Nokia 3586I Set manual touch tone options, Send touch tone string manually

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Touch tones (sometimes known as DTMF tones) are those tones produced when you press the keys on your phone’s keypad. You can use touch tones for many automated dial-up services such as banking and airlines, or for entering your voice mailbox number and password.

Touch tones are sent during an active call. You can send them manually from your phone’s keypad, or send them automatically by saving them in your phone.

Set manual touch tone options

You may need to customize how your phone sends the touch tones for optimum performance with the system you’re calling.

SET TOUCH TONE TYPE

1Press Menu 4-2-2-1 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Manual touch tones).

2Select one of the following options, then press Select:

Option	Description
Continuous	Tone sounds for as long as you press and hold a key.
Fixed	Used to send tones of the duration you specify in the Touch tone
	length option.
Off	Used to turn off tones. No tones are sent when you press a key.

SET FIXED TOUCH TONE LENGTH

You can also specify touch tone length when using the Fixed option.

1Press Menu 4-2-2-2 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Touch tone length).

2Scroll to Short (0.1 seconds) or Long (0.5 seconds), then press Select.

Send touch tone string manually

Before you begin, make sure that Manual touch tones is not set to Off.

1During a call to the automated service, press Options, scroll to Touch tones and press Select.

2Enter the touch tone string from your phone’s keypad as required by the service you’re calling, then press Tones.

Send touch tone string from phone book

You can save a touch tone string as a separate phone book entry, then recall and send the string using the in-call menu option Touch tones.

SAVE TOUCH TONES AS A PHONE BOOK ENTRY

Save the touch tone string (including any pause or wait characters that may be required) to a new entry in the phone book. For more information on saving contacts and number to your phone book see “Save contacts and numbers” on page 20.

RECALL TOUCH TONE STRING FROM THE PHONE BOOK

1During a call to the automated service, press Options, scroll to Touch tones and press Select.

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