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Facetime, losing my mind, can't get it working

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tsmithgolf2000

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May 18, 2006
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I have 2 brand new iphone 4's and they are on my home Linksys network and I can't connect facetime. WTF am I missing. When I hit facetime connect button, the other phone get's prompted and then a few seconds later it fails.
 
tsmithgolf2000 said:
I have 2 brand new iphone 4's and they are on my home Linksys network and I can't connect facetime. WTF am I missing. When I hit facetime connect button, the other phone get's prompted and then a few seconds later it fails.
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Maybe because it is the same network, that's all I can think of.
 
kingnimrod said:
go to:

Settings > Phone > Facetime and activate the enable button
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I did that for both, I can get a mobile call up and hit the facetime button, the other phone get's prompted to accept facetime call and then it get's stuck in connecting state and then times out and fails.
 
When u turn them on make sure it registers them. I have two as well and mines working flawlessly.
 
Could be same network causing the issue, you are natting out of your router to a proxy then back in , has to be causing an issue, routers hate that!.

try to find an open wifi spot near your house to test the other one from.
 
There are probably ports you have to forward to get it to work. Who knows what they are though.
 
APPLEFAN8 said:
Maybe because it is the same network, that's all I can think of.
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I think this is realistic. Apple probably didnt bother because really, beyond testing would you need this? No. So one of you go to starbucks and report back.
 
I tried unsuccessfully to connect on the same network two different times today
- once at my home network
- once at my office

I as soon as one of the phones was connected to a different network, facetime worked as expected.
 
Facetime worked perfectly fine with two phones on the same wifi network for me. I have 12 down and 2 up uverse connection. Try resetting your router and wifi access points and give it a whirl again.
 
Face time

I had my iphone all day can some one call me i relly want to try out face time some pm.
 
I tried FT between 2 iPhones in the Apple store...obviously on the same network....no go.
 
Geckotek said:
I tried FT between 2 iPhones in the Apple store...obviously on the same network....no go.
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Both our iPhone 4's work on our home network. I reverted one of them from a back up so had to manually turn face time on in the settings panel. It 100% works on the same network, done it a coupled of times too.

Also our local apple store had a banner saying to try face time which we did, each phone has a number near it and the contacts have them numbers as faves, you can call each other and then use face time in store.
 
I had major issues also. Did you port your # from verizon or sprint? If so, reset settings in General settings and that will fix it. Also, go to Starbuck and use AT&T's wifi network to eliminate it being an issue with your network.
 
MacGotMe said:
Same network was my guess too. Try giving one to your friend (or to me) to test for you on another network! ;-)

On another note, is it possible to tell which of your contacts actually have FaceTime? I found this post: How to Tell Which Contacts Have FaceTime for iPhone 4 but it doesn't actually give me the info I'm looking for... Any ideas?
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The Address Book on the phone doesn't have a way of telling which of your contacts uses an iPhone 4. Unless that is somehow changed (not sure how), you won't know which of your contacts can Face Time with you.
 
I also use it on my home network and tested between my iphone and my wife's. Works fine. I'm wondering if it's what the other threads have been saying that you need a texting plan for it to work. Do you have a texting plan ? Have you tested using Apple's facetime test line ?
 
tsmithgolf2000 said:
I have 2 brand new iphone 4's and they are on my home Linksys network and I can't connect facetime. WTF am I missing. When I hit facetime connect button, the other phone get's prompted and then a few seconds later it fails.
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Did you activate face time in setting won't work till you do that
 
i have been wanting to use face time but dont know anyone who had an iphone 4 to work with LOL. I was hoping it could interface with somebody on the other end using iChat but that looks like a no go?
 
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