I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a rather significant bug/issue with the latest version of AIM (I only recently got an iPhone so I don't know if this issue was present on any previous version).
Basically, it seems that if you are relatively active and opening applications and/or doing other stuff on the phone and receive multiple AIM messages, you will receive the push notification of the message and/or (depending on your push settings) the badge icon indicating the # of messages received, however once you open AIM to read the messages, one or more messages received may simply NOT BE THERE at all (even if you could READ the message from the push notification!)..
I was browsing the AOL iblog and found this comment posted which seems to indicate that it isn't an issue isolated to my phone:
"I'm running 3.0 with the paid version of this app on a 3g iPhone. The problem I'm running into is when the app is closed and I'm doing anything else. I'll see a badge on the icon alerting me of new IMs but when I open the app only 1 will show up, the most recent. This is very frustrating. For example I had 6 new messages according to the badge, I opened the program and all I see is a one word IM correcting the spelling of what I can only assume is from one of the 5 IMs that are missing. Is this a known issue? Is there any fix for this currently? The fact that this is the paid version makes it that much more frustrating that it seems to be losing messages."
From my experience it seems to be random in terms of how many messages get lost. Also, it seems that if your phone is just sitting there idling at the home screen then messages appear to NOT get lost and do appear properly (I tested this briefly but not exhaustively, so don't quote me on this).
So, anyone else notice this? Has anyone noticed this on any other IM apps such as Beejive? Any idea on a workaround, or do we just have to hope AOL decides to fix their issues? It appears to be 'random' enough that not many people have noticed it (hey, you simply might never have received the message, or received 3 out of 4 messages with the ones you received not cluing you in to the fact that one message might be missing, leaving you blissfully unaware that message(s) are missing) so hopefully this post gets some attention to the bug.
Basically, it seems that if you are relatively active and opening applications and/or doing other stuff on the phone and receive multiple AIM messages, you will receive the push notification of the message and/or (depending on your push settings) the badge icon indicating the # of messages received, however once you open AIM to read the messages, one or more messages received may simply NOT BE THERE at all (even if you could READ the message from the push notification!)..
I was browsing the AOL iblog and found this comment posted which seems to indicate that it isn't an issue isolated to my phone:
"I'm running 3.0 with the paid version of this app on a 3g iPhone. The problem I'm running into is when the app is closed and I'm doing anything else. I'll see a badge on the icon alerting me of new IMs but when I open the app only 1 will show up, the most recent. This is very frustrating. For example I had 6 new messages according to the badge, I opened the program and all I see is a one word IM correcting the spelling of what I can only assume is from one of the 5 IMs that are missing. Is this a known issue? Is there any fix for this currently? The fact that this is the paid version makes it that much more frustrating that it seems to be losing messages."
From my experience it seems to be random in terms of how many messages get lost. Also, it seems that if your phone is just sitting there idling at the home screen then messages appear to NOT get lost and do appear properly (I tested this briefly but not exhaustively, so don't quote me on this).
So, anyone else notice this? Has anyone noticed this on any other IM apps such as Beejive? Any idea on a workaround, or do we just have to hope AOL decides to fix their issues? It appears to be 'random' enough that not many people have noticed it (hey, you simply might never have received the message, or received 3 out of 4 messages with the ones you received not cluing you in to the fact that one message might be missing, leaving you blissfully unaware that message(s) are missing) so hopefully this post gets some attention to the bug.
