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Configuring your data or fax software
Once properly connected and configured, your PC will
recognize your phone as an external standard fax/modem.
However, your fax or data software may already be
configured to use the existing PCMCIA or internal modem.
Before you can use your phone to send and receive data
or faxes, you must reconfigure your fax or data software
so that it uses your phone rather than your existing
modem. You may consider creating a separate set of
dialing properties to use when your phone is connected,
rather than changing any existing settings.
Please refer to the documentation or online help files for
your data or fax application when creating new dialing
configurations, or modifying existing settings.
To start a data or fax call
Note: The restrict calls feature may affect any data/fax calls you
attempt. If you experience problems, check your call restrictions.
See page57 for details.
1. Initiate a data or fax call using your data or fax
software configured for your phone.
2. When trying to connect to the network, the phone
displays Connecting... Once connected, the text
Data call (or Fax call) remains on the display for the
duration of the data or fax call.
3. Terminate the data call from your data software; fax
calls typically terminate automatically.
Note: Avoid terminating a call by pressing your phone’s key.
This may cause your data or fax application to temporarily lock up
and could cause loss of data.
Note: Data or fax calls cannot be initiated using your phone’s
keypad. All data and fax calls must be initiated using the data or
fax software.
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To receive a data or fax call
Your phone must be connected to your PC via the data
cable.
1. The appropriate data or fax software must be run-
ning. Consider setting your data or fax software to
automatically answer incoming calls so you can
receive them while away from your PC.
2. Your phone will display either Data call or Fax call,
depending on the type of incoming call.
3. Terminate the data call from your data software; fax
calls typically terminate automatically.
Note: Avoid terminating a call by pressing your phone’s key.
This may cause your data or fax application to temporarily lock up
and could cause loss of data.
Manual selection of incoming data/fax calls
Certain service providers require that you preset your
phone to receive the incoming data or fax call, rather
than having the phone automatically detect the call type.
Check with your service provider to see if “pre-arrangement” of
data and/or fax calls is necessary.
Most popular data and fax programs allow you to send
additional initialization commands to the modem when
the program is launched, or when the modem is
instructed to receive a call. You will need to modify your
phone’s modem configuration in the data or fax software
so that it sends the following special initialization string
to the modem:

To preset your phone to receive a data call:

AT+CSP=1

To preset your phone to receive a fax call:

AT+CSP=2