Table Of Contents - Siemens Gigaset S685 User Manual

Contents
Handset at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The base station at a glance . . . . 2
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Gigaset S680/S685 -
More than just a telephone . . . . . 7
First steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Pack contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the base station and
charging cradle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Setting up the handset for use . . . . . . . 8
Operating the handset . . . . . . . . 11
Control key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Display keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Reverting to idle status . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Menu guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Correcting incorrect entries . . . . . . . . 13
ECO DECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Menu tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Making calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Making an external call . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ending a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Accepting a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Calling Line Identification . . . . . . . . . 17
Handsfree talking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Making calls easily using
network services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the directory and lists . . . 20
Directory/call-by-call list . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Last number redial list . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Opening lists with the
message key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Making cost-effective calls . . . . 26
Linking call-by-call numbers
with one number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Automatic network provider
preselection (Preselection) . . . . . . . . . 26
SMS (text messages) . . . . . . . . . 28
Writing/sending an SMS . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Receiving an SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Notification by SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SMS mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Setting SMS centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SMS on a PABX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Activating/deactivating muting
for the first ringer tone . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Activating/deactivating the
SMS function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SMS troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Operating the answer
machine of the Gigaset S685
base station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Operation via the handset . . . . . . . . . 36
Activating/deactivating call
screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting up the answer machine . . . . . 40
Resetting fast access for the
answer machine using key 1 . . . . . . . 40
Operating when on the move
(remote control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the network mailbox . . . 42
Configuring fast access for the
network mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Viewing the network mailbox
report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using several handsets . . . . . . . 43
Registering handsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deregistering handsets . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Locating a handset ("paging") . . . . . . 44
Changing the base station . . . . . . . . . 44
Making internal calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Listening in to an external call . . . . . . 45
Changing the name of a handset . . . . 46
Changing a handset's internal
number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using a handset as a
room monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Handset settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Shortcuts for functions
and numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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