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Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

... does anybody know if pidgin or haze allow you to talk to (and preferably add) more than one person to a conversation? ... I've tried aMSN and that works well with multiple contacts in a single conversation ... but it's not easy to use on a touchscreen ... and I don't really need full MSN on a phone ... but it would be very nice to talk to more than one person in a conversation!

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by TuN3M@N (Post 461465)

Thx @ ShadoW2

@max-f12

Open xterm and type following

1.sudo gainroot
2.apt-get install purple-extra-protocols=2.6.3-6nix0
3.apt-get install libpurple0=2.6.3-6nix0

thats all..

After each apt-get command you have to confirm with "Y"

downgraded with these steps...
now somebody has said that a new version is in extras devel which is working properly (can anyone confirm this?)
but my app-manager and apt-get update don't show anything to update even though the repos are online again?! o.O

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

As far as I can see the version of these two is still 2.6.4, the one wich broke it (not talking about 'fault', though). The rest also has not changed / being upgraded, so I rate it unlikely.

Can you maybe specify the source?

Thanks,
Corwin

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by donsaibot (Post 442610)

Hello to you guys,

it came to my attention that neither pidgin nor the integrated chat app can do offline messages.

For everyone who doesn't understand what im talking about:

when someone in my contact list from icq is sending a message to me when im not online and i then log in to my account on my n900 i don't recieve the message the person has sent to me.

Does anyone have/had the same problem and can help me?

I checked everything on my device and the internet including this forum and i didn't find anything.

cheers

donsaibot

just thought i would reply to your concern. I haven't used icq but msn offline messaging on Pidgin works. Conversation IM only works when contact is online.

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by woodyear99 (Post 463257)

Ok so just did an informal test today. Brightness at 2, no widgets except for the data usage one - set to only update when I change page, no wifi/no autoscan, no bt, no gps, only gsm with 2g connected.

I am using the latest version of haze from the repos and only stay connected to via 2G

At 3:40 PM fuly charged with 97% from xterminal

By 8:17 pm I had done the following about 8 minutes of IM (msn) chatting, 5 minutes of phone calls, 5 minutes sending sms, browsed the internet for 10 minutes or so. Xterminal shows 39% charge.

Is this normal, I know the battery life isn't the greatest but I find this super low, cannot get through a regular day like this, not even 5 hours and the level is already falling below 50% wow. Any advice as to what I can check, disabled pretty much all the widgets and only have 3 screens with a few bookmark thumbnails.

I do notice with haze (msn only) running and 2g connected the phone does feel warmer than when it isn't running, is this normal?

holy crap this is seriously low battery life for you. I wonder what it could be. I have no problems like that, you might wanna check processes running at startup and how much memory they are consuming.

My home wifi is constantly connected and also nokia messaging ~

Btw, with a heavy cell phone usage and i am talking about music on while browsing and chat for say 2-3 hours and normal phone use for me would be say 30-40 mins. Battery life gives me a little over 8 hours depending upon a full charge or not to begin with. Most of the times i don't fully charge it so it just gives me 7 hours or so, that still is on the lower end and needs to be improved.

But in your case, you must check your settings or where exactly the memory leakage is. Or maybe some internet connection that keeps draining the battery, maybe you entered some internet connection that it keeps trying to connect to

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by niqbal (Post 479540)

just thought i would reply to your concern. I haven't used icq but msn offline messaging on Pidgin works. Conversation IM only works when contact is online.

Yeah i decided to only use Pidgin by the time the integrated stopped working at all. ( i only use icq)

greetz

donsaibot

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by niqbal (Post 479560)

I will have to read through the forums to figure out how to check what processes are running/memory usage. But I noticed that with 2G GPRS only with no IM, no email, no widgets on etc. I can only get 3 hours max of web browsing. ie if I charge fully and browse the net for 3 hours straight my battery will be dead.....

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

Tried skim reading through this thread to see if it answered my questions but don't think it did, so here goes...

I'm after an IM app for the N900 which has some/all of the following:
1. have concurrent logins to yahoo & msn
2. have concurrent multiple yahoo & msn account logins
3. allows you to sign in as offline/hidden status

I installed Pidgin, which seems pretty good, but I don't think it can do any of the above (unless I'm being an idiot and haven't seen the option). I was used to using Ebuddy on my previous (basic) phone and that was simple, but good. It handled all of the above. Is there anything like that for the N900?

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

anybody got icq back working?

Re: [Maemo 5] Instant Messaging (IM) Client? AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

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Originally Posted by eike.com (Post 483623)

anybody got icq back working?

yes. you can downgrade to a working version.
somebody in this thread explained it a few sites back.

Code:

1. sudo gainroot

2. apt-get install purple-extra-protocols=2.6.3-6nix0

3. apt-get install libpurple0=2.6.3-6nix0

you have to got "rootsh" installed for the first command ^^