Advanced features
•TOUCH TONES
Touch tones (sometimes known as DTMF tones) are those tones produced when you press the keys on your phone keypad. You can use touch tones for many automated
Touch tones are sent during an active call. You can send them manually from your phone keypad, or send them automatically by saving them in your phone.
Set manual options
You may customize the way your phone sends the touch tones for optimum performance with the system you are calling.
SET TYPE
1Press Menu
2Select one of the following options, and press Select:
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Continuous | Tone sounds for as long as you press and hold a key. |
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Fixed | Sends tones of the duration you specify in the Touch tone length option. |
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Off | Turns off tones. No tones are sent when you press a key. |
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SET FIXED LENGTH
You can specify touch tone length when using the Fixed option.
1Press Menu
2Scroll to Short (1 /10 second) or Long (1/2 second), and press Select.
Send manually
Before you begin, make sure that Manual touch tones is not set to Off.
1During a call to the automated service, select Options, scroll to Touch tones.
2Enter the touch tone string from your phone keypad as required by the service you are calling, and press Tones.
Send from phone book
You can save a touch tone string as a separate phone book entry, and recall and send the string using the
SAVE AS A PHONE BOOK ENTRY
Save the touch tone string (including any pause or wait characters that may be required) to a new entry in the phone book. For more information on saving contacts and number to your phone book see “Save contacts and numbers” on page 20.
RECALL FROM THE PHONE BOOK
1During a call to the automated service, select Options > Touch tones.
2Press Search, scroll to the touch tone string entry in your phone book, and press OK.
3Press Tones to send the touch tones.
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