Beocom 2 Repair

[artig]

I have four Beocom 2 handsets that have been in storage for about 20 years that could be plundered for spare parts if necessary, except for the main circuit boards since I don’t know which program version is in their flash memory. Hopefully the batteries haven’t leaked and caused any damage. Everything worked when they were put in storage.

[Manfred Hans]

What colors do the phones have? Find still glossy blue.

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[artig]

There are two aluminium, a black and a grey. All are pre-2010 so matt finish.

[Manfred Hans]

For all People who want to dismantle their dummy or charger, I have a small guide that I am looking for everywhere but have no found it. My table charger has a broken cable at the introducting in the housing and I therefore wanted to open it to reduce the cable or patch on the inside.

Well, it‘s very simple, if you have the know how, the rotating plate on the underside is only snapped an can be easily lifted out. Then you have access to four Torx 8 Screws that keep the housing upper. The contacts in wich the phone rests are attached to the top by means of three Torx 6 screws. Voila, no more problems.

Open for questions.

The top from this test was sticky and full of cracks, shortly before the resolution. I actually wanted to repaint it, but it turned out that the effort was no longer worth it, the plastic is already brewing.

Manfred

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[Manfred Hans]

Looking for Option to delete old Handsets in INT Menue. Thanks

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[Guy]

Manfred Hans wrote:

Looking for Option to delete old Handsets in INT Menue. Thanks

Go to ‘Setup Menu’, then ‘Advanced Menu’, then ‘Base …’, then ‘Remove the handset’ then chose the one(s) that you wish to remove.

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[Manfred Hans]

He Guy! You are great Dude, it works.!! Thank you.

Manfred

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[Manfred Hans]

If anyone needs parts, I have four dismantled handheld devices here, two brand new displays and two brand new joysticks. But all of this can also be ordered or repaired through AVAservice.
Email: workshop@avaservices.co.uk
Web: http://www.avaservices.co.uk

Thank you Manfred from germany

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[Jonathan McCall]

Hi Manfred – do you have a red case in excellent condition ?

Thanks

Jonny

[Manfred Hans]

Hello Jonny!

Unfortunately not. Only matt silver, matt aubergine, matt black. I use shiny red, shiny silver and shiny black. I’m still looking for shiny blue.

Manfred

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[Manfred Hans]

Maybe this for you?

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[Jonathan McCall]

Far too expensive for a non working phone I’m afraid, but thanks for the heads up.

[Manfred Hans]

In my experience, in most cases either the battery and/or the display are defective. This can be repaired for around 160 euros. You still have a very nice phone for under 300 euros. The last Beocom 2 that I bought new cost almost 900.00 euros. No Fake!!

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[Jonathan McCall]

Bought a lovely condition used Beocom 2 off eBay as not working.

Ive popped a new battery in and given it a good charge.

The screen lights up but has no logo etc. I do however get regular flashing of the screen on and off.

Done a bit of googling and it appears to be a common issue, but not sure what the fix is.

Any pointers gratefully received !

 

[Guy]

The BeoCom 2 that was the subject of my original post in this thread had some problems:

• I have recently changed my BC6000 setup and am now using a Beoline EU Mk2 rather than the older ‘pyramid’ PSTN base.  The Beoline works fine with the BC6000s (Mk2s) but although the BeoCom 2 will connect and operate (including access to ‘common’ phonebook), it will not update the time and the handset name does not show on the other (BC6000) handsets.  I think that this is because it’s a BeoCom 2 Mk1.
• After being used for a while, the LCD display on the BeoCom 2 fades to nothing – the only way I can get it back is to cycle the phone off and on again – it’s not really practical for reliable use.  A new display is £75 so I don’t really want o go down the replacement route.
• The rubber on the BeoCom 2 table charger has perished to the extent that the charger has crumbled into several pieces – it is no longer useable!

Anyway, last week I purchased a ‘spares or repair’ bundle including Beocom 2, table charger and Beoline EU for a total of £35.  I bought it primarily for the table charger which looked to be in fairly good condition, apart from a few marks, hence one of the above problems is sorted.

The ‘new to me’ Beocom 2 was a very scruffy, scratched white version with very faded buttons and scratches on the screen surround, but I was pleased to see that it is the newer Mk2 version (see here for differences).  I changed the battery and it burst into life and worked perfectly, including full compatibility with my Beoline base!  I therefore stripped it down and put the innards in the silver ‘better condition’ case.  I also swapped over the keypad buttons and screen surround, and now have a quite presentable fully working BeoCom 2 Mk2:  (it looks white in the picture but is the silver one)

I then turned to the Beoline – when connected to the mains the light didn’t even come on so I suspected a power problem.  The plug-in adaptor was a sealed unit so I took apart the Beoline itself to check for power at that end.  There was one small screw to undo and then it prised apart – I managed to break every clip in the process so I will have to glue it back together but never mind!  Here’s it disassembled, and for interest I have circled in red a little port that is usually covered by the little rubber blank that you can also see;  I assume this hidden connection if for dealers to carry out SW updates etc.

Anyway there was no power getting to the Beoline, so first I attempted to dismantle the PSU using a selection of destructive tools …

But as expected that was an impossible task, so I cut the cable, found a 5.5V BC6000 charger PSU and bodged a quick connection to test the Beoline:

I connected the Beoline to my phone line, powered it up, registered the Beocom 2 and it works perfectly!

Although it’s been quite satisfying playing around with the two phones, I am not sure that I would recommend Beocom 2 repair – it’s quite tricky to take apart so hopefully mine will stay working for a while now!

 

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[Guy]

Further to the above:  I was looking for a new PSU for the Beoline and realised that 5.5V 350-500mA may (just about) be supported by USB Type A.

I made a quick connection from an old USB cable, plugged it in to a USB2.0 socket the front of my computer and it worked fine.  This could be useful in the future, for instance if I want to reduced PSUs by powering the Beoline from the USB socket on my modem/router.

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