Cisco Systems OL-15792-01 user manual

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CHAPTER
6
Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone
This chapter explains how you customize configuration files, phone ring sounds, background images,
and idle display at your site. Ring sounds play when the phone receives a call. Background images
appear on the phone screen. The idle display appears on the screen when the phone has not been used
for a designated period.
This chapter includes these topics:
• Customizing and Modifying Configuration Files, page 6-1
 Creating Custom Phone Rings,

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Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone Creating Custom Phone Rings Creating Custom Phone Rings The Cisco Unified IP Phone ships with two default ring types that are implemented in hardware: Chirp1 and Chirp2. Cisco Unified Communications Manager also provides a default set of additional phone ring sounds that are implemented in software as pulse code modulation (PCM) files. The PCM files, along with an XML file (named Ringlist.xml) that describes the ring list options that

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Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone Configuring Wideband Codec PCM File Requirements for Custom Ring Types The PCM files for the rings must meet the following requirements for proper playback on Cisco Unified IP Phones:  Raw PCM (no header)  8000 samples per second  8 bits per sample  uLaw compression  Maximum ring size—16080 samples  Minimum ring size—240 samples  Number of samples in the ring is evenly divisible by 240.  Ring starts and ends at the zero crossing

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Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone Configuring the Idle Display can be heard by the far endpoint—noise such as rustling papers or nearby conversations. Even without a wideband headset, some users may prefer the additional sensitivity of G.722. Other users may be distracted by the additional sensitivity of G.722. Note The phone does not support wideband handset. The following parameters in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration affect whether wideband is sup

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Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone Automatically Disabling the Cisco Unified IP Phone Backlight – For a single phone—Idle Timer field on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Phone Configuration window – For multiple phones simultaneously—URL Idle Time field on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Enterprise Parameters Configuration page, or the Idle Timer field in the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT) From a phone, you can see settings for the idle display XML serv

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Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone Automatically Disabling the Cisco Unified IP Phone Backlight Table 6-1 Backlight On and Off Configuration Fields (continued) Field Description Backlight On Length of time that the backlight remains on after turning on at the time specified Duration in the Backlight On Time field. Enter the value in this field in the format hours:minutes. For example, to keep the backlight on for 4 hours and 30 minutes after it turns on automatically, en