magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

After further consideration, I'm not comfortable doing this. Maybe "magichack" could weigh in. I've heard that these MJ devices come with a serial number. For example, "isleblue" posted that MJ is sending him a replacement device that is already tied to his existing phone number (account ...

No that is not enough information to calculate the life expectancy.

1. you need to know how much flash the MJ has.

For the record... the MagicJack gen2 device has a Samsung K9F5608U0D TSOP NAND Flash chip which is a 256Mbit (32MByte) chip.

2. how much data is actually being written to the ...

Is the CD Rom part also a flash drive, or is it ROM?

To be honest... I'm not entirely sure. There is only one chip... but it's divided into two 'partitions'... one of which may be set as 'read-only'. Which... unfortunately, may require a 'jtag' to fix. I'm hoping it's all flashable/re-writable ...

Can't you go into XP's "manage" thing, disk management, and reformat? Maybe repartition?

MJ should reinstall itself. I've not do this. But, I've read a number of posts by people who said they were instructed by MJ support to do things like this (including the registry edits) and MJ reinstalled ...

I've not had a similar problem, but the following is a transcript of tech support telling me how to remove registry entries which would force a total reload of MJ which might solve your problem.

Ivan: Please unplug your magicJack. Now go to "Start" in Windows and click on "run". In there write ...

Hey ya'll... I have a corrupted MagicJack.

It happened fairly recently (just after christmas) I came back to my office and found my computer in a semi-on/semi-off state.

Might have been a power surge or it might have been a failed/interrupted upgrade... I don't know.

All I know is that I have ...

Also, is it true that one has to dial the international calling code prefix to make local calls with Skype? I read that to call a local number with Skype I will have to dial 001 + area code + exchange + local extension. The extra 001 is a bit of a pain, but liveable.

Where on earth are ya'll ...