Sony SPP-A9171 - Manual (Page 50)

Answering Machine Features
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Picking up new messages
1
Call your phone from a touch-tone phone.
2
While you hear your greeting play, press (#). The greeting stops.
After confirming the greeting stops, enter your remote ID code (security
code). You hear a long confirmation beep.
Following the voice guidance informing you of the number of messages
recorded, the phone stands by for you to enter a control code.
3
To do other operations, enter the control code within 20 seconds (see the
table below). To quit, hang up the phone.
Control codes for remote operations
To Press
Play back messages in MAILBOX 1 (#) (1)
Play back messages in MAILBOX 2 (#) (2)
Play back messages in MAILBOX 3 (#) (3)
Repeat the current message (#) (4) while the message is being played back
Skip the current message (#) (6) while the message is being played back
Erase the current message (#) (9) while the message is being played back
Erase all messages in MAILBOX 1 (#) (9) (#) (1)
Erase all messages in MAILBOX 2 (#) (9) (#) (2)
Erase all messages in MAILBOX 3 (#) (9) (#) (3)
Record a new greeting (*) (7). When you hear a long beep, start recording your
(up to one minute) greeting. Press (*) (*) to stop recording.
Turn on the answering function (*) (0)
Turn off the answering function (#) (0)
Stop the current operation (*) (*)
Operating from an outside phone (continued)
If you forgot to turn the answering function on
Call your phone and let it ring 10 times until it answers. Then the answering function
automatically turns on.
Notes
• If you enter a wrong remote security code three times, the line will be disconnected.
• If the greeting does not stop, press and hold (#) again.
To use the toll-saver feature
Set RINGER SELECT to TS. See page 38 for details.