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

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

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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