Zoom and T-58

[SCPCJNR]

I have clients with T-58s, and apart from watching youtube videos with the browser, the video has pretty much not been used. I recently became aware of Zoom. It works on many platforms, they even talk about Yealink on the Zoom sites.

Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I'd love to be able to join a zoom meeting with the T58 + USB CAM and participate with the others.

[CyB0rg]

Hi,

Have you tried installing the Zoom APK directly or by using any of the available app stores that can be installed on the Yealink phone ?

Do not expect amazing performance, as the CPU in T58A is old and under clocked - see the Teams thread 2 posts below.

[SCPCJNR]

(03-29-2020 07:17 AM)CyB0rg Wrote:  Hi,

Have you tried installing the Zoom APK directly or by using any of the available app stores that can be installed on the Yealink phone ?

Do not expect amazing performance, as the CPU in T58A is old and under clocked - see the Teams thread 2 posts below.

Thanks for replying, CyB0rg. Didn't try anything yet, I'm going to ask my client to lend me his phone so I can experiment.
I'll go look for the thread you mention. As far as the APK, can you point me to some info on how to do this? Apologies, I'm not (yet) a Yealink guru.

[CyB0rg]

Ok, here are the steps, then (btw, all that info can be found scattered across the support documents and different forum posts here).

You WILL need the local http server - there's plenty of the different ones for both windows and linux, so take a pick - it has to be http tho, as the https does not work (due to another c*ckup from Yealink, that the app installer does not use the android certificate store, so it will not install anything if the apk is hosted on secure server).

Download the APKPure.apk from the APKPure website - you have to select the armv7 version.

Put the downloaded .apk somewhere in your http server dir.

Download the attached config file, and modify the server IP and the apk name

"Restore" config from the webgui of your phone, pointing to the .cfg file that you have just created.

The phone LED will start blinking whilst the apk is being installed.
When it stops - you should have APKpure installed when you swipe to the right, where the other apps are on the phone.

Fire it up, search for zoom, install, enjoy ! (or not, as I have mentioned the hardware is seriously outdated ...)


Thanks,
CyB0rg

[SCPCJNR]

<smile> That's just great. Can't wait to try it. <bow>

Appreciate your indulgence for this newbie. Hope others can benefit from your answer to my question. Be well, Cy!

[SCPCJNR]

(03-29-2020 10:33 AM)CyB0rg Wrote:  Ok, here are the steps, then (btw, all that info can be found scattered across the support documents and different forum posts here).

You WILL need the local http server - there's plenty of the different ones for both windows and linux, so take a pick - it has to be http tho, as the https does not work (due to another c*ckup from Yealink, that the app installer does not use the android certificate store, so it will not install anything if the apk is hosted on secure server).

Download the APKPure.apk from the APKPure website - you have to select the armv7 version.

Put the downloaded .apk somewhere in your http server dir.

Download the attached config file, and modify the server IP and the apk name

"Restore" config from the webgui of your phone, pointing to the .cfg file that you have just created.

The phone LED will start blinking whilst the apk is being installed.
When it stops - you should have APKpure installed when you swipe to the right, where the other apps are on the phone.

Fire it up, search for zoom, install, enjoy ! (or not, as I have mentioned the hardware is seriously outdated ...)


Thanks,
CyB0rg

Hello again. Getting around to trying this, Am stuck at the point where I am supposed to restore config from webgui on phone. I presume you meant that I should from my PC web to the T58, login, then go to Settings/Configuration/CFG Configuration and enter the appinstal.cfg full path to the modified cfg file on my PC so it imports it into the phone. The red light did blink, but I don't see any new icons when I swipe right except the default apps. I downloaded a logfile, maybe it provides a clue?

[Hanno]

The app takes a while to show up, if its incomatible it won't even be displayed. i could only get this version working on 2 Phones us.zoom.videomeetings_4.1.23507.0416-41008_minAPI14(armeabi-v7a,x86)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk



Yealink needs to step up their android game becuse this was an advertised feature....

[ckatz@bluip.com]

i got this working on a T58A.

latest app i was able to find: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5hfgdqrj51z4sjj/zoom.apk?dl=0

code:
pm.version = standard
app.install_url = http://your.web.site/zoom.apk
app.permission = zoom.apk

not entirely sure the app.permission is needed, but without it i wasn't getting consistency between resets.

[SCPCJNR]

(06-08-2020 03:28 PM)ckatz@bluip.com Wrote:  i got this working on a T58A.

latest app i was able to find: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5hfgdqrj51z4sjj/zoom.apk?dl=0

code:
pm.version = standard
app.install_url = http://your.web.site/zoom.apk
app.permission = zoom.apk

not entirely sure the app.permission is needed, but without it i wasn't getting consistency between resets.

Thanks C., pulled the file from Dropbox. I finally was able to procure a T-58A again from another client, and a camera, so will get back to this project this week and endeavour to get it working here. Much appreciate your reply.

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(06-08-2020 12:52 PM)Hanno Wrote:  The app takes a while to show up, if its incomatible it won't even be displayed. i could only get this version working on 2 Phones us.zoom.videomeetings_4.1.23507.0416-41008_minAPI14(armeabi-v7a,x86)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk



Yealink needs to step up their android game becuse this was an advertised feature....

Man, I would really love a Youtube tutorial or something showing how one goes from a vanilla T-58A to a VoIP phone running Zoom! Thanks for the interest in my thread. Hope the community can benefit from an eventual simple recipe for doing this when one appears!