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Mitel Forums => Mitel MiVoice Business/MCD/3300 => Topic started by: x-man on June 04, 2015, 08:16:22 AM

Title: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 04, 2015, 08:16:22 AM
Bit of a newby question but i've never had to do it....how can I force a phone to upgrade its firmware regardless of what is already on. I have a couple of phones that have corrupted firmware and plugging them into my system seems to have got them working again but luckily the site is only a few miles away (my system runs different mcd to theirs.

So I want to make the phone upgrade to the same level of firmware to replace the corrupted one in it.

Hope that makes sense....
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: sarond on June 04, 2015, 08:30:42 AM
Something similar was just brought up in the 5000 thread.
http://mitelforums.com/forum/index.php?topic=6821.msg31007#msg31007
This will erase the Main Load of the phone and download FW again.
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 04, 2015, 09:26:54 AM
Thanks , that didn't work either so i think I may have corrupted files on the 3300, tries to download the files and fails around the 1500 mark everytime. Shouldn't be the phone as I can get them to work fine on my system....

Unless anyone has any further ideas?

Ta
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: sarond on June 04, 2015, 10:07:15 AM
Maybe their network...
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: ralph on June 04, 2015, 10:11:58 AM
I had seen something similar on a TW phone.
I had to reduce the size of the TFTP packets.
It took longer to DL the firmware but it worked.

Ralph
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 04, 2015, 11:33:34 AM
Hi Ralp, is that on the phone? Could you explain where to do this please?

Sarond, its a fairly new network with fibre links we installed, although they would only spring for cheap network switches....maybe i WILL TRY PLUGGING DIRECT INTO THE mITEL TO SEE...

Thanks both

Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: JasonTL on June 04, 2015, 11:38:17 AM
I had a couple phones corrupted the firmware when moving from a 200 to a 3300. Nothing would work to correct this. I put them back on the old 200 let them grab that firmware again, then put them back on the 3300 and they grabbed the correct firmware the second time. I have also had to replace a set that just wouldn't grab the firmware at all.

Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 07, 2015, 06:26:54 AM
This turns out to be very similar. Put a couple of really old 5212 on to the switch and they upgraded fine and worked. Brought the 5312's back here to the office and plugged into my system and they upgraded and worked. Took them back to other system and they failed to boot...Interestingly the really old phones upgraded three parts of the flash whilst the newer ones only ever upgraded one part.

I suspect a corrupted part of the flash somewhere on the problem phones. I'll maybe try them on a really old cx we have in the stores and see what happens to them then.
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: johnp on June 07, 2015, 01:12:07 PM
I just ran into a similar issue although it was with some new 5312's being conneted to an older 5000. The phones wouldn't downgrade to their level. Ended up using the extra firware zip file from 4.2 to move them back and after that they were able to further downgrade to what the customer was running
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 07, 2015, 01:17:45 PM
Ok. you have my attention. Extra firmware zip file from 4.2?

these work fine on a 4.2 install but won't downgrade to 4.1.....even though they were working on a 4.1 install....
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: johnp on June 07, 2015, 01:21:59 PM
I think if you look at the software download section on MOL under 4.2 you will see an extra zip file for 5312-5324 phones that had some fixes. I ran that on a local tftp on my laptop to do the downgrade
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: johnp on June 07, 2015, 01:30:48 PM
File name is FW_53XX_4.1.0.24.zip and it was to fix issue with Gig Stand failing after upgrading to ICP3300. I have it here if needed
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: x-man on June 07, 2015, 02:55:31 PM
Got it thanks. Will give it a go.
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: johnp on June 07, 2015, 03:27:09 PM
Certainly not a good thing to go onsite and have a firmware up/down grade fail. My error was related to L2 boot. This was my fix and for sure YMMV. Kind of why I think hosting the tftp during an upgrade is a wise decision when dealing with a lot of sets.
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: Tekguy125 on April 21, 2016, 11:00:23 AM
File name is FW_53XX_4.1.0.24.zip and it was to fix issue with Gig Stand failing after upgrading to ICP3300. I have it here if needed

I think I'm having the same issue.  Is there anyway for me to download this firmware:  FW_53XX_4.1.0.24.zip?
Thanks.
Title: Re: force firmware reload...
Post by: sarond on April 21, 2016, 08:46:42 PM
There is a problem becoming more and more common where the handsets now come out of the factory with Version 6 firmware.
These don't downgrade when connected to a system less than MCD 4.1. They get an L2 DL Error.

The fix is to use FW 4.1.1.7 this allows the downgrade to happen.