Your preferred mobile client

[epifone]

New to jabber but love it. Using Pidgin on Linux and Adium on OS X. I'm now trying a few different J2ME clients on my Razr2. ECO Mobile seems ok but I don't need it's baggage. eBuddy looked promising but supporting Gtalk doesn't equate to supporting Jabber as I thought it would so that's off my list. UM+ I can't get working. There appears to be a number that support jabber on getjar.com but I'm interested in hearing about your favorite. Which mobile client (not just j2me) do you use and why?

[phearnot]

I use Bombus (http://bombus-im.org). Give it a try.

[mamash]

Definitely Bombus (J2ME).

[chris]

I use Bombusmod (http://bombusmod.jino-net.ru/), although I'm not sure anymore what the mod part is, compared to original Bombus...

[florian]

Bombus??? Talkonaut FTW!!! V 4.0 for S60v3!

[Petteri]

Bombus here also. I have been using it couple of years now and it works perfectly.

[epifone]

Giving bombus v0.6.1296 a try (actually, I'm giving any suggestions a try) but I can't get a connection. With SSL turned off i get "Java IO Exception Socket closed". With it turned on I get "Java IO Exception Secure connection failure". I've messed with all of the connection settings with no success.

I appear to have similar problems with Talkonaut although no error is returned. It simply sits at "Connecting....".

ECO mobile on the other hand connects without issue. I note that this does an http connect first and then connects to the IM protocol - perhaps at the server side.

I'm with Vodofone in Australia. I'm wondering whether port 5222 is blocked. I have little evidence for this other than the phone's HDSP indicator flashes briefly when I attempt to connect and that's it until I cancel or the connection fails and I attempt to connect again.

Still investigating but if anyone has had similar issues or knows where I should point my dim wit then I'd be appreciative.

[epifone]

Vodofone? Vodafone. :rolleyes:

[florian]

I use Vodafone in Belgium, no problems.
I used Vodafone and SFR in France and Germany, no problem either.

[chris]

I'm wondering whether port 5222 is blocked. I have little evidence for this other than the phone's HDSP indicator flashes briefly when I attempt to connect and that's it until I cancel or the connection fails and I attempt to connect again.

You could try connecting to a jabber server which support port 80 or 443, just to check.

[epifone]

Thanks Chris. I'll give that a try.

[MattJ]

I use Bombus.

It used to work perfectly, then after no change on my phone, I got the error about the IO exception that you mention. I believe this is the phone provider preventing the connection.

After some months it started working again, so I am now happy :)

[epifone]

It does appear to be the phone company. I have spoken with a number of "experts" in its support team. No answer to my port blocking question was forthcoming but I have been assured that they will get back to me with an answer. In the meantime ECO Mobile will suffice.

A brief test of jabber80.com which provides a service on port 80 would not work with "Port restricted" error. Not sure whether that's from the phone or the phone company. I assume it's some filter like "port 80 but not http - disallow".

[chris]

It's probably a transparent proxy, for Port 80.
Have you tried 443? That is http/ssl, so a proxy wouldn't touch your traffic.

[epifone]

Chris,

In bombus if I check the SSL check box I get "Java.io.IOException Raw socket broken" followed by "Java.io.IOException Secure session broken". If I simply enter 443 as the port I get "Java.lang.SecurityException Restricted port number" with SSL checked or unchecked.