Re: Facetime strangeness

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Neil,

Have you checked all settings - especially  WiFi & 'Show My Caller ID' is ON on 
both iPhones?

Have you tried: 
Turning FaceTime OFF & back ON with successful activation combined with 
A) Soft (turn iPhone OFF/ON) - Restart 
and
B)Hard Restart
1. Press & Hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for 
at least 10 seconds
2. Ignore the Red Slider that appears on the screen and keep holding both 
buttons until the Apple Logo appears
The iPhone will restart.

The first method is a 'soft reset' only and leaves running programs in memory.
The second method completely powers down your iPhone and also clears the RAM 
and cache.

Can you connect if you switch from a normal cellular 'Voice' call to a 
'FaceTime' call while connected to the WiFi network?
A FaceTime button appears in the normal call controls to start a FaceTime 
session with the call in progress?

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad


> On 24 Jan 2014, at 1:31 pm, Neil Houghton  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Hope someone with more experience of Facetime can explain this for me.
> 
> We've recently been setting up Facetime on our phones/computers/ipad -
> including georgie's 93 yr old Mum ;o)
> 
> Our iPhones are model4 (not 4s) so we understand that they will only
> Facetime over wifi, not 3G. The iPad is newer and works over both wifi & 4G.
> 
> In general all was pretty simple and works well. However, the two iPhones
> will not facetime TO EACH OTHER over our home wifi network. Both phones will
> Facetime just fine to the iMac (over wifi) and to the iPad (over wifi and
> over 4G) - however if we try to Facetime between the two phones it rings and
> brings up the "wanting to connect" dialogue box - but when you accept the
> invite it tries to connect and then just says "connection lost". The
> behaviour is the same whichever iPhone initiates the Facetime connection.
> 
> We even tried with both phones really close to the wifi router (an Airport
> Extreme) - in case it was a signal strength thing - but it made no
> difference. Besides, it all works fine over the same network to the iPad and
> to the iMac over much greater distances.
> 
> So... am I missing something really obvious ;o)
> 
> 
> Any thoughts - is there any reason why 2 iPhones4 (is this the plural - like
> Attorneys General??!) shouldn't be able to Facetime each other over the same
> local wifi network?
> 
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 
> Neil
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> Albany, Western Australia
> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Email: n...@possumology.com
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Facetime strangeness

[Neil Houghton]

Hi,


Hope someone with more experience of Facetime can explain this for me.

We've recently been setting up Facetime on our phones/computers/ipad -
including georgie's 93 yr old Mum ;o)

Our iPhones are model4 (not 4s) so we understand that they will only
Facetime over wifi, not 3G. The iPad is newer and works over both wifi & 4G.

In general all was pretty simple and works well. However, the two iPhones
will not facetime TO EACH OTHER over our home wifi network. Both phones will
Facetime just fine to the iMac (over wifi) and to the iPad (over wifi and
over 4G) - however if we try to Facetime between the two phones it rings and
brings up the "wanting to connect" dialogue box - but when you accept the
invite it tries to connect and then just says "connection lost". The
behaviour is the same whichever iPhone initiates the Facetime connection.

We even tried with both phones really close to the wifi router (an Airport
Extreme) - in case it was a signal strength thing - but it made no
difference. Besides, it all works fine over the same network to the iPad and
to the iMac over much greater distances.

So... am I missing something really obvious ;o)


Any thoughts - is there any reason why 2 iPhones4 (is this the plural - like
Attorneys General??!) shouldn't be able to Facetime each other over the same
local wifi network?



TIA



Neil
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Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
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Re: Typing drops off into hole

[Ronni Brown]

Hi David,

What computer is this happening on... Is it a desktop or a Laptop?
And what OS X... are you running Mavericks?

One thing to check is your energy saver preferences.
System Preferences > Energy Saver - computer sleep  try changing it to never of 
a longer time, then test if no difference you can change it back to what you 
originally had set.

You might check to see if the problem still happens when you Safe Boot Mac OS 
X.  If the problem isn't there when you Safe Boot, then it's probably related 
to a third-party program or startup item.
 
When something is handling keyboard input, we say it has "focus".  When you're 
typing into a text field, then that field has focus.  If you click somewhere 
else, then focus moves to where you clicked.  What you're describing sounds 
like focus is moving somewhere unexpectedly.  It might help to figure out where.
 
While it won't solve your problem, VoiceOver can help figure out where focus is 
going.  VoiceOver is a program that's part of Mac OS X that is designed to let 
blind users use the computer, but it also may help shed some light on your 
situation.
If you are running Mavericks:
1. Go to Applications > Utilities - Open ‘VoiceOver Utility.app
2. In the "Navigation" section, make sure that "Initial position of VoiceOver 
cursor" is set to "Keyboard focused item".  
3. Also, make sure that "VoiceOver cursor follows keyboard focus" is checked.  
4. Close VoiceOver Utility and go to System Preferences > Accessibility - 
VoiceOver.  
and select - ‘Enable VoiceOver’
At this point, the computer will start talking, so use headphones if you don't 
want to disturb anyone near by ;-)
 
VoiceOver will show an introductory note, and read it to you.  You can just 
click "Ok".  Now, VoiceOver will tell you whenever the focus moves.  VoiceOver 
can be tricky in a web browser if you're not used to it, so ignore Safari for 
this test.  Instead, start a new text do anything else that will give you a 
text cursor.  

Wait and listen to what VoiceOver says when the cursor disappears.  It should 
briefly describe where the focus has moved to.  For example, if focus moves to 
the Finder, then it may say something like "Finder, Desktop" and the name of 
the currently selected file.  If you want more information, you can press 
Control-Option-F4 (you probably need to hold down Fn as well, if you're on a 
laptop).  That will make VoiceOver describe what has keyboard focus.  
(Control-Option-F3 will give you a little bit different information too.)
 
You may want to repeat this test a few times with different programs and 
different windows to see if there's a pattern.  For instance, if focus always 
moves to the same program regardless of what's open, then that program may be 
stealing focus.  Once you've got an idea of where focus is going, you can turn 
off VoiceOver in System Preferences.
 
While this won't fix your problem, it may provide more information to make it 
easier to figure out what's going on.


Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)

On 24 Jan 2014, at 10:01 am, David Noel  wrote:

> I'm experiencing a strange thing which I can't work out. I'm typing text, say 
> into a text editor, and at some point the app stops accepting characters (no 
> cursor) and the typing from then on is lost. Selecting the last insertion 
> point brings back the cursor. It's not one particularly application, and I 
> haven't noticed yet what's different about the loss point. It's as if the 
> operating system just stops listening (alright, it's getting bored). Any 
> insights, please?
> 
> David Noel
> 2014 Jan 24
> 

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Re: Typing drops off into hole

[Rob Phillips]

I have a similar problem, except I miss only a few characters, 
especially after I type a 'c'!  It doesn't matter which app, or 
keyboard, and it's intermittent.  Weird...


OS 10.8.5

Rob

On 24/01/14 10:01 AM, David Noel wrote:
I'm experiencing a strange thing which I can't work out. I'm typing 
text, say into a text editor, and at some point the app stops 
accepting characters (no cursor) and the typing from then on is lost. 
Selecting the last insertion point brings back the cursor. It's not 
one particularly application, and I haven't noticed yet what's 
different about the loss point. It's as if the operating system just 
stops listening (alright, it's getting bored). Any insights, please?


David Noel
2014 Jan 24



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Typing drops off into hole

[David Noel]

I'm experiencing a strange thing which I can't work out. I'm typing text,
say into a text editor, and at some point the app stops accepting
characters (no cursor) and the typing from then on is lost. Selecting the
last insertion point brings back the cursor. It's not one particularly
application, and I haven't noticed yet what's different about the loss
point. It's as if the operating system just stops listening (alright, it's
getting bored). Any insights, please?

David Noel
2014 Jan 24
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Re: Missing disk space

[Severin Crisp]

Thanks for your input, Peter.  
I had already arrived at that solution late yesterday afternoon.  I had a 
nearly up to date SuperDuper clone, part of my regular backup strategy, so 
updating that took little time.  A reformat and then an overnight copy back and 
this morning all is back to normal!   A relief I must say, now I can get on 
with the job!  
Thanks again
Severin

On 24 Jan 2014, at 7:49 am, Peter Hinchliffe  wrote:

> 
> On 23 Jan 2014, at 3:59 pm, Severin Crisp  wrote:
> 
>> I recently noticed a pronounced slowing of my iMac and got messages warning 
>> of shortage of disc space.  The visible files total just under 500GB and it 
>> is a 1TB drive.  The free space showing is only 215GB (used to be 450GB+) so 
>> some 300GB has gone missing.  I have run Clean My Mac and Disk Warrior and 
>> the maintenance scripts.  File Buddy does not show any large files 
>> unexplained, visible or invisible.  I believe this has arisen from After 
>> Effects CS6 which is VERY resource hungry and suspect a faulty quit has left 
>> some cleaning up undone.  Restarts and Safe boot has not helped.  
>> Suggestions please - and yes, this comes at a pressure time with an 
>> important After Effects project which now runs at snail’s pace!  
>> I am stumped.  
> 
> Of course it's a pressure time! That's simply Murphy's Law. 
> 
> First thing to try is to restart in Single User mode and run fsck. Restart 
> your Mac, holding down cmd-S, and type "fsck -fy" at the prompt. This may 
> well recover the unclaimed space and correct the error.
> 
> If this doesn't work, unfortunately I fear the only reliable fix will be to 
> make sure you have an up-to-date Time Machine or other backup (eg, Carbon 
> Copy Cloner or similar), reformat your hard drive, and restore from the 
> backup, in the hope that the problem file(s) have not also been backed up. 
> Generally, something like Time Machine is only going to backup visible files, 
> apart from those at the System level. It's likely that the problem is not 
> even related to an invisible file at all, rather that it's a problem with 
> unused space not being correctly marked as available. A format and restore 
> should correct this.
> 
> your main problem is that this is all going to take time.
> 
> Good luck with it all.
> 
> Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
> 
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Re: Missing disk space

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 23 Jan 2014, at 3:59 pm, Severin Crisp  wrote:

> I recently noticed a pronounced slowing of my iMac and got messages warning 
> of shortage of disc space.  The visible files total just under 500GB and it 
> is a 1TB drive.  The free space showing is only 215GB (used to be 450GB+) so 
> some 300GB has gone missing.  I have run Clean My Mac and Disk Warrior and 
> the maintenance scripts.  File Buddy does not show any large files 
> unexplained, visible or invisible.  I believe this has arisen from After 
> Effects CS6 which is VERY resource hungry and suspect a faulty quit has left 
> some cleaning up undone.  Restarts and Safe boot has not helped.  Suggestions 
> please - and yes, this comes at a pressure time with an important After 
> Effects project which now runs at snail’s pace!  
> I am stumped.  

Of course it's a pressure time! That's simply Murphy's Law. 

First thing to try is to restart in Single User mode and run fsck. Restart your 
Mac, holding down cmd-S, and type "fsck -fy" at the prompt. This may well 
recover the unclaimed space and correct the error.

If this doesn't work, unfortunately I fear the only reliable fix will be to 
make sure you have an up-to-date Time Machine or other backup (eg, Carbon Copy 
Cloner or similar), reformat your hard drive, and restore from the backup, in 
the hope that the problem file(s) have not also been backed up. Generally, 
something like Time Machine is only going to backup visible files, apart from 
those at the System level. It's likely that the problem is not even related to 
an invisible file at all, rather that it's a problem with unused space not 
being correctly marked as available. A format and restore should correct this.

your main problem is that this is all going to take time.

Good luck with it all.

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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Re: Off topic UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Brian,

1) Yes

2) I used to do this when computer, modem and home phone base station were
all in close proximity. Currently, computer is relocated and UPS has moved
with it - so modem etc now go down with power :o(
I'm even thinking off second UPS to regain the functionality.

3) I've been very happy with my APC RS 1000 UPS (100VA or 600W load rating)
which I bought several years ago when Harris technology had a really good
deal on. I don't know what the current equivalent would be - browse

to see what's on offer - then shop around for best price.

Note that the larger the rating then the more things you can plug in for the
same operating time (or the longer operating time for the same load) - mine
was fine for the iMac, modem, phone and external hard drive to let me save
what I was doing and even work on for a while. If you are only looking to
drive the modem, airport & phone (no desktop and external drives) it would
probably be overkill and a smaller/cheaper unit would probably suit you - it
all depends on the load you want to plug in and how long you want it to last
;o)


HTH



Neil
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on 23/1/14 16:03, Brian Risbey at risb...@bigpond.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> Probably a bit off topic but...
> Our power drops off quite regularly and I thought if I connected my  modem and
> my Apple AirPort (even home phone) - They are all low drain devices - less
> than a computer tower, that I could continue browsing  on the iPad, iPhones
> and MacBooks until the power resumed.
> 
> 1) Would this work?
> 2) Anyone doing already?
> 3) Opinions and recommendations...
> 
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[Brian Risbey]

Hi all,
Probably a bit off topic but...
Our power drops off quite regularly and I thought if I connected my  modem and 
my Apple AirPort (even home phone) - They are all low drain devices - less than 
a computer tower, that I could continue browsing  on the iPad, iPhones and 
MacBooks until the power resumed.

1) Would this work?
2) Anyone doing already?
3) Opinions and recommendations...

Brian
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Missing disk space

[Severin Crisp]

I recently noticed a pronounced slowing of my iMac and got messages warning of 
shortage of disc space.  The visible files total just under 500GB and it is a 
1TB drive.  The free space showing is only 215GB (used to be 450GB+) so some 
300GB has gone missing.  I have run Clean My Mac and Disk Warrior and the 
maintenance scripts.  File Buddy does not show any large files unexplained, 
visible or invisible.  I believe this has arisen from After Effects CS6 which 
is VERY resource hungry and suspect a faulty quit has left some cleaning up 
undone.  Restarts and Safe boot has not helped.  Suggestions please - and yes, 
this comes at a pressure time with an important After Effects project which now 
runs at snail’s pace!  
I am stumped.  
Severin Crisp



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15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
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