Polycom vvx 500 manual Locking and Unlocking Your Phone, Calling and Answering from a Locked Phone

Polycom VVX 500 and VVX 600 Business Media Phones and Polycom VVX Camera User’s Guide

To change your user password:

1Tap Settings from Home view, and tap Advanced.

2From the Password screen, enter your user password, and tap Enter.

3From the Advanced screen, tap Change User Password.

4From the Change User Password screen, enter your password information, and tap Enter.

Locking and Unlocking Your Phone

You can choose how you want your phone to handle incoming calls when it is locked. When you set up your phone to receive incoming calls when it is locked (the default setting), incoming calls ring on your phone, and you can answer calls by entering your user password. When you set up your phone to ignore incoming calls, Do Not Disturb applies to all lines on your phone, and your phone does not ring.

To lock your phone:

1Tap Settings from Home view, and tap Basic > Lock Phone.

2From the Lock Phone screen, select how you want incoming calls handled when your phone is locked. The default setting is Allow ringing when locked.

Allow ringing when locked Select this option if you want your phone to ring when you have an incoming call. When you choose this option, you can answer a call by entering your password.

3Tap Lock.

Your phone is locked.

Timesaver: A Quick Way to Lock Your Phone

Your phone is set up so that you can quickly lock it by tapping Lock from Lines view. When you do this, you cannot choose how to handle incoming calls. Your phone uses the default setting, Allow ringing when locked, or the last setting you selected.

To unlock your phone:

1Tap Unlock.

2Enter your user password, and tap Enter. The phone unlocks.

Calling and Answering from a Locked Phone

From a locked phone, anyone can dial the standard emergency number, such as 911, and up to five other authorized numbers that your administrator can set up. You cannot call any other numbers from a locked phone. When you set up your phone so you can answer incoming calls when your phone is locked, you can answer calls by entering your user password.

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