Facetime not working?

[Mike84]

So, I attempted to speak to someone over the iphone's facetime feature and it wasn't even available as an option. I realized that you had to activate it, but it is still waiting for activation.

Anyone else have any of these issues?

 

[HarrisonB]

it only works if they have an iphone 4 and you are BOTH on WIFI

 

[Mike84]

Update

Okay, so I got it activated but it continues to fail. It may be a wifi strength issue.

 

[renewed]

And I'm pretty sure it has to be activated so you have a phone number attached.

If your iPhone is waiting to be activated, try rebooting it. That did the trick for me.

 

[Mike84]

Sorry

i just got it to work.

Apparently the wifi signal strength has something to do with whether you will facetime someone or not

 

[HarrisonB]

me and my friend did a facetime call and it worked perfectly. Super clear picture and no lag at all.

 

[tsmithgolf2000]

me and my friend did a facetime call and it worked perfectly. Super clear picture and no lag at all.

Were you guys sharing the same wireless network? I have a feeling that maybe my problem. I am trying to facetime with my wife and we are using the same wireless router at home.

 

[NYRGirardi5]

i did facetime with a friend of mine and it worked great......its awkward but cool and worked perfectly.

 

[jeffpickl]

Make sure everyone in the room turns their wifi off. Too many base stations.

 

[bmms8]

my facetime experience has been pretty good as well. make sure you have facetime turned on under settings, phone. it didnt work the first time i tried but afterwards it did!

 

[IDANNY]

did you guys restore from an old iphone when you got the iphone 4?

 

[MadDog31]

I can't even get it as an option in settings > phone. I restored from my old 3GS, I've resorted to a clean phone with no backup. Nada.

Any ideas while I wait on hold w/ Apple?

 

[ducktales]

i can't get facetime to work on my Wifi. My wife and I are on the same wifi but facetime always fails. any thoughts?

 

[tsmithgolf2000]

i can't get facetime to work on my Wifi. My wife and I are on the same wifi but facetime always fails. any thoughts?

Ditto for me. I just restored both of my phones and added as a new phone, hoping that would fix it and it didn't. I am at a loss.

 

[MadDog31]

I can't even get the damn option to turn it ON in settings > phone, much less getting a connection going.

Back on the phone w/ Apple hoping to resolve this. I wonder if the data outage in the area has affected this.

 

[IDANNY]

Update

I got home and tried it on my home apple airport network and it just worked.

 

[Briview]

Hopefully, it's all server issues or software problems that can be fixed for everyone easily.

Just a sort of out-of-topic note that I didn't want to make a new thread for or bump some older stuff for: We all know by now that FaceTime can be done directly with another user through contacts, but then, that just means that it doesn't use AT&T at all... you just have to have a mobile phone number. (e.g. if there is an unlock for the i4 in a week or some time, then iPhone 4 unlocked microsimed T-Mobile users can call AT&T and O2 iPhone 4s and there'll be FaceTime all across the board since carriers can be directly out of this).

EDIT:

I can't even get the damn option to turn it ON in settings > phone, much less getting a connection going.

Back on the phone w/ Apple hoping to resolve this. I wonder if the data outage in the area has affected this.

Wow, I've heard about this... then this means FaceTime may need to be activated first through AT&T service, in which case, the former part of this post is disregarded... oy.

 

[Mike84]

Activating takes a while. You need to make sur it is not activating but activated in order for it
To work.

Settings --> phone --> FaceTime

 

[hunter x az]

That was fun!