Getting your phone working

Five minutes if it goes well. The things that go wrong are nearly always one of the first three below.

What you need

  1. A claimed character. Claiming is by addon export only at the moment: install the addon, log in as that character, press Export, then /reload and upload the file. One-time codes from an officer are coming but not yet available.
  2. A SIP phone. Any will do. Linphone is free on every platform; Groundwire and Zoiper are common on phones. A desk phone off eBay works too, which is rather the point.
  3. The credentials from the Phone settings tab on your character.

What to type into the phone

Serversip.guildphone.com
Usernameyour full line, with the hyphen — it looks like 8390980-19800, not 839098019800
Passwordfrom Phone settings. Use the copy button; it is not meant to be typed or memorised
Port5060, transport UDP

Leave everything else alone. No STUN, no proxy, no transport encryption.

It says 401, or "unauthorized"

Almost always the missing hyphen. The username is the seven-digit guild code, a hyphen, then your five-digit extension. This is the single most common failure and it was the first one we hit ourselves.

Otherwise, re-copy the password — a stray space on the end of a pasted password fails the same way.

It says 408, or times out, or nothing happens

That is a different problem from 401. A 401 means we answered and said no; a timeout means nothing reached us, or our answer did not reach you. Usually:

It registers, then drops a minute later

Your router is forgetting the connection. In the phone's settings look for keep alive or NAT refresh and set it to 30 seconds. Most apps have it; most default to too long.

I can hear them, they cannot hear me (or the reverse)

One-way audio is nearly always the network, not the phone — the call connected, so signalling is fine and only the audio is blocked. A VPN or a restrictive firewall is the usual cause. Try another network.

Someone's phone answered itself. Someone else's rang.

That is auto-answer plus rank, and it is the one place rank matters.

A line set to auto-answer opens itself for that person's own guild rank and anyone above it. A caller of lower rank makes it ring instead, and cannot drop into a call that is already running. A line set to ring ignores rank completely.

So an officer calling a member may connect instantly while that member calling the officer only makes it ring. Nothing is being refused — both calls go through. It only decides which end opens without being asked.

Across guilds nothing ever auto-connects. A caller from outside your guild always makes your phone ring.

Every call goes to voicemail

Three possibilities, in order of likelihood:

What can I dial?

A guildmatetheir five digits
A room6 + the eight-digit room number, shown as 6-1234-5678 — the hyphens are not dialled
Someone in another guild7 + their guild code + their extension
Echo test*43 — hear yourself. Start here
Your voicemail*97

Dial *43 first. If you can hear yourself, your phone and the network are both fine and anything else is a routing question.

I cannot claim my character

The addon does not appear in game

It only loads on Forever. If you are on Forever and it still is not there, check the folder is called exactly GuildPhone. Installing through the CurseForge app avoids this entirely.

/gpdiag in game prints what the addon can and cannot see, which is the useful thing to include in a report.

Presence says my phone is not registered, but it is on

Phones go quiet when a device sleeps, and we only find out when the next check fails — so there is up to half a minute of lag after a phone genuinely disappears. If it has been longer than that, the phone has dropped without telling you; toggling the account off and on in the app fixes it.

Still stuck

Tell us: report a problem. Include what you typed and what it said back, and *43's result if you got that far.

There is no email on file for anybody, so we cannot reply directly — reports are read, but the fix arrives as a fix rather than as an answer.

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