Hi All,

Can we use Facetime on an iPhone without a network connection? If so, how?

I know this is off-topic, but short of subscribing to an iOS list, which 
I'd rather not do, I'm not sure where to ask this question. I have an 
iPhone 4, which I got in order to translate apps. When my two-year 
contract ran out, I stopped service because I decided that I'd learned 
all I was going to learn from the experience and that the income for 
such work came nowhere near covering the monthly bill. I still have the 
phone, and with it connected to my wifi network, I can translate and 
test apps.

Anyway, I have a friend and colleague who lives abroad. We normally 
communicate via Skype, but sometimes Skype connections are really rough. 
If we're contacting each other to socialize, we just reschedule on bad 
Skype days, but if we have work related things to discuss, rescheduling 
can be really inconvenient.

Getting to the point, we had a bad Skype day yesterday, so she suggested 
we try Facetime. I tried getting Facetime up and running, but it didn't 
work: the error I got says something like, "Waiting to Activate." I've 
done some Googling, and what I've read says that the iPhone uses the 
phone number to help activate Facetime. All the advice connected with 
this issue says I need to contact my carrier, which I no longer have. In 
Settings>Facetime, I do find my old phone number, and I haven't found 
any way to clear it.

I know Facetime works on the iPad, so I'm hoping I can get it to work on 
the no-network iPhone.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to use Facetime?

Thanks, and my apologies for the off topic post.

Ciao


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