Appendix
Troubleshooting
| • | Other electronic products can cause interference to your |
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| cordless telephone. Try installing your telephone as far |
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| away as possible from the following electronic devices: |
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| wireless routers, radios, radio towers, pager towers, cel- |
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| lular telephones, digital telephones, intercoms, room |
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| monitors, televisions, VCRs, personal computers, kitchen |
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| appliances, and other cordless telephones. |
| • | Test a working telephone at the same telephone jack. If |
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| another telephone has the same problem, the problem is |
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| in the telephone jack. Contact your local telephone com- |
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| pany (charges may apply). |
| • | The telephone line cord might be malfunctioning. Try |
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| installing a new telephone line cord. |
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| the telephone base. |
| • | Wait for the cordless handset to synchronize with the |
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| telephone base. Allow up to one minute for this to take |
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| place. |
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My phone rings but | • | The cordless handset may be too far from the telephone |
when I try to answer |
| base. Move closer to the telephone base and try to |
| answer the call. | |
the call the hand- |
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set screen shows |
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CONNECTING… |
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I cannot dial out | • | First, try all the above suggestions. |
| • | Make sure there is a dial tone before dialing. It is nor- |
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| mal if the cordless handset takes a second or two to |
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| synchronize with the telephone before producing a dial |
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| tone. Wait an extra second before dialing. |
| • | Make sure the telephone is set to the correct dial mode |
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| (pulse dial or tone dial) for the service in your area. Refer |
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| to the handset settings section of this user’s manual |
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| (page 11) to set the dial mode. |
| • | If the other telephones in your home are having the |
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| same problem, the problem is in the wiring or local serv- |
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| ice. Contact your local telephone company (charges may |
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| apply). |
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