Comments on: Updated: BeeJiveIM, AIM, and IM+ -- Push Apps Now in iTunes Store!

By: latinogringo82

latinogringo82 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:00:39 +0000

i used beejive and i love it, but for soem reason i cannot send or recieved any pics or sounds messages thru beejive, whixh is anyone. does anyone knows how to fix that? i have already uninstalled and installed and it didnt work.

By: MisterWonderpanta

MisterWonderpanta — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:49:59 +0000

@ mazinkaiser - so bb has one advantage over iPhone. Big whoop.

By: MisterWonderpanta

MisterWonderpanta — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:45:29 +0000

So which one is better bejive or im+??

By: mazinkaiser

mazinkaiser — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:05:24 +0000

You poor iphone fanboys. Blackberry has all major IM clients that work perfectly in the background.

By: BT

BT — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:00:45 +0000

I don't know what's going on with Beejive. I've been getting a lot of unresponsiveness in the app (I actually think this is server side) and several crashes. I've also had several premature disconnections. Definitely not the $15 app I paid for. Here's to hoping that they get on these problems quick and get them fixed.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:41:17 +0000

@Moe Palringo does all of that... >_> Except for send videos which of course neither does Beejive yet.

And Palringo is a great program, it is very stable, keeps you logged in when you go to other apps, allows for group chats.. Why do you people think beejive is so amazing? I think it sucks.

By: tmoyes

tmoyes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:05:04 +0000

mine crashes constantly...worst 10 bucks i ever spent

By: Tim Brazer

Tim Brazer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:38:15 +0000

AIM works rather instantaneously. It's very nice.

By: tmoyes

tmoyes — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:16:47 +0000

anyone else having a problem connecting now? it says cannot connect to host

By: Omari James

Omari James — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:15:51 +0000

I love it. I'm gonna try with alerts on and off. I heard they didn't change PNS from how the SMS alerts are.

With the alerts on , I think it only shows the recent Alert from that application. I guess theoretically , if I get 20 PNS from AIM I won't have to exit through 20 alerts.

I'm still gonna see though.

By: SpiceRak2

SpiceRak2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:32:38 +0000

I am dealing with a issue using AIM with PNS and AIM on PC. It works fine when using the iPhone, but if I happen to be at my computer using AIM, the App doesn't know it and continues to send notifications as I receive responses on my PC! AIM doesn't see that I am signed on in two locations, either. What's the work-around for this? Do I have to go into my settings and disable PNS each time I happen to be on my computer?

I also used IM Fowarding prior to this and that worked fine, automatically determining if I was logged on my PC versus near my phone...PNS is redundant in this instance and less intuitive...am I missing something??

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:33:01 +0000

I'm liking BeeJiveIM. Only one crash so far... Nice configuration options. I wish other apps would provide this many options.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:20 +0000

you made me buy it!!! lol and it is awesome "can you dig it?" (insert adam sandler voice here)

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:36:58 +0000

being using since the release yesterday...perfect with gchat, really fast...battery is great...

By: Fassy

Fassy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:27:27 +0000

Gave in and bought beejive. Push has worked great, though like others I have been unable to log into yahoo, and it crashes every time I go to landscape mode.

By: WindBreak247

WindBreak247 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:09:57 +0000

Performance for me has been dicey at best. Granted, before push I didn't use any chat apps (why would you?), and I just downloaded Beejive on Sunday, but so far I've seen my push sounds not working, chats that Beejive is telling me failed actually reach my recipient, Beejive stealing my web sessions (Facebook), and my buddy list not being up to date.

Like I said, I'm new to Beejive, so maybe that's just the way it works, and I must also add that I'm doing my testing in a 1 to 2 bar area @ my desk, so my test conditions may not be ideal.

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:34:12 +0000

@ Adam. Beejive does send pictures in addition to voice memos and sounds. Also, the next version will give you the ability to send videos as well. of course, this will only work with the 3GS. Palringo can't really compare.

By: Olmos

Olmos — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:32:47 +0000

Beejive crashed constantly, it's not working with Yahoo accounts, sometimes push works with Google accounts but push never works with MSN. (3G)

By: Adller

Adller — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:29:26 +0000

And... What about battery life ? Anyone has tested how long the battery last ?

By: Umbel

Umbel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:28:21 +0000

Push does seem to work great and quite speedy. As for BeejiveIM... It's a good app, but not a $10 app. Competition will bring that down in time.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:05:59 +0000

@Wesley really, because I've been using palringo for a long time and it does everything I could possibly want and more. Plus I heard beejive doesn't even IM pictures. That's pathetic when you are PAYING for the app. Palringo does that for free.

By: brad

brad — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:31:36 +0000

Looks great - but having issues with Yahoo accounts - getting an error: "Connection failed on all fallback ports" and it closes. So right now I can't log into Yahoo.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:08:59 +0000

doesn't really work for me on beejive (icq). 1 of 10 Messages are getting pushed. it's still crap

By: Daveed

Daveed — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:43:54 +0000

Here is information about 2g situation http://brambourgonjon.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/push-2g/

By: DM

DM — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:26:25 +0000

Anyone had any word on why it wouldn't be working? No solutions on the Beejive forums yet.

By: Daveed

Daveed — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:52:07 +0000

2G, Unlocked. Push doesn't work. All is on, but notifications don't come.

By: iMan

iMan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:09:01 +0000

I wish I could see the stupid look on the faces over at AT&T when everyone downgrades their texting plan. You know they are gonna recover the costs somehow.

By: Rapidblue

Rapidblue — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:01 +0000

Soooooo excited about this!! Now my iPhone is complete Ok, wait, still waiting for TomTom then my iPhone is really complete

By: Mr Appleseed

Mr Appleseed — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:46:16 +0000

I feel your pain DM!!

By: Mr Appleseed

Mr Appleseed — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:53 +0000

Can't seem to get beehive push either... Shall we set something up on SETTINGS before??? Help please!

By: DM

DM — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:28:00 +0000

Can't seem to get push on Beejive working my end. Everything set to on but nothing coming through. Any ideas?

By: PSM

PSM — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:26:18 +0000

Beejive push is working great for me!

By: the dude

the dude — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:20:04 +0000

thank you push notifications! and thank you apple!!! i love beejive

By: Al

Al — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:07:58 +0000

Cross BeeJive off the list, now bring on ESPN with PNS!!

By: BT

BT — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:57:33 +0000

Unbelievable how fast the push is sent to the phone. It is there in a split second. This really is a game changer for the iPhone. Finally real IM on the iPhone!!

By: Al

Al — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:56:20 +0000

I was skeptical on paying the money for BeeJive as well. In anticipation for PNS and because they had a sale, I bought it last week for $10. It logs in so much faster than the other guys, it was definitely worth it and now there is push too! I have the AP app as well but does anyone else have other push apps they like?

By: sil3ntrid3r11

sil3ntrid3r11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:46:42 +0000

AIM (free) is working well for me as well. However, on the 1st Gen iPhone it's really slow. The keyboard locks up and delays when there is a lot of background activity, like receiving messages. Are people having a better experience on the 3G or 3GS? I bet the speed makes a difference. The fact that you get the push sounds and then log in to the app and get them again is kinda annoying, but I understand what the reason is for that. The app can download the messages until its ran so it sees that there are "new" messages still.. whatever.. I'm loving it and considering lowering my text plan now!

By: bdeezy

bdeezy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:42:30 +0000

Free aim doesn't push for me. my iphone's unlocked but I couldn't imagine that would have something to do with it because it would work on the ipod touch too.

By: Funson

Funson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:32:04 +0000

@Christin I have that same proablem, just click on the update tap again and it will show up

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:27:14 +0000

I've noticed that sometimes the push seems to get overwhelmed if it gets a bunch of IMs from one person really fast. It quits pushing until i go into the app and delete the chat.

By: Anagram4wander

Anagram4wander — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:14:39 +0000

I am not a reviewer.. Works perfectly for me.. Tested msn and aim so far.

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:09:24 +0000

it is kind of strange...I received one gchat, but the other only went to my gmail account gchat and not to beejive...otherwise, quite nice!

By: djd72

djd72 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:03:43 +0000

So excited about the Beejive update! But I can't log in... just get the spinning wheel endlessly. Interested that it mostly seemed to be working for commenters here... hoping bugs get ironed out quick, otherwise it's useless!

By: sting7k

sting7k — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:03:30 +0000

For some reason aim is saying my friend can't receive messages when I try to send him a text. He has an iPhone 3G.

By: CHiRS

CHiRS — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:01:11 +0000

yahoo won't work for me.....other than that, MySpace, Facebook and AIM/MobileMe work just fine!

By: Rey

Rey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:39 +0000

Freaking awesome. So much faster than email push from Beejive. (added by Mobile using Mippin)

By: Brrandon

Brrandon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:49:26 +0000

Phonemilk,

You can send pictures. In the chat tap on the persons name and a dropdown menu will slide out, letting you send pics, voice memo (recorded from in-app), email the conversation aaand, I forgot the last thing. But the functionality is there.

By: ScrappyIrish

ScrappyIrish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:07 +0000

Have sent and recieved SMS. Sent a pic and waiting for a reply. Push works...FAST! Waiting for a picture to be sent. My friend had to reply to a text first saying he could recieve these kinds of messages from me from now one. Is that normal? Still not sure how this works. Is this just iChat on the phone with PUSH? I wonder if they see my name like in a normal SMS or a phone number. Wish I new more people with BeeJive other than my wife who is sleeping. Contemplating waking her up, but think it might be wise to let her sleep! Yikes!

By: canonwars

canonwars — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:36:52 +0000

I have something strange happening with push on Beejive. I would get the notifications from one of my friends flawlessly, but the other friend I don't get any notifications! It seems to be account specific....

Any ideas?

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:32:18 +0000

You can't IM pictures in Beejive... but i think you can in IM+ =(

By: Daryl

Daryl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:30:39 +0000

beejive is the IM app. push works great for me. beejive is alot smoother and a little faster. I like the new backgrounds they added.

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:26:56 +0000

Nevermind i figured it out =)

By: NovyNova

NovyNova — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:26:04 +0000

yes. beejive is easily worth the cost of admission. you will delete everything else

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:25:33 +0000

GUys i wanted to add ONE thing about Beejive..

If you try to COPY something and paste it, i don't know how to paste it because there is no Typing Bar like normal chat.

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:24:52 +0000

BEEJIVE Works Perfectly! 10/10 Rating !! amazing!

By: AMFreund

AMFreund — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:16:06 +0000

I got my iPhone 3GS today and the push for beejive is INSTANT! And the app opens so quickly that it doesn't even feel like i'm closing applications. One thing I might ask for is a locked landscape mode for beejive... or just landscape buddy lists (kind of odd that they don't have this enabled). You have to go into your chat, flip it to landscape, and then flip back out for your buddy lists to be in landscape. And I wish that when you opened the app it went right into the conversation you were received the IM in... less clicks. But the push works great

By: Matt Sawyers

Matt Sawyers — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:07:29 +0000

I keep getting a "pin.mismatch" error when logging in

By: ajlp09

ajlp09 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:02:20 +0000

beejive works amazingly with push...no need for aim though so no thoughts but appl hit a hr with push...just cant wait for myspace push**

By: T

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Aim free works great!!! Also check out txtfree there push is working great still testing to make sure I can make AT&T suck it when I cancell my $20 txt plan simply ffor the no mms on 3.0 launch

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:49:58 +0000

Beejive works perfectly I get the notification instantly seriously.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:28 +0000

@Landon: for me: 1. Update Beejive to 3.0/Install it from the App Store 2. Run it 3. Accept the request to use push notifications

And that's everyting, just quit the app without logging out and you'll receive the notifications.

By: betobenaH

betobenaH — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:03 +0000

@Landon are you unlocked im having same issues not a single push notification im am so sad....

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:46:58 +0000

@Adam: Beejive is expensive because it's the best IM application on the market, I've seen the others and they just don't have the looks and the features Beejive offers.

By: Landon

Landon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:43:51 +0000

Do you have to be a developer to get the aim version for the push notification because my notifications arent working.. What do I need to do to get push on aim or beejive?

By: iRoc

iRoc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:42:16 +0000

It's awesome that push has gone live.

Rene are you posting from your iPhone? I'll tell you this I don't ever want to be the first one out the "goat" I don't want to even be in the goat.

No but seriously. Being as it took so long I bet Apple gets real selective with allowing the number of push apps. I just don't think Apple has the bandwith to follow through 100% or it would started a year ago as promised. Just my thoughts.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:42:09 +0000

Beejive has a bug: don't assign any of your contacts from the IM networks with your phone contacts, Beejive crashes and you are not able to view the person's card (but can still chat).

Push seems to be working flawlessly, even tried locked under 3G and the messages were being delivered.

I created a new WLM address just for this use, I don't want everybody in my list to reach me 24h.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:41:28 +0000

Beejive crashed on me a couple of times too after getting the alert.

By: Digitalrio

Digitalrio — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:40:01 +0000

Push works fine but the app crashes everytime I try to link to address book. Anybody else having the same issue?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:44 +0000

I don't use AIM and BeeJive costs WAY too much. Palringo for the win!! Come on! Get push!

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:27 +0000

It's work very good.i loved.but.they have some problems to reconect

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:33:03 +0000

I have AOL free version and gave it a good set of tests between computers and other iPhones. So far, a max of maybe 3 seconds day between send and the arrival of the notification. Overall, two thumbs up for Apple.

By: The One True b!X

The One True b!X — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:32:41 +0000

Christin, the only App Store problem I'm having is that App Store on my phone will tell me no updates at the same time that App Store via iTunes on my laptop will tell me there are updates.

By: TheRealJDM

TheRealJDM — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:32:20 +0000

you can always go into settings and tap on notifications, click on beejive and turn alerts off.. so you wont get the pop up, but the badge and sound will still alert u that you have a msg.. just like when an email fetch, u get the badge and sound.

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:31:29 +0000

beejive is currently having problems with yahoo. but they are sorting it out ASAP. i hope fast. I NEED MY PUSH!

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:29:35 +0000

@Rene, was that Bruce Campbell who sent you the tip?

And yes, Beejive is worth the money.

By: Christin

Christin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:26:36 +0000

also, is beejive really worth 9.99?

By: betobenaH

betobenaH — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:24:58 +0000

i am using unlocked iphone 2g and not recieved a single push notification why is this will push only go through at&t network?

By: The One True b!X

The One True b!X — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:24:07 +0000

AP Mobile has been doing push for days now.

By: Christin

Christin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:23:37 +0000

Is anyone else having the problem with the app store where it will say you have X many updates but when you go into the app store it says everything is up to date? Currently my badge says 10, but when I go in to the updates section it says all are upto date. Which, I know is not true. This is something I've only noticed since 3.0

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:22:36 +0000

Beejive crashed constantly. I deleted and reinstalled and it seems to have fixed the issue. Gotta admit, love the push. I wonder how annoying it will get after you are constantly logged in and you start getting unlimited IM messages. Just wondering!

By: Louie

Louie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:18:03 +0000

Yeah using aim (free edition) and it seems to be working well. Too bad I still have to close what I'm doing to respond.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:48 +0000

aim free version works fine, the sound pushes are annoying - however, once u enable push in aim settings, it works like a charm, on the free version!

By: jed

jed — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:36 +0000

Hallelujah! I really really really hope this works! I'm running my aim in aim and everything else in beejive. Can't wait to see this thing working'

By: dman

dman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:11:22 +0000

AIM Free Edition is also Push enabled... seems a little strange. It has some throttling, and even worse. If I receive 3 Push Notifications, then I open AIM, I get 3 instant AIM sounds playing... very annoying.