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Re: SPA 942 Admin reset



Allan,

I've looked at google.

My interpretation is that phone makes multiple low-level requests ALL of
which must have a valid response before it will do TFTP.

This seems to sum everything up:
http://community.linksys.com/t5/VoIP-Phones/SPA942-Factory-Reset-Via-Jumpers/m-p/294422#M6160

Nick.



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:39 PM, u7412ay <yahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hoping the group knowledge may be able to help here after coming
unstick
> with an e-bay buy.
>
> I have bought a Linksys SPA942 VOIP Phone.  Unfortunately the phone
has an
> Admin password which the seller doesn't know and isn't being very
helpful.
>
> As they are business phones it seems Linksys don't provide any way to
> recover/reset this password. I assume to prevent people taking the
phones
> home and using them there.  I have spent a good few hours on the web
and
> the only suggestion I have found is a website where they discussed one
> method where the phone potentually hunts for a TFTP server to download
a
> config, however having run a wireshark trace on mine all it does on
booting
> is a DHCP request for an IP address and nothing else. From the web
> interface I can see the user settings so I can connect to the phone
fine.
> It also looks like the settings have all been wiped althought there is
a
> call history on the phone. Selecting option 14 on the menu which is
factory
> reset results in a prompt for the admin password.  Same on the web
> interface for the phone.  I have tried a range of default passwords
such as
> 1234, 942, 123456789, 1111 etc.
>
> Have opened the phone up to look inside for any jumpers to short out
to
> reset nvram but can't see any.
>
> I have run out of ideas :(  Does anybody have any
experience/suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Allan
>
>
>
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>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


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