Aim application crash?

I'm having the same problem. Thought it might be because I have AIM forward IMs to my cell phone via SMS when I'm not signed in on an actual computer, but turning that off didn't seem to change anything.

EDIT: So after I turned off mobile IM forwarding -AND- uninstalled and reinstalled the app, it seems to be working fine. Just make sure you're not signed in at multiple locations (ie phone AND computer) because that seems to freak it out.

Some other apps like to crash though. :-\

I'm having the same issue. It's very annoying. I can sign in the first time and it works fine. Then when I close and try to go back in if flashes my buddy list then closes the program and takes me back to main screen with all my apps on the phone. The only way I can get back in is to delete the app and re-download it. Then I go through the same process all over again if I want to sign out and back in.

This was happening to me so I simply went into the AIM app settings and cleared out my account information. Upon restarting the AIM app I was able to reinit my account and it is working as well as it did upon first install.

With respect to what the problem is, the crash dump AIM generated (19 of them actually) indicate that the app was killed by a signal 6. (SIGABRT)

The app is very poorly designed and I have noticed a number of problems when it is not broken. For example:
-If it is configured to not 'Sign off on exit', people can send you messages after you exit but they will never reach you or get returned to the sender.
-Yesterday I was connected from my PC and also from my iPhone 3G. Messages that I sent were delivered, but messages sent to me were only delivered to my PC. (From the iPhone it looked like I was being ignored.)
-Periodically it will start showing me 'Offline Buddies' (maybe there is a gesture that turns this on/off that I have figured out, but it is really annoying)

Does anyone out there no of a better option for chatting from iPhone (other than SMS)?

That is the same exact thing on my phone, so obviously it is happening to 100s of people. I doubt its just a few. It took me a few days to even see this post, so I am wondering how many other people will never even speak up about it.

i have had this problem also with my iPhone 3G and AIM... but i have the same problem with the facebook and myspace app too. I originally fixed it by deleting the three and re-downloading, but then i performed a restore (to unlock the phone) and now the apps crash again.

I have experienced the same crashing symptom in the AIM app but I never had SMS forwarding turned on. I think its just plain a buggy app. Hopefully they'll Patch Soon.

I downloaded the app today and i can never log into it cause it says i need to have an active connection (it does not "find" my wifi connection or my edge connection)..Any ideas on what i should do?

The app is very buggy. I am having the exact same problem. I got it to work well once though! 🙂