Cisco Systems 7970G manual Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone

C H A P T E R 6

Customizing the Cisco Unified

IP Phone

This chapter explains how you customize phone ring sounds, background images, and the idle display at your site. Ring sounds play when the phone receives a call. Background images appear on the phone’s LCD screen. The idle display appears on the LCD screen when the phone has not been used for a designated period.

This chapter includes these topics:

•Customizing and Modifying Configuration Files, page 6-1

•Creating Custom Phone Rings, page 6-2

•Creating Custom Background Images, page 6-5

•Configuring Wideband Headset Codec, page 6-8

•Configuring the Idle Display, page 6-9

•Automatically Disabling the Cisco Unified IP Phone Touchscreen, page 6-11

Customizing and Modifying Configuration Files

You can modify configuration files (for example, edit the xml files) and add customized files (for example, custom ring tones, call back tones, phone backgrounds) to the TFTP directory. You can modify files and add customized files to the TFTP directory in Cisco IPT Platform Administration, from the TFTP Server File Upload page. Refer to Cisco IP Telephony Platform Administration Guide for information about how to upload files to the TFTP folder on a Cisco Unified CallManager server.

Cisco Unified IP Phone Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1 (SIP), Cisco Unified IP Phones

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