User Guide for the Polycom VVX 1500 C Business Media Phone for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (SIP)
Changing the Ring Tone
You can select from many different ring types to distinguish lines or to distinguish your phone from your neighbor’s phone. You can also set distinctive ring tones for contacts in your local directory so you can identify callers when your phone rings.
Changing the Ring Tone for Your Phone
You can choose a distinctive ring tone for your phone to identify it when it rings. Or, you can choose distinctive ring tones for different lines.
To select a ring tone for your phone or a specific line:
1Tap 
> Settings > Basic > Ring Type. The Ring Type screen displays.
(If multiple lines are configured on your phone, the Line Select screen displays instead, and you have to select the line to which to apply the ring type. Then, the Ring Type screen displays.)
2From the Ring Type screen, tap the ring type you want, and then tap the Select soft key. To hear the ring type before you change it, tap the Play soft key.
The default ring type is Low Trill.
3Tap 
to return to the idle screen.
Setting Ring Tones for Contacts
Your company’s settings may override this feature.
You can set a distinctive ring tone for each contact in your Contact Directory so you can distinguish callers.
To set a distinctive ring tone for a contact:
1Tap 
> Features > Contact Directory.
2From the Directory screen, tap the contact for whom you want to assign a distinctive ring tone, and then tap the Edit soft key.
3From the Edit Contact screen, tap the Ring Type field, and then tap the field’s highlighted grey box. From the
4Tap the Save soft key.
5Tap 
to return to the idle screen.
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