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2-9991
Caller ID & Digital
Messaging System
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FCC REGISTRATION INFORMATION Your GE telephone equipment is registered with the 2 Rights of the Telephone Company Federal Communications Commission and is in Should your equipment cause trouble on your line compliance with parts 15 and 68, FCC Rules and which may harm the telephone network, the Regulations. telephone company shall, where practicable, notify 1 Notification to the Local Telephone Company you that temporary discontinuance of service may be required. Where prior notice is not practi
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INTERFERENCE INFORMATION This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. • Reorient or relocate and increase the separation Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) between the telecommunications equipment and This device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) receiving antenna. This device must accept any interference received, • Connect the telecommunications equipment into an including interference that may cause undesired outlet on a circuit different from that to w
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CALLER ID 17 BEFORE YOU BEGIN 5 SETTING THE AREA CODE 17 PARTS CHECKLIST 5 RETRIEVING INFORMATION 17 MODULAR JACK REQUIREMENTS 5 DELETING INFORMATION 18 POWERING UP 6 USING REDIAL 18 INSTALLING A BATTERY 6 INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING MESSAGE PLAYBACK 19 INSTALLATION 7 RETURNING A CALL DURING PLAYBACK 19 FEATURES AND CONTROLS 8 TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS 20 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY MESSAGES 9 INDEX 21 GETTING STARTED 10 GENERAL PRODUCT CARE 23 SETTING THE DATE AND TIME 10 SERVICE 23 SETT
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A N P N L O AY U • P REV AN N IEW C A S E U BEFORE YOU BEGIN PARTS CHECKLIST Make sure your package includes the following items: CID DIAL TIME SET DELETE CODE Telephone line cord AC power supply Caller ID unit MODULAR JACK REQUIREMENTS You need an RJ11 type modular jack, which is the most common type of These symbols appear on the back of the unit: phone jack and might look like - alerts you to important operating the one pictured here. If you instructions don’t have a modular jack, call your l
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LOW BATTERY INDICATOR POWERING UP When the battery is weak, the Low Battery This unit must be powered by the AC adapter. indicator will show in the display. Installing a battery will only ensure that time, POWER FAILURE date, user/security code and area code information are retained in the event of a Should a power failure occur, the unit will stop power failure. all functions. If a battery is installed, all settings will be saved and the display will read the current time and "power failure." I
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DELETE INSTALLATION 1. Connect the telephone line cord to the LINE jack on the back of the unit and then to the modular wall jack. 2 2. Connect your phone’s line cord to the jack 3 on the back of the unit marked PHONE. 1 3. Connect the adapter to the POWER 9VAC jack on the back of the unit and then to an AC power outlet. When power is connected, the unit will say "ANNOUNCEMENT ONE ON." The display will show "12:00" as the time. INSTALLATION INFORMATION Use only the Thomson 5-4077 power • Nev
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A N P N L O AY U • AN N P REV IEW C A S E U FEATURES AND CONTROLS ANNOUNCEMENT records or plays back outgoing announcements ANS ON/OFF turns answer function on or off CID enters Caller Identification mode CODE sets security/user code DIAL calls the number on the display; sets area code DELETE erases voice/caller ID information MEMO records a memo CID DIAL PLAY starts message playback TIME SET DELETE PAUSE temporarily suspends activity CODE ) returns to previous voice/caller REVIEW ( ID messages
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LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD) MESSAGES END OF LIST no more information is stored Low Battery Number of indicates which announcement is Time Date ANNOUNCEMENT calls/new calls indicator active PAUSE all activities are suspended NEW 12:24 4/30 PM no more information can be stored MEMORY FULL CALL 71 MSG 26 MON 12:00 AM day, time information 317-555-1234 security/user code information USER CODE SMITH JOHN AREA CODE area code information Number of Number of Name of indicates total number of new calls
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1. Press the REVIEW or SKIP buttons to GETTING STARTED scroll through the minutes. NOTE: During these processes, if no button is 2. Press the TIME SET button to accept the pressed for approximately one minute, the unit current minutes. will return to the Idle mode. The unit confirms the set time. SETTING THE DATE AND TIME SETTING THE SECURITY/USER CODE 1. Hold the TIME SET button until the unit announces "Monday." 1. Hold the CODE button until the unit announces the first number. 2. Press the RE
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TO RECORD AN OUTGOING ANNOUNCEMENT: DIGITAL MESSAGING 1. Press the ANS ON/OFF button to select Announcement 1 or 2. SETTING THE OUTGOING 2. Hold the ANNOUNCEMENT button. ANNOUNCEMENT 3. Start speaking after the beep. The time There are three types of outgoing announce- limit is one minute. ments. All three have default greetings - as NOTE: If you speak directly into the micro- shown below - that can be recorded over. phone your announcement will be clearer. ANNOUNCEMENT 1: "Please leave your m
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NOTE: If the unit is set to Announcement 3, it TO DELETE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: picks up after the second ring, plays the 1. Select the announcement. announcement and then disconnects the line. 2. Press the ANNOUNCEMENT button. CALL SCREENING 3. Press the DELETE button while the While the unit records a message, the caller's announcement plays. voice is audible. If you want to talk to the caller, pick up any phone extension and begin NOTE: If in the default announcement mode, speaking. The unit immedi
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If you listen to all your memos and messages, LISTENING TO MESSAGES the message indicator stops flashing. The unit plays memos before messages. If there are no new memos, the unit starts PAUSING DURING PLAYBACK playing new messages. 1. Press the PAUSE button during playback If there are no new memos or new messages, to suspend activity. the unit announces "you have no new 2. Press the PAUSE button again to resume messages" and plays all old memos before activity. playing all old messages. • If a
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To delete both voice and caller ID information - Tap the SKIP ( ) button to advance to the or caller ID information if there is no voice next memo, message or caller ID entry. message - of all memos and messages, hold the DELETE button within 8 seconds of the DELETING prompt. To delete the voice part of a memo or message The unit announces "all messages erased" for but not the caller ID information, tap the confirmation. DELETE button during playback. To delete both voice and caller ID informati
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• While the unit is receiving caller ID after 20 seconds, the unit disconnects the line information, you cannot access the Memo and returns to the Idle mode. mode. • The unit allows two attempts at entering the correct security/user code. If, after the MEMORY FULL second try, the security/user code is not correct, the unit disconnects the line and When the unit's memory is full, it picks up after returns to the Idle mode. 10 rings. After a two-second delay, it emits three beeps. A 20-second wait
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Digital To: 2-9991 Press: Messaging System Play/pause messages 1 Play menu 1. Dial phone number of the 2 answerer. Hang up 3 2. Press the # key to enter the Play previous message Remote Access mode. 4 (during message playback) 3. Enter 3-digit security code. Repeat current message 5 (during message playback) 4. Enter touch-tone command. Skip to next message 6 (during message playback) 5. Hang up. Record new announcement 7 Turn answerer on or off 8 Change announcement 9 Write 3-digit security cod
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When the DIAL button is pressed after the CALLER ID third number, the unit announces the area code for confirmation. Caller ID information is retrieved between the first and second ring. If no area code is set, the unit always dials the area code with the number. In the display, the unit shows the number of calls, the caller's name, the caller's telephone number, the day and time. RETRIEVING INFORMATION The name, telephone number, time and day of 1. Press the CID button. The display shows a call
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• If the area code is different from the preset DELETING INFORMATION area code, the unit shows the entire To erase an individual entry, tap the DELETE number in the display. button while viewing the caller ID information. Example: 317-555-1234 Hold the DELETE button to delete an entry To activate redial: that has both caller ID information and a voice message. 1. Press the DIAL button to initiate the callback function. The number appears in To delete all new and old caller ID entries, the displa
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If the unit encounters a busy signal, you can end the call by pressing the ANS ON/OFF button or wait four seconds for the unit to disconnect itself. INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING MESSAGE PLAYBACK During playback, the display shows the number of calls, the message number, the name and telephone number of the caller and the day and time the call was received. If the message had no caller ID information, the message number and the recording time is displayed. RETURNING A CALL DURING PLAYBACK Press th
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TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS Doesn't answer or messages are incomplete Can't hear messages • Make sure answerer is on. • Adjust volume control on the side of the unit. • Memory is full; erase some messages. • Caller left a message longer than the time limit LOW BATTERY indicator appears allowed. • Install a new 9V battery. Incoming calls are answered on the 10th ring Can't restart message • Memory is full; erase some messages. • You must play messages for at least 5 seconds before pressing the RE
