Model 51i IP Phone Installation Guide
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Customizing your phone
• Set Time
This option shows the Network time, if the Time Server option is
enabled. It also allows you to set the time manually.
Note: if you set the time manually, the phone will not try to synchronize the time with a
timeserver until the next time it is restarted.
• Time Format
Select a time format for how time displays on your phone (12h or 24h
clock).
• Set Date
This option shows the Network date, if the Timeserver option is
enabled. It also allows you to enter the date manually.
Note: if you set the date manually, the phone will not synchronize the date with a
timeserver until the next time it is restarted.
• Date Format
Choose from a list of formats for how the date displays on your phone.
• Time Zone
Choose your current time zone. Select your country by scrolling through
a list, or by entering the country code (i.e., CA, US), then pick from the
time zone list for that country.
• Daylight Savings
This option allows you to specify daylight savings.
Set Ring Tone/Tone Set
Use these options to set the preference of ring tone and call progress tones
for your phone.
• Ring Tone
Press the
Change
softkey to select one of the five ring tones or silent. Use
the volume bar to increase or decrease the ringer volume level.
• Tone Set
Press the
Change
softkey to select one of the seven predefined tone sets
for the phone to play country specific call progress tones such as dial
tone, ringing tone, busy tone, congestion tone, call waiting tone, and
ringing cadence.
Clear Message Waiting
To clear the Message Waiting Light, select the
Clear
softkey. The light will
flash again when there are new messages waiting.
Contrast Level
Use these options to set the preference of contrast level and backlight for
your phone.
• Contrast Level
Use the
Change
softkey to cycle through eight contrast settings, which
brighten or darken the display.
