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D1680 Series User's Guide
What's in the box? You will also find:
Accessory handset
D1680 base
and charger
with answering
system and
Not pictured:
cordless
Rechargeable
handset
battery (BT-1021)
Battery cover
AC adapter
(PS-0035)
You should
If you purchased
model number: have:
D1680 None
Battery
D1680-2 1 of each
Not pictured:
cover
D1680-3 2 of each
Rechargeable
battery (BT-1021) D1680-4 3 of each
AC adapter (PS-0035)
Telephone cord D1680-11 10 of each
D1680-12 11
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What’s in the manual? Personalizing the Greeting ....................13 Getting Started ................................ 3 Installing Your Phone .................................3 Accessing the Answering System ........14 Getting to Know Your Phone...................4 Getting Your Messages ............................14 Using the Handset Menu ..........................6 Using the System While You're Away from Home ................................................15 Using Your Phone .............
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GETTING STARTED Connect the Telephone Cord Installing Your Phone Use the telephone cord to connect Charge the Battery the TEL LINE jack on the base to a 1. Unpack all handsets, standard telephone wall jack. battery Test the Connection packs, and battery 1. Pick up the handset and press covers. If Talk . The handset sounds a dial you need to tone, and the display shows Talk. remove a – If you don't hear a dial tone or cover, press in on the notch and the display says Check Tel Line,
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V Visual r isual ringer inger Ear Earpiec piece e Displa Display y Getting to Know Your Phone Parts of the Handset UP UP PHONEBOOK PHONEBOOK SPEAKER SPEAKER MENU/SELEC MENU/SELECTT TTALK/FL ALK/FLASH ASH END END CID CID DOWN DOWN T Tw welv elve e-key -key dial pad dial pad REDIAL/P REDIAL/PA AUSE USE INTERC INTERCOM/CLEAR OM/CLEAR M Micr icrophone ophone MESSA MESSAGE/MUTE GE/MUTE Char Charg ging ing c con ontac tacts ts Key (icon) What it does In standby or during a call: open the phoneboo
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Key (icon) What it does In standby: or during a call: open the Caller ID list. cid ( ) When entering text: move the cursor to the right. In standby: start an intercom call. nTE i rcoM/ During a call: put the call on hold and start a call transfer. E cl ar When entering text or numbers: erase the character at the cursor (press & hold to erase all characters). In standby: access your answering system. MEssagE/ During a call: mute the microphone. MTE u ( ) While the phone is ring
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Parts of the Base Char Charg ging ing FIND HS FIND HS RE REV V DELETE DELETE DOWN DOWN c con ontac tacts ts ANS ON/OFF ANS ON/OFF PL PLA AY/ST Y/STOP OP FWD FWD UP UP Key (icon) What it does inf hd s In standby: page all handsets. ans on/off In standby: turn the answering system on or off. While playing a message: restart the message. rEV ( ) In the first 2 seconds of a message: play the previous message. In standby: start playing messages. Play/sToP While playing a message: stop
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Handset Setup Menu You can change these settings separately for each handset. Turn on T-coil mode to reduce noise on hearing aids T-coil equipped with a telecoil (T-coil) feature. T-coil mode shortens talk time, so keep your battery fully charged. Choose this handset's ring tone. As you highlight each Ringer Tones ring tone, the phone plays a sample. When you hear the tone you want, press MEnu/sElEcT . Turn on personal ring so you can assign a special ring Personal Ring tone to people in yo
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To... Press... move the cursor left PhonEbook . cid move the cursor right . inTErcoM/clEar erase the character at the cursor . inTErcoM/clEar erase the entire entry and hold . enter a blank space #. switch between upper and lower case letters . * rotate through the punctuation and symbols 0. USING YOUR PHONE This section explains the most common functions on the phone. Using the Using the To... earpiece speakerphone Talk/flash sPEakEr make a call, dial the number & press . press . answer a call
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Using the Caller ID and Redial Lists Caller ID (CID) is a service available from your telephone provider that shows the phone number (and sometimes the caller’s name) of incoming calls. Contact your telephone provider for more information. Caller ID list Redial list The phone saves the information for the last 50 Each handset received calls to the CID list. The NEW icon marks any remembers the calls received since the last time you checked the list. last 5 numbers you dialed on it. A
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Using the Phonebook The phone can store up to 100 entries in its phonebook. All handsets share the same phonebook, so only one handset can access it at a time. To... Press... PhonEbook open/close the phonebook . down to scroll through the entries from A to Z. scroll through the entries uP to scroll from Z to A. jump to entries that start the number key corresponding to the letter with a certain letter you want. dial the current entry Talk/flash or sPEakEr . edit the current entry MEnu/sElET
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3. After the selected number of hours, the phone automatically exits silent mode. To exit silent mode manually, press and hold # again. If the phone is in silent mode and you turn off the answering system, the phone exits silent mode. Multihandset Features To use the features in this section, you need at least 2 handsets. ♦ Your base supports a total of 12 cordless handsets: the one that came with the base and up to 11 DCX160 accessory handsets. ♦ You must register accessory handsets to t
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Handset to Handset Intercom ♦ Whenever the phone is in standby, you can make an intercom call between handsets without using the phone line. ♦ You can make an intercom call from any handset, but only two handsets can be in an intercom call at any time. ♦ If an outside call comes in during an intercom page, the phone cancels the page so you can answer the incoming call. Talk/lfash ♦ If an outside call comes in during an intercom call, press to hang up the intercom call and answer the outside
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USING THE ANSWERING SYSTEM Answering System Options (Ans. Setup) You can set or change the answering system options from any handset. Just open the menu and select Ans. Setup. Select one of the following: Enter a 2-digit PIN so you can access your answering Security Code system from any touch-tone phone (see p. 15). Set the number of rings (2, 4, or 6) before the system Ring Time answers. Toll Saver makes the system answer after 2 rings if you have new messages or after 4 rings if you don't
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To... Follow these steps: 1. Open the menu with the phone in standby. Select Ans. Switch Setup, then Greeting Options. between 2. The system plays back the current greeting. Press MEnu/ greetings sElEcT to switch greetings. Delete your TE ni M rco /clEar Switch to your personal greeting, then press . greeting Accessing the Answering System When the phone’s in MESSA MESSAGE/MUTE GE/MUTE P Pr ress ess t to star o start t standby, you can r remot emote oper e opera ation mode tion mode.. acc
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To... From the base From a handset delete a While a message is playing, press While a message is dElETE message . playing, select 4:Delete. With the phone in standby, delete all press dElETE ; press dEETE l again to Not available. messages confirm. play old After the system plays all new messages, messages press Play/sToP again. select 2:Play. stop playback Press Play/sToP . Select 5:Stop. Screening Your Calls You can use the answering system for call screening. While the system takes a mes
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Audio issues Possible solutions Check for interference from appliances (microwave ovens, TVs, etc.) or wireless devices (baby monitors, WiFi equipment, etc.). Move the handset or base away There’s a lot of from the interference source. noise or static on If you use a telecoil hearing aid, turn on T-coil mode the line (see p. 7). If you have any service that uses the phone line, add a DSL or telephone line filter (see p. 18). Caller ID problems Possible solutions Let calls ring tw
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3. To confirm, select Yes. The handset Installing a Line Filter or DSL displays Handset not registered. Filter A telephone line filter or DSL filter Registering Handsets prevents services that use the phone If you see a “not registered” message on line from causing interference on your a handset, you must register it to a base phone. To get a line filter, contact your before using it. service provider or look in an electron- 1. Place the handset in the base; ics store. the display sho
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Rechargeable Battery Warning Compliance Information This equipment contains a recharge- FCC Part 68 Information able Nickel-Metal-Hydride (Ni-MH) This equipment complies with Part battery. 68 of the FCC rules and the require- Nickel is a chemical known to the state ments adopted by the ACTA. On the of California to cause cancer. bottom of this equipment is a label that Do not short-circuit the battery. contains, among other information, The batteries in this equipment may a produ
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may be required. But if advance notice NOTICE: According to telephone com- isn't practical, the telephone company pany reports, AC electrical surges, typi- will notify the customer as soon as pos- cally resulting from lightning strikes, sible. Also, you will be advised of your are very destructive to telephone right to file a complaint with the FCC equipment connected to AC power if you believe it is necessary. The tele- sources. To minimize damage from phone company may make changes in thes
