It looks like the Froyo ROM I initially installed did not include voice dialling. I have now installed LeeDrOiD which does include voice dialling over bluetooth that works with my Plantronics 975. I install LeeDrOiD v1.9 which can be found here – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724123

You need to ensure your wireless drivers are up to date before installing the LeeDrOiD ROM. Check out the link at the top of this post on how to do that.

As I had already ‘rooted’ my Destire installing the new ROM was a simple case of downloading via WiFI on my Desire, rebooting in to recovery mode and then selecting the ZIP file to flash. I did not wipe this time as I already had Froyo on there, however wiping is recoomended.

Initial thoughts are that voice dialling doesn’t seem as acurate as on the iPhone IOS4, but it’s early days yet. There are also a lot of other tools/utils included with the LeeDrOiD ROM.

Accepted cards are Mastercard, Visa, JCB, Maestro and Solo.

See here for more information – http://sysadminman.net/

The main reason I rooted my phone was to have the ability to use SIM cards from other providers when travelling. The other reason was to get voice dialling working through my bluetooth headset. Sadly this still isn’t working yet with my Plantronics 975 and needs some more research!

Firstly, if you are looking to root/jailbreak and put on a custom ROM on your Desire then don’t do an ‘Over The Air’ upgrade to Android 2.2. At present it’s not possible to root Android 2.2, although this will no doubt change.

So, the links …

This is the main page I used – http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire. There is a good walk through that was pretty close to what I needed to do.

The basic steps are -

Install custom boot code so that you can install a custom Android image. I used unrevoked3.

If you run unrevoked3 on a Windows machine you also need to install Android drivers. These can be found in a folder called Android USB Driver in the unrevoked3 download.

Another point before you run unrevoked3 is that you need to check your HBOOT version  (by powering on while holding the back key). If your HBOOT version is 0.83 (mine was) then do not just run the standard unrevoked installer. You need to download a custom image file and use that. If you do not do this you will get a blank screen when trying to go into the recovery mode. I used the image file here – http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/139454-help-htc-desire-give-black-screen-death-when-i-try-enter-recovery-mode.html. After downloading the image in this thread open it in unrevoked3 and then flash that to your phone.

Hopefully you’ve now got an unlocked HTC Desire that you can now put a custom Android image on.

Before you do that you need to check if you should upgrade the wireless drivers on the phone. I had to.

I flashed the Android and Wireless ROM posted in this thread – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775.

Once you have rooted your phone it’s very easy to put new Android ROMs on. Just be sure to take things slowly, ready things twice and double check on bits you’re not sure on. There is definitely no shortage of information on the forums, if anything there’s too much!

19/8/10 UPDATE – I obviously should have checked but it appears that rooting and flashing a standard Android image does not remove the SIM lock on the Desire. It looks like this is possible by creating a ‘goldcard’, not to sure what this involves … off to find out.

This includes -

Asterisk 1.6.2

FreePBX 2.7

A2Billing 1.3.0

plus lots of add-in modules and extras. Click here for details and to order.

The Elastix interface has been improved with more monitoring and graphing screens. The dashboard screen has also been updated providing a general overview of the system status.

The Sysadminman Elastix 2.0 template is a standard Elastix 2.0 install with the addition of IPTables firewall and denyhosts (to block brute force SSH attempts)

If you would like to see more information about Elastix 2.0 then visit the Elastix website – www.elastix.org

If you are looking to run A2Billing you may prefer the custom Sysadminman template as this has a later version of A2Billing pre-installed.

More details can be found here – http://sysadminman.net/distro-sysadminman.html

I’ve put together a walkthrough about how to do this. The walkthrough is done on a Elastix 1.6 Sysadminman VPS template. I’ve broken it in to 8 parts.

The first 4 parts are getting an extension up and running in Elastix and then the last 4 parts show how to configure A2Billing to account for these calls. Due to the version of A2Billing that comes with Elastix 1.6 (A2Billing version 1.3) it is nescesary to edit a few files manually using the command prompt.

A setup similar to this could possibly be used for a call shop or a hotel system.

Here are the parts -

Part 1 – Create a test extension in Elastix
Part 2 – Set up x-lite to use your Elastix extension
Part 3 – Create a trunk in Elastix
Part 4 – Create an outbound route in Elastix
Part 5 – Creating a trunk in A2Billing on Elastix
Part 6 – Create a customer in a2billing on Elastix
Part 7 – Create a call plan and rate card in A2Billing on Elastix
Part 8 – Create a custom trunk in Elastix for use with A2Billing

Now we are going to make some changes to the Elastix setup we did earlier. We are going to tell Elastix to route our calls via A2Billing, rather than going straight out using the trunk.

First we need to add a trunk so select Trunks and Add Custom Trunk -

All you need to enter is the ‘”Custom Dial String” which should be set to “Local/$OUTNUM$@a2billing/n” -

Now we need to edit the default route that we created earlier and tell it to use the A2Billing trunk that we just setup -

Next we need to edit the extension we setup earlier and enter the a2billing card number in to the “accountcode” field. This will be passed to A2Billing when we make a call, telling it which A2Billing customer account to use.

Now, unfortunately this is where it get’s a little complicated! The version of A2Billing that comes with Elastix 1.6 is a little old (version 1.30) so there are a few settings we can’t make through the GUI. We need to edit the configuration file though SSH. So log in via SSH using the root account. First we’re going to take a copy of the configuration file -

Now we need to tell Asterisk to load the A2Billing configuration file. This seems to be missing by default in Elastix -

Next we need to edit the file /etc/asterisk/a2billing.conf and make the following changes under the [agi-conf1] section (you can tell we are using AGI-CONF1 by looking at the custom trunk in Elastix we set up earlier and the file extensions_a2billing.conf. I won’t go in to the details here.

Change the following settings under the [agi-conf1] section -

Now restart Asterisk by running the following command -

And that’s it!!

If you make some test calls (to UK landlines starting with 1 don’t forget) you should see them appearing in your A2Billing CDR reports -

This is by far the most complex part of setting up A2Billing. Creating and maintaining a rate card can be very time consuming. By far the best way to create the rates is to upload them from a CSV as provided by your VOIP provider. There can be many thousands of rates and it’s impossible to manage them by hand. We are going to create just a single rate to UK landlines so that we can test calling.

First click on RATECARD and Create Call Plan. Give your call plan a name, I’ve used Example -

Next we need to create a rate card so Click on Create New RateCard. I’ve called mine ‘Example ratecard’. Change the TRUNK to the trunk that we created earlier -

Now we need to go back to the call plan that we created earlier and add the rate card to it. This is the bit that people normally forget! Click on List Call Plan and then select EDIT. Scroll down and add the rate card you created to the call plan -

Now we need to create a rate on the rate card. I’m just going to create a rate for UK landline numbers starting with 1. The Dial Prefix is set to 441 (44 for UK and 1 for landline numbers). The DESTINSTION is just a text label for the destination. Set the buy rates (the amount you but the minutes for) and the sell rates (the amount you sell the minutes for). If your provider bills by the minute then set the durations and billing blocks to 60 (seconds) -

Your rate should look like this once applied -

That’s it for the a2billing GUI. Next we need to make some changes in Elastix – Part 8 – Create a custom trunk in Elastix for use with A2Billing

Next we are going to create a customer in a2Billing. This will be the customer account for the extension 1000 that we setup in Elastix earlier.

First select CUSTOMERS and then Create Customers -

Even though there are many settings on the customer setup page we need to set just a few things. They are – make account POSTPAY, enter zero balance and give a credit limit of 50 -

Check to make sure your customer has been created ok -

That’s it for this part. Next we will create a call plan and rate card – Part 7 – Create a call plan and rate card in A2Billing on Elastix

First we need to log in to A2Billing on Elastix. Click on Extras on the top menu -

Then click on Calling Cards and enter your username and password -

Next click on TRUNK and then Add Trunk on the left hand side. Give your trunk a name (LABEL) and set the PROVIDER TECH. For the PROVIDER IP you can just enter the name of the trunk the we set up previously. This must match what you called the trunk in Elastix -

Once you’ve created your trunk click on List Trunk and you should see it listed (along with the example trunk) -

That’s the trunk setup. Next we will create an a2billing customer – Part 6 – Create a customer in a2billing on Elastix