User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Gigaset C300/C300A - your high-quality accessory
- Overview
- Understanding the display icons
- Using the display keys
- Main menu icons
- Base overview
- Contents
- Taking the first steps
- Using the phone
- Menu overview
- Making calls
- Using the directory and lists
- Directory
- Saving the first number in the directory
- Saving a number in the directory
- Order of directory entries
- Selecting a directory entry
- Selecting from the directory
- Managing directory entries
- Using shortcut keys
- Transferring the directory to another handset
- Copying the displayed number to the directory
- Copying numbers from the directory
- Using the redial list
- Message key function
- Answering machine list (Gigaset C300A only)
- Call list
- Directory
- Operating the Gigaset C300A base answering machine
- Using the network mailbox
- ECO DECT
- Using the handset as an alarm clock
- Using multiple handsets
- Handset settings
- Base station settings
- Connecting the base to the PBX
- Troubleshooting
- Protecting our environment
- Appendix
- FCC / ACTA Information
- Service (Customer Care)
- Accessories
- Mounting the base on the wall
- Mounting the charger on the wall
- Index
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Operating the Gigaset C300A base answering machine
Gigaset C300-C300A / USA-CAN EN / A31008-M2203-R301-2-3S19 / answering_m.fm / 11.07.2011
Version 4, 16.09.2005
Accepting a call from the
answering machine
You can pick up a call while the answering
machine is recording or is being operated
through remote operation:
§Accept§ Press the display key.
Recording stops and you can speak to the
caller.
If 3 seconds of the call have already been
recorded when you accept it, the call will be
displayed as a new message. The f key on
the handset flashes.
You can answer the call, even if it is not sig-
naled on the handset.
Diverting an external call to the
answering machine
You can divert an incoming external call to
the answering machine, even if it is deacti-
vated.
Prerequisite: Sufficient memory space is
available on the answering machine.
An external call is signaled on the handset:
§Menu§ ¤ Divert to AM ¤ §OK§
The answering machine starts immediately
in answer & record mode and records the
call. The set time for ring delay (¢ page 38)
is ignored.
Activating/deactivating two-way
record
You can record an external call with the
answering machine.
¤ Inform the caller that the call is being
recorded.
During the conversation:
§Menu§ Open menu.
Two-way Recording
Select and press
§OK§.
Two-way record is indicated on the display
by an advisory text and is added to the
answering machine list as a new message.
§End§ Press the display key to stop
two-way record.
The maximum recording time depends on
the capacity available on the answering
machine. If the memory is full, you will hear
an end tone, the recording is aborted, and
the call recorded up to that point is listed in
the answering machine list as a new mes-
sage.
Activating/deactivating call
screening
While the caller is leaving a message on the
answering machine, you can listen in
through the loudspeaker on the base or
handset.
Permanently activating/deactivating
call screening
§Menu§ ¤ Voice Mail ¤ Call Screening
¤ Handset / Base
(³=on)
Call screening can be simultaneously acti-
vated on the base and handset.
Deactivating call screening for the
current recording
You can deactivate the function for your
own handset during the recording.
a Press the end call key.