Messages beta and iPhone...lingering effects?

So everyone I'm sure was aware that messages beta had a bug where all of a sudden randomly my iMessages (but only to the one person I had messages beta set up with) starting saying delivered as soon as the message went through, but then 10 seconds later it switched to not delivered with the red exclamation point. So I did some research and low and behold simply uninstalling did the trick and I have not had any issues.............untillll yesterday. Where the same symptoms came back to my iMessages on my iPhone with that same person. My messages are being delivered but it is royal annoying to have those little red exclamation points next to every message. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi,
Can I be clear ?
On your Phone your iMessages are not being delivered and you have deleted the Messages Beta on your Mac and you are wondering if there is some sort of after effect ?
I see that one other person has indicated a "Me Too" on this question.
I find that when this happens on my phone (pre Messages Beta and since) that it usually means I have lost the network I was using. (And that happens even if I don't move the phone)
I would not think that it is a Message Beta hangover effect.
10:47 PM Saturday; March 24, 2012
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Let me start with that I totally understand Messages is in beta but I'm hoping someone will have a suggestion.
In our office we use Bonjour chat extensively for inner-office chat and file sharing. Most of our workstations are still on Snow Leopard few on Leopard and one is on Lion running iChat 6 and 2 MacBooks Pros have the Messages Beta on Lion. The ones with Messages are having sporadic issues with receiving new chat messages. When it does not work, the sender gets the error "The instant messaging connection failed. The other person's computer may be unreachable." This is from iChat to Messages, or Messages to Messages. (Please note, things like iMessage and Google Talk are working fine for these Lion/Messages Beta systems, the issue is isolated to Bonjour chat.)
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HI,
Can you double the chances of the engineers seeing this by also reporting your findings here
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The drop downs for iChat version and OS version have been out of step most of the time since iChat 4 was the main version. Just type the info on Versions in the free text area.
The fact that this Bonjour file Sharing seems to not be on an expected port is a bit concerning.
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This leaves port 5197 and 5298 for Texting and File transfers
If it follows the AIM model, the UDP 5298 would seem to be the most likely port File transfers are supposed to be on.
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Alright I'm using Messages Beta and absolutely love it. Everything works fine and all, but just one thing - is there a possibility to sync OLD messages and conversations from my iPhone to my Messages Beta? Basically I want all threads and messages that I have on my iPhone to appear on my Messages Beta.
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Hi,
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7:52 PM Sunday; March 25, 2012
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10:22 PM Thursday; April 19, 2012
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Hi,
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Apple has posted a "Troubleshooting Messages Beta" support page. I suggest that if you are having trouble with the Messages Beta that you check that page first before posting a question here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4196

Topics covered on that page:
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