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Touch tones (sometimes known as DTMF tones) are those tones produced when you press the
keys on your phone’s keypad. You can use touch tones for many automated dial-up services such
as banking and airlines, or for entering your voice mailbox number and password.
Touch tones are sent during an active call. You can send them manually from your phone’s
keypad, or send them automatically by saving them in your phone.
Set manual touch tone options
You may need to customize how your phone sends the touch tones for optimum performance
with the system you’re calling.
SET TOUCH TONE TYPE
1 Press Menu 4-2-2-1 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Manual touch tones).
2 Select one of the following options, then press Select:
SET FIXED TOUCH TONE LENGTH
You can also specify touch tone length when using the Fixed option.
1 Press Menu 4-2-2-2 (Settings > Phone settings > Touch tones > Touch tone length).
2 Scroll to Short (0.1 seconds) or Long (0.5 seconds), then press Select.
Send touch tone string manually
Before you begin, make sure that Manual touch tones is not set to Off.
1 During a call to the automated service, press Options, scroll to Touch tones and
press Select.
2 Enter the touch tone string from your phone’s keypad as required by the service you’re
calling, then press Tones.
Send touch tone string from phone book
You can save a touch tone string as a separate phone book entry, then recall and send the string
using the in-call menu option Touch tones.
SAVE TOUCH TONES AS A PHONE BOOK ENTRY
Save the touch tone string (including any pause or wait characters that may be required) to a
new entry in the phone book. For more information on saving contacts and number to your
phone book see “Save contacts and numbers” on page 20.
RECALL TOUCH TONE STRING FROM THE PHONE BOOK
1 During a call to the automated service, press Options, scroll to Touch tones and
press Select.
Option Description
Continuous Tone sounds for as long as you press and hold a key.
Fixed Used to send tones of the duration you specify in the Touch tone
length option.
Off Used to turn off tones. No tones are sent when you press a key.