizes.
> Did you install a new prog after which it happens?
Nope. also have no running apps in the background - did a reset, started no other app and it still does it.
> Have you tried anthing to solve it?
tried disabling connection / direct push etc, gotten rid of sbp plus and my theme.
> Does it do it i landscape as well?
yes.

chamelion said:
> Has this just started happening?
Since my ROM upgrade to the latest HTC one (not WM6)
> Are you doing anything (tapping screen etc) when it happens?
With games, yes. with tomtom-no, it just minimizes.
> Did you install a new prog after which it happens?
Nope. also have no running apps in the background - did a reset, started no other app and it still does it.
> Have you tried anthing to solve it?
tried disabling connection / direct push etc, gotten rid of sbp plus and my theme.
> Does it do it i landscape as well?
yes.
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Hiya
Thanks for info. Good news is those answers have ruled out a physical cause that some folks have been getting. But it takes you into a ROM upgrade matter which is not my area. You might want to try posting in the upgrading Hermes section.
Mike

i've posted it in that forum, thanks
probably a related issue, but my backlight does not turn off and my phone does not go off after 1 minute when running on battery, even though its set to!
annoying...

chamelion said:
i've posted it in that forum, thanks
probably a related issue, but my backlight does not turn off and my phone does not go off after 1 minute when running on battery, even though its set to!
annoying...
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Probably, there will be registry keys for those settings but without a lot of tracking down I don't know which ones. Frankly I find my Hermes behaves a lot better with fewer freezes if I don't have it set to sleep/turn off backlight automatically - need to remember to do it manually though (which I don't always ) I'm lazy - waiting for all those glitches to be ironed out before moving to WM6 - keeping an eye on Kyphur and the boys though!
Mike

Launching Messaging Slow to launch

Occasionally, when I go to launch the messaging app on my xv6800 either through HTC Home or from the hardware button, it will either not launch or take it's time freezing up the phone in the mean time. other times, it opens right up. Hit & Miss as some would say. Anyone else deal with this and/or have a solution?

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Occasionally, when I go to launch the messaging app on my xv6800 either through HTC Home or from the hardware button, it will either not launch or take it's time freezing up the phone in the mean time. other times, it opens right up. Hit & Miss as some would say. Anyone else deal with this and/or have a solution?
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I deal with it and it is annoying to say the least.

If the messaging application or any application is already running in RAM then it should start up faster, But if you close it out completely it will take a while to launch an application depending on the size.

Ranger093 said:
I deal with it and it is annoying to say the least.
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Ditto.. Thought it was just me..

same here.. just something to live with.......

Just have it running in your phone's RAM. Don't close out of it because that's what will happen. I just leave mine running all the time, and I have my QuickMenu set to exclude it from closing it when you press X. It loads up instantly like this.

I suffer the same headache, though it only started for me about a week ago (and I've had my xv6800 for 4 months).
The only thing that has changed on my phone since Messaging started to freeze/lock up is that I installed the new PCM Keyboard (v 0.14). I doubt that's the cause, but wondering if any of you are running it too?

UPDATE
I recently installed SPB Pocket Plus due to some personal interests and after having it on for a day I noticed that launching the messaging application runs abit faster.

bombzhome said:
Just have it running in your phone's RAM. Don't close out of it because that's what will happen. I just leave mine running all the time, and I have my QuickMenu set to exclude it from closing it when you press X. It loads up instantly like this.
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Thanks for the Quick Menu tip! It works like a charm!

arnoldbabar said:
I suffer the same headache, though it only started for me about a week ago (and I've had my xv6800 for 4 months).
The only thing that has changed on my phone since Messaging started to freeze/lock up is that I installed the new PCM Keyboard (v 0.14). I doubt that's the cause, but wondering if any of you are running it too?
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I have PCM 14 on mine too but haven't noticed if that's been the culprit. But the Quick Menu solution works.

I recently found a registry edit (though for the life of me I can't remember where) that sped up the launching of internet explorer. It took the launching from 4-5 seconds to instantaneous. Maybe there is a reg edit to fix messaging also?

wm6.1 crashing apps

I think I tried posting this in one of dcd's rom threads but it got lost in the thousands of posts so I figured I would pull it out into a main thread...
What is up with WM closing out (crashing) background apps once you launch new ones? it's supposed to keep this stuff opened until you close it! Even if I have only 1 app opened, say Resco Pocket Radio.. and I try to go into a text message.. it will crash Resco... or if I have a PIE window open and I switch to a file browser it will crash PIE...
Is this a wm thing... wm6.1 thing or... dcd thing... or what?
I would really think this has been addressed before but I can't seem to find anything through search...
thanks

Are you using HTC X-Button or QuickMenu that may be closing your apps? Jus a thought

no htc x-button but I am using quickmenu... but that is only supposed to close the apps when u click the X in the corner... apps are closing by just launching from a notification... hard button.. or other launch method

Havn't seen that before... the only thing i can think of is double check quickmenu settings or try a hard reset, or maybe even cook a new rom. One time with a particular custom rom my text messages never made a sound -- but every other sound worked. I cook a new rom and it fixed it

i guess if no one else sees this problem it has to be something I have loaded on my device... im going to start removing things to see if i can determine the culprit... im starting with quickmenu

wow i dont think I've ever used regular start menu before but isn't it supposed to show apps that are currently loaded in memory? mine seems to be showing a list of last used apps... has like 10 things in there then program/settings...
not to be mistaken with frequenters (set in settings->menu), I have that list empty... strange!

Zenoran said:
i guess if no one else sees this problem it has to be something I have loaded on my device... im going to start removing things to see if i can determine the culprit... im starting with quickmenu
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I'm having a problem with PIE. I'll open my text messages, then go back to PIE only to have it re-open back on the homepage. It is very annoying when I'm in the middle of something and just wanna respond to a text message.

I noticed it has to do with apps that are active on the broadband network, which leads me to believe it was radio-related...
I went back to 1.4 & 1.7.0 and no crashes or anything... starting to think this combo is more stable anyways. new radios just don't seem to work all that well on verizon, at least in my experience

Palringo; battery drain; lock ups

Palringo is a pretty cool IM'ing app. The first time I installed it I found that my battery was getting chewed up even when the program was not running. I had some other problems with lock up. I uninstalled and after a couple of months I thought I would try it again.
Seems to be the same issues. Battery drain and some general lock up problems.
Wondering whether others have had similar problems.

never locked, using the current version (no beta). battery drain... I don't know really, I open it only when I need to chat, otherwise it stays shut so nobody bothers me
maybe you want to try beta version? it's been updated every 48 hours these weeks

cyberpunk627 said:
never locked, using the current version (no beta). battery drain... I don't know really, I open it only when I need to chat, otherwise it stays shut so nobody bothers me
maybe you want to try beta version? it's been updated every 48 hours these weeks
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Curious, if I close Palringo using the Task Mgr. I seemingly still show available to my contacts because they can IM me and I get a little envelope on my taskbar. If I touch that I get an option to open Palringo and then I can reply. So it seems that even when it is closed it is functiong somehow.

DLTempler said:
Curious, if I close Palringo using the Task Mgr. I seemingly still show available to my contacts because they can IM me and I get a little envelope on my taskbar. If I touch that I get an option to open Palringo and then I can reply. So it seems that even when it is closed it is functiong somehow.
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I think there is an option somewhere to define wether you want it to run in the background or not...
Great programme, i don't use it though anymore since i somehow messed the contact list and now it shows only few of them. The same with the PC client

I updgraded to the latest beta, no lockups at all, about battery I can't tell, I just chatted and messed around a few minutes. Be sure to disable the location service!!

I absolutely LOVE Palringo.
I do not go mobile w/o using this app I don't know if it uses a lot of battery, but I can say that this IM app is much better than a lot of others.
I even went PREMIUM, but sadly it doesn't work with the new MANILA/SENSE screens . They said soon it'll work and just imagine how nicely it will be implemented into 6.5.3 or 6.5.5

DLTempler said:
Curious, if I close Palringo using the Task Mgr. I seemingly still show available to my contacts because they can IM me and I get a little envelope on my taskbar. If I touch that I get an option to open Palringo and then I can reply. So it seems that even when it is closed it is functiong somehow.
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well have you checked task manager, cause when you click the "X" to close the program it only minimises it and doesnt close it. thats why your probably still receiving messages.
btw this is one of the best IM apps, although i wish they had implemented MySpace as well :/

Same problem here, battery drainage after I opened Palringo.
I've got this problem since I updated Palringo to version 2.5.6 r39750
If I close Palringo before going to bed I can be pretty sure to not be woken by my phone in the morning... Although sleeping long is pretty sweet, I don't like this behaviour too much.
Closing through the taskmanager (which tells me Palringo doesnt respond) leaves an icon on the taskbar. When I click that icon I get to choose between opening Palringo and closing the program. After closing (or trying to open) the icon vanishes and Palringo isn't listed in the taskmanager anymore. So far so good, but if I don't restart my phone, it will suck down the juice like me at an open bar ...
I didn't find any solution to this. Tracking is turned of.
I'm now trying to:
Close Palringo via the close-button of Palringo.
Set my status to offline before closing.

If you try to kill Palringo using the "x" button or a task manager it doesn't close itself, although it doesn't appear on the list anymore. Check running processes using a specialized process viewer, for example SKTools.
Quickfix: Use the exit menu in Palringo to quit the application.

Jackos said:
If you try to kill Palringo using the "x" button or a task manager it doesn't close itself, although it doesn't appear on the list anymore. Check running processes using a specialized process viewer, for example SKTools.
Quickfix: Use the exit menu in Palringo to quit the application.
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Yes, this worked quite well for me. No more problems at all