Error-500
You have reached this page because FoxToPhone has encounter an error at the server.
There are several reasons about why this might happen (and other that we are not aware of).
First one, is a temporary problem with the server. You can’t do nothing about this, just wait a few minutes and retry again.
If you still haven’t installed the Android apk in your phone, and registered it with the same account that you are trying to use with FoxToPhone, then you will get also this error. The solution is to install and configure the ChromeToPhone apk with the same account that you are trying to use. You can logout in the FoxToPhone extension using the context menu on the toolbar button.
It can also happen if you are trying to send a very long URL to the phone, you can check if it works with something simpler.
Other reported reason is that the phone has lost the connection. Personally I’ve never seen that situation because whenever the phone is without connection the messages are queued and they are send when the connection is restored. Of course it could happen that you are storing more messages than the expected limit, so please, check that your phone has a data connection.
The last known reason is that the data of the app has become invalid, for example if you has was flashed a new ROM over an existing ROM without wiping it first. This leads to unpredictable behavior with many apps. In this case there are three options:
- In the ChromeToPhone App, click the “Unregister device” button and then register it again.
- If that doesn’t work, close the app, clear its data and then start over again.
- As a last resource, you might need to wipe your device and reflash the ROM image.
Matthias
25/08/2010 at 10:24
Toolbar icon and context menu entries are gone since the update to version 1.1. In addition the options menu is broken.
Firefox 3.6.8 (German)
paddy
25/08/2010 at 10:37
We will investigate this immediately and issue a fix.
Easygo
25/08/2010 at 11:53
FoxToPhone is broken in german FireFox!
Solution:
In the extension directory go to chrome\locale\de and change the encoding of the overlay.dtd to UTF-8. Take care that the umlauts are correctly encoded.
paddy
25/08/2010 at 17:56
Thanks Easygo, we have issued a fix for the issue and it is available from our homepage. foxtophone.com
Anis
31/08/2010 at 06:27
This is not working at all .. when I click “SEND this to your anaroid phone link” it always says error 500 for any link.
paddy
01/09/2010 at 10:28
You may have an error authenticating with the Google server. Does ChromeToPhone work for you?
Zszen John
13/09/2010 at 04:39
Me too . So sad
alfonso
15/09/2010 at 20:47
What are the steps that you have tried to fix the problem?
Dennis
15/01/2011 at 10:12
Fox to Phone used to work about a month ago, now every time I try and use it I get sent to this page
www.foxtophone.com/status500/
I have an HTC Desire HD running Froyo
Please help
Dennis
Neal
23/04/2011 at 14:17
when I try to send to my phone, I seem to be in an endless loop unable to send anything; first i see a message that I need to log in, then I see a message I am logged in followed by I need to log in; nothing gets transferred to the phone; I am using firefox 4.0, windows 7, droid with ver 2.2.2
Robert
02/08/2011 at 08:33
Enabling third-party cookies solved this problem for me.
Robert
02/08/2011 at 11:37
If you have third party cookies disabled try adding “chrometophone.appspot.com” with an allow status in the settings.
alfonso
02/08/2011 at 19:18
Thanks for the info Robert.
I thought that we did add some code to deal with it, but something might have changed in Firefox.
I’ll review the new version with 3rd party cookies disabled, although now it shouldn’t matter as no cookies are used (specially with the latest changes that we’ll release as a new beta soon)
Royal
14/05/2011 at 16:32
I have used this program a number of times and it worked great. Now I try to use it and get this error 500 thing. I uninstall it and re install and it does the same thing. I think I probably used my other email address when trying to use it today but I can not find any place to put the gmail address in. This is rather frustrating. I have tried it a number of times on different pages and get the same results-error 500
kirsten
16/05/2011 at 21:44
good job
Mark
24/05/2011 at 16:09
Any chance a version that will work on Android 2.1 will ever appear?
Seems it will be awhile before (if ever) our provider pushes out a 2.2 upgrade.
Thanks.
alfonso
26/05/2011 at 13:49
Sorry, but the “Cloud to Device” functionality is only available since Android 2.2. Anyway, there are other tools aimed at older versions of Android that you can use.
Kevin
25/05/2011 at 20:47
This can also come up if you don’t have the chrome to phone application installed on your phone.
another kevin...
27/05/2011 at 07:34
hey, thanks Kevin!
i had the problems others were talking about, then i read down to your comment. i installed chrome-to-phone on my HTC incredible (android 2.2), and successfully transferred a file from my Firefox 4.0 browser.
excellent!
alfonso
29/05/2011 at 15:55
We did tried to state clearly in every introductory page like www.foxtophone.com/about/ that the Android APK is a basic requirement.
jpp
18/06/2011 at 23:35
I had the same issue, didn’tnoticed i have to install an app on the phone until i red this comment. Would be nice if you add that as first thing to check on this page!
DaaBoss
11/06/2011 at 17:00
It asked me which account to use for Google, and I answered with the WRONG account. So, now it will no longer ask me, and it won’t work. So, what should I do??
alfonso
14/06/2011 at 18:21
RIght click on the toolbar button and select “logout”. That should be enough, next time it will ask you to login again.
Tomasz Rajtar
13/06/2011 at 08:34
Hi,
Unfortunately I cannot install application on my phone (Samsung GT-i5700 with Android 2.1) from QRcode link – this one placed in the right side of your website under the tag ‘Scan To Install App’.
There is information, that it is not possible to find requested resource… Something wrong with address?
My phone told, that QRcode is pointing at:
market://details?id=com.google.android.apps.chrometophone
This is also not possible to find ChromeToPhone or FoxToPhone (I’m using FF) by the standard way – via Market (app is not accepted yet by the big brother?)… Pity…
Best regards,
T.R.
alfonso
14/06/2011 at 18:22
Sorry, the “Cloud to Device Messaging” system is available only since Android 2.2
Royal
30/06/2011 at 13:56
This thing never works for me. I don’t know why I try. Last time I try
MIKE
31/07/2011 at 00:09
this app sux , doesnt work
alfonso
01/08/2011 at 14:54
The app does work (as well as the extension)
The fact that you are unable to even request help explaining what’s your problem and what you have tried so far, speaks a lot about you.
May
24/08/2011 at 05:39
not able to use, my phone is android 2.3
alfonso
25/08/2011 at 15:22
An why you are unable to use it?
What’s the problem?