Can't add venues. Error message: "Foursquare is down. Try again later."

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add venue
2. Place the address: CITY, STATE, ZIP are detected automatically. Give in
the venue name and street. In my case (as one example) the following full
address and venue: Ketchum Pleon GmbH (venue), Bahnstr. 2, Düsseldorf,
North Rhine-Westphalia, 40210 
3. Add venue.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The resulted output should be an added venue. Instead I'm getting the
following error message: "Foursquare is down. Try again later."

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Foursquare for Android on a Nexus One. I've been using it on a T-Mobile G1,
had the same error message.

Please provide any additional information below.
The error is not location specific. I've tried adding venues in different
cities across Europe - had always the same error message and I've also used
the software on different android devices (Nexus One, G1) and I'm still
getting the same message. Might that be an account specific problem?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by schwarzm...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 5:41

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I'm experiencing the same issue. Running Foursquare for Android on a Motorola 
Milestone, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since I'm using a different account, the 
problem is not related to schwarzmann's account.

Original comment by dbut...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 3:11

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@schwarzmann & dbuthay: are you getting this error every time you try to add a 
venue, or does it happen only 
sometimes?

Original comment by mar...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 4:15

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I'm having it everywhere and all the time.

Original comment by schwarzm...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:47

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I tried twice, and it failed both times.

Original comment by dbut...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 5:52

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I'm having the exact same problem running the official Foursquare app in my 
Motorola 
Milestone. It happens all the time and everywhere.

Original comment by fian...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2010 at 11:50

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I re-tried this weekend and it worked.

Original comment by dbut...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2010 at 3:52

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Today, it didn't work, either. I tried searching for a Venue and I got 0 
results. 
Tried adding the Venue, and it didn't work. A couple of minutes later, I 
successfully 
checked-in on a different location. 

The problem may be network related, but I checked my internet connection and it 
was 
working fine.

Original comment by dbut...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2010 at 2:46

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Well, I've managed to add a venue yesterday. I had to manually add the street 
name
and house number, but the rest worked out well. Not sure what have changed. Did 
you
guys do something?

Original comment by schwarzm...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 10:50

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Now I'm back to square one. Tried to add a venue back at home in Düsseldorf 
and got
the same error as before. It's strange, maybe I can only add venues in Berlin, 
but
nowhere else? I was receiving the same error code out of Düsseldorf as well.

Original comment by schwarzm...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2010 at 8:25

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Changing the defaulted state, " australian capital territory"  to act allowed 
me to add the venue

Original comment by danwo...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2010 at 1:57

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This is definitely a problem with the foursquare servers and not the client. 
We've changed the error message for 
connection errors to the foursquare server to be more descriptive and will let 
the user know it's not the client's 
fault!

Original comment by mar...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2010 at 4:31

• Changed state: Invalid