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
    2022-10-12T12:05:26+00:00

    Although our Yealink MP50's now make a call using the Device's dialpad(on the newest Preview/test version of Teams we could find .26655) once in a call if you need to press a touchtone button(menu prompt etc) the Phone/Teams tries to initiate another Call instead of just passing the tones through on the current call. This places the current call on hold pops up another Teams call window with just the signal digit. Then you have to close that and resume the original call.

    Anyone else seeing that?

    Menu prompts have never worked for me, with the MP50. I find it rather strange that something so simple is missing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-11T15:29:10+00:00

    Although our Yealink MP50's now make a call using the Device's dialpad(on the newest Preview/test version of Teams we could find .26655) once in a call if you need to press a touchtone button(menu prompt etc) the Phone/Teams tries to initiate another Call instead of just passing the tones through on the current call. This places the current call on hold pops up another Teams call window with just the signal digit. Then you have to close that and resume the original call.

    Anyone else seeing that?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-06T16:41:50+00:00

    Indeed, lots of inconsistent information. My MP50 didn't work a week ago, now it'll call from the dial pad and the version didn't change.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-05T13:23:39+00:00

    Microsoft has been a joke throughout this issue. I had a call with them again last week and they proceeded to tell me that the fix wasn't within Teams but within Yealink and the update was out. This was not true. After weeks of telling me hey had an update coming for teams. I even pondered the question to them that if the fix was within Yealink why was my public preview working then, they had no response to that. Few days later I get the following:

    "At this point of time, Fix has been rolled out on 90% of the Tenants in General Ring & expected to get completed 100% by end of day today. ( 30th of Sept ).  Fix will be released in Teams Version 1.0.0.2022092126."

    The version above I have found no where and my again my clients are on 21668 and now working. There is no way to tell if a client will work or not without actually testing each one. I dug through my teams local files and nothing seems to have been updated unless it was some obscure registry fix. This update I think happened at the tenant level. But who knows. Its strange there is no General Ring for September released yet. Its been frustrating to say the least and the MS Teams group were never consistent about the issue. At least I don't have to trash these MP50s for now so that's a positive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-05T01:03:53+00:00

    Yes we have noticed that over the past few days the phones have started working. This is great, but having no way to identify if a device will work or not is a bit frustrating to say the least.

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