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  • Page 1 CS6648-2 Go to www.vtechphones.com to register your product for CS6648-3 enhanced warranty support and CS6648-4 the latest VTech product news. CS6649 CS6649-2 CS6649-3 DECT 6.0 cordless telephone User’s manual...
  • Page 2 Please review this manual thoroughly to Follow all warnings and instructions ensure proper installation and operation marked on the product. of this innovative and feature rich VTech product. Unplug this product from the wall outlet before cleaning. Do not use For support, shopping, and everything liquid or aerosol cleaners.
  • Page 3 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 handset has been damaged. Do not allow anything to rest on the power cord. Do not install this •...
  • Page 4 About cordless telephones Battery • CAUTION: Use Only Supplied Battery. • Privacy: The same features that 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.
  • Page 5 • Rechargeable batteries: Exercise care in handling batteries in order not to create a short circuit with conducting material such as rings, bracelets and keys. The battery or conductor may overheat and cause harm. Observe proper polarity between the battery and the battery charger.
  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Redial list........... 18 Review a redial list entry ......18 What’s in the box ........1 Dial a redial list entry ........18 Delete a redial list entry .......18 Overview............2 Telephone base overview ......2 Directory ............ 19 Handset overview ..........4 Add a directory entry ........19 Charger overview ..........5 Review a directory entry ......20...
  • Page 7 Using your built-in answering system ..31 Message capacity ........31 New message indication ......31 Message playback ........32 Delete all old messages ......32 Remote access ...........33 Set your remote access code .....33 Call screening..........34 Call intercept ..........34 Temporarily turn off the message alert tone ..........34 Record, play and delete memos ....34 Use the built-in answering system and...
  • Page 8: What's In The Box

    Save your sales receipt and original packaging in case it is necessary to ship your telephone for warranty service. 1 set for CS6648-2/CS6649-2; 2 sets for CS6648-3/CS6649-3 NOTE 3 sets for CS6648-4 To purchase a replacement battery or power adapter, visit our website at www.vtechphones.com or call...
  • Page 9: Overview

    Overview • Press and hold to erase the missed call indicator when the phone is not in use. Telephone base overview • While the phone is ringing, press to silence the base ringer temporarily. • Press to scroll down while in menus and lists.
  • Page 10 X/DELETE /SPEAKER • Press to delete the playing • Press to make, answer or end a message or playing call. announcement. • During a call, press to switch • While reviewing the redial list, between the corded handset and directory or caller ID log, press to the base speakerphone.
  • Page 11: Handset Overview

    Handset overview 5 – • Press and hold to turn on quiet mode, or turn it off. • Press repeatedly to display other dialing options when reviewing a caller ID log entry. 6 – INT • Press to initiate or answer an intercom call, or to transfer a call.
  • Page 12: Charger Overview

    There are new voicemail 12 – received from your telephone • Press to make or answer a call. service provider. • During a call, press to answer an ANS ON The answering system is incoming call when you receive a turned on.
  • Page 13: Handset And Telephone Base Indicators

    Connect Handset and telephone base indicators You can choose to connect the telephone base for desktop usage or wall mounting. Handset lights overview NOTES On when the handset speakerphone is in use. • Use only the adapters provided. • Make sure the electrical outlets are not CHARGE On when the handset is controlled by wall switches.
  • Page 14: Install And Charge The Battery

    Connect the charger and charge Install and charge the battery the battery Place the handset in the telephone base Install the battery or handset charger to charge. Install the battery as shown below. NOTES • Use only supplied battery. • Charge the battery provided with this product only in accordance with the instructions and limitations specified in this...
  • Page 15: Before Use

    Before use Battery Battery Action indicators status After you install your telephone or power The screen The battery Charge returns following a power outage, the is blank, or has no or without handset will prompt you to set the date displays Put very little interruption...
  • Page 16: Operating Range

    Configure your telephone Operating range This cordless telephone operates with the maximum power allowed by the Using the telephone base/ Federal Communications Commission handset menu (FCC). Even so, this handset and You can use the telephone base or telephone base can communicate over a cordless handset to change your only a certain distance - which can vary telephone settings.
  • Page 17: Set Date And Time

    Set date and time 5. Press SELECT to confirm. You hear a confirmation tone. NOTE NOTE Make sure you set the date and time including the year correctly; otherwise the If, in the future, your telephone service answering system does not announce the provider requires you to dial the area code correct day of the week for your recorded when making a local call, or, if you move to...
  • Page 18: Telephone Operations

    Telephone operations Make a call Using a cordless handset: Telephone base control key panel: Press When you hear a dial tone, dial the number. Using the telephone base: Lift the corded handset, or press SPEAKER. When you hear a dial tone, dial the number.
  • Page 19: Answer A Call

    Answer a call Volume Using a cordless handset: To adjust the listening volume on a cordless handset: • Press or any of the dialing keys. • During a call, press /VOLUME or /VOLUME. Using the telephone base: To adjust the listening volume at •...
  • Page 20: Transfer A Call

    Transfer a call Join a call in progress While on an outside call, you can Another handset or the telephone base transfer the call from a cordless handset can join you on an outside call. That to another handset or to the telephone call continues until all parties hang up.
  • Page 21: Chain Dialing

    To access a number from the It may be necessary to change your telephone service to use this feature. redial list while on a call: Contact your telephone service provide if: Press REDIAL to enter the redial list. • You have both caller ID and call Press , or REDIAL repeatedly to waiting, but as separate service (you...
  • Page 22: Multiple Handset Use

    Multiple handset use -OR- To end the intercom call at the telephone base, press INT or Intercom /SPEAKER when using the base Use the intercom feature for speakerphone, or place the corded conversations between the telephone handset back to the telephone base. base and a cordless handset, or two Both screens display Intercom cordless handsets.
  • Page 23: Answer An Incoming Call During An Intercom Call

    3. To end the intercom call at the press ress /SPEAKER, or lift up the telephone base, press INT, or corded handset to answer the call. /SPEAKER when using the base • To end the intercom call without speakerphone, or place the corded answering or canceling the incoming handset back to the telephone base.
  • Page 24 • If you have two or more handsets, NOTES the telephone base shows • To cancel the intercom call before it is Intercom to. Use the dialing keys answered, press OFF, or INT on your handset. to e e nter a handset number. The •...
  • Page 25: Redial List

    Redial list -OR- Lift the corded handset or press Each handset and the telephone base /SPEAKER when the phone is not store the last 10 telephone numbers in use. dialed (up to 30 digits) independently. When there are already 10 entries, the Press REDIAL.
  • Page 26: Directory

    Directory 4. Use the dialing keys to enter the name. Additional key presses show The directory can store up to 50 entries, other characters of that particular which are shared by all handsets and the key. The first character of each word telephone base.
  • Page 27: Review A Directory Entry

    Dial a directory entry • Press 0 to add a space (for entering names only). Search for the desired entry in the directory (see Review a directory Review a directory entry entry or Alphabetical search). Entries are sorted alphabetically. To dial the displayed entry on the Press on the cordless handset cordless handset, press...
  • Page 28: Delete A Directory Entry

    Speed dial While entering names and numbers, you can: You can copy up to nine directory entries • Press DELETE to backspace and into the speed dial locations (0 and 2-9) erase a digit or character. so that you can dial these numbers more quickly.
  • Page 29: Dial A Speed Dial Number

    Press SELECT. The screen briefly the speed dial entry. shows Copy from DIR... then the Press SELECT again. Then press first entry of the directory. to scroll to Clear SD and then Press to scroll to the desired press SELECT. The screen shows entry.
  • Page 30: Caller Id

    Caller ID Review a caller ID log entry Press CID on the cordless handset If you subscribe to caller ID service, or on the telephone base when the information about each caller will phone is not in use. appear after the first or second ring. If Press to browse through the you answer a call before the caller’s...
  • Page 31: Dial A Caller Id Log Entry

    Save a caller ID log entry to the log and store the new number to the directory. directory While reviewing the caller ID log, press When in the caller ID log, press QUIET repeatedly to display different to browser. dialing options for local and long distance When the desired caller ID log entry numbers before dialing or saving the displays, press SELECT.
  • Page 32: Sound Settings

    Sound settings Press to scroll to Caller ID log, then press SELECT. Press to scroll to Del all Key tone calls, then press SELECT. You can turn the key tone on or off for When the screen shows Delete all?, each handset and the telephone base.
  • Page 33: Telephone Base Ringer Volume

    Telephone base ringer volume To silence the telephone base ringer: Press VOL or VOL . on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume when • Press MUTE or CANCEL on the the telephone base is not in use. telephone base and it displays When you set the ringer volume to zero, Quiet mode the base ringer is off.
  • Page 34: About The Built-In Answering System And Voicemail Service

    About the built-in Voicemail Built-in from answering system and Category answering telephone system voicemail service service Method When you When you For message recording, your telephone to retrieve received new receive new has a built-in answering system, and it messages messages, the messages, also supports voicemail service offered...
  • Page 35: Set Your Built-In Answering System

    Set your built-in answering Telephone base control key panel: system The answering system can record and store up to 99 messages. Each message can be up to three minutes in length. The total storage capacity for the announcement, messages and memos is approximately 14 minutes.
  • Page 36: Default Announcement

    To turn on or off with the handset: After the tone, speak towards the microphone. Press MENU when the phone is not Press 5 when done. The answering in use. system automatically plays back the Press to scroll to Answering newly recorded announcement, then sys, then press SELECT.
  • Page 37: Delete Your Announcement

    Delete your announcement Press SELECT to save and you hear a confirmation tone. Press MENU when the phone is not in use. NOTE Press to scroll to Answering If you subscribe to voicemail service from sys, then press SELECT. your telephone service provider, see Answering system and voicemail.
  • Page 38: Turn The Message Alert Tone On Or Off

    Using your built-in answering Turn the message alert tone on or off system When the message alert tone is set to on, and there is at least one new Message capacity message, the telephone base beeps The answering system can record and every 10 seconds.
  • Page 39: Message Playback

    Message playback To play messages on a cordless handset: If you have new messages, the telephone plays only the new messages Press MENU when the phone is not (oldest first). If there are no new in use. messages, the telephone plays back all Press SELECT to select Play messages (oldest first).
  • Page 40: Remote Access

    To delete all old messages with a Command Description handset: Skip to the next message Press MENU when the phone is not (during playback). in use. Record a new announcement. Press to scroll to Answering sys, then press SELECT. End the call. Press to scroll to Delete all Turn the answering system...
  • Page 41: Call Screening

    Call screening Record, play and delete memos If the answering system and call Memos are your own recorded screening are on, the announcement messages used as reminders for yourself and the incoming message broadcast or others using the same answering at the telephone base while the call is system.
  • Page 42: Use The Built-In Answering System And Voicemail Service

    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.
  • Page 43: Turn Off The New Voicemail Indicators

    Turn off the new voicemail • Press and hold DELETE on the handset to erase all digits. indicators • Press and hold PAUSE to enter a If you have retrieved your voicemail while dialing pause (a P appears). away from home, and the handset still 3.
  • Page 44: Other Information

    Other information Expand your telephone system Website You can add new handsets (CS6609, Use this feature to view the VTech purchased separately) to your telephone website address. system. Your telephone base supports a Press MENU when the handset/ maximum of five handsets.
  • Page 45: Screen Messages

    Screen messages Incoming There is a call coming in. call Ans sys The answering system is Intercom The system device is on turned off and will not an intercom call. answer calls. Intercom The intercom call has just Ans sys on The answering system is ended ended.
  • Page 46 The handset has lost out of range Saved Your selection has connection to the been saved. telephone base. no pwr at Speaker The speakerphone is base in use. outside call You are on the Screen display on external call during to register a non-registered call transfer.
  • Page 47: General Product Care

    General product care Frequently asked questions Taking care of your telephone Below are the questions most frequently Your cordless telephone contains asked about the cordless telephone. sophisticated electronic parts, so it must If you cannot find the answer to your be treated with care.
  • Page 48 I cannot dial Eliminate any background I hear other Disconnect the telephone out. noise. Mute the handset calls when base from the telephone before dialing, or dial from using the wall jack. Plug in a different another room in your home telephone.
  • Page 49 The telephone Caller ID is a subscription The answering Make sure the answering does not service. You must system does system is on. When the receive caller subscribe to this service not record answering system is on, ID or the from your telephone messages.
  • Page 50: The Rbrc ® Seal

    The RBRC seal on the nickel-metal ® not respond code. hydride battery indicates that VTech to remote Make sure you are commands. Communications, Inc. is voluntarily calling from a touch-tone participating in an industry program to telephone.
  • Page 51: Fcc, Acta And Ic Regulations

    FCC, ACTA and IC may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept regulations any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired FCC Part 15 operation. Privacy of communications This equipment has been tested and may not be ensured when using this found to comply with the requirements telephone.
  • Page 52 plug is provided with this product. It is as soon as possible. You will be given designed to be connected to a compatible the opportunity to correct the problem modular jack that is also compliant. An and the telephone service provider RJ11 jack should normally be used for is required to inform you of your right connecting to a single line and an RJ14...
  • Page 53: California Energy Commission Battery Charging Testing Instructions

    California Energy REN is an indication of the maximum number of devices allowed to be Commission battery connected to a telephone interface. The charging testing termination on an interface may consist instructions of any combination of devices subject only to the requirement that the sum of This telephone is set up to comply with the the RENs of all the devices does not energy-conserving standards right out of...
  • Page 54: For C-Ul Compliance Only

    For C-UL compliance only Press QUIET# on the handset. handset shows Registering... Both the telephone base and cordless handset show Mesures de sécurité Registered, and you hear a beep when the importantes registration process completes. This process takes about 60 seconds. Afin de réduire les risques d’incendie, de NOTE blessures corporelles ou d’électrocution,...
  • Page 55 à proximité d’un élément de département de service à la clientèle chauffage ni d’une plinthe électrique. de VTech dans les cas suivants : De plus, ne l’installez pas dans une • Lorsque le cordon d’alimentation unité...
  • Page 56 Ceci est un événement commun • Soyez prudents lorsque vous associé à la fermeture d’un circuit manipulez les piles afin d’éviter les électrique. L’utilisateur ne devrait pas courts-circuits provoqués par des brancher le téléphone à une prise de matériaux conducteurs. courant, et ne devrait pas déposer •...
  • Page 57 À propos des téléphones sans fil • Piles rechargeables : Manipulez les piles avec soin afin de ne pas • Confidentialité : Les mêmes les court-circuiter avec des bagues, caractéristiques qui constituent bracelets ou clés. Les piles ou le des avantages pour les téléphones conducteur peut surchauffer et causer sans fil affichent également des des blessures.
  • Page 58: Limited Warranty

    Limited warranty Product extends for ONE (1) YEAR from the date of purchase. If VTech repairs or What does this limited warranty replaces a Materially Defective Product cover? under the terms of this limited warranty, this limited warranty also applies to...
  • Page 59 Products that are not covered the above limitation may not apply to by this limited warranty. you. In no event shall VTech be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, What must you return with the consequential, or similar damages...
  • Page 60: Technical Specifications

    Technical specifications third parties) resulting from the use of this Product. Some states/provinces do not allow the exclusion or limitation of Frequency Crystal controlled PLL control synthesizer incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not Transmit Handset: frequency 1921.536-1928.448 MHz...
  • Page 61 And your life. VTech Communications, Inc. A member of THE VTECH GROUP OF COMPANIES. VTech is a registered trademark of VTech Holdings Limited. Specifications are subject to change without notice. © 2015 VTech Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. 01/15. CS6649-X_WEBCIB_V8.0...

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