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I had one person so far say that the audio through my headset is a little muffled. I never had this problem with my original 3G iPhone.I have not been able to determine if it is my phone/headset or the other partys phone.
iOS 4
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Im having this same problem. Several people have told me that I sound muffeled. When I disconnect my headset and talk to them on the phone they can hear me perfectly. I also have problems with only being able to get about 15ft. away from the phone while using it without it cutting out. I never had this problem with my 3G & same headset. I wish I knew what could be done about it other than just not using my bluetooth. I have to use it because I only get signal on top of my kitchen table.
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Im having the same problem with a Plantronics Pro and with the Jawbone Icon. Doesnt happen with a Plantronics Discovery 925 nor with a Blue Ant V1.
My guess is that it may be a software bug with Bluetooth 2.1, thus older headsets work fine.
Hope this is addressed in the next release of the OS.
iPhone 4 iOS 4
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Just made a call again with my Motorola H780 and my wife said I sound muffled. She said it is very annoying. I love the phone and not sure if this is my headset or not since I used the same headset with my 3G and never had a problem.
iOS 4
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Ive been having the same problem. I have used a Motorola H375 for quite a while now with the iPhone 3G and 3GS and never had a single problem. The day I got the iPhone 4, I made a phone call with this headset and it started out fine, but after about 5 minutes, the friend I was talking to said he started to hear electronic-sounding noises as I spoke. We realized that this happened if I got more than about 10ish feet away from the phone. Then, 5-10 minutes later, no matter how close to the phone I was, my friend said I sounded pretty muffled and that it was harder to understand me. NOW if I try to use that headset, when I speak it just gives off a completely incomprehensible sound for the other person. I bought a Jawbone Icon the other day thinking that perhaps the Motorola had just gone bad, and so far, it turns out that the Jawbone Icon works fine as long as its already paired to the phone before I make or receive a call, but if I, for example, answer a phone call using the phone itself, and try to turn the Jawbone Icon on and throw it on my ear in the middle of the conversation, they say Im muffled and cant hear me. Given that my Motorola H375 isnt working with it, I have doubts that its an issue of older vs newer headsets, but Im glad Im not the only one with this problem. It seems that a lot of other people are having problems pairing the headset... I have no problems pairing it, but I have major problems with the audio quality that comes out on the other end apparently. Hopefully others will post regarding their experiences or thoughts on the problem and hopefully itll be fixed soon.
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I have the exact same problem.
I have in contact with Apple US and they havent had another complaint.
I filed an incident and they have escalated the ticket to the facetime engineers.
I am guessing it has to do with the outgoing SMS (reciptient server) or the reply is not getting through MTN (might be some kind of message they dont support)
We should have an answer by Tuesday (due to time difference)
iPhone4 iOS 4
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I have exactly the same problem. I bought a UK iPhone 4 32Gb and brought it to Cyprus.
I inserted my UK Orange SIM and facetime worked instantly. I put my MTN Cyprus SIM in, and it doesnt word.. just says Waiting for activation.
I put a CYTA SIM (Vodafone Cyprus) and it worked instantly. Therefore, the settings on the phone have no consequence to the FaceTime not working. It is definitely a problem with the MTN Carrier. (btw I have tried both a 2G PAYG SIM and a 3G Contract SIM).
I have phoned the MTN engineers twice, and have also been to the MTN office twice... but they seem to be totally clueless. I have also been in discussions with Apple Europe HQ in Ireland a couple of times, and they dont know what the problem could be either.
It looks like Ill have to get CYTA SIM and port my number over if MTN cant get the problem sorted.
iPhone 4 iOS 4 32GB
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I have exactly the same problem, bought two units from the Apple store in the UK, but using them in Dubai, the UAE on the carrier Etisalat.
Unable to get Facetime activated on any basis. Have a MMS plan, 3 G and wireless, but get Waiting for Activation under the Facetime On Button.
I have tried everything, port forwarded the correct ports to the device from my apple airport, numerous restores with little tips from various web sets and numerous network resets.
Ive called the 1-888-Facetime, they pointed me in the direction of all the tips I have already done, but when they found out I was not living in the US were no longer interested, and UK support was much the same.
As I understand for activation when you switch Facetime on it simply sends a silent text to apples servers, who then send one back. I am guessing it is some problem with the text messaging, and that probably the Apple server is not returning the activation text.
They say not all countries are supported but it would be nice if they could tell you which are and which are not so as its not used as an excuse by tech support because they simply can not be bothered to find out !
Any suggestions welcomed, as I was hoping Facetime would would be great for calling home for the perpetual traveller.
MBP 2.4GHz iOS 4 2 No Iphone 4s
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Not sure exactly what the deal is here, but you do not activate Facetime. Once your new phone is available for use, meaning that it has been activated with a cellular provider for regular phone service and synced with iTunes, and all your contacts etc have been transferred to the phone, you should be able to make Facetime calls. Facetime only works over Wi-Fi, so once both phones are on Wi-Fi just go to your contacts, select the name of the contact for the other phone that you want to establish Facetime with, scroll all the way to the bottom of the contact page, there you will see a Facetime button, tap that button and a window with all the contact numbers for that person will appear, tap the number that is available for Facetime, you will hear some chimes on your phone and the other phone should ring as though it is receiving a regular phone call. You do not need to make a cellular call to establish Facetime. If you have never had a Facetime conversation with that contact number before, there will be no camera icon beside the number that applies, after your first Facetime that particular number will show a camera icon.
Check to ensure that Facetime is on by going into Settings-Phone-Facetime-select on/off. If you are already aware of what I have written, then it is possible that the cellular service in Cyprus does not allow their numbers to work with Facetime as yet, but remember that it only works on wi-fi at present.
iMac, Macbook Unibody, Macbook Pro, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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Thanks Jeffers
Its a bit more complicated than that.
What I have found out so far, once you switch Facetime on for the first time, with a sim in and the phone activated. Facetime from the phone end sends a silent text message (ie a text you dont know about), to Apple, that registers your telephone number on the Apple server/s used for Facetime. Apple then returns a silent coded text to your phone, that activates the software within OSI4.
Then facetime becomes a completely wifi operation, but just like phone activation, where you need a sim card to activate the phone, you need to exchange two text messages (unknowlingly) before Facetime will work.
It seems that the issue is either Apple or not receiving the activation text from the phone, or the end user is not receiving the text from Apple in return enabling the software.
Either way, Apple do not seem to have thought of a way of manually activating the service.
Any Apple Facetime Support team member care to comment !
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MBP 2.4GHz Mac OS X (10.6.1)
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Oh good, its not just me then! Anyone have any ideas?
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Im also having this same problem, Ive updated to iTunes 10 on my mac and did full restore of phone and still having same problems. Any solutions? hopefully 4.1 will fix this issue.
iMac Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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Yeah exactly the same thing here. no Top ten in the itunes store when viewed through ipone.
Can we get this sorted soon please?
James
Compaq Windows Vista
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Can we get this sorted soon please?
if you tell Apple about it, then maybe - but no-one here can sort it.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
20" iMac 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, MacBook 2.4Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.4) iPhone 3GS 32GB (iOS 4.0.2), iPad Wi-Fi 32GB (iOS 3.2.2)
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Thanks for that, I didnt know that such provision existed.
However it isnt support per se, simply a feedback form.
Oh well a call to apple it is!
Compaq Windows Vista
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