A Cisco IP Phone 7800 may have trouble booting when upgraded directly from a release earlier than 11.5(1) to firmware 12.0(1).

Checked 2026-10-02

Your Cisco IP Phone 7800 Series phone may have trouble booting up if you are upgrading from a pre-11.5(1) release to 12.0(1) firmware.
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco IP Phone 7800 Series
Subsystem
upgrade path
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
source firmware earlier than 11.5(1); target 12.0(1) or later
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). Troubleshooting Cisco IP phones stuck upgrading firmware: source note cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot,
  title  = {Troubleshooting Cisco IP phones stuck upgrading firmware: source note cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot},
  note   = {Source note cucm-phone-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting-pre115-boot, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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