FaceTime sound stops working while talking

I have a friend that has an iPhone 4 running the latest os and I run facetime on my intell iMac first edition snow

leapard. He thinks his phone is screwing up as into our facetime he will stop getting sound from me.

Out of desperation a few days ago I shut facetime on my imac off then restarted it. I had to sign in again and

then quit again and restart facetime to be able to call.

His sound now works.

But since he has other speaker issues with the phone he believes his phone is the problem and not me.

I guess the only thing to do is to facetime others to see if the sound quits with them too?

P.S early on when this problem first arose I would quit facetime and go to my ipad and facetime from it.

The sound would work.

TiGPS,

Did you ever find a solution to this problem?? My MacBook Pro 13" new in May 2011 does the exact same thing!! It happens when I talk to users of the iPad and also the iPhone 4. I have not contacted Apple regarding the issue yet but I think that it is getting to that time. As far as the notifications are concerned on incoming calls from me to them, I have that problem as well. I have had to let it ring for well over 3 minutes before it registers on their end as as a call and rings through! The noise canceling causes problems hearing the other person even I am breathing to loud!! I am so frustrated that this application is defective!! What have you tried?? Any advice thus far concerning this matter??

apparently not. I was facing my friend again last evening (I have only 3 people I Facetimed with) when he told

me it's happening again. I requested another friend of mine use his laptop and Facetime me as an experiment when he gets a chance.

So far I have this problem with my friend on his iPhone and his wife on her iPad. They are both using the same

network in their house and it's through a glass fiber network on Verizon. So my experiment will be with another individual at a different location. I know it doesn't make any sense to do it since my iPad to this couple's house

seems to work fine but I can't explain how it is that they can't hear me yet my mike is working on my iMac just

fine.

has anyone tried trashing the facetime app. then reinstalling it?

Just googled this--it just happened to me as well. I'm on a MacBook Pro w/ Snow Leopard and my FaceTime buddy was on a brand new iPad. The first couple of times I Facetimed (just downloaded it on Thanksgiving) it worked fine. This past time it just all of a sudden cut off--I thought it was because I was opening a link/typing while using it, but I tried hanging up/calling back since then and still have the same problem--wonder if there's any way to fix this?!

My friend is also having this issue. Her computer stops transmitting audio a few minutes into the conversation, regardless of what device I'm using. She's got a 2011 MacBook, 13" running SnowL.

I'm having the same issue and I have tried trashing the app and installing it again and within a few minutes the mic cutout. Why doesn't apple just trash the program all together and make it part of ichat.

I think because iChat was really an extension of AIM and not exclusive to Apple devises also it's not a texting chat. The question is why doesn't Apple just fix it.

I thought I'd just add my issue to this list, I can't seem to find much about this issue.

As others have said, the sound on FaceTime keeps cutting out, call back, works fine, then cuts out again.

The video will keep rolling fine, just no sound.

Hopefully there will be an update or something.

I am having exactly the same problem; it happens from both my iMac (Snow Leopard) and my iPhone 4S. It has happened today for the first time, up until today I've never had any problems but then I've only been using it for a few weeks.

Same problem. I have an iMac and SL, my brother has an iPhone 4 an iOS5. He can't hear me after some random amount of time. I've searched and have found no solution options. Apple seems unaware of the problem. Sure do wish there was a fix.

Ok we all know there is an issue...lets try to come up with a fix...like I said on my earlier post, I tried to trash the program and re-installing it. Has anyone have had success by fixing the permissions?

Ok, mine seems to be (at least temporarily) fixed by simply turning down my computer's volume. I saw on another website that sometimes the Macs are reading the other person's voice (coming through your speakers and then into your mic) as your voice, which messes up the audio on your end. So when I tried again with a lower volume I had no issues. Super simple, and might not work for everyone--but just thought I would share!

I've never heard about a feedback issue with any other application. I can see it causing noise or echo or something distracting but to actually stop the sound from my mike from working yet not affecting the mic in any

other application is kind of strange.

One time when my mic quit I quit Facetime and then restarted it and called my friends wife on her iPad and my

sound was still out.

So if what your saying "simply turning down my computer's volume" is something you did without quitting and it fixed the problem I can tell you it's going to take more than that on my computer.

I ran Disk Utility, repaired permissions, and then logged out of my Facetime account and logged back in. So far so good, but I can't say for sure that is a fix.