how does OZ work?

[riironman]

I am confused and am having trouble looking for straight forward answers.

1. I heard it uses text but why does it need the internet?

2. Does it kill the battery when it stays on and does it go to idle?

3. after idle will it alert me when i get a message or does it spool the messages until i log on again?


I am used to having agile and im+ and those were battery killers. i loved verichat because it used data then switched to text after it went ito background mode...to bad thats gone.

[Darkflame808]

It uses internet to authorize your phone and handle the status of your contact info. It uses text to send/receive messages. they do this to allow you to stay connected without burning battery life on idle messages sent on the evdo network. Or rather to sell you a text plan.

Basically it put's a front end gui on the freely available text messaging messenger options out there.

If you kill the program it will log you out. Minimize is ok.

[Pibe38]

Thanks for the clarification, I was curious about this as well!

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by riironman

I am confused and am having trouble looking for straight forward answers.

1. I heard it uses text but why does it need the internet?

2. Does it kill the battery when it stays on and does it go to idle?

3. after idle will it alert me when i get a message or does it spool the messages until i log on again?


I am used to having agile and im+ and those were battery killers. i loved verichat because it used data then switched to text after it went ito background mode...to bad thats gone.

It uses SMS and Data.

SMS is used for background mode. As mentioned above, when in background mode a 3rd party (Sprint?) maintains your presence on the IM network for you. This way your device does not maintain a constant data connection to the IM servers, draining your battery (and it does drain over a couple of hours).

Data is used to log on to the IM network(s) and for use when actually chatting with someone (contra Darkflame808 ).

The idea is this: you log on (data) --> minimize/background mode (SMS) --> actual chatting (data)

When someone IMs you while you are in background mode, the message goes from their computer --> AIM --> Sprint (SMS) --> your device, which is then woken up from sleep mode with a new IM notification. If you accept the chat, it then direct connects to the IM server (uses data).

The issue right now is in the lag for the SMS notification on Sprint's network, which is quite slow.

[riironman]

thank you very much..i left it on all day and no battery drain...almost as good as verichat. i looked everywhere for a explaination,even the oz website.