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

[Derek Conniffe]

Yes this is interesting all right.

The phone never seems to get to the menu any more (even after being 
switched on for hours).

But tcpdump host BT101IPADDRESS does show aXXXXXXXXXXX

Oh - please scrap this whole conversation.

For some reason the phone has just popped into life.  Yes - its true.  
Its been dead since friday and now I start this thread and its wakes up 
again.

Actually I did just plug the ethernet cable back in to it - I had it 
unplugged while I left it powered on (just in case it would help) and 
the phone does have access to any computer via NAT so maybe it did 
something (tcpdump is going mad showing traffic).

Thanks everyone - I dont know what happened but it working again - weird?

Derek

Andrew Edmond wrote:

>How long have you left the power on on the phone?  Sometimes if it's
>confused it can take a while to get to the prompt...
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>If you CAN'T get to the menu even after the phone has been on a while...
>Then the other chap's suggestion to plug your phone into a HUB shared
>with your PC so you can ethereal dump all TCP/IP traffic to find out
>what tFTP server the BT101 is trying to download from... And then
>providing a tFTP server on that address....
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>Andrew
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Derek
>Conniffe
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:59 AM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Off Topic: Dead GS BudgeTone-100
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>Thanks Andrew
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>"PS: I wouldn't think this subject is OT...."
>I suppose it is close to the heart of a lot of Asterisk users all right
>:)
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>This BT101 is doing nothing at all now (other than the 5 flashes).   Its
>not responding to pings on the static IP address I had put into it and
>there is no life at all LCD/button wise (no menu, etc).
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>Did you have this problem or was your BT101 still functional to be able
>to modify the IP address or any other items like the reset menu?
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>Unless the phone is trying to do something that I dont know about (like
>looking for a DHCP server to get an IP address) - otherwise maybe its
>the end of this phone
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>Derek
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>Andrew Edmond wrote:
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>>Derek --
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>>I was in a similar situation recently.  I got a BT101 from 
>>TheVoipConnection and I tried everything to get DHCP or static IP 
>>address working.  Nothing... No matter what I did I couldn't get this 
>>phone to function.  I was about to call and complain they sent me a dud
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>>phone...
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>>On a lark, I setup the static IP address on the phone to work on my 
>>LAN, and put in the tFTP server as my windows 2000 box (on the same 
>>LAN).  I put the tFTP server on that w2k box, with the 1.0.5.11 
>>firmware unzipped in the root directory.  Get this firmware from:
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>>http://www.grandstream.com/y-downloads.htm
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>>To my surprise, the BT101 upon boot logged into my tftp server and 
>>began downloading files!  Even though I couldn't ping the damn phone, 
>>it was able to tFTP off the new roms.  Apparently on boot, the BT 
>>phones always first attempt to tftp before booting the rest of their 
>>network functions.
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>>In any case, with the 1.0.5.11 ROMS the phone works GREAT!
>>
>>The other thing I would suggest is resetting the phone manually to 
>>factory settings.  The instructions for this are in the BT101 manual, 
>>but basically you have to type in the MAC address of the phone on the
>>--RESET-- menu.  Download the manual to learn how to do this.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
>>Andrew
>>NeroLabs @ #asterisk IRC
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>>PS: I wouldn't think this subject is OT....
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Derek 
>>Conniffe
>>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:35 AM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Off Topic: Dead GS BudgeTone-100
>>
>>
>>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.
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>>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
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>>and ever since then it doesn't boot up correctly.  It starts up and the
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>>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
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>>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
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>>it could have been making outbound connections on its own.
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>>Does anyone know how to reset the phone back to an operating state (is
>>it even possible??)
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>>Thanks,
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>>Derek Conniffe
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