How to Upgrade Firmware for Fanvil IP Phone in Post Mode?Time: the 2018-10-29 Editor: fanvil
When you encounter
the IP Phone in Post Mode status, you can upgrade firmware through Post Mode to
fix it. This is also another alternative for upgrading firmware besides of upgrading
through the web page, USB flash drive and auto batch update.
Fanvil IP phones have
lots of special features that will make your work more efficient. Today, we are
going to show you how to upgrade firmware through Post Mode just in 3 steps!
Before getting started,
we need to prepare 3 things as below:
STEP 01 Configure FTP Server
Open FTP server in
your PC. Here we take WFTPD server as an example. Select Security
->User/rights… in the menu bar.
Then, create a new username and password for accessing
the FTP server.
Put path of the upgrade
package where you save in "Home Directory", and then select "Restricted
to home". At last, click the button of "Done".
Select "Logging"
in the menu bar to enable logging, for viewing upgrade status.
Attention: Please do
not close FTP server in the process of firmware upgrade.
STEP 2 Set Network on PC
Connect your PC with
the WAN port of your IP phone, and change local IP of your PC between
192.168.10.2-192.168.10.254, such as:
IP
address(I): 192.168.10.110
Subnet Mask(U):
255.255.255.0
Note: The default IP address of IP phone in POST MODE is 192.168.10.1. So, in order to ensure your PC is connected with the IP phone, IP address of your PC must be on network
segment 192.168.10. You can set IP of your PC between 192.168.10.2-192.168.10.254.
STEP 3 Upgrade firmware for IP Phone in Post Mode
Power off your IP
phone, and when you power on it, please long press "#" on the phone
immediately to enter "Post Mode".
Open Putty software,
input IP address of IP phone in Post Mode, that is 192.168.10.1. Select
"Telnet", and click the button "Open"
Then, you will see the following screen
Input "2"
and enter. Then, input server address 192.168.10.110, the IP address of your PC
configured in step 2.
Input file name of
the firmware upgrade package and enter. Here please pay attention to add
".z" to the end of the file name
Then input FTP
username and password
When the updating is
finished, you will see "update success!". We can input "4” and
"Enter" to reboot the IP phone. The upgrade is done!
Are you ready to try it! Let us know how it works for you!