Teams: Yealink MP50 unable to start, answer, or end calls

Anonymous
2021-09-10T18:52:05+00:00

Hello,

I recently deployed some Yealink MP50 USB phone devices to my agency users who are on Teams Voice. For some, the MP50 works perfectly: plug and play and away we go.

Unfortunately, for most users they can't start, answer, or end calls but the pause/resume and mute/unmute work fine during a call.

  • If they start a call from the phone's controls it looks like it is attempting to dial out but nothing happens on the PC and it eventually ends
  • If they receive a call it shows up on the MP50's screen but the answer and decline buttons do not work and neither does pressing speakerphone or picking up the handset.
  • If a user starts or answers a call on the PC they can use the MP50 for microphone and audio
  • Picking up the handset switches it from speakerphone to handset,
  • If I do a test call on the troubled setup, Teams displays a banner saying "No device call controls. Exit other calling apps so you can use your device call controls with teams.

I have worked with Yealink support through a lot of troubleshooting, but unfortunately have not resolved the issue. I will give a rundown of the troubleshooting.

  • Our Teams accounts are in Teams only mode and we do not have Skype for Business
  • I have troubleshot the issues for a couple of months, so it has persisted throughout Teams updating
  • I have troubleshot on a couple of different firmware versions of the MP50
  • For those having issues, I switched them to a device that worked on another PC but it didn't work on theirs
  • For those having issues, I took their device and put it on another PC that had a working one and it worked there
  • I've tried multiple device resets
  • I've deleted out all drivers out of device manager and reinstalled it, multiple times
  • I've tried completely removing Teams and all files/folders from the PC and then reinstalling and setting up Teams

Here is a rundown of some extensive process of elimination troubleshooting I did, with users A and B

  • MP50 works on user A's setup but not user B's setup
  • User B logs into their Teams account on user A's PC with user A's domain account logged in, the MP50 works
  • User B logs into their Teams account on user A's PC with user's B's domain account, the MP50 works
  • User A logs into their Teams on user B's PC with user B's domain account logged in, the MP50 doesn't work
  • User B logs into their Teams account on user B's PC with user A's domain account logged in, the MP50 works

To me, this eliminates the possibility of the device, the PC, the Teams accounts, and the Domain account from being the issue and just leaves it to being an issue with the local Windows profile on the PC.

I hope someone can provide some other troubleshooting options. I may have to look at alternatives, but what from I've seen it sounds like most other phones run Teams as a separate instance, creating several other drawbacks, or else have to be dumbed down to operate similar to the MP50 which makes them a waste of money.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-12-28T14:03:11+00:00

    Hi Markus,

    I just tested this out via the touchscreen dial pad on my MP50 and it worked for me. After the plus I entered my area code and cell phone number and was able to make a call. I'm unsure if you are trying a different scenario.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-28T14:29:03+00:00

    Hi mckluzak,

    thank you for your reply. That's very interesting. I do the same like you but the + will get removed by Microsoft Teams. The Yealink Support tried by them self and had the same issue.

    For Example: I dial +499401892569 on the MP50 dialpad and press "Call" on the phone, Teams calls 499401892569

    If I dial +499401892569 on the Teams dialpad and press "Call" in the Teams App for Windows, Teams calls +499401892569.
    Which Teams Version for Windows do you use? Can you also check which firmware is running on your MP50.

    Thank you very much

    Markus

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-12-28T14:55:40+00:00

    I am running Teams 1.4.00.31569 64bit and my MP50 is on firmware 131.410.0.55.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-12-29T10:50:54+00:00

    Hi mckluzak,

    I've tested with the same Teams version now. The firmware was already the same like yours. But still the same issue.

    I believe it depends on something else on the Teams user settings where a normalization Rule is causing this issue. I've checked the normalization rules of the DialPlan DE but found nothing which should cause this. I believe Microsoft is changing something in the background.

    Can you check which Dialplan you have set for your Teams User?
    DialPlan : DE

    TenantDialPlan :
    OnPremLinURI : +4994...

    which country code has your OnPremLinURI?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-24T15:17:48+00:00

    I uninstalled and reinstalled teams and that fixed it for me Larry.

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