I'm going to receive my PlayBook in 9 days... So I have a little question:
If I connect my BB trough Bridge but my Wireless connection is turned off, but I'm connected via Wi-Fi and my PlayBook is connected too, the BBM will work?
If BlackBerry Messenger requires a wireless carrier connection and only works with a wireless carrier network connection, then BBM will not work with WiFi from the smartphone or the tablet. BBM will not work without an active wireless carrier network connection; on WiFi on the smartphone is just queues the outbound BBM messages.
I have an active BIS data plan and sometimes I use BBM just with Wi-Fi..
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I have a BIS account as well but during my testing today of BBM, in response to the original question posted in this thread, on the BlackBerry 9700 BBM outbound messages displayed with a red clock icon next to the messages while WiFi was enabled and carrier network was disabled. I cannot imagine the BlackBerry PlayBook in bridged mode would fare any differently. However, as soon as I enabled the carrier network on the smartphone the queued BBM messages were delivered - the red icon vanished and possibly a green icon replaced it but not sure now; I sent these test messages to myself.
How did you get BBM to work via WiFi with no carrier network?
If you have your service book and the Host routing table active, you can use BBM with only Wi-Fi, I always use it in my trips, I never turn on the Network.
If you have your service book and the Host routing table active, you can use BBM with only Wi-Fi, I always use it in my trips, I never turn on the Network.
Excellent. I am not sure why this did not work this afternoon when I tried it. Oh well! I learned something today that will benefit me for years to come.
One thing to watch for with wifi hotspots - your phone may show that you are connected at the top of your homescreen - but it may not be. Usually you have to launch your browser and accept a user agreement before the wifi connection is made. I have been fooled by this more than a few times. Now I make a habit of checking my BIS service status after I connect with free hotspots just to be sure. There are CA or root certificates that can mess with the connection process as well. It took me a long time to connect to the McDonald's hotspot at Charles de Gaulle aeroport in Paris, I believe it finally came down to the javascript setting on the browser. Lately it's Starbucks that's giving me fits....