VTech ia5847 - Manual (Page 41)

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Troubleshootng
Problem Suggeston
• Do you have DSL service? If yes, you need to have a DSL filter installed at every telephone jack
that has a telephone connected to it. Contact your DSL service provider for filter information.
My caller ID features
are not working
properly.
• Caller ID is a subscription service. You must subscribe to this service from your local telephone
company for this feature to work on your telephone.
• The caller may not be calling from an area which supports caller ID.
• Both you and the caller’s telephone companies must use equipment which are compatible with
caller ID service.
• If you subscribe to DSL service, install a DSL filter to the telephone line between the telephone
base and the telephone line jack. Contact your DSL service provider for filter information.
The system does not
receive caller ID or
the system does not
display caller ID during
call waiting.
• Make sure you subscribe to caller ID with call waiting features services provided by the local
telephone company.
• The caller may not be calling from an area which supports caller ID.
• Both you and the caller’s telephone companies must use equipment which are compatible with
caller ID service.
• If you subscribe to DSL service, install a DSL filter to the telephone line between the telephone
base and the telephone line jack. Contact your DSL service provider for filter information.
Caller ID entries
do not match the
numbers I need to dial.
• Although the call log entries you receive are 10 digits, (the area plus the 7-digit number,) in
some areas, you may need to dial only the seven digits, or a 1 plus the seven digits, or a 1
plus the area code plus the seven digits. You can change the number of digits that you dial
or store from the call log.
• While reviewing the call log, press # repeatedly to display these dialing options for local and
long distance numbers before dialing or saving the telephone number.