Upgrading To Version 7.0 And Later Releases - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual

Chapter 4 Managing Cisco SIP IP Phones
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If your current release is Release 5.2 or higher, upgrade to Release 6.0 or 6.1 as follows:
Step 5
a.
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Step 6 If you are upgrading from any previous release to Release 7.0, 7.1, or a later release, see the
to Version 7.0 and Later Releases" section on page
If you do not define the image_version parameter in the default configuration file, only phones that have
Note
an updated phone-specific configuration file with the new image version and that have been restarted use
the latest firmware image. All other phones use the older version until their configuration files have been
updated with the new image version.

Upgrading to Version 7.0 and Later Releases

Refer to the
Note
information for all releases.
Release 7.x is delivered in a ZIP archive. The ZIP archive contains 6 files:
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Procedure
Unzip the archive contents into your root TFTP directory.
Step 1
3. Save the modified file to the TFTP server.
Reinitialize each phone as described in Step
From the Cisco.com website listed in Step
of your TFTP server: Release 6.0 (or 6.1) ZIP archive, default configuration file, and release notes.
Read the release notes and any readme.txt files. Unzip the archive and extract the binary image files
to the root directory of the TFTP server.
Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, do the following:
Open the configuration file.
1.
Update the image version specified in the image_version variable. The version name in the
2.
image_version variable should match the version name (without the .sbn or .bin extension) of
the latest firmware image.
3. Save the modified file to the TFTP server.
Reinitialize each phone as described in Step
Cisco 7940 and 7960 IP Phones Firmware Upgrade Matrix
P003-07-0-00.bin—New universal loader application file
P003-07-0-00.sbn—New universal loader application file
P0S3-07-0-00.sb2—New SIP 7.x release image.
P0S3-07-0-00.loads—New loader file. The Universal Loader uses the P0S3-07-0-00.loads file to
determine which images to put on the phone. This file specifies the Loader application version and
the SIP application version. The P0S3-07-0-00.sbn, P0S3-07-0-00.loads, P003-07-0-00.sb2 are all
signed files and cannot be altered.
OS79XX.TXT—Contains the upgrade image of the universal loader used by pre-release 7.0 images.
How to Upgrade Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image
3d above.
3a above, download the following to the root directory
3d above.
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Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
"Upgrading
for additional upgrade
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