MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Hi,
Messages Beta brings some features of iMessage in the iOS 5 software.
It enables you to access your Contacts (Address Book) directly and chose a Contact and then either their Apple ID linked to either Messages or iMessage or their Phone number.
This is instead of the regular Buddy Lists from iChat that also still show up.
(iChat was at version 6.0.1 and Messages Beta lists itself as Version 6.1 - Essentially it is iChat +)
The Video link that Messages offers to iMessage Buddies is to invoke FaceTime from Messages (once in a (text) Chat the icon top right changes to a Video icon)
So...
Technically Messages (and the iOS 5 iMessage) are separate from FaceTime.
However the new Messages Beta does provide a way to launch FaceTime and contact in Video the same Buddy you were Text Chatting to in Messages.
Your iChat Buddy Lists still show up and Video for them works the way it always did (in iChat)
8:08 PM Friday; February 24, 2012
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iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
HI,
If you are having the same issue with registering an Name for iChat then it would be best to start your own thread.
On the whole iChat (Or the Messages beta) needs you to have sorted out a Screen Name or two in advance.
8:10 PM Friday; February 24, 2012
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iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
A week ago I bought a MacBook Pro 13". I already own and operate a iPhone 4s, and use FaceTime on it, via my APPLE TIME CAPSULE wifi network!! Here's the issue as discribed by Apple Support. I need atleast 1 MB of up and down load to use FaceTime because is it set a HD video!! The Apple Time Capusle's 802.11 n wireless does not support that speed!! You can't connect a MacBook Pro via an Apple Time Capusule on WiFi beause there is not enough bandwidth!! The suggested "fix" is to connect the ethernet cable!!!!! That totally nullifies the whold world that Apple is trying to make, gettting rid of cables so we can roam free!!
I suggest a solution that would give the USER the option in FaceTime to select either HD or SD video! Would that be technoligicaly feasable? Then I can use my APPLE products together and not be tied with cables to a network! I would rather have SD FaceTime then none at all! Being tied with cables to is so 1990"s.......;-)
OK, its April 11, 2012 and I decided to go back to FaceTime and try again. It worked so smooth and slick that I was shocked! That day I calle Apple Support (see above comment) where a Apple support person told me that I would not be able to use FaceTime because my brand new 13' MacBook Pro was on a Wi-Fi (Apple's Time Capsule Base Station) connectioin! He explained that the iPhone 4s video was not HD, but that the MacBook Pro camera was HD and thus the wi-fi connection would not be 'wide enough'!!!
Needless to say I was flaberGASted, and wrote the message above. So I just left it alone and felt about let down by Apple.
Today, I was able to type in my Apple ID, I got it verified and I made a call! That's it!!! I have done NO THING to my settings or anything, but now it works like an APPLE product should!
So, you Apple Spirits out there (Steve?) thanks for doing what ever you did, but it works now!!
I have read this tread and it seems there are alot of people in my boat, I hope they were included in the fix!!
Happy in Mount Shasta, CA!!! Herb
Hello
ok so ive tried everything on this post:
hosts
date/time
re-install Facetime (1.02)
still get that server message. any other solutions out there? please assist. i do not want to do a clean install for something that WAS working a few months ago. snow leo 10.6.6 here. thanks
HI,
Go to the Applications/Utilities folder and open Activity Monitor
Find IMAgent and highlight it.
Use the Quit option top left and confirm Force Quit
If that does not work add Public DNS severs to System Preferences >< Network > Advanced Button > DNS tab
8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 are two run by Google
7:07 PM Thursday; July 19, 2012
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iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
HI,
In iChat 5 and Earlier the support app is called iChatAgent and depending which version of the OS you have it will have an iChat type.
FaceTime in Snow Leopard add a Support App called IMAgent.
In the FaceTime Menu > Preferences you can turn FaceTime Off or On.
When it is On it will not launch unless you launch it with the exception if someone "Calls" you.
If Off it will not accept the call or show you as available.
Of course the annoying thing is the fact you have to have gotten FaceTime to start up "properly" at least once to get your Apple ID into the IMAgent.plist.
In Lion the IMAgent takes over from iChatAgent as well (As iMessages and FaceTime are likely to use the same Apple ID).
If you cannot find that the support app is running (when set up it is supposed to run when the computer Starts Up as it "Listens" for Off line calls) can you go to your Home Folder/Library/Preferences and find the com.apple.imagent.plist
Highlight it and drag it to the Trash (this will delete it or at least make it unavailable at this point)
Restart FaceTime.
Version 1.0.2 is the version in Snow Leopard at OS X 10.6.8
7:54 PM Friday; July 20, 2012
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iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
thank you for your assistance on this most annoying issue!
sadly i tried the trashing of the com.apple.imagent.plist and restarting facetime, and still get the same 'server error' i do not know what else to try other than doing a clean re-install. 😢
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Nice work... your fix worked perfect. Apple needs a support doc with this fix.
Thank you.
Diane
Facetime Registration Problem
