I too have the reconnect issues, but just delete and recreate my account on my device to get it back whenever I enter a WiFi network, which sucked, but worked. But now SMS alerts are broken, though some unseen or unalerted messages will appear after you send one within the conversation. If not for GV's SMS to email forwarding, I'd be stuck like Chuck. Is there a timetable for fixing alerts? I think SMS is the biggest feature of this app, and without it, it is mostly useless. Could I possibly downgrade to the previous version? Not having reliable and timely SMS alerts is a mood killer for me..
Another issue is Contacts integration. Is it possible to do a search for Contacts with matching info so we don't have to remerge every connection? And could some mechanism be implimented to automatically use any number labelled a cellphone as a GV IM contact as well, and all phone numbers as GV call numbers? It'd make initiating a GV IM much easier.