Phone Settings Overview
Your administrator can configure the phone to make the setting menus available on the phone screen or on the phone web interface. If you can't find a specific menu, contact your administrator.
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Your administrator can configure the phone to make the setting menus available on the phone screen or on the phone web interface. If you can't find a specific menu, contact your administrator.
You can set a ringtone for an incoming call.
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Press Settings. |
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Select , where n= extension number. |
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Scroll through the list of ringtones and press Play to hear a sample. |
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Press Select and then Set to save a selection. |
Set do not disturb (DND) to silence your phone and suppress incoming call notifications when you need to avoid distractions. You can suppress all incoming call notifications or you can suppress a specific caller notification.
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Press Settings. |
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Select .
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Select On to turn on DND or select Off to turn off DND. |
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Press Set to save the setting. |
You can set up your phone to forward incoming calls after navigating to the Call forward settings screen.
There are two other methods to set up the call forward services. To set up the call forward services by a specific softkey, see Forward Calls. To set up the call forward services from the phone web page, see Forward Calls with the Phone Web Page.
Your administrator must enable the call forward services.
Your administrator disables the feature activation code synchronization for call forward. If enabled, the screen Call forward settings changes to be ready-only, however you can still change the setting for the Call Forward All service by pressing Forward or Forward all on the main screen. For more information, see Activate Call Forward All with Feature Activation Code Synchronization.
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Press Settings. |
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Select Call forward settings screen. to access the |
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Select a call forward service.
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Enable the call forward service by pressing Select button of the Navigation cluster. |
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Assign a target phone number for the call forward service.
The call forward settings on the phone take effect only when FKS and XSI are disabled. For more information, consult your administrator. |
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(Optional) Assign a target phone number by using the Contacts softkey. |
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Press Set to apply the settings. |
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Verify if the setting takes effect by looking for the call forward After you enable any of the call forward services, the Forward or Forward all softkey changes to the Clr fwd or Clf fwd all respectively. You can press the softkey to disable the call forward service or services, while the target phone number still remains. Clf fwd all disables only the Call Forward All service, Clf fwd disables all call forward services. If the call forward settings on the phone don't take effect, consult your administrator. |
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On the phone web page, select (n) is the number of an extension. , where |
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In Call Feature Settings area, choose a ringtone from the Default Ring drop-down list. If you don't want to specify a ringtone for the phone line, choose No ring. Your phone doesn't ring when receiving an incoming call. |
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Click Submit All Changes. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under Supplementary Services, set DND Settings to Yes. You can turn on DND on for all lines if your administrator hasn't enabled feature key sync (FKS). |
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Click Submit All Changes. |
You can configure a screen saver for the phone. When the phone is idle for a specified time, it enters screen saver mode.
Any button press returns the phone to normal mode.
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On the phone web page, select . |
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In the Screen section, set up the fields as described in the following table.
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Click Submit All Changes. |
You can save energy by disabling the backlight on the phone at a preset time. The phone's desktop remains visible, even with the backlight off.
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under Screen, select a duration for the Back Light Timer parameter. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under Supplementary Services, set Block ANC Setting to Yes. The setting applies to all lines, except for the ones where your administrator has enabled synchronization of Anonymous Call Rejection between the lines and the BroadSoft XSI service. |
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Click Submit All Changes. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under Supplementary Services, set CW Setting to Yes. The setting applies to all lines, except for the ones where your administrator has enabled synchronization of Call Waiting between the lines and the BroadSoft XSI service. |
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Click Submit All Changes. |
You can block an incoming call that does not have caller information for a specific line or all lines.
If your administrator has enabled synchronization of Anonymous Call Rejection between a line and a BroadSoft XSI service, then your setting only applies to the specific line instead of all lines. Typically, the setting applies to all the lines, except for the ones where the synchronization is enabled.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select On if you want to block the call that does not have caller information, or select Off to allow the call. |
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Press Set to save the setting. |
You can block your caller identification to prevent your name and phone number from being displayed on the receiver's screen when you make a call. This feature helps you to maintain privacy.
Your administrator enables Block CID feature on your phone.
Your administrator enables Block CID feature on the XSI BroadWorks server.
Step 1 |
Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select Block caller ID. |
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Press Select to toggle caller ID blocking on or off. If your administrator enables the block caller ID feature on the XSI BroadWorks server, your phone retrieves the value from the server and you see the value that your administrator sets on the server. You can then modify the value from the Block caller ID menu on the phone. |
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Press Set to save the change. |
You can enable call waiting for a specific line or all lines. If enabled, you can receive the call notification (a single beep and the line button flashes red) while on an active call.
If your administrator has enabled synchronization of Call Waiting between a line and a BroadSoft XSI service, then your setting only applies to the specific line instead of all lines. Typically, the setting applies to all lines, except for the ones where the synchronization is enabled.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select On to allow you to answer an incoming call that rings while on another call, or select Off to disable the function. |
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Press Set to save the setting. |
You can encrypt calls to protect them from eavesdroppers. You can set up the secure call feature on all outbound calls or for a specific call.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select On to enable secure call feature or select Off to disable the secure call feature. |
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Press Set to save the setting. |
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select On to enable the Auto answer page or select Off to disable Auto answer page. |
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Press Set to save the changes. |
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Enter a phone number to check voicemail. |
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Press Set to confirm the assigned number. |
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Press Back to exit. |
You can set up an HTTP proxy on your phone from the HTTP proxy settings menu under the Network configuration menu. The HTTP proxy settings are also available on the phone web page.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Press the Select button of the navigation cluster to choose Auto. |
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Highlight Auto discovery (WPAD), select On to turn on Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) that is used to retrieve a PAC file automatically, select Off to turn off WPAD. By default, your phone uses WPAD in the auto proxy mode. |
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(Optional) If you turn off WPAD in the previous step, you need to further enter a valid Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) URL in PAC URL. For example:
If you don't have the PAC URL, contact your administrator. |
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Press Set to apply the settings. |
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Press the Select button of the navigation cluster to choose Manual. |
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Enter a valid hostname or IP address of a proxy server in Proxy host.
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Enter a valid server port of the specified proxy server in Proxy port. |
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(Optional) If your proxy server requires authentication, highlight Proxy authentication and then select On. |
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(Optional) Enter your username and password to access the proxy server. If you don't have the username and password, contact your administrator. |
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Press Set to apply the settings. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under the section HTTP Proxy Settings, set the parameters described in the following table:
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Click Submit All Changes. |
You can change the current time format that the phone screen displays.
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Press Settings. |
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Select .To set daylight savings, select On to turn on the daylight savings and select Off to turn it off. . Select |
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(Optional) Select . |
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Select a time format and press Set to apply the changes. |
You can change the date format that you want to see on your phone screen.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select a date format and press Set to apply the changes. |
You can enable your phone screen saver, and specify its appearance and the amount of time for the phone to be idle before the screen saver appears.
Step 1 |
Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select On to turn on screen saver and select Off to turn it off. |
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Select Screen saver settings to choose the settings:
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Press Set. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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In the Screen section, select Logo from the Phone Background field and in the Logo URL field enter a URL or path for the location where the logo image is saved. |
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Click Submit All Changes. After the logo is added in the phone background, if you select Default from the Phone Background list and save the changes, the logo icon on the phone screen will disappear. |
Your administrator can allow you to change the default wallpaper on your phone to one of the wallpapers available.
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On the phone web page, select . |
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In the Phone Background field of the Screen section, select any of the options as a phone wallpaper.
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Click Submit All Changes. |
Depending upon how your phone is configured, you may be able to change the language used by your phone.
Step 1 |
Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select a language from the list of available languages. |
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Select Save. |
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Enter your current password in the Old password field. |
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Enter your new password in the New password and the Reenter new password fields. |
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Select Save. |
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On the phone web page, select . |
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Under the section System Configuration, locate the parameter User Password, and click Change Password next to the parameter. |
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Enter your current password in the Old Password field. If you don't have a password, keep the field empty. |
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Enter your new password in the New Password field. |
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Click Submit. The message |
You need to enter the authentication credentials to resynchronize your phone with the provisioning profile when prompted with the Profile account setup screen.
If you missed the Profile account setup screen, you can also access it from the phone menu or the Setup softkey if available.
If the phone fails to sign in, contact your administrator.
Your administrator specifies the profile authentication type on your phone and provides you with the authentication credentials.
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Press Sign in to save your username and password.
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(Optional) Enter a new username and password if you want to login with another set of credentials. |
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Press Settings. |
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Select . |
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Select Anywhere. |
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(Optional) Select a line if BroadWorks Anywhere is configured on multiple lines. |
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Add contact number and name in the Locations screen. Maximum length of a name that you can enter is 25. You can also keep the Name field empty. Maximum length of a number that you can enter is 20. |
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Enable or disable the location. |
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Press Save to add the locations to the Locations list. |