Best IM Solution

Dark Kite · 05-24-2009, 10:37 AM

If your anything like me then you need instant messaging such as aim or gmail etc. But your tired of paying 10 dallors for chat clients that only use one service ie Hello IM only does aim. But what if you use gmail and msn do u pay and download 2 other clients to constantly switch back and forth well using an aim transport server you don't have to.
The built in gtalk client is doesnt disconnect after 5 min of u being in another program like palringo so i used an aim transport server to add all of my aim contacts to gtalk then used my gtalk client to talk to my friends. not only can i add other sevices to gtalk making it the all in one IM client but in my phone contact list it also shows if they are online or not and i can chat with them by long pressing their name
the how to is located here Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo

*i use jaim.at for my aim transport
*tip if you don't like having their screen name as buddy@aim.jaim.at then long press their name in google talk go to friend info and Choose their actual name or something visually appealing

aknight7498 · 05-25-2009, 08:20 AM

I did this for my htc magic, my msn contacts are appearing on my phone and they have their correct statuses but whenever i try to talk to them via the official Gtalk client i get a forced close and if people try ti talk to me same thing happens.

However when i use ebuddy to connect to my gtalk account i still get all my msn contacts via this solution and i can talk to them fine.

Soemthing wrong with the HTC magic GTalk client?

dkaufman1 · 05-28-2009, 08:17 AM

Thanks for the info...your point about disconnecting and using the most stable app does make some sense. Frustrating that the first poster already had issues.

niggler · 05-28-2009, 05:12 PM

Had the same problem as the first reply :S. Got all my MSN contacts "transported" tried a few different servers to do it as well, but the android client force closes when you try to talk to someone.

Skyfall · 05-29-2009, 07:29 AM

Same for me, spent ages getting a transport to work, but on the android it just force closes when i try to open a conv

crag · 08-15-2009, 11:07 AM

The problem seems to be a bug in the Google Talk client which makes it crash whenever a contact has a percentage "%" sign in their e-mail address. As the MSN transport encodes e-mail addresses with a percentage sign, this effectively makes the client impossible to use with MSN. There's a bug report for it here, don't know why it is closed though...

Issue 1795 - android - Jabber crashes when user emails have a "%" in them - Project Hosting on Google Code

crossed.out · 08-16-2009, 11:58 AM

I've been using Nimbuzz. It's fairly new, so there are a few bugs yet; but it's been working great and has a much nicer interface than anything else out there.

They also have a version for Mac and Windows which I have been using as well.

It supports MSN, AIM, Skype, GTalk, Yahoo and basically everything else out there.

dkaufman1 · 08-17-2009, 06:45 AM

Meebo, while acknowledging disconnects happen, has been a great solution for me. I like the interface, and web interface too. It works well.

Neff · 10-09-2009, 07:03 AM

I've been having a look at IM clients, it seems to me that one huge plus for Meebo is that you don't have to sign up for an meebo account to use it. you just enter your IM account details on your phone and away you go.

Palringo, eBuddy and Nimbuzz all want me to register with them and store my IDs and passwords on their servers.

tsaunders · 11-14-2009, 08:10 AM

I said this in another thread, but I hope Beejive gets ported over to Android.

Ziani · 11-14-2009, 09:51 AM

I also use Nimbuzz, best Multi IM App I have used so far imop