i know its been discussed before but recently any haks or anytin come out that allow bbm over wifi as im going into a roaming zone and dont feel like paying robers rates
I just got back from a trip to the US and experimented with this. I left data on at times as regular BIS email uses very little data and costs very little.
But most of the time I set my phone to - Mobile Network Options / Data Services - Off when Roaming. This way my phone still worked and when I enabled wifi, all my BIS and BBM worked like a charm.
Your other option is, if you want to turn your phone off as well, is to - Mobile Network Options / Off - then turn wifi on.
I BBM'd my brother, he didnt answer until later. Then I BBM'd one of my Crackberry.com frieds and we BBM'd when I was on WiFi
It works great. I was at a place that had zero reception but wifi was open. I connected to the wifi and pins started rolling in and I was able to respond as well.
Yup, did for me. Rogers user from Canada in US with "data off when roaming" or "Mobile Network off" Wifi on and it worked.
I had read mixed info on this in the past, hence I wanted to test it specifically when roaming in the US. This will be even more important when going overseas, where it's even more crazy expensive.
Very pleased!
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I'm looking forward to testing this out. If its true, I'm gonna let a few friends of mine who have a blackberry but no data plan (which is dumb if you ask me), in on the secret!
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I tried this a while back. I turned off my mobile network and just left the Wifi on and I was still able to send BBM messages. If I'm not mistaken, this will ONLY work if you have the BlackBerry data plan (BIS/BES).