Hi folks. Thought I'd eexplain how the FaceTime issues got resolved Worked with a friend or two yesterday afternoon, and basicly hear's what it comes down to. We found that if you got to the point of entering email addresses in the FaceTime application, that they will be entered properly. What caused most of my frustration (for nothing) I might point out ultimately, was that I would sometimes Voiceover cursor back a bit and hear things like "work" thinking somehow the email address and got entered somewhere else. That's how things appeared to be. Generally, if you just tab through the various feelds, you'll be perfectly fine, and I did test this. Added several folks and was able to FaceTime audio call just fine. However, I do have a tip for people who have Macs wishing to talk with iPhone only users. If the iOS iPhone that the Apple ID has been created with, is what's used on the iOS app store and all that, don't bother using the email address associated. You'll need to add your friend's iPhone telephone number to your contacts in FaceTime instead of entering an email. I know so, because one test friend of mine only owns for the time being an iOS iPhone. He assured me FaceTime was not off or anything. So, logicly, I should be able to reach him, right? Nope. Not if I used his Apple ID email address. So, ultimately, I gave up, and asked him what his number was, because I was not gonna go looking through all my cell calls and all that to find it. My cell phone's clunkey, and by the way doesn't run iOS. So, I ended up trying re-adding my friend but this time plugged his iPhone telephone number into the contact details. He had his iPhone connected to the wireless network, and sure enough, FaceTime rang just fine. Where as with the perfectly valid iCloud email ID that he'd given me previously, I was continuesly told he was unavailable. So I hope this tip helps somebody. If anybody is interested in chatting with me over FaceTime audio, as an alternative to Skype chats, as I'm in the process of trying to find alternative ways of communicating, feel free to get hold of me first to make sure that it's okay to FaceTime. I don't constantly have the Mac running, so sometimes I might not be available. If I miss a FaceTime call, or anything, I simply might be away from the keyboard, as well, or any number of things, keeping in mind timezone differences generally. Feel fre to add me to Skype and other things if you wish. And we can exchange FaceTime details. Or, just send me an email, I check this account 24/7, so I'm bound to get it. Thanks. Well, I don't exactly check it 24 hours a day, but sometimes, it feels that way. Regardless, you can be sure you'll get a response if I notice it.
On 2/28/14, Keith Hinton <keithint1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > It's been some time since I've emailed any of you folks about problems > or strange behavior, but I'm not able to figure out what's going on. > I don't know if it's VoiceOver specific, or something else. > So, could somebody explain maybe what's going on? > My plan was to add somebody to FaceTime so I could try the audio feature. > It looks like this will not happen, however. > When adding anybody, or editing them, what happens for me, is super > strange. > Voiceover is at factory default configurations, I recently reinstalled > my Mac from the recovery disk, and had to reinstall Mavricks, so none > of the VoiceOver settings have been touched. > What hhappens, is I can fill in the name, box with no problem. > But if I try to skip the feelds and either tab or VO-keys myself over > to the email edit box, and enter in the persons address, for some > reason, the email box is never populated, the work phone screen or > home phone screen appears to be populated, and as a result which for > some odd reason Apple accepts either rway, I cannot FaceTime anybody, > and when editing them, I still cannot correct things with the > non-keyboard entry accepting but clearly available email edit box. > So I don't get it! > And I really want to test this audio only call thing, but I'm > frustrated to hell. > I'm trying everything I personally know to do and nothing is working. > Consequently, I appear to be having trouble with the contacts app when > adding contacts. > Email addresses are not showing up properly if I view the details with > FaceTime after entering details in Contacts.app, so I don't know > what's going on. > I'm so frustrated I've given up for now. > Does anybody have any particular ideas? > FYI, I'm on 10.9.2. > Any thoguhts from anybody would be nice, especially if anybody can > verify weather this is a bug, or user error. > If somebody is able to do what I cannot, mind 0providing clear > instructions on what steps you used to reliably add them to FaceTime? > Thanks! > > -- > Sincerely, > > Keith > Website: > http://www.keithnet.us > Home Phone: > 928-554-3936 > Mobile Phone: > 928-713-6370 > Primary email: > keithint1...@gmail.com > Twitter: > @keithint1234 > Facebook: > http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1 > Skype: > skypedude1234 > -- Sincerely, Keith Website: http://www.keithnet.us Home Phone: 928-554-3936 Mobile Phone: 928-713-6370 Primary email: keithint1...@gmail.com Twitter: @keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1 Skype: skypedude1234 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
