Sending Touch Tones
Your phone is a ‘Touch Tone’ phone. Touch Tones are the
sounds your phone makes when you press the keys.
Touch Tones can be used for many automated phone
services such as checking your bank balance and using
voice mailbox options.
Your phone refers to Touch Tones as ‘DTMF’ (Dual Tone
Multi Frequency).
Manually Sending Touch Tones
Pressing the keys during a call sends Touch Tones. To do
this:
1
Make a call in the usual way (e.g. to your bank's
computer phone number).
2 Manually enter the digits to be sent as Touch tones
(e.g., your bank account number and password).
Automatically Sending Touch Tones
For automatic sending of Touch Tones, you can store the
Touch Tone string within the same memory location as the
access phone number. Store a pause (p) or wait (w) char-
acter between the phone number and the Touch Tone string.
See “Special Characters in Stored Numbers” on page 24
for details on storing pause and wait characters.
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The following is an example of a number you could store
in your phone:
This number contains a phone number (18005551212), a
wait character, an access number (‘1234’), a wait charac-
ter, and a password (‘3434’) - 18005551212w1234w3434.
When you recall this number from memory and press
SEND, the phone:
•
Dials 18005551212 (the stored number), then:
•
‘Waits’ for you to press
SEND again. When you do,
the phone sends the numbers 1234.
•
‘Waits’ for you to press
SEND again, then sends the
numbers 3434.
The following example shows storing ‘pause’ characters
as well as ‘wait’ characters (Note that a ‘wait’ character
must still be included, as shown, to separate the phone
number from the following digits):
18005551212w1234p3434
When you recall this number from memory and press
SEND, the phone:
•
Dials 18005551212 (the stored number), then
•
‘Waits’ for you to press
SEND again. When you do,
the phone sends the numbers 1234. It then:
•
Pauses for 2.5 seconds, then sends the numbers
3434.
Note: If the keypad tones have been set to Off, the Touch
Tones will still be sent, but you will not hear them.
Pressing
MENU SEND sends a displayed number as a
Touch Tone.
To end the call, press
END after the phone sends the
Touch Tones and has returned to the normal call mode.
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