Google talk: call hangs on "connecting..." and ends

[Karel Jansens]

Like it says in the subject line, really:

When I try to call someone (actually, I have only one contact in my Google Talk contacts list; how sad am I, eh?) with the 770's gtalk applet, it starts the call, displays "calling" first, then "connecting..." and then does nothing for almost a minute and disconnects, displaying a call time of 00:00 (which is correct, as there was no call). Oh yeah, the presence icon is a very pretty green colour all the time. :)

Calling the same person on the desktop and on the same wireless network, gives no problem at all: we can chat for hours on end.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

[Karel Jansens]

Apologies for bumping this so soon, but it is rather urgent: I'll be away from my main computer for a couple of days and really could use this feature.

[Karel Jansens]

I'm still hopelessly stuck on this one. However, I seem to remember reading something somewhere (I can't recall where, dammit!!!!) about setting "UPnP" in the router. Can someone please tell me whether this should be "on" or "off"?

Help?

[djmspringcreek]

GoogleTalk doesn't require uPnP to be on (for PC, at least.) That is one of it's most attractive features. It might not hurt to turn it on, but it doesn't need to be for GoogleTalk.

You could always try GizmoProject.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Maybe if you posted your Router make/Model, I could help out a little bit more.

[Karel Jansens]

GoogleTalk doesn't require uPnP to be on (for PC, at least.) That is one of it's most attractive features. It might not hurt to turn it on, but it doesn't need to be for GoogleTalk.

You could always try GizmoProject.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Maybe if you posted your Router make/Model, I could help out a little bit more.

Thanks for the help.

My ADSL modem is an Alcatel Speed Touch Home, my wireless router is a Linksys model WRT54G. Both are virgins as far as tampering with the firmware is concerned. uPnP is on on the router; I left the firewall as it was, as it seems to keep the baddies out fine; DHCP is on as well.

You say that uPnP isn't needed for Google Talk, but is it possible that it, being on, could hurt?

I will probably try Gizmo if I can't get Google Talk to -- err -- talk on my 770, but the real problem is my contact on the other side: it was already taxing his computer skills (or rather: the lack thereof) for him to get Google Talk working. I doubt he'll be able to repeat this fluke success. Can I use Gizmo to talk to Google Talk contacts?

[dattani98]

gizmo wont use your gtlk contacts. Try installing TAPIOCA - from what i've seen & heard from other members - its cleaner and faster. Once installed use your full googletalk ID to log in (e.g yourname@gmail.com)

The installation instructions are here

http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Maemo

[Karel Jansens]

gizmo wont use your gtlk contacts. Try installing TAPIOCA - from what i've seen & heard from other members - its cleaner and faster. Once installed use your full googletalk ID to log in (e.g yourname@gmail.com)

The installation instructions are here

http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Maemo
But isn't Tapioca another frontend for Google Talk?

What are the odds that it will work where the"original" didn't?

[dattani98]

dunno...try it and see. if it doesnt work then try gtlk without your firewall to try and eliminate possible problem sources.

just my 2 cents.....

[Karel Jansens]

dunno...try it and see. if it doesnt work then try gtlk without your firewall to try and eliminate possible problem sources.

just my 2 cents.....
Yeah, I'm certainly going to try different things, but lowering my firewall? No way, José! I've been rooted once, and that's enough. :mad:

[Karel Jansens]

Yeah, I'm certainly going to try different things, but lowering my firewall? No way, José! I've been rooted once, and that's enough. :mad:
In case anyone but me was still interested: I got it working (I hope, see further down)! The trick is apparently to disable uPnP in the Linksys router.

Now, I couldn't actually test this with my friend (mostly because he lives several timezones away and shuts down his pc when he sleeps. The nark :p ), so I actually called myself.

How to do this? I have 2 Google Mail accounts (well, you never know when you wear one out, do you? :rolleyes: ), so I logged in on my desktop with my second account (there was a bit of fuzz, because it seems you cannot accept an invitation on the 770's Google Talk client, at least not from an account in Belgium, so I had to log out and log in again with my primary account and accept the invitation from myself, talk about schizophrenia), but then I called myself from the 770 to the desktop and it worked!

More testing over the weekend with -- hopefully -- an actual conversation that is not dominated by speaker feedback. :cool:

[janjansenbe]

Hi,

You can add me to your google talk, so you can try once, living in Belgium (janjansenbe).

Cheers, Jan

[janjansenbe]

By the way, recently I received on my Nokia 770 a call from Karel with his Nokia 770, and it was working smoothly.

So problem solved I guess ;-).

Cheers, Jan

[Karel Jansens]

Sorry, I should have posted that myself, but my enthousiasm must have affected my cognitive skills (as it usually does).

It did work well, but one caveat: calls from 770 to 770 seem to be taxing the li'l things: it's best not to expect smooth full duplex. :D

Of course, it's always possible that it was just a fluke bandwith issue.

[Texrat]

Just curious-- I flashed the latest 2006 version yesterday and it fixed a lot of problems I'd been having. For one, I can finally call out from my 700 using gtalk2voip. But after I'd reflashed, I saw a Googletalk applet on the 700 desktop. After rebooting the device, that applet no longer shows up anywhere. Any idea how to get the desktop back to the post reflash state, and/or where to find the 770's Gtalk applet?

[flyingyeti]

After a month, I am still struggling to figure out how to set up my Gmail. I am half way there as I can send messages successfully, but still cannot receive. I followed a fellow forum subscriber's instruction as shown below...

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Account name: your email address.. for example blahblah@gmail.com
Account type: pop3
Name: (your name )
user name: your full email address
password: your email password
E-mail address: self explanatory
Incoming server (pop3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
use connection-specific smtp servers: check

then hit configure under smtp servers and hit edit

Server name: smtp.gmail.com
Smtp authentication: login
Username: email address
PAssword: your password
security: SSL
outgoing email port: 465

then hit ok and then close
then you should get a message saying account set up is complete, hit advanced and under retrieval

Retrieve: headers only
leave email on server: check
email sixe limit: 1000
Password authentication: normal
Security: SSL (pop3s)

under sending
Smtp authentication: login
username and then password: the usual
Security: SSL
outgoing email port: 465

under the composing tab you really dont need to do anything

under security, just check the last two options leave everything blank
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I rechecked my password to ensure they are correct, and I am thinking anyone looking at this forum should be able to pinpoint what my problem might be. Thank you for your time, and please let me know what I am doing wrong. Some suggested using 995 as email port, but this did not work.