[hoopitz]

I'm not sure if this is specific to the 9700, but this weird thing is happening where my text message conversations are showing up in the "Chat" section of Blackberry Messenger.

Has anyone run into this or know how to fix it?

[jkgrosh]

its a new feature for the 5.0 firmware. threaded sms in bbm.

[hoopitz]

Do you know of any way to turn it off?

[MidnightDraven]

there isnt

[jason1114]

You can stop it by NOT linking your contacts in BBM to your address book

[Deep88]

Originally Posted by jason1114

You can stop it by NOT linking your contacts in BBM to your address book

What exactly do you mean? Do you mean not having the contact in the address book named the same as the BBM display name?

[qweasd]

Ding Ding Ding!
I had that happen with my Bold on the new 5.0 OS and then I changed a contacts BBM name and did a hard reset(battery pull), now no more threaded sms in my BBM!

[Deep88]

Originally Posted by qweasd

Ding Ding Ding!
I had that happen with my Bold on the new 5.0 OS and then I changed a contacts BBM name and did a hard reset(battery pull), now no more threaded sms in my BBM!

I tried this, it does not work with the 9700. Anyone else have a solution?

[PapiPabs]

Originally Posted by jason1114

You can stop it by NOT linking your contacts in BBM to your address book

Originally Posted by qweasd

Ding Ding Ding!
I had that happen with my Bold on the new 5.0 OS and then I changed a contacts BBM name and did a hard reset(battery pull), now no more threaded sms in my BBM!

Originally Posted by Deep88

I tried this, it does not work with the 9700. Anyone else have a solution?

Did you try what qweasd had suggested (changing BBM name for the contact), or did you actually remove the contact link as jason1114 mentioned? The latter would entail going into BBM, scrolling to a contact, hitting the menu key, and selecting the 'Remove Contacts Link' option. Just figured I'd throw it out there in case you hadn't tried the second method.

[Deep88]

Originally Posted by PapiPabs

Did you try what qweasd had suggested (changing BBM name for the contact), or did you actually remove the contact link as jason1114 mentioned? The latter would entail going into BBM, scrolling to a contact, hitting the menu key, and selecting the 'Remove Contacts Link' option. Just figured I'd throw it out there in case you hadn't tried the second method.

Thanks for clarifying this, now it worked.

[youtalk]

Do you mean that the 9700 is finally using the chat style SMS like the iPhone??

[MidnightDraven]

No, OS 5 is using it.

[youtalk]

Is using chat style SMS?

[MidnightDraven]

yes.
Its not a feature of the 9700, its a feature of OS 5 for the 9700, as well as the 9530, 9550, 9520, and all newer devices that will eventually get OS 5.