Touch Tones - Nokia 2285 User Manual

• TOUCH TONES

Touch tones (sometimes known as DTMF tones) are those tones produced when you press the
keys on your phone keypad. You can use touch tones for many automated dial-up services such
as banking and airlines or for entering your voice mailbox number and password.
Touch tones are sent during an active call. You can send them manually from your phone
keypad, or send them automatically by saving them in your phone.
Set manual options
You may customize the way your phone sends the touch tones for optimum performance with
the system you are calling.
SET TYPE
1 Press Menu 4-2-2-1 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Manual touch tones).
2 Select one of the following options, and press Select:
Option Description
Continuous Tone sounds for as long as you press and hold a key.
Fixed Sends tones of the duration you specify in the Touch tone length option.
Off Turns off tones. No tones are sent when you press a key.
SET FIXED LENGTH
You can specify touch tone length when using the Fixed option.
1 Press Menu 4-2-2-2 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Touch tone length).
2 Scroll to Short (1 /10 second) or Long (1/2 second), and press Select.
Send manually
Before you begin, make sure that Manual touch tones is not set to Off.
1 During a call to the automated service, select Options, scroll to Touch tones.
2 Enter the touch tone string from your phone keypad as required by the service you are
calling, and press Tones.
Send from phone book
You can save a touch tone string as a separate phone book entry, and recall and send the string
using the in-call menu option Touch tones.
SAVE AS A PHONE BOOK ENTRY
Save the touch tone string (including any pause or wait characters that may be required) to a
new entry in the phone book. For more information on saving contacts and number to your
phone book see "Save contacts and numbers" on page 20.
RECALL FROM THE PHONE BOOK
1 During a call to the automated service, select Options > Touch tones.
2 Press Search, scroll to the touch tone string entry in your phone book, and press OK.
3 Press Tones to send the touch tones.
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