At a glance In use light Display Lights up when the Displays the status of handset is in use and your handset. flashes to indicate calls, messages, alarm calls or Options buttons appointment reminders. Lets you select from the menu options shown in Navigation button the display.
In this guide At a glance Main menu structure Handset settings Base Station settings Quick guide Quick guide to Using the answering answering machine machine Quick guide to handset display icons Introduction Safety instructions Using additional handsets Setting up and bases Using the telephone Help General information...
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Press to open the Directory. After selecting an entry, and pressing the button, the following functions are available. Press to get your messages from the mailbox, answering machine, message list and text messages. The following functions are available: If you make a mistake, you can return to the previous menu by pressing the button.
Quick guide Hold down Hold down Hold down to scroll through the list to dial. to display add name to name or number you want to dial to display to display the number you want to display display shows to decrease volume to increase volume to display display shows...
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Quick guide hold down hold down hold down hold down hold down record your message record your message record your memo...
Date of purchase: If anything is missing, please contact Place of purchase: your place of purchase immediately. For guarantee purposes proof of One Diverse 4016 purchase is required so please keep Executive base station your receipt. Enter your system PIN code here:...
Safety instructions Only use the power supply included Simply clean the handset and base with the product. Using an station with a damp (not wet) cloth, or unauthorised power supply will an anti-static wipe. Never use household invalidate your guarantee and may polish as this will damage the product.
Setting up Please note that your handset is NOT registered to the base station. The Diverse 4016 handset will be easily registered once you complete the steps 1 to 3 below. Situate your product close enough to the telephone and mains power sockets so that the cables will reach.
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All additional handsets you purchase will need to be individually registered with the base station before they will work with the Diverse 4016 Executive. The battery cover may be found in the packaging with the batteries. Leave the handset for approx. 16 hours...
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New batteries can be range. However, by simply switching obtained from any BT shop or from the handset OFF for a moment, then the Diverse Helpline ON again, it will find the base station If you replace the handset batteries within a few seconds.
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Press the options button. Press the navigation button until the display shows Your Diverse 4016 Executive is now ready for use. However, If you experience Press the options button. any difficulties please call the BT Enter the day/month/year, e.g.
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Press the options button to choose between am or pm if in 12 hour mode. Press the navigation button. Enter the mode – 12hr is the default. If you want to keep as 12hr clock. Press the options button if you want to change to 24hr clock.
Using the telephone To quit a menu at any time, press the button. This will take Enter the phone number first. you back one step. Keep pressing the If you make a mistake press button to return to the options button to idle screen.
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When the phone rings the In Dial the number use light on top of the handset Press the button. will flash. The loudspeaker is switched Press the on and you hear the number button to answer the call. being dialled. To switch back to using the handset at any time, press the If the handset is on the base,...
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When the phone rings: Press the navigation button until the display shows Press the button. The call is transferred to the loudspeaker. Press the options button. Enter the telephone number. Press the navigation button to enter the name. Enter the name. Entering names: During a call you can switch to Enter the name using the letters...
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The first letter of each name, and the first letter after a punctuation mark are automatically shown as capitals. Letters are always added to the left of the cursor. Press to switch between capitals and lower case. Press to move the cursor Press to delete from left to right, Press to enter a blank space.
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Press the navigation Press the navigation button to open the directory. button to open the directory. Press the navigation button to scroll to the entry Enter the first letter of the you want. name you want, e.g. for Emma, press twice to search for Press .
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Press the options button. The entry is copied. You can now repeat these steps until you have copied all the entries You can copy individual you want. entries to another Diverse 4000 When you have finished Executive handset. copying Press the navigation Press the options button.
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The directory will be added to any existing entries already stored on the receiving handset. Press the navigation The receiving handset displays button to open the directory. how many entries have been Press the navigation received. Any entries with the button to scroll to the entry same number are duplicated you want to delete.
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Press the button to dial the number. You can see how much directory memory is still unused. Press the navigation button to open the directory. Press the navigation Press the options button to highlight the first button. entry in the directory. Press the navigation Press the...
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Press the options button to talk to your caller To cancel any procedure, press the again. button until the display returns to idle. You can alert handset users that they are wanted, or locate a missing handset. If you have multiple handsets Press the options registered to the base you can make...
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You can forward an external This enables you to ask another call to another handset handset user a question and registered to the base. then get straight back to your caller. During an external call: Press the navigation During a call: button to display the list of Press the navigation...
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Providing the feature is Your Diverse 4016 can hold switched on: 3-way calls between handsets. Your handset display shows the line is In Use. Press the options button. Press the Press the navigation button, the other two callers button until the display shows...
‘international’ are not stored in the from your Network Provider. For more Calls list, as there is no telephone information on BT’s Select Services number sent via the Network. call BT free on If you subscribe to a Caller Display...
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When you have new calls, the display flashes and the In Use light flashes. Press the button. Press the navigation button until the display shows Total number of new calls Press the options button. The most recently received Serial number of call is displayed.
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Press the button. Press the button. Press the navigation Press the navigation button until the display shows button until highlighted. Press the options button. Press the options button. The most recently received The most recently received call is displayed. call is shown. Press the Press the navigation...
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Press the button. Press the button. Press the navigation Press the navigation button until button until highlighted. highlighted. Press the options button. Press the options button. The most recently received The most recently received call is shown on the display. call is displayed.
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• Switch Call Waiting on/off. • Switch off Ringback. • Divert all calls to another number If you also subscribe to a Call Waiting (must be subscribed to). Service, when you are on a call and another person tries to call you, the second caller’s number will appear on the handset display and you will hear an intermittent beep through the...
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You can choose whether to have If you make a call and the your Call Waiting service number is engaged you can switched on or off depending on set your telephone to ring you what you are doing i.e. if you back once the number is free are using the Internet via your by pressing .
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Press the navigation button to scroll to the next line. Press the options button. Enter the telephone number Call Divert requires subscription you want your calls diverted to. from your Network provider. You Press the options button. may be charged a subscription fee. Display shows Press the options button.
Additional features Press the navigation button to scroll to the next line. Enter the time you want the alarm to be set for. Press the navigation button. You can now choose the You can use your handset as ringer melody for your alarm call. an alarm clock.
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Display shows Press the options button. Press the You have set the alarm but do navigation button to select not want it to ring every day. Press the options button. Press the navigation Press the navigation button to move to the next line. button until the display shows Enter the day/month of your appointment, e.g.
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Press the options button to delete the appointment/anniversary from the list. Press the options button to If you miss an appointment or return to the list. an anniversary call, details are saved and the display shows Press the button Press the options button.
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You can use a handset as a room monitor. If a certain noise level is reached, the Press the options button. handset will automatically dial an internal or external number which you Press the navigation have set. button to until the display shows Press the options button.
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Press the navigation button to select the handset you want the room monitor to call. Press the options button. Press the options button Press the navigation to save the number. button until the display shows Press the navigation button to move the cursor to Press the options button.
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Press the navigation button to move the cursor to the next line. Press the options When you are called by the button to enter the number. room monitor, you can switch If an external number has off the room monitor from already been entered, your can that phone.
Handset settings You can choose from: You can choose from: • 3 earpiece volume levels • 5 ringer volumes (original • 5 levels handsfree setting = 3) loudspeaker volume levels. • Crescendo ring (increasing volume) Press the options button. • Ringer off Press the navigation •...
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Press the Press the navigation navigation button to set the button until the display shows ringer melody you want. The melody is played and its Press the options button. number shown You hear the current ringer Press the options button volume.
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Press the navigation button until the display shows Press the options button. Press the options button. Press the navigation Press the navigation button until the display shows button until the display shows Press the options button. Press the options button. Press the Press the navigation...
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When you receive a call, you You can restore a handset to can answer it simply by lifting its factory settings. the handset off the base station. Registration, the Directory This is called auto-talk. When and the Calls list are not you switch auto-talk off, you affected.
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You can lock the keypad so that it cannot be used accidentally Your handsets are automatically while carrying it around. assigned internal numbers between 1-6. You can change Press and hold the button. these numbers. When the keyguard is switched on, the display will Press the navigation show the...
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Press the navigation button to display the setting you want, Press the options button. You can stop individual will appear next to your handsets from dialling specific selection. external numbers. Press the button You can set the following to cancel at any time during options: these steps.
Base Station settings Press the navigation button to scroll to the next line. Repeat the new PIN to confirm. Your base station PIN has a default Press the options button setting of but you may want to to save the new PIN. change this to prevent unauthorised Press the button...
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Press the options button. Enter the PIN (original setting You can restore a base station to its factory settings. Resetting Press the options button. the base will not affect the Enter the emergency number system PIN or handset you want – up to 16 digits. registration.
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You can extend the range of your base station by purchasing a Diverse repeater. This boosts the signal and allows you to use your handset further away from the base station. If you want to use a Diverse repeater, you must switch this mode on.
Press the navigation your Diverse 4016 Executive, as it has a button until the display shows pre-recorded outgoing message “Hello, there is nobody available to take your call right now. Please leave your message Press the options button.
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This is the greeting your callers hear You must first set the type of when your answering machine takes message you want before their call. recording it. The pre-recorded outgoing message is Press the options button. used until you record your own. You Press the navigation can always go back to the pre-recorded...
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The maximum outgoing message length is 2 minutes and 50 seconds. When you have selected what If you pause during recording for type of outgoing message you longer than 2 seconds, recording is want: stopped. Press the options button. Press the navigation button until the display shows If the answering machine memory...
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Press the options button. to hear your The display will show Announcement message. Press the options button. Press the options button. Put the handset to your ear You will hear a confirmation and you will hear the message tone and the display shows played back.
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While the caller is leaving their message: Press the options button. From your handset, you can listen into The machine stops recording a caller leaving their message. This and you can talk to your caller. feature can be switched on or off. The factory setting is on.
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Press the button. When a message has been Press the navigation played back, it is seen as an button until the display shows old message and will be shown in the old messages counter. Press the options button. However, you can play a message and then make it a Put the handset to your ear new unplayed message again.
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Press the options button to confirm. To delete individual messages, see ‘Answering machine Memo messages can be played operation during playback’ back in the same way as page 54. normal messages, see page 53. If you have more than one handset registered to the base station and the You can record a memo that answering machine is switched on,...
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• If your answering machine answers after 3 rings, you have new messages. • If it answers after 5 rings, you do not have new If the Call Director is on, and messages. a call to another handset is not answered, you can pick up the So if you hear more than 3 rings, call on your handset.
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The pre-set message length is 120 seconds (2 minutes). You The factory setting is ‘long play’ can set the maximum message which will allow a maximum length to 30 seconds, 60 recording capacity of 15 seconds or 120 seconds. minutes. If you set High Quality, the recording capacity is cut to Press the options button.
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You can operate your answering machine from any external Touchtone™ Dial your number. phone by phoning your Diverse 4016 Executive and entering your base When you hear your outgoing station PIN. message: Using this code prevents other people Press the button.
Using additional handsets and bases Up to six handsets can be registered and operated from the Diverse 4016 Executive base station. This allows you to make internal calls between two If you purchase new handsets to use with handsets while a third is making an your current Diverse 4016 Executive, external call.
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For example, if the handset is already registered at Base 1, If all internal numbers have been you could set your base as assigned then the internal number 6 Base 2. will be re-assigned. Press the options button. You can change the internal handset Enter the base station PIN number if you wish, see page 44.
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Providing your handset is GAP the base. (Generic Access Profile) Press the compliant, you can register it navigation button to select the to your Diverse 4016 base. handset you want to de-register. Register your handset Press the options button. according to the instructions in its user guide.
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When your handset is registered to more than one base station you can set it to: • Automatically connect to the base station with the strongest signal. • Manually select the base station. Press the options button. Press the navigation button until the display shows Press the options button.
Help Try these solutions to the most common problems.
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The tables below give you a quick reference guide to compatibility when registering different handsets to bases within the Diverse 3000 and 4000 range. It is possible for Diverse 4000 and Diverse 3000 Executive Handsets to transfer directory entries. *With the Diverse 3016, although you will hear the beeps when a call is waiting, the number or name of the waiting caller will not be shown on the handset display.
In the unlikely event of a defect or at BT’s or its agent’s discretion the occurring, please follow the Helpline’s option to replace the Diverse 4016 instructions for replacement or repair.
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You need only adjust this A total REN of 4 is allowed per telephone setting if your switchboard does line. (For example: if the BT Diverse 4016 not operate with the pre-set is used in conjunction with three tone dialling. You can change extension telephones, each with a REN the dial mode to pulse dialling.
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100ms . need tone dialling to use certain functions on your Press the options button. Diverse 4016 you can switch to Press the navigation tone dialling during the call. button until the display shows During your call: Press the options button.
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Enter the pause length: = None You can insert a pause to allow your = 800ms switchboard time to get a line before = 1600ms your Diverse 4016 dials the number. = 32ms Press the button. Press the button. Press the button.
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If your switchboard requires a The code you store here is always prefix, e.g. 9, before a number dialled automatically before telephone is dialled, your Diverse 4016 numbers in the caller list and the Executive can store it so it is emergency numbers.
Index handsfree dditional handset and bases holding Alarm clock internal Appointment call making Auto talk on/off on hold receiving redial ase station PIN secrecy Base station reset three-way Batteries transferring charging ate – set installing performance Delete replacing all directory numbers warning beeps calls list call complete calls list...
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uarantee age a handset Pause length andset Phone socket beeps and tones change internal number Power connection charging display Preparatory dialling melody Pulse dialling on/off registering uick guide reset answering machine ringer display handset Handset quick guide 6 -8 Handsfree ange warning Help Repeater mode –...
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Setting up Switchboard compatibility echnical information Telephone line cord Three-way conversation Time control for ringer volume Time – set Tone dialling 68, 69 Transferring calls olume earpiece handset ringer and melody handset ringer time control loudspeaker alk and Talk...
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