BetaLabs

Woops. I tried to comment earlier, but it didn't seem to go through. So, along with Tommi, I declare us morons too :) We messed up some package the wrong way and hence the problems.

Everything ought to be fine now, and you should get the right packages from both our web site under betalabs, as well as from the www.chat.nokia.com/app.

Thanks for your patience!!

Some replies to comments above:

@gerrymoth: We've exchanged emails about this, but I'm glad you got it working. Indeed, you need both packages (and the right ones, which co-incidentally were not served up right at first). We apologize for the inconvenience.

@Paul: Yes, the S60 3rd Ed FP 1 version didn't get an update. The only new thing was the availability of the S60 3rd Ed version. For a phone that runs 3rd Ed FP 1 you shouldn't see any changes from the past.

@Jukka: We appreciate your patience. We're working on it. We just don't have a big team, and we have to make decisions how to spend the time we have -- of course, we want to do our best to serve everybody :-)

Thanks for the encouraging feedback - and noticing that we did wrong first!

BR, Kristian

So why not ad more functionality to the Gizmo client, also offered at Beta Labs? Why another chat client that does not work with other IM services (like Gizmo does)?

I do like the intergration with Contacts, but using two applications for almost the same purpose? I do not get that.

I think you've uploaded inverted links: new Beta 2 build 5 for old devices and old Beta 1 build 3 for new ones.

Plus, the support application version (1.05) is older than the one available before (1.06).

Why does nokia chat keep on signing me out? I have to go in manually tell it to get back online. If i am texting it

To elaborate on Konceptz' observation, I wrote a bot to do the same thing as one of the Gtalk conference bots, only from an Ovi account, to eliminate the possibility that the inter server communication was an issue.

It worked fine for a good while, but the server started ignoring it earlier today. It can log in and receives messages (including presence updates) from others just fine, but the server won't send it its contact list, nor will it forward messages (including presence updates) for the bot.

Kristian,
Thanks for the response!
I think it would be a good idea to have an option of socket/http, in all the apps if possible. I have seen this few applications, like Nimbuzz.

Thanks,
Uday

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Works on my E71, but not yet on my E61 in Canada..please fix the E61 problem

It's working now on my E61i (v2.063333). Nice work.

It works, but crashes often on my N80.

The big problem comes when the Nokia Internet Services Support Package 1.05 or 1.06 gets installed. After installing it, my mobile Windows Live Messenger client refuses to connect and gives an error. No matter which type of access point I use, it won't connect (unless I downgrade to Nokia Internet Services Support Package 1.01, which is the version that gets automatically installed when you select Windows Live in the download app)

Software packages/links fixed. We are morons. Thanks for letting us know.

(I wonder if we should set up some kind of quality checks to this website. That would slow things down a bit, but would save us from embarassing moments like this)

The download link is http://www.chat.nokia.com/app

Just installed on my Nokia E61-1 with latest FW v3.0633.09.04 and getting "System Error (-1)" when trying to open Nokia Chat.

Hello, i downloaded it to my nokia E71 but when i click on the chat icon it doesnt open at all.

Any help please?

Its not going backward Jukka.
Users of these phones should have the ability to join the Chat community since there devices are capable of that and they are still more than the 3.2 users.
Great Job Nokia.

Okay 3rd attempt at posting to this blog.

Nokia Chat is not working on my E61 or N73 (both latest firmware) and is not appearing in Contacts like it does with my N95 8GB

@danmundo: What is the network that you're using? It sounds like the keep-alive signaling might be set to too long in your case.

@Mann: Yes, this is something we should do, hopefully this is fixed in the next update.

-Kristian

I just installed it on my E65, but it messed up my phone... :(
App doesn't start, and the biggest problem: Can't open my contacts anymore. Application just doesn't start anymore. It shows to be running in the task list, but when I access it, nothing happens. I can't close it either... Anybody else recognizing this problem? And even more important: Is there a solution?

Just to make sure I'm not missing anything: I chose an avatar and it shows up on my Nokia 6110 for my own account. However, when chatting to an account that's not on ovi.com, the avatar doesn't show. Is this a bug or the intended behavior?

Gmail tie in is nice, although we've discovered a very interesting bug with gtalk conference bots.

While using partychat#@gmail.com or creating and using my own gtalk chat bot, Nokia chat would put the contact offline, never again to be found by Nokia Chat.

I believe this takes place when two or more xxx@ovi.com users try to chat with the same gtalk user. I could be mistaken, I really have no idea why it's going on this way.

We tried numerous times to set up a single contact that would support IRC chat room style chatting. That way we could talk about products, fixes and programs in semi-real time.

It would be amazing if this worked through NokiaChat. We, as a community, would benefit greatly.

Thank you

hello
I am using nokia 6120
Plz send me free applications or inform me any site

Regards
Naeem

@Kristian:

To be more precise: It seems no VCard information is transmitted at all. My setup is:

1) Nokia 6110 Navigator running Nokia Chat.
2) GNU/Linux desktop PC running both Pidgin and Gajim.
3) Nokia N800 with built-in Jabber client.

I have two other Jabber accounts, one @gmail.com and one @jabber.ccc.de. I added both accounts as "friends" from my ovi-account and started talking to myself.

No client (neither Pidgin nor Gajim nor the N800's client) is able to retrieve any VCard-Information from my ovi-account. Neither first name nor last name nor avatar are transmitted.

Gajim has an XMPP Console to track the XML-code; the request for a vcard is answered by an empty response:

""

Note the trailing "/" - it should be something like

...

instead.

Also, I'm almost certain that a previous version of Nokia Chat broadcasted a human-readable location info as a status message. It doesn't do so now, I never see that my phone's at home in Pidgin/Gajim/N800.

How does the chat app connects to internet?
Sockets or http?
I have data plan, where in only http is allowed.

Works fine on my E71, BUT the ability to reconnect when signal is lost has to be fixed. The beta email reconnects automatically. Why can't this?

Dear All,

From my GTalk Client I'm trying to add my new OVI account as a friend but Nokia Chat never received the invitation. I tried using another client login in my ovi account, but the invitaion never arrived. Any help?

Thanks

SA

Sergio, I invated my Ovi-account from Gmail's Gtalk web-interface and Nokia Chat asked if I wanted to add the Gtalk account to my list. After that I was able to chat between Gtalk and Nokia Chat

Laalo, thanks. But my account is not an gmail.com account, I'm using our own domain. I'm already tried using a gmail account and works great. But using our own domain, not.

SA

Egor's idea of displaying what track is playing is excellent!
but what about giving us a pop up window as we get when new sms/mms/email arrives? there's too many button pushes to get to read an incoming message.
also will msn/yahoo ever be supported?

@scynn: That is exactly the same problem as I have reported above (#38). Hope it will be fixed in the next release.

Managed to overcome the "network error" issue on Vodafone - connect using "contract internet" rather than "contract wap". Worked for me. I think you still get inclusive MB with the data bundle

- Sandy

@ SA, tell your friends to add your (you)@Ovi.com to there gtalk client, then add them when they message u.

Hi again,

Thanks for your feedback.

@Egor: For both of your (very good) ideas, I have to say that you are reading our minds.. Thanks for the confirming the issues related to interoperability with Gtalk, we'll continue to investigate on this, nothing to report yet about this.

@Mikael: I'll report this problem forwards.

@danmundo: We've found this problem and hopefully can fix it for the next release. Thanks for your report.

@scynn, Egor: About the T9 issue, we're working on this.

@Uday: We use sockets, so communications does not go through HTTP. Sorry to hear about this, we may need to see what we can do about this..

BR, Kristian

I Installed Nokia Chat 1.0 BETA 4 build 2 On My Nokia 5500 Sport & I've Done Everything they wrote First: I installed the support file in the phone memory & then I installed the mobile client & when I Tried to open it, it gave me A Blank screen ( The Screen Frezes) & then the mobile take me to my own Folder Again & I Tried To Restar the phone but the same happens everytime I Try to Open It So Please help me because I Need That Program :( & Thanks For The Support :)

@Rich

It is not impossible. Is the icon showing an active, connected data connection below your signal strength not obvious enough for you to notice that your phone is using a data connection? If you want to sign out of Chat then you should use Options -> Sign out. You will then see that you have gone offline and have the option to sign in. Your data connection should then disconnect if Chat is the only app using it. I disagree that an icon should be shown as a running app since it is designed to be a background application and is integrated into Address Book which will already show an icon when it is running.

hello
i just install contact ovi ,and it works, but when i want to add my friend on gmail , it just said waiting for accept , but my friend already accept my request. Can you tell what's wrong with my setting.
Thanks