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CS5129 CS5129-25 Go to www.vtechphones.com to register your product for CS5129-15 CS5129-26 enhanced warranty support and CS5129-16 CS5129-3 the latest VTech product news. CS5129-2 CS5129-4 CS5129-5 DECT 6.0 cordless telephone User’s manual...
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Do not use For support, shopping, and everything liquid or aerosol cleaners. Use a new at VTech, visit our website at damp cloth for cleaning. www.vtechphones.com. In Canada, 4. Do not use this product near water please visit www.vtechcanada.com.
are not sure of the type of power the product to normal operation. supply in your home or office, consult • If the product has been dropped your dealer or local power company. and the telephone base and/or 9. Do not allow anything to rest on handset has been damaged.
Battery About cordless telephones • Privacy: The same features that • CAUTION: Use Only Supplied Battery. make a cordless telephone convenient • Do not dispose of the battery in a fire. create some limitations. Telephone Check with local waste management calls are transmitted between the codes for special disposal instructions.
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• Nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries: Dispose of these batteries in a safe manner. Do not burn or puncture the battery. Like other batteries of this type, if burned or punctured, they could release caustic material which could cause injury.
Table of contents Join a call in progress (for multiple handset models only) ......11 Call waiting ..........11 What’s in the box ........1 Chain dialing ..........11 Overview............. 2 Find handset..........12 Telephone base overview ......2 Redial list..........13 Handset overview ........2 Review a redial list entry ......
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Sound settings ......... 21 Use the built-in answering system and voicemail service ......31 Key tone ............ 21 Ringer tone ..........21 Retrieve voicemail from telephone Telephone base ringer volume ....22 service ..........31 Handset ringer volume ......22 Retrieve voicemail ........
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Overview 7 – light • Flashes when there is an incoming call, or another telephone sharing the Telephone base overview same line is in use. • On when the telephone is in use, or the answering system is answering a call.
14 – 5 – • Review the redial list. • Turn on or off the quiet mode. • Insert a dialing pause while dialing or • Show other dialing options when entering numbers into the phonebook. reviewing a caller ID log entry. 6 –...
Display icons overview Telephone base lights overview The battery icon flashes • On when the telephone line when the battery is low and is in use. needs charging. • On when the answering system is answering a call. The battery icon animates • On when you are when the battery is charging.
Connect Mount the telephone base You can choose to connect the telephone base for desktop usage or wall mounting. NOTES • Use only the adapters provided. • Make sure the electrical outlets are not controlled by wall switches. • The adapters are intended to be correctly oriented in a vertical or floor mount position.
Install the battery Check the battery level Install the battery as shown below. After you have installed the battery, check the battery level on the handset NOTES screen. • Use only supplied battery. • If the battery icon is , or , then • Charge the battery provided with this go to Before use section to set the...
Before use • If you place the handset in the telephone base or the charger without plugging in the battery, the screen displays No battery. After you install your telephone or power returns following a power outage, the Battery Battery Action handset will prompt you to set the date indicators...
Configure your telephone Check for dial tone Press . If you hear a dial tone, the Use the handset menu installation is successful. 1. Press MENU when the phone is not If you do not hear a dial tone: in use. • Make sure the installation procedures 2.
Dial mode 4. Use the dialing keys (0-9) to enter the hour (HH) and minute (MM). The dial mode is preset to touch-tone Then press q or p to choose AM or dialing. If you have pulse (rotary) service, you need to change the dial mode to 5.
Telephone operations Make a call • Press , and then dial the telephone number. Handset control key panel: NOTES • The screen shows the elapsed time as you talk (in hours, minutes and seconds). • While entering numbers, press and hold PAUSE to insert a dialing pause (a P appears).
Mute It may be necessary to change your telephone service to use this feature. The mute function allows you to hear the Contact your telephone service provide if: other party but the other party cannot • You have both caller ID and call hear you.
Find handset To access a number in the redial list while on a call: Use this feature to find all system 1. Press REDIAL. handsets. 2. Press q, p or REDIAL repeatedly to To start paging: browse to the desired entry. • Press FIND HANDSET on the 3.
Redial list Multiple handset use Each handset stores the last Intercom 10 telephone numbers dialed. Entries are Use the intercom feature for shown in reverse chronological order. conversations between two handsets. When there are already 10 entries, the oldest entry is deleted to make room for NOTES the new entry.
• If the destination handset does not answer 2. To answer the intercom call on the the intercom call within 100 seconds, is destination handset, press accessing the answering system, on a call INT or any dialing key on the or out of range, the originating handset destination handset.
Phonebook 4. Use the dialing keys to enter the name. Additional key presses show The phonebook can store up to other characters of that particular 50 entries, which are shared by all key. The first character of every word handsets. Each entry may consist of a is capitalized.
Alphabetical search 4. The screen displays Delete all?. Press SELECT to confirm. The 1. Follow the steps in Review a handset displays Deleting... and phonebook entry to enter the then you hear a confirmation tone. phonebook. 2. Use the dialing keys to enter the Edit a phonebook entry letter associated with the name.
Caller ID 2. Press SELECT twice and then press q or p to browse. If you subscribe to caller ID service, NOTE information about each caller appears after the first or second ring. If you • You hear two beeps when you reach the beginning or end of the caller ID log.
Dial a caller ID log entry If you do not want to review the missed calls one by one, press and hold When the number is shown in the correct CANCEL on the idle handset to erase format for dialing, press to dial.
Call block Delete the caller ID log entries 1. When in the caller ID log, press q or If you have subscribed to caller ID p to browse. service, you can set the telephone 2. When the desired caller ID log to block unknown calls and certain entry displays, press DELETE.
6. Press SELECT to move on to enter 3. Use the dialing keys to edit the number, then press SELECT. The the name. The handset displays handset displays Enter name and Enter name. then the stored name. 7. Use the dialing keys to enter the 4.
Sound settings Mute rings of blocked calls An incoming call will ring once and then the system will check if the call should Key tone be blocked. You can mute the first ring of You can turn the key tone on or off for blocked calls.
Telephone base ringer volume Quiet mode Press on the telephone base to You can turn on the quiet mode for a adjust the ringer volume when the period of time (1-12 hours). During this telephone base is not in use. period, all tones (except paging tone) and call screening are muted.
About the built-in Method To retrieve To retrieve to retrieve messages, messages, answering system and messages usually there you need voicemail service are two an access ways: number and/ or a passcode For message recording, your telephone • Press provided by on the has a built-in answering system, and it your telephone...
Set your built-in answering To turn on or off with the handset: system 1. Press MENU when the phone is not in use. The answering system can record 2. Press q or p to choose Answering and store up to 99 messages. Each sys and then press SELECT.
Play the announcement Set number of rings 1. Press MENU when the phone is not You can set the answering system to in use. answer an incoming call after two, three, four, five or six rings; or toll saver. 2. Press q or p to choose Answering sys then press SELECT.
Turn the message alert tone on Voice guide or off This feature is an alternative way for you to do the basic setup of the answering When the message alert tone is set system. You can follow the voice guide to to on, and there is at least one new record your own announcement, set the message, the telephone base beeps...
Use your built-in answering Message playback system If you have new messages, the telephone plays only the new messages (oldest first). If there are no new New message indication messages, the telephone plays back all When there are new answering system messages (oldest first).
Delete all messages To playback messages with a handset: You can only delete old (reviewed) 1. Press MENU when the telephone messages. You cannot delete new messages until you review them. You is not in use. The handset displays cannot retrieve deleted messages. Play messages.
Remote access NOTES A two-digit security code is required to • If you do not press any key after you enter the remote access code, all new access the answering system remotely messages play. If there are no new from any touch-tone telephone. The messages, all old messages play.
Call screening Record, play or delete memos Memos are your own recorded To screen a call at the telephone messages used as reminders for base: yourself or others using the same If the answering system and call answering system. You can record your screening are on, the announcement own memos using a system handset.
Use the built-in answering Retrieve voicemail from system and voicemail telephone service service Voicemail is a feature available from most telephone service providers. It may You can use your answering system and be included with your telephone service, voicemail service together by setting or may be optional.
Expand your telephone -OR- 1. Press MENU when the handset is system not in use. You can add new handsets (CS5109), 2. Press q or p to choose Settings cordless headsets (IS6200) or and then press SELECT. speakerphones (MA3222 or AT&T 3.
Screen messages You have turned Muted off the handset microphone. The other party cannot Your recorded Annc deleted hear you but you announcement is can hear the other deleted. party. You are calling Calling HS X There are another handset (for (for models with two new voicemail intercom calls).
The caller is Screen display on PRIVATE NAME To register blocking the name a non-registered HS... information. handset..see The caller is PRIVATE manual blocking the NUMBER telephone number Failed phone call Unable to information. (the other handset is call in use).
ECO mode General product care This power conserving technology Taking care of your telephone reduces power consumption for optimal Your cordless telephone contains battery performance. The ECO mode sophisticated electronic parts, so it must activates automatically whenever be treated with care. the handset is synchronized with the Avoid rough treatment telephone base.
Frequently asked I cannot dial Make sure there is a dial out. tone before dialing. It is questions normal if the handset takes a second or two Below are the questions most frequently to synchronize with the asked about the cordless telephone. telephone base before producing a dial tone.
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I hear other Disconnect the telephone The telephone Caller ID is a subscription calls when base from the telephone does not service. You must using the wall jack. Plug in a receive caller subscribe to this service telephone. different telephone. If you ID or the from your telephone still hear other calls, the...
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The answering Make sure the answering The messages The maximum length for a system does system is on. When the on the message is four minutes. not record answering system is on, answering If a caller leaves a very messages. ANS ON should display system are long message, i.e., more...
The RBRC seal on the nickel-metal ® telephone your Internet is working hydride battery indicates that VTech service that properly. uses my Communications, Inc. is voluntarily Make sure to plug your computer participating in an industry program to...
FCC, ACTA and IC following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, regulations and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including FCC Part 15 interference that may cause undesired NOTE: This equipment has been operation. Privacy of communications tested and found to comply with the may not be ensured when using this requirements for a Class B digital...
plug is provided with this product. notice is not practical, you will be notified It is designed to be connected to a as soon as possible. You will be given compatible modular jack that is also the opportunity to correct the problem compliant.
California Energy The Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) for this terminal equipment is 1.0. The Commission battery REN is an indication of the maximum charging testing number of devices allowed to be instructions connected to a telephone interface. The termination on an interface may consist This telephone is set up to comply with the of any combination of devices subject energy-conserving standards right out of...
For C-UL compliance only obstruées en plaçant l’appareil sur un lit, divan, tapis ou autre surface Mesures de sécurité similaires. Ne placez pas cet appareil à proximité d’un élément de importantes chauffage ni d’une plinthe électrique. Afin de réduire les risques d’incendie, de De plus, ne l’installez pas dans une blessures corporelles ou d’électrocution, unité...
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à la clientèle le combiné chargé sur le socle, si de VTech dans les cas suivants : le téléphone se trouve à proximité d’un endroit comportant des • Lorsque le cordon d’alimentation concentrations de gaz inflammables, est endommagé...
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• Rechargez la pile incluse avec cet sans fil affichent également des appareil, selon les instructions et restrictions. Les appels téléphoniques limites spécifiées dans ce guide sont transmis entre le combiné sans d’utilisation. fil et le socle par le biais d’ondes radio ;...
This limited warranty extends only to the Consumer for Products purchased and used in the United States of America and Canada. What will VTech do if the Product is not free from defects in materials and workmanship during the limited warranty period (“Materially Defective Product”)?
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7. Product returned without a valid proof Product extends for ONE (1) YEAR from of purchase (see item 2 below); or the date of purchase. If VTech repairs or 8. Charges for installation or set up, replaces a Materially Defective Product...
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Some states/ provinces do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not apply to you. In no event shall VTech be liable for any indirect, special, incidental,...
Technical specifications Frequency Crystal controlled PLL control synthesizer Transmit Handset: frequency 1921.536-1928.448 MHz Telephone base: 1921.536-1928.448 MHz Channels Nominal Maximum power allowed by effective FCC and IC. Actual operating range range may vary according to environmental conditions at the time of use. Power Handset: 2.4V Ni-MH battery requirements...
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