Sony D5803/D5833 manual Receiving calls, Showing or hiding your phone number

To add a direct dial number to your Homescreen

1Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates and

the customization menu appears.

2In the customization menu, tap Apps > Shortcuts.

3Scroll through the list of applications and select Direct dial.

4Select the contact and the number that you want to use as the direct dial number.

Showing or hiding your phone number

You can select to show or hide your phone number on call recipients' devices when you call them.

To show or hide your phone number

1 From the Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Call > Additional settings > Caller ID.

Receiving calls

To answer a call

To decline a call

To mute the ringtone for an incoming call

•When you receive the call, press the volume key.

Using the answering machine

You can use the answering machine application in your device to answer calls when you are busy or miss a call. You can enable the automatic answering function and determine how many seconds to wait before the calls get answered automatically. You can also manually route calls to the answering machine when you are too busy to answer them. And you can access messages left on your answering machine directly from your device.

Before using the answering machine, you must record a greeting message.

To record a greeting message for the answering machine

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Call > Answering Machine > Greetings.

3 Tap Record new greeting and follow the on-screen instructions.

To enable automatic answering

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Call > Answering Machine.

3 Mark the Answering Machine checkbox.

If you don't set a time delay for the automatic answering of calls, the default value is used.

To reject a call with the answering machine

•When an incoming call arrives, drag Response options upward, then select

Reject with Answering Machine.

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