Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx
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Does anyone use softphone apps on their cell phones in conjunction with FreePBX? I've been using this pretty heavily, and another colleague as well. However, he always has problems with the phone not staying registered, call failures, and just overall instability of phone calls. Looking into the asterisk logs, I find this whenever a softphone is "connected."
[2016-12-09 11:08:25] WARNING[2007]: chan_sip.c:3775 __sip_xmit: sip_xmit of 0x7f45c005f7d0 (len 610) to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:59331 returned -2: No such file or directory [2016-12-09 11:08:25] ERROR[2007]: chan_sip.c:4261 __sip_reliable_xmit: Serious Network Trouble; __sip_xmit returns error for pkt dataSoftphone apps installed on an actual PC, works fine.
I'm having this problem with both the softphone "LinPhone" as well as the "Grandstream Wave" app.
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Zoiper is my go to. Works great on both phones and desktop.
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@Minion-Queen said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Zoiper is my go to. Works great on both phones and desktop.
Same here. I took my old iPhone 4s and turned it into a cordless phone. It's been running for several days now without logging off.
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I prefer ZoIPer over Linphone.
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Also, ZoIPer has an OMG drain my battery mode that keeps connections alive if you want to turn it on.
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@JaredBusch Is that the TCP setting?
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@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
I prefer ZoIPer over Linphone.
Any specific reason?
Are there any specific options/settings that you set on the FreePBX extension for softphone extensions?
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Just downloaded it, thanks. Looks like the free version is limited. Can't even transfer a call
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@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Also, ZoIPer has an OMG drain my battery mode that keeps connections alive if you want to turn it on.
It is not on by default.Yes it does. Which isn't bad for my phone in this case since I have the Otterbox iON case
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@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@JaredBusch Is that the TCP setting?
hit settings -> incoming calls.
turn these on.
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@JaredBusch That's interesting. LinPhone "allows" incoming calls to ring if the app is in the background, if TCP transport is used.
This looks like you still use UDP, but they use some other method for keeping the connection alive.
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@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@JaredBusch That's interesting. LinPhone "allows" incoming calls to ring if the app is in the background, if TCP transport is used.
This looks like you still use UDP, but they use some other method for keeping the connection alive.
You do not want TCP for voice. It makes the calls worse as soon as there is any little hiccup requiring retransmits.
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@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Just downloaded it, thanks. Looks like the free version is limited. Can't even transfer a call
Why do you want to transfer a call? Are you wanting a full featured softphone to replace a desk phone? Then pay for one. Software development is not cheap you know.
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I've been on Linphone both on Ubuntu and iOS and it's been good.
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@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@JaredBusch That's interesting. LinPhone "allows" incoming calls to ring if the app is in the background, if TCP transport is used.
This looks like you still use UDP, but they use some other method for keeping the connection alive.
You do not want TCP for voice. It makes the calls worse as soon as there is any little hiccup requiring retransmits.
Agreed. From what I was reading, it looks like LinPhone only uses TCP for the connection only, not the RTP stream.
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@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Any specific reason?
Linphone worked like crap on my iphone. Scott like it, though
Are there any specific options/settings that you set on the FreePBX extension for softphone extensions?
An extension is an extension. What would even be contemplated here as a difference?
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@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Just downloaded it, thanks. Looks like the free version is limited. Can't even transfer a call
Why do you want to transfer a call? Are you wanting a full featured softphone to replace a desk phone? Then pay for one. Software development is not cheap you know.
Yes, a full featured deskphone replacement. I would have every intension of paying for one, especially at $5. I was just making a comment that the free version was limited. I typically don't pay for one unless I test it first.
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@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Any specific reason?
Linphone worked like crap on my iphone. Scott like it, though
Are there any specific options/settings that you set on the FreePBX extension for softphone extensions?
So this is similar to my experience. It works fine for me on my IOS device, but not for a co-worker on an IOS device. The Asterisk console pukes out all those errors in the OP whenever he is connected.
An extension is an extension. What would even be contemplated here as a difference?
Specifically, I was questioning if there are any settings that would help with connection stability for extensions on Cell phones.
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@scottalanmiller said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
I've been on Linphone both on Ubuntu and iOS and it's been good.
Same experience for me on my IOS device.
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@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@JaredBusch said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
@fuznutz04 said in Softphone apps for cell phones & Freepbx:
Just downloaded it, thanks. Looks like the free version is limited. Can't even transfer a call
Why do you want to transfer a call? Are you wanting a full featured softphone to replace a desk phone? Then pay for one. Software development is not cheap you know.
Yes, a full featured deskphone replacement. I would have every intension of paying for one, especially at $5. I was just making a comment that the free version was limited. I typically don't pay for one unless I test it first.
You have a perfectly working phone for free. If you want extra, then it is available.
That said it is $5 for transfer and conferencing on the app.
It is $40 for the desktop version.
