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Asterisk phone Soyo G668

Created by: jdbalogh,Last modification on Sun 08 of Jan, 2006 [08:56 UTC] by barken

Soyo G668


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Service provider phone page: http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=307
Home site manual page: http://www.soyo.com.tw/downloads/selectresults.php?col2=307&col3=Manual

Same as: Giptel ip phones with PA168 chipset

Configuration information from phone comments:



by marianiten_74 on Wednesday 01 of June, 2005 09:17:37

For use G668 with asterisk you need:

Enter the superpassword in the webconf of phone.
Go to "protocol settings"
protocol: sip
service: inphonex
service addr: name/ip_of_your_asterisk
service id: your number
nat traversal : disable (if you do not need)
nat addr: empty
phone number: your number
acount: your username in sip.conf
pin: your password in sip.conf
register port: your sip port (default 5060)
signal port: 0
control port: 0
rtp port: 5040
local tipe: acount

with this setting the soyo g668 works



by bzly2000 on Wednesday 04 of May, 2005 13:31:31

I don't have these working with Asterisk, but here is how you unlock the phone for sip configuration (existing configuration information will be lost):

1) Log into the phone using web browser (1234 is default password)
2) Input this ip address 165.236.243.102 where says "upgrade addr"
3) Click "Update", and wait for the phone boot up correctly
4) Press "Speaker", "12346", and then "Local IP". You should see the update running on the phone display.
5) Log back in again and you'll see all possible settings.
6) You'll probably want to put the ip address above in again; if you don't and you try to "upgrade", you'll be back to being locked in.

Now if I could only get the phone to register with asterisk...


by kotl on November 2, 2005:

I've successfully made this phone work with IAX2 and asterisk. The main problem is there - correct firmware upgrade.
I'm 100% sure that G668 phones that have CS label on the back are exact PA168S reference design, so far you need to download original PA168S firmwares. I don't know if all of these steps are needed so you can experiment on your own and update my notes:

1. Unlock phone with bzly2000 method
2. Upgrade it to 1.46 IAX2 firmware through palmtool or web interface
3. telnet to it, put default 1234 password, enter 'default' command
4. phone reboots and after that superpassword is reset and you can use 12345678 as superpassword
5. connect to it through web, change needed IAX settings, reboot and it will work.

Note, I've spent a lot of time figuring this out, the main trick here is resetting to factory defaults firmware settings through telnet command. If you damage firmware you can always use known method of firmware recovery described in other P168x pages.


by Lee on January 8, 2006:

I've successfully used this phone with IAX2 and asterisk by using firmware v.1.49.002 available here:
http://www.soyogroup.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=353

One gotcha: Point your web browser to the IP address of the phone (default password is 1234)... under the Audio Settings, it will default to g.729 for Codec1 and null for Codec2-6. This created an error in Asterisk ("Unable to negotiate codec") which was resolved by setting Codec2 to g711u and clicking "Save Settings". Note that I did not find it necessary to reset the firmware to factory defaults as described above.


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333Re: Noise on phone in one direction, just sometimes.

by lingolep, Wednesday 14 of May, 2008 [19:01:06 UTC]
(original post around 16 May 2007 - By pressing with my thumb on the microphone area of the handset, I was able to permanently (for the time being) eliminate the hum. So the phone is functional again.)

Also, FYI the firmware on my phone.soyo.com CS G668 unit corresponds to the PA168S.zip download from the http://www.palmmicro.com.cn/PA1688/edownloads.htm page. I opened my phone and found the main chip is a PA1688-PQ.

Findings:

1. The chip designation ending in Q doesn't mean you should use their PA168Q.zip download, but rather, perhaps the CS marking means to use PA168S.zip. This is confirmed by also trying the remaining V download which gets rejected by the phone.

2. I set my debug value to all in the Soyo GUI before attempting any firmware updates. This way theres a good chance it'll reject anything you transfer that is incompatible

3. For some reasons the transfer portion of the firmware process (firmware upload) was very slow and halting when passing through a local D-link router, DI-604. Much better to just connect your PC directly to the phone, as has been advised.

Finally, I decided to switch back to the SIP firmware because under IAX the phone would lock up during a basic call like an echo test, somewhere around minute 3, or minute 8, or minute 11. The IAX page has a section on nat which describes this a bit further I think, however this may be a firmware issue because I seem to have gotten the lock ups even through a direct wired connection to a test asterisk server (no hub, switch, or internet). This was with IAX firmware file pa168s_iax2_us_159006.bin

The SIP firmware pa168s_sip_us_159006.bin seems to be running 15+ minutes

(Asterisk servers 1.4.19 local, and 1.4.19.1 remote)


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333Noise on phone in one direction, just sometimes.

by lingolep, Tuesday 15 of May, 2007 [13:34:22 UTC]
I sometimes get noise in just one direction and it shows up on an Asterisk echo test as a buzz. By powering down the phone for a couple days the problem goes away for a while, however as of late it seems to return again rather quickly. Is the phone more susceptible to electromagnetic interference than most? Is this almost always an issue with the AC adapter, perhaps having gone bad?
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333PCPhoneline VST1000 Voip phone identical to Soyo G668 phone

by dtcdtc, Monday 02 of January, 2006 [14:26:37 UTC]
Surprisingly or not PCPhoneline sells the identical phone as VST1000. PCPhoneline does not publish a user manual for their phone, but ... just use the same procedure as explained in this thread for the Soyo G668 to unlock the VST1000 and you will see the full extent of the configuration options.

This should help with the configuration of various VOIP providers or Asterix PBX.

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333How to change RING sound?

by Ret, Tuesday 08 of November, 2005 [14:39:04 UTC]
Does anybody know how to make this phones ring louder? It's so low, you can't hardly hear it if you're not near them. Besides the ringing sounds just like regular dial tone which can be confusing. I tried changing the ring tone but all the ones I've tried are quite bad (http://www.aredfox.com/edownloadsring.htm)

@kotl: I didn't need to telnet to my unit to reset it and IAX worked fine with Asterisk.
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333Seems like it was my bad luck only :)

by kotl, Monday 07 of November, 2005 [15:58:52 UTC]
I'm happy there are people having no problem with it. By the way speakerphone mode is also very quiet. I wonder if there is anyway to make it louder too. ( my speakerphone volume is 31 already... )
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333There is no IAX in original Soyo firmware

by kotl, Thursday 03 of November, 2005 [15:18:18 UTC]
This phone doesnt come with IAX protocol in shipped firmware. So you will see only SIP settings after you unlock.
Also after you flash it with IAX firmware phone doesn't work even that you can change IAX settings, it seems trying to connect but doesn't work. So you NEED to reset settings and preferably DIGITMAP to make it work.
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333SIP/IAX2 Advanced options

by Ret, Wednesday 02 of November, 2005 [22:49:39 UTC]
I'm afraid the steps explained by kolt are not quite correct. There's no need to telnet you phone in step 3. So after setp 2, just follow bzly2000 method to unlock the hidden SIP/IAX2 advanced features.