Funkyspacemonkey has posted a quick how to on changing the facetime name that pops up when calling or receiving a call. So in turn, instead of it saying facetime it will say whatever you like. Your going to need to ssh, diskaid, or use ifile to edit some string files. Before doing any of this make sure you back up all of the files your going to edit just in case.

Below are the strings you need to edit:

/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBookUI.framework/English.lproj/vc~AB.strings
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Conference.framework/English.lproj/vc~Conference.strings
/private/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/English.lproj/vc~Restrictions.strings

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Now you can make FaceTime video calls over 3G network with My3G. My3G for iPhone 4, a jailbroken app, lets you FaceTime over 3G. My3G is exactly similar to 3G Unrestrictor, only difference is the FaceTime on 3G support. By default, Apple won’t let you make FaceTime calls over 3G network.

NOTE: Your iPhone 4 MUST be jailbroken to install My3G app. JailbreakMe 2.0 is the new jailbreak for iPhone 4. You can jailbreak iPhone 4 using the guide linked below:

• How to: jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.0.1 / 4.0 using JailbreakMe

My3G Description

Facetime over 3G!!!! My3G: Take back your 3G! My3G makes Apps believe that they are on WiFi instead of 3G. With My3G, you can now watch HiDef YouTube videos, use Skype/Fring/Other VOIP apps over the 3G network!

My3G Features

• In-App popup request to enable/never ask for My3G to be enabled for that app
• In-App indicator when My3G changes the network from 3G to WiFi
• Ability to select which apps are My3G enabled and not.
• Default Apps – no configuration for the most popular apps!
• SBSettings Toggle! You can temporarily enable My3G for all apps or toggle back using your defined Apps list
• Dynamic enablement – Higher successs rate (near 100%) then 3G Unrestrictor (which does one off solutions for apps). My3G enables 3G indicators more dynamically.

My3G is developed by the same Dev behind MyWi.

How to Install My3G

• Go to Cydia
• Search for My3G and install it.
• It will also install RockApp.

My3G to enable video calls over 3G on iPhone 4 is available in both Cydia and RockApp for $3.99.

via iphoneheat.com

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There are numerous reports on FaceTime / MMS issues on iPhone 4 after jailbreaking with JailbreakMe 2.0 “Star”. After jailbreaking iPhone 4 with JailbreakMe 2.0, FaceTime and MMS stopped working for some users. Within a few hours, we have a fix for MMS / FaceTime problem, thanks to Comex and the Dev-Team.

If you jailbreak your iPhone now using JailbreakMe 2.0 it should work fine because the issue has been addressed in the Jailbreak as well.

However if you have already jailbroken iPhone before the issue was fixed, then there are two ways to fix the issue:

Install Base Structure Update from Cydia
Open the Cydia.
Go to changes tab and hit refresh.
There you’ll find an update available for Base Structure. Install it. Done!

Restore Firmware and re-Jailbreak
Restore the firmware then re-jailbreak iPhone with JailbreakMe 2.0

NOTE: re-jailbreaking without restoring firmware does NOT fix the FaceTime/MMS.

This one might hurt El Jobso more than Antennagate!  According to the AP,

When Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.

With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to reach out and touch someone — even if it puts Apple, which has always taken pains to keep its iPhone apps squeaky clean, in an awkward spot.

In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees

Apple dropped the iChatr Chat Roulette clone (genital cam) from the App Store only after a week of availability.

[9to5mac]

Yeah, seriously. While Aircell’s Gogo in-flight WiFi service has been blocking VoIP calling services (Skype being the most obvious example) from day one, it’s apparently not throwing the same brick wall in the face of Apple’s new standard. Our good pals over at TUAW managed to record a (relatively) solid two minute FaceTime conversation with an iPhone 4 owner, and only after you realize that said owner is a few thousand feet above the Earth’s surface does this all become a lot more interesting. We know for a fact that certain iPhone 4 owners have had difficulty with FaceTime conversations when using highly firewalled access points (like those found in hotels and corporate offices), but it seems as if seat 16A is cleared for transmission. For now, anyway. Head on past the break to peek the FaceTime ad that Apple forgot to make.

Via| TUAW

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Apple’s new ads campaign for iPhone 4 have shifted from “there’s an app for that,” to a message targeting a specific new app: FaceTime.

A series of four new spots present family members using FaceTime to interact in series of warmly sentimental circumstances reminiscent of the oriental tearjerker spot Apple created and debuted at WWDC.

The new ads present a daughter shy about her braces being coaxed into a smile by her father, a son showing his father his new granddaughter, a girl showing off her new haircut to her boyfriend, and a woman breaking the news to her husband that she’s pregnant.

The new spots demonstrate Apple’s marketing savvy, as each spot tugs a customers’ heartstrings, rather than simply bragging about hardware specs by comparing smartphones to some kind of an alien invasion (as Verizon’s odd Droid ads), or presenting a creepy woman muttering about esoteric features (as Palm did with its bizarre Pre commercials).

[via appleinsider.com]

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FaceTime supports iOS URL schemes, enabling users to initiate a call by clicking on a hyperlink. iPhone 3GS users can see and click the links but they don’t work, not even for audio-only calls. Yet.

Reader Felipe Baez discovered facetime:// URL scheme support while examining how FaceTime works. iOS began supporting URL schemes a couple years ago; the feature enables webpage links or apps to launch other apps on the phone.

Introducing URL schemes

Apple supports a variety of URL schemes for launching bundled iOS apps from a URL (or programmatically within an app). For example, tel://8008675309 prompts the user to dial that number. It also works with alpha characters, so tel://888facetime correctly translates the letters into the corresponding numbers to dial.

Additionally, mailto://danieleran@mac.com would launch Mail app with that addressee, and sms:// (followed by a mobile number or short code) launches Messages with a text addressed and ready to enter.

Apple also opened the URL scheme concept up to third party developers so they can register their own URL scheme. While http://facebook.com/ always launches the web app version of Facebook using Safari, links beginning with fb:/ will launch the Facebook app instead (as long as it’s installed).

Linking to FaceTime

It’s therefore not surprising that Apple’s FaceTime has its own URL scheme that allows other apps (or hyperlinks on a web page) to initiate a video chat. What is interesting, but not surprising, is that the URL scheme isn’t enabled on anything other than iPhone 4.

Oddly however, on other iPhone models running iOS 4, FaceTime URLs are recognized as a valid URL scheme. So rather than not being clickable or resulting in an error message that the URL is “invalid” (as an unrecognized URL scheme does), iPhone 3GS users who click on a facetime:// URL get a strangely blank screen (below).

This could be a simple mistake by Apple, or could be evidence that partial support for FaceTime calls was pulled late in the release. Earlier iPhones don’t have the processing muscle to handle a video call, but they should be able to handle an audio-only call. Being able to place free, audio-only iChat conversations from any iPhone running iOS would certainly be an attractive feature to users, particularly international callers.

The lack of audio-only FaceTime on earlier phones running iOS 4 may be due to the fact that carriers wouldn’t accept free WiFi phone calls (enabled by default on 60 million iPhones, and easy to use), while they would support video calling as an iPhone 4 feature, as the carriers either can’t currently handle FaceTime calls (think AT&T) or have no real business around selling video calls anyway (everyone else). They do have a lucrative long distance voice business.

[appleinsider]