Managing Your Messages - BT Home SmartPhone S User Manual

select Change
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record your message
•
- If you want to record your own Answer
Only message, remember to tell your
callers they won't be able to leave a
message.
Answer delay
With answer delay, you can set how many times
the phone rings before the Answer phone cuts
in and takes the call. You can choose from two
to ten rings.
The default answer delay is set as five rings.
To change this:
touch the Answer phone
•
Home screen
press Menu
•
• touch Settings
select Answer delay
•
touch the number of rings you want
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To work with BT 1571 (or another network-
based voicemail service)
To make sure your Answer phone cuts in before
your voicemail, set the answer delay to fewer
rings than your voicemail service. For BT 1571,
set the answer delay to no more than five rings.
Playing back messages using your handset
When you get a new message, the screen
will show:
• your caller's number – if you've got
Caller Display
your caller's name – if you've got Caller
•
Display and you've stored a name for this
number
the month, day and time your caller left
•
their message
New (unplayed) messages are played first
(oldest to most recent) and then old (played)
messages (oldest to most recent). You need
to listen to new messages before you can play
on the
icon
old messages.
Message playback stops if you get an
incoming call.
You can't delete messages that you haven't
played back.
Messages are saved automatically if you don't
delete them.
If you need some help, call us on 0808 100 9889* or go to bt.com/producthelp
All your messages share your Answer phone's
memory – outgoing messages (the default and
your own) as well as incoming messages. The
maximum length of incoming messages that
can be stored is:
• 12 minutes for high-quality recording
24 minutes for standard-quality recording
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Managing your messages

Touch the Answer phone
icon
Home screen. The display will show details of
the time and date of your first message. If you
have Caller Display, it also shows your caller's
number and name if you've saved their details.
You can use the icons on screen:
= next, plays the next message
•
= previous, plays the previous message
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• = pause, pauses playing messages
= play, plays the current message
•
Restart, plays the current messages again
•
• Resume, resumes playing the
paused messages
Delete, deletes the current message
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on the
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