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Thanks to a few helpfull soles on the sipdroid site I have been succesful in getting sipdroid to register with my Asterisk server AND be able to make calls.

The trick is (thansk to Adrian)
In your sip.conf, comment out “secret = …”. Instead use the following: auth=username@password@host

I also made a change to the extension sipdroid runs on in asterisk and changed: qualify=no

Sipdroid registers to my asterisk box fine and is able to make and receive calls fine. As for the call quality - well that is another thing - keep in mind my testing to date is over Optus 3G.

The first issue I am having is that if I call someone’s mobile I loose the first say 10 seconds of the conversation, ie, I miss them saying “Hello” which starts the conversation off on a failry bad footing, the person I called is usually first heard by me saying” Hellllloooooo, any body there” or something to that effect - not great. Secondly there is still some lag. This is odd becasue I thought the lag I experienced using pbxes.org would reduce given the server I am regsitering to now is local and not in Japan.

Lastly, you need a very stable and good internet connection. I believe now that my data usage has doubled for calls I make as effectivley my asterisk box uploads and downloads from sipdroid AND it uploads and downloads to my VSP. Given the codec used in sipdroid is G711 data usage is high so keep that in mind - 80kbps up and down times two = 160kbps up and 160kbps down for a phone call.

Anyway, best of luck for anyone deploying sipdroid on their asterisk server. Let me know how you go.

Today I received my new SIM from Exetel. After a slight hitch porting out from my old mobile provider I was up and running in no time.

I got a mate to call me on the DID number that I have assigned to my Pennytel account that is a trunk with my PBXes account that SIPdroid registers with (the hoops i go through). It worked fine with just a few seconds of jitter during the conversation that lasted a few minutes. So, so far so good. We will see how it goes over the next few weeks and see how mad it drives me.

I have spend many hours trying to get my ADP1 phone running Sipdroid to register with my trixbox server. Its driving me nuts, really, it is.

Yes, I have changed the sip_nat.conf file and ensured it has…

nat=yes
externip=203.blah.blah.blah
localnet=blah.blah.blah.blah/255.255.255.0

I have tried it over WI-Fi on my LAN and over 3G. I was able to reguister OK - once then if fails there after. Strangely it will register only after you creat a new extension for sipdroid in trixbox.

Is it my NAT router doing something odd?

So, do you think I can get it to work. No, I can’t and its driving me NUTS! AHhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I think I’ll just buckle to it all and register with PBXes and then register a VSP as a trunk there and use it that way. Surely it couldn’t be this difficuly but apparently it is. Interestingly on the Sipdroid site it says something to the effect, we are smarter than you and have changed PBXes a little from a standard trixbox installation (obviously) so don’t bother wasting to much time trying to get Sipdroid working with your own asterisk box - it won’t work. This really shits me to be honest. Shouldn’t these kind of things be created to give the maximum amount of interopability.

So who has managed to get Sipdroid register and work with your own Trixbox/Asterisk server? Let me know how you did it - its killing me.

If someone at PBXes reads this - what changes need to be made to my Trixbox to get Sipdroid to work with it, come on guys…..

Great couple of days, rebuilt modem works and now, today, I received my replacement ADP1. Another night of updating and loading of my favourite apps.

Well, actually back to Brightstar it goes.

After a week with me I can stand this fault no longer. The number 7 key is faulty, it doesn’t have the click that all the rest of the keys have and its actually difficult to get any output from pressing the key.

I figured I paid good $$$ for the thing, I may as well have it in 100% working condition so I got an RMA from Brightstar and sent it back today. Perhaps this is a false economy and I should consider the purchase a sunk cost and forget about spending more on it but I just can’t.

I miss it already…..

As you may know my new favourite tooy is the ADP1. I just loaded on wpTOgo so with luck this will work. I actually blogged from my phone. So cool…..

After tracking its progress from the USA to me here in Perth (via Germany, Dubai and Asia) I finally got the phone yesterday at work.

Enabled 3G with my mobile provider and off I went. Sweet machine but I’m worried about data usage on this thing. My provider charges by the MB, I’ll see how it goes for a couple of days then find out the damage. If its worth it I will change to another provider perhaps with a Data package that gives you say 500MB for a fixed amount.

Up till midnight last nigh flashing it with new firmware and radio stack so it is now running Cupcake (1.5).

Might have a play with the ROM’s flying around on the XDA Developers site I see. They look cool.

Have to get the follow apps I think at this stage..
wpTOgo
ConnectBot
Sipdroid

I splashed out and ordered one of the G1 dev phones from the USA. Its on its way here as I write this, currently on a plan I recon on its way to me. Can’t wait.

Exchange rate is better than it was the last time I considered one of these.