Muting Calls
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Muting Calls
You can prevent callers from hearing you by turning off the telephone’s
microphone when you are using the handset or headset, or when your
telephone is in speaker phone mode.
To mute your phone:
1
While you are on a call, press
Mute
. The light next to the
Mute
button
comes on. Callers cannot hear you.
2
To turn this feature off, press
Mute
.
Mute Ringer
You can prevent the phone’s ringer from ringing by enabling this feature.
By default, the phone’s ringer is enabled (feature disabled). You can
enable or disable the phone’s ringer at any time while either on the
phone or on-hook, but the change takes effect on the next incoming call.
All non-ringer tones are unaffected. All ring tones, such as, internal
domain, external domain, and anonymous tones are affected for all
primary, bridge, and hunt-group calls. A user with a phone on hands-free
hears the hands-free tone. A user that receieves a page hears the page
tone.
If the VCX system or the phone reboots or is upgraded with new
software, the ringer resets to the default ringer enabled (feature disabled)
mode.
To mute the phone ringer:
1
Press
Feature
+
489
. The LCD displays:
Ringer is now muted.
2
To clear the display, press the
Release
button. The next time you receive
an incoming call, the ringer is muted.
3
To turn this feature off, press
Feature
+
489
again. The LCD displays:
Ringer is now enabled.
4
To clear the display, press the
Release
button.
Activating Do Not
Disturb
When you enable Do Not Disturb, incoming calls immediately go to the
call coverage point set by you or your administrator. The default call
