asterisk users - Dec 2005 - SNOM 360 locked up SOLVED

He had run into a deadlock situation where he entered an (illegal)
string for the dial plan that made the phone lock up right after reboot.
That bug was fixed in one of the early 4.x versions. The way out was a
little trick with the web browser.

Generally I think if people have a problem today they should move to
4.5. This version seems to be pretty stable, we did not get any
crash-complains or major problem reports from this version. 

For those who want to move on (feature-wise), it is time to jump on the
5.x train - the 5.0 version has been released a few days ago. We tried
our best to test this version as good as possible (including an
Asterisk-lab test), but from experience we know that new features always
take a certain time to stabilise. Therefore, I would today move to 5.0
only if it has a feature that the 4.5 does not have.

We tried to keep the release notes as informative as possible to make
this decision as easy as possible for you.

Happy New Year!


Christian
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Michael George
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SNOM 360 locked up SOLVED
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:58:07PM -0800, Steven Ringwald wrote:
> > Thank you so much for your help, Christian! Your suggestion worked 
> > perfectly, and the phones came back up without a problem.
> 
> What part of his suggestion?  Upgrading the firmware to 4.5 
> via the tftp server?
> 
> Please elaborate for the benefit of others who may run into 
> this problem.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --
> -M
> 
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Christian Stredicke writes:
> Generally I think if people have a problem today they should move to
> 4.5. This version seems to be pretty stable, we did not get any
> crash-complains or major problem reports from this version. 
> 
> For those who want to move on (feature-wise), it is time to jump on the
> 5.x train - the 5.0 version has been released a few days ago. We tried
> our best to test this version as good as possible (including an
> Asterisk-lab test), but from experience we know that new features always
> take a certain time to stabilise. Therefore, I would today move to 5.0
> only if it has a feature that the 4.5 does not have.
Upgraded to 5.0 earlier this week and love it. Biggest reason for the
move here was that our Snom 320 was dropping calls from time to time,
sometimes immediately on pickup, other times mid conversation. We have
not seen that since going to 5.0 earlier this week.

				Janina