How-To Restore Factory Default Settings on the Grandstream GXP2130

There comes a time in everyone’s life where we have to say goodbye. Whether it’s saying goodbye to the car you’ve been driving for 10 years, the leftover pizza you have been saving in your fridge for a week, or even sometimes it can be time to say goodbye to your desk phone!

But saying goodbye doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Maybe you’re saying goodbye because you are getting into your first brand new car! Or maybe you are ordering a new pizza from your favorite pizza joint! Or maybe, just maybe, you are upgrading your desk phone to something more modern and more user-friendly!

I would be lying if I said I didn’t want to finish this blog writing about all of the wonderful and magical things that come with ordering a hot and fresh pizza, but until someone invents pizza over Internet Protocol or PoIP, we have to stick to talking about getting a new desk phone.

There are many reasons why you might be ditching your current desk phone, but the better question is what happens to the desk phone once it’s off your desk? I don’t think there is IP phone heaven? So, where do they go?

Most of the time they can be passed down to other employees and sometimes they can even be sold! Much like VoIP Supply’s Reclaim Buy-Back Program, where we buy your gently used VoIP phones so you can save on something new.

No matter what the case may be, one thing is for sure – before an old phone gets sent to “the farm” it must be reset back to its factory default settings, which leads us to today’s easy How-To lesson.

How-To Restore Factory Default Settings on the Grandstream GXP2130

Let’s use the Grandstream GXP2130 as an example of how easy it can be to reset your phone back to default so it can brighten someone else’s day.

All you have to do is press the MENU button. Once you are in the phone’s menu, scroll down using the Down arrow key and select System. From there, you will then select Operations – Factory Reset.

Once you hit this, a warning window will pop up to make sure this is really what you want to do. This is because once you reset the phone….there is no going back.

Press the Yes softkey to confirm, and then the phone will begin to reboot. If by chance (when you are face-to-face with the warning window) you begin to have second thoughts, simply hit the No softkey instead.

That’s really all it takes to wipe the phone clean, but please remember that restoring the factory default settings will delete all configurations made to the phone, so it might be a good idea to backup your settings before you do so.

Once everything is said and done, it will be time to say goodbye. But hopefully, just as fast as it took you to bring back those factory defaults, you will be saying hello to your new desk phone.

Are you looking to upgrade your office phones? What are you using now? What are you interested in? Or more importantly, what is your favorite kind of pizza?