Activating/Deactivating Call Screening - Siemens Gigaset E490 User Manual

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Operating the answering machine of the Gigaset E495 base station
Picking up a call from the answering
machine
You can pick up a call while the answering
machine is recording or is being operated
via remote operation:
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§Accept§
Press the talk or display key.
Recording stops and you can speak to the
caller.
If 2 seconds of the call have already been
recorded when you pick it up, the call will
be displayed as a new message. The f
key on the handset flashes.
You can answer the call even if it is not sig-
nalled on the handset.
Diverting an external call to the
answering machine
You can divert an incoming external call to
the answering machine even if it is deacti-
vated.
Precondition: Sufficient memory space is
available on the answering machine.
An external call is signalled on the hand-
set:
Ÿ
Press the display key.
The answering machine immediately
starts in recording mode and records the
call. The set time for ring delay
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(
page 41) is ignored.
Activating/deactivating two-way
record
You can record an external call with the
answering machine.
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Inform the caller that the call is being
recorded.
Open menu.
§Options§
40
Two Way Record
Select and press
Two-way record is indicated on the display
by an advisory text and is added to the
answering machine list as a new message.
Press the display key to stop
§End§
two-way record.
The maximum recording time depends on
the memory available on the answering
machine. If the memory is full you will
hear an end tone, the recording is
aborted, and the call recorded up to that
point is listed in the answering machine
list as a new message. If the answering
machine was in
Ans. & Record
switch to
Announce Only
receive an instruction to delete old mes-
sages.
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Delete old messages.
The answering machine automatically
switches back to the set mode once dele-
tion is complete.
Activating/deactivating call
screening
During recording of a message you can
screen a call via the loudspeaker of regis-
tered handsets.
Permanently activating/deactivating
call screening
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Voice Mail
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Handset
(
=
on)
a
Press and hold (idle status).
You can switch off the
tion on the handset during the recording.
Deactivating call screening for the
current recording
Press the display key.
§Silence§
.
§OK§
mode, it will
mode. You will
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Call Screening
func-
Call Screening

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