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

[Derek Conniffe]

Except there is no dial tone anymore (it does dial though)...

Derek

Derek Conniffe wrote:

> 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...
>>
>> 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....
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>> Thanks Andrew
>>
>> "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
>> :)
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>
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>>
>> Andrew Edmond wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Derek --
>>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> http://www.grandstream.com/y-downloads.htm
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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>>  
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>>> and ever since then it doesn't boot up correctly.  It starts up and the
>>>   
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>>  
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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.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to reset the phone back to an operating state (is
>>> it even possible??)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Derek Conniffe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
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