VTech 2151 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Your 

 telephone system gives you voice prompts for feature operations

and voice confirmations when you press a button or complete an operation.

1.

Make sure the answering system is on.

2.

Press 

. The system announces the clock setting, then

announces: “To Set Day and Time, press TIME/SET.”

3.

Press 

.

4.

Press 

 until the system announces the correct day, then press

.

5.

Press 

 until the system announces the correct hour, then

press 

.

6.

Press 

 until the system announces the correct minute, then

press 

. The system announces the current year,

press 

until the system announces the correct year,

press 

. The system announces the current clock setting.

1. The time will be set automatically with incoming caller ID data. You can how-
ever choose to set the time manually, caller ID is a subscription service provided
by most telephone companies.
2. To advance the minute or year by increments of 10, press and hold 

.

•

You can record  two different announcements —  one for normal
answering and one for when you’ve  set the system to play the announcement
only.

•

Use normal answering when you want the system to record callers’
messages. Use announce only when you want to give information to
callers without accepting messages.

•

If you choose not to record an announcement, the system answers with
a pre-recorded announcement.

•

The normal answering pre-recorded announcement says: “Hello. I’m unable
to answer your call right  now.  Please leave your name, number and a
message after the tone.” The announce only pre-recorded announce-
ment says: “Hello, I’m unable to answer your call right now. Please call
again. Thank you.”

•

By setting announce only to on or off, you decide which announcement your
callers will hear when the system answers a call (the system comes set for
normal answering, with announce only turned off). See 

, located in the 

 chart later in this section, to

change your announcement selection.

1.

Press 

 until you hear “Record outgoing message.”

2.

Press 

. After you hear “Now recording” followed by a beep,

speak toward the base to record an announcement up to 90 seconds
long.

3.

Press 

. The system plays back your recorded message.

1.

Press 

 until you hear “ Record outgoing message.”

2.

Press 

.

Press 

 during announcement playback. The system will use the

pre-recorded announcement until you record a new one.

Turn answering
system on or off

Record  outgoing announce-
ments, and memos

           Volume Control 

Review/change clock setting;
confirm feature settings

 

.

Enter answering system
feature setup and choose a
feature to set

.....

Select a feature
setting

You can set up one feature at a time, or you can set up the first feature and
then move on to set up the other features in sequence.
1.

Make sure the answering system is on.

2.

Press 

 until the system announces the feature you want to

set. Refer to the 

 below  for a description of the

features and  your choices.

3.

Press 

 until the system announces the desired setting.

4.

Press 

 to confirm your selection.

5.

Press 

to move on to the next feature, or press 

to

exit feature setup.

Default settings indicated by 

*

 .

System announces: Description/directions:

Set the remote access code you will use to
access features and functions of the answering
system from a touch tone phone. You can select
any two digit code, from 10 to 99.

To advance the remote access code

by increments of 10, press and hold 

.

When message alert is turned on, the
base beeps once every 10 seconds when
new   messages have been received.

When you turn announce only on, callers
hear  your announcement, but cannot leave a
message.

Turn the base ringer on or off.

*

*

*

*

*

Choose how many times the phone will ring

before the system answers a call.

With toll saver active, the system answers
after two rings when you have new
messages and after four rings when you
have no new messages.

 You can exit feature setup at any time by pressing a 

.

The system automatically saves your messages until you delete them, and
can store approximately 15 minutes of messages, memos, and announce-
ments (up to a maximum of 99 messages). A message or memo can be up to
four minutes long.

The message window will flash to alert you to new, unplayed messages.  If all
messages have been reviewed, the number displayed in the window will glow
steadily.  If the system contains both old and new messages, it will play only
the new messages first.  After all new messages are played, press the 

 to hear all messages.

 If the system has less than 30 seconds of record time left, the answering

system turns off. The system will answer after 10 rings and announce “Memory
full, please enter your security code” and wait for the caller to enter the remote
access code.

Before playing a message, the system announces the day and time it was re-
ceived. While the message plays, the message window displays the number of
the message. After playing the last message in a mailbox, the system announces
“End of messages.” If the system has less than five minutes of recording time
left, it announces remaining time.

• To delete a message,

press

 while the

message is playing.

•  Press 

button to

Press to repeat a
message; hold to
slow down
playback

delete all old
messages in that
mailbox.

• You cannot delete a

message until it’s been
reviewed; deleted
messages cannot
be recovered.

Press to  play
messages in a
mailbox. Press again
to stop playback.

Press to skip to the
next message; hold
to speed up play-
back.

1.

Make sure the answering system is on, and set the message playback
volume control above level 1 so you can hear the caller’s message.

2.

If you decide to take the call, press 

on the handset.

3.

If you pick up an extension phone during the announcement and the
announcement does not stop right away, press and release the tele-
phone switchhook.

You can record a memo up to four minutes long, which is stored as an
incoming message.
1.

Press and release 

.

2.

The system announces "Now recording". After the beep, speak toward
the microphone. The message window displays the length of your memo
up to 99 seconds, if you record a memo longer than 99 seconds, 99 con-
tinues to flash until you finish.

3.

To stop recording, press the 

 again.

1

 - 99

Total number of messages, or message number

during message playback.

0 - 99 

<-->

  

F

Memory is full, or total number of messages is “99.”

1

 to 

99 

(counting)

Duration of announcement or memo recording

(maximum length of announcement is 90 seconds).

99

 (flashing)

Length of recording is more than 99 seconds.

1

 

 

8

 (on steady for

Indicates volume level selected when 

one second)

or 

 is pressed.

10

 

 

99

Current remote access code while setting.

A

Announce only mode.

On or Off

Displayed when any setting is changed from on or

off.

CL

<--> (normal display)

Clock needs to be set.

(steady)

System is answering a call or is in remote operation.

  (flashing)

System is in programming mode or initializing.

(steady for one second)

0

No messages.

You can access many features of this system remotely from a touch tone
phone.
1.

Dial your telephone number.

2.

When the system answers, enter your remote access code (preset to

). The system beeps once and then announces the number of new mes-

sages.

3.

Enter a remote command (see 

).

4.

Press 

  to exit remote operation.

The system has voice prompts to help you with remote operation. Press

 to hear the menu while remotely connected to the answering system.

Play messages in

Press 

. The system will play new messages.

a mailbox

If there are no new messages, the system
plays old messages.

Repeat a message

Press 

  while message is playing; press

to back up previous message.

Skip a message

Press 

 while message is playing;

each press advances  up another message.

Stop

Press 

.

Save messages

Hang up.

Delete message

Press 

  while message is playing.

Review announcement

Press 

; system plays announcement,

then beeps.

Record announcement

Press 

*

; after beep, record announcement,

press 

  to  stop. System  plays back

announcement.