Using the answering system
remotely
1 Dial your phone number from a
touch-tone phone.
2 After the greeting message starts, enter
your remote access code.
3 Enter remote commands.
4 When finished, hang up.
Remote commands
Key Operation
1 Repeat message
(during playback)
*1
2 Skip message
(during playback)
4 Play new messages
5 Play all messages
6 Play greeting message
7 Record greeting message
9 Stop recording
Stop playback
0 Turn answering system off
*4 Erase currently playing message
*5 Erase all messages
*6 Reset to a pre-recorded greeting
message (during greeting
message playback)
*# End remote operation
(or hang up)
*1 If pressed within the first 5 seconds of a
message, the previous message is
played.
Turning on the answering system
remotely
If the answering system is off, you can turn it
on remotely.
1 Dial your phone number from a
touch-tone phone.
2 Let the phone ring 9 times.
R A long beep is heard.
3 Enter your remote access code within 10
seconds after the long beep.
R The greeting message is played back.
R You can either hang up, or enter your
remote access code again and begin
remote operation (page 47).
Answering system settings
Number of rings before the unit
answers a call
You can change the number of times the
phone rings “Number of Rings” before the
unit answers a call. You can select 2 to 6
rings, or “Auto”.
The default setting is “4 Rings”.
“Auto”: The unit’s answering system answers
at the end of the 2nd ring when new
messages have been recorded, or at the end
of the 5th ring when there are no new
messages. If you call your phone from outside
to listen to new messages (page 48), you
know that there are no new messages when
the phone rings for the 3rd time. You can then
hang up without being charged for the call.
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For voice mail service subscribers
To receive voice mail and use answering
system properly, please note the following:
R To use the voice mail service (page 50)
provided by your service provider/telephone
company rather than the unit’s answering
system, turn off the answering system
(page 42).
R To use this unit’s answering system rather
than the voice mail service provided by
your service provider/telephone company,
please contact your service provider/
telephone company to deactivate your
voice mail service.
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