Turn my caller ID on/off

The caller ID feature controls whether your phone number appears on another person’s phone when you call them. Check with AT&T about availability and pricing of the caller ID feature.

DID YOU KNOW? The caller ID feature does not affect whether your smartphone displays the caller ID for an incoming call. Your smartphone always shows the incoming caller ID unless the number is hidden or private.

1Open Phone .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3In Show My Caller ID, tap On or Off.

Turn call waiting on/off

You can choose to be notified when you receive a call while you are on a call. You can choose to accept the call or not. See Answer a second call (call waiting). Check with AT&T about availability and pricing of the call waiting feature.

1Open Phone .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3In Call Waiting, tap On or Off.

Turn the international dialing auto-prefix feature on/off

When the international dialing preference is on, your smartphone automatically adds the correct international dialing prefix and country code to any 10-digit U.S. or Canadian number when you are traveling outside the

U.S. or Canada. So you can simply enter the 10-digit number or dial a contact with a 10-digit number, and the call goes through correctly. The preference does not work with 7-digit numbers.

1Open Phone .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3In International Dialing, tap Off to switch international dialing from Off to On.

4Begin typing the name of the country you are currently located in, or scroll the list to find it.

5Tap the country when it appears.

Change your voicemail number

1Open Phone .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3By default, under Voicemail Number, your current voicemail number is highlighted. To change it, simply type the new number. If the current number is not highlighted, tap the number to highlight it, and then type the new number.

Use dialing shortcuts

Dialing shortcuts add a prefix at the beginning of a number, so you can dial an extension instead of the whole number.

1Open Phone .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3Under Dialing Shortcuts, tap Add new number.

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HP Veer 4G (AT&T) Turn my caller ID on/off, Turn call waiting on/off, Change your voicemail number, Use dialing shortcuts