[Asterisk-Users] Off Topic: Dead GS BudgeTone-100

[Derek Conniffe]

Hi Gilad - thats a very interesting suggestion - I'll try to find out if 
the phone is trying to make a communication.

thanks,

Derek

Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> Derek Conniffe wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is off topic and is for GS technical support really but it seems 
>> that there are a lot of Budge Tone 100/101/102 users out there.
>>
>> I've got a Budge Tone-100 (101 - without the extra 10base ethernet 
>> connetion?) here.  I changed the configuration through its web based 
>> interface and I clicked the reboot link.  But then something went 
>> wrong and ever since then it doesn't boot up correctly.  It starts up 
>> and the LCD stays blue backlit and the keypad flashes
>> in groups of five (flash, flash, flash, flash, flash, pause, flash, 
>> flash, flash, flash, flash, pause..... and so on... for ever).  I 
>> think this is a problem with a firmware update failure?  I never 
>> changed the factory setting to do with tftp and the phone was on a 
>> NATed network so it could have been making outbound connections on 
>> its own.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to reset the phone back to an operating state 
>> (is it even possible??)
>
>
> I'm not a Groundstream employee and you use (or not) the following 
> suggestion to use on your own risk (read: this can destroy the phone, 
> void your warrenty or start world war III), but it has helped me in a 
> similar situation with the same phone in the past:
>
> Find out what IP it is trying to connect to to download a firmware 
> update (assuming it still does it in it's new mangled state). A 
> network sniffer such as tcpdump or Ethereal are best used for that.
>
> Arrange your network so that a machine of your control answers to 
> whatever IP address it is looking for. Set up tftp on that machine and 
> put on it a known good and working version of the firmware.
>
> Reboot the phone.
>
> Prey...
>
>
> Gilad
>


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