FaceTime on Lion green screen

Hi, recently installed Lion operating system with facetime. Facetime works for about 30 seconds between my MacBook Pro and my wifes iphone. Then the screen freezes and start flashing in green eventually after about another 30 secs facetime screen goes completely green. I can still be seen on the the iphone and i can still talk just no picture on the MacBook. any suggestions?


Cheers Gareth

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 27, 2011 4:06 PM

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Dec 21, 2011 1:21 AM in response to wightwulf

We've been on facetime with three different people over the last week. We used 6 month old iPad 2 (no issues on our end) but they had a new iPad 2, a new MacBook Air and a 14 month old iMac running Lion. All three experienced the green screen. Shimers then goes slightly then all green. Audio still ok. Skype worked better in one case.

Be nice to get this fixed before Christmas. Any thoughts Apple? Others?

Dec 27, 2011 10:31 AM in response to wightwulf

Exactly the same problem on both my imac and macbook air both running with the latest version of lion. Calls received on my iphone from the same source work fine but calls to either of the computers screen freeze, flicker and then the screen goes green. The caller can still see me (and him) and sound is fine. Often face time shuts down saying it has encountered an unexpected proble,. I have tried to discuss with apple support but so far no solution.

Jan 25, 2012 10:00 PM in response to wightwulf

My facetime screen started doing the same thing about 5 months ago when I upgraded to Lion. I makes the facetime connection... the screen begins to flicker green... and then goes completely green within a minute. Audio is totally fine. The green screen only occurs on my screen not the person I am facetiming. It happens on my 2008 macbook pro and 2011 macbook air.

Hey Gareth, if you recently purchased and installed lion you can call apple support within 90 days, I think. It is free. If someone finds a solution to this annoying problem, it would be greatly appreciated!

Feb 3, 2012 12:27 PM in response to wightwulf

I was having a totally different issue with my microphone after upgrading to lion, which was fixed for the most part, although now my headphones come in broken up.... not sure why. Then today I was using Facetime and it went all epileptic on me. Support has been useless, other than recommending I do a reset (hold cmd-opt-shift+power for 5 seconds) then (cmd-Option-R-P on boot until 2nd chime). It did correct the microphone issue, but caused a headphone issue and this green flashing screen.

Feb 3, 2012 3:00 PM in response to wightwulf

Further to my original earlier post, whilst I was getting the stuttering and green screen problem with both my macbook air and my imac it was only presenting itself when I was connected to one particular user. With others facetime worked fine. After further investigation it appeared that the other user's wireless was behaving erratically at times (speeds jumping about all over the place). The use of an ethernet cable at their end seems to have solved the problem, suggesting that in my case the issue was with the sender and not with my computer as first thought. Perhaps if the upload speeds are not good enough or are erratic at the other end it shows itself at the receiving mac as stutrter and green screen? I'm definitely no techy but hopefully it might help in or two cases.

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