Troubleshooting Your Phone

This section provides troubleshooting information for your Cisco Unified IP Phone.

General Troubleshooting

This section provides information to help you troubleshoot general problems with your phone. For more information, see your system administrator.

Symptom

Explanation

 

 

You cannot hear a dial

One or more of the following factors might apply:

 

tone or complete a call

You must log into the Extension Mobility service.

 

 

 

 

You must enter a client matter code or forced authorization code after

 

dialing a number.

 

 

 

Your phone has time-of-dayrestrictions that prevent you from using

 

some features during certain hours of the day.

 

 

 

 

The Settings button is

Your system administrator might have disabled

on your phone.

unresponsive

 

 

 

 

 

The phone screen

The touchscreen has gone into sleep mode to save power after a period of

appears blank

inactivity. Wake the touchscreen by pressing it, by lifting the handset, or by

 

pressing any button, such as

. See Understanding Feature

 

Buttons and Menus, page 21.

 

 

 

 

 

The softkey that you

One or more of the following factors might apply:

 

want to use does not

You must press more to reveal additional softkeys.

 

appear

 

 

 

 

You must change the line state (for example, go off-hook or have a connected call).

Your phone is not configured to support the feature associated with that softkey.

Join fails

Join requires multiple selected calls. Be sure that you have selected at least

 

one call in addition to the active call, which is selected automatically. Join

 

also requires the selected calls to be on the same line. If necessary, transfer

 

calls to one line before joining them.

 

 

Barge fails and results

You cannot barge an encrypted call if the phone you are using is not

in a fast busy tone

configured for encryption. When your barge attempt fails for this reason,

 

your phone plays a fast busy tone.

 

 

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