SPA 942 Admin reset

["u7412ay" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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