[cisco-voip] 7911 - better or worse?

[Matt Slaga (US)]

I've deployed these for several customers (along with the 7905s, 7912s
and 7910s in the old days) who thought they would save a few bucks by
giving the general population cheap phones to save a few bucks.  

 

"Excuse me, but I need to remove your Avaya with the nice big display
and change it out with this cheap Cisco phone".   All the customers that
attempted this regretted it after the fact.  End user acceptance was in
the dumps.  "It's a one-way speakerphone" or "why the heck is the hold
button a big red stop sign?" or "I don't have voicemail, why can't you
get rid of that messages softkey?" or many other wonderful comments.

 

 

 

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:35 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] 7911 - better or worse?

 

So I'm reviewing the 7911 and I don't like it so far. You can't force a
background image and it looks like you need a CCNA just to reset it back
to factory defaults. I'm sure someone was dying to put in "Step 4: Make
sure you are hopping on one foot"

 

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	To perform a factory reset of a phone, follow these steps: 

	Procedure 

	Step 1  Unplug the power cable from the phone and then plug it
back in. 

	The phone begins its power up cycle. 

	Step 2 While the phone is powering up, and before the
Applications Menu button flashes on and off, press and hold #. 

	Continue to hold # until the message LED on the handset flashes
on and off in sequence in red. 

	Step 3 Release # and press 123456789*0#. 

	You can press a key twice in a row, but if you press the keys
out of sequence, the factory reset will not take place. 

	After you press these keys, the message LED on the handset
flashes faster in red and the phone goes through the factory reset
process. 

	Do not power down the phone until it completes the factory reset
process and the main screen appears. 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
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