iPhone 4 4.2.1 Greenpoins0n RC5 Jailbreak - Facetime "waiting on activiation"

[indymattb]

Just the other night I was having problems with my Facetime ending call after 2 seconds on intitilizing the set up. It would never allow the Facetime call to go through. When trying to have someone else Facetime me and see if I can connect that way it would kill the call.

So I tried this first which didn't work:

Settings -> Phone -> Facetime (turn off) -> Hard Reboot (Holding Sleep & Home button past the (slide to turn off) until it did a hard shut down) and rebooted the phone, I then went back into, Settings -> Phone -> Facetime (turn on) and it would sit there saying "waiting on activation" and would eventually fault out and turn back off.

I do not have an unlocked phone and my service provider is AT&T, this wasn't a problem anybody else had that I could find. The only people experiencing this problem without this fixing it were people who had T-Mobile and were trying to use MiTime which is not the fix for me since I am on AT&T and my phone is not unlocked.

After hours of research and messing around with setting I finally found the cure, hopefully someone else will find this useful and not be stranded looking for the cure forever like I was.

I had to go into SBSettings (if you do not have it, go into Cydia and download it). The way you access SBSettings incase you don't know is you take your finger where the signal metere/bar is and swipe across the screen to the other side and it'll activate the program.



Once that pop opens, select on the option on the bottom left and click on more. It will open up the program.



Once the program is open, scroll down to "Mobile Substrate Addons" to open up a menu list of programs to turn "on/off"



Turn off all the programs in this. Once that is done, the phone will automatically reboot. Once this is done, go ahead and go back into

Settings -> Phone -> Facetime "on" and it should activate at this point. Once it has feel free to go back into SBSettings and turn everything back on and your Facetime should be working just fine.

Hope this helps someone else if they are having the same problem.

[pesanze]

Thanks.

Actually I´ve been having the same problem in the last few day (after jbing) and the only solution I found was going back to the clean 4.2.1 (which is not a solution)

I might want to do the whole procedure once again and try your fix.

cheers!

anyway I´m on the o2 Germany network, dunno if it´s a matter of network

[nstanes]

It's one of those pearl explanations you might find on the web! ))

[DC_Dave]

Hi, I had the same problem when I went from 4.1 to 4.21, I used MiTime to get things working, however the problem does reoccur with failed FaceTime calls, I have tried uninstalling stuff, but today after removed my large PKGBackup file from my contacts, FaceTime seems to activate straight away. I also had a problem with iPhone activation when rebooting and that is OK too.
Only posting this incase it might help someone else, I couldn't really say that the PKGBackup save is a problem, but I have now limited it's size to 10 entries instead of over 50 I had before.

[username1010]

Just the other night I was having problems with my Facetime ending call after 2 seconds on intitilizing the set up. It would never allow the Facetime call to go through. When trying to have someone else Facetime me and see if I can connect that way it would kill the call.

So I tried this first which didn't work:

Settings -> Phone -> Facetime (turn off) -> Hard Reboot (Holding Sleep & Home button past the (slide to turn off) until it did a hard shut down) and rebooted the phone, I then went back into, Settings -> Phone -> Facetime (turn on) and it would sit there saying "waiting on activation" and would eventually fault out and turn back off.

I do not have an unlocked phone and my service provider is AT&T, this wasn't a problem anybody else had that I could find. The only people experiencing this problem without this fixing it were people who had T-Mobile and were trying to use MiTime which is not the fix for me since I am on AT&T and my phone is not unlocked.

After hours of research and messing around with setting I finally found the cure, hopefully someone else will find this useful and not be stranded looking for the cure forever like I was.

I had to go into SBSettings (if you do not have it, go into Cydia and download it). The way you access SBSettings incase you don't know is you take your finger where the signal metere/bar is and swipe across the screen to the other side and it'll activate the program.



Once that pop opens, select on the option on the bottom left and click on more. It will open up the program.



Once the program is open, scroll down to "Mobile Substrate Addons" to open up a menu list of programs to turn "on/off"



Turn off all the programs in this. Once that is done, the phone will automatically reboot. Once this is done, go ahead and go back into

Settings -> Phone -> Facetime "on" and it should activate at this point. Once it has feel free to go back into SBSettings and turn everything back on and your Facetime should be working just fine.

Hope this helps someone else if they are having the same problem.

This is the only thing that worked after trying a million other things!!! Thanks you rock!!!