Followed your suggestions but still no change.
Tor.log is still filled with [warn] Socks version 80 not recognized. (Tor is not an http proxy.)
Looking how you still to use the Tor Service how a http proxy. Have you some service that point to the same port ? Tor port is 9999
No, I'm not a Tor user and don't have other services using ports. Tried it on two different machines as well, where it also won't stake. Speaking of my other machine, I just went and took a look at the Tor.log there, and it looks like this:
Jul 06 21:57:48.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha-dev opening log file.
Jul 06 21:58:01.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server.
Jul 06 21:58:01.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
Jul 06 21:58:01.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network.
Jul 06 21:58:01.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop.
Jul 06 21:58:03.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit.
Jul 06 21:58:04.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.
Jul 06 21:58:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done.
Jul 06 21:58:43.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:01:24.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:28556. Giving up. (waiting for rendezvous desc)
Jul 06 22:01:42.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:01:52.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:02:12.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:02:24.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:02:27.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:02:30.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:02:39.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:03:00.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:03:02.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:05:14.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:28556. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
Jul 06 22:05:45.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:05:49.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:05:58.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:06:06.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:06:10.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:07:07.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:07:25.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
Jul 06 22:08:10.000 [warn] onion_skin_client_handshake failed.
Jul 06 22:08:10.000 [warn] circuit_finish_handshake failed.
Jul 06 22:08:10.000 [warn] connection_edge_process_relay_cell (at origin) failed.
Jul 06 22:08:47.000 [notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).