User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- The handset at a glance
- Overview of display icons
- The base station at a glance
- Contents
- Safety precautions
- Gigaset A580 IP - more than just making calls
- VoIP - making calls via the Internet
- Gigaset HDSP - telephony with brilliant sound quality
- First steps
- Operating the handset
- Menu trees
- Making calls with VoIP and the fixed line network
- VoIP telephony via Gigaset.net
- Network services
- Using lists
- Using the directory
- Saving the first number in the directory
- Storing a number in the directory
- Order of directory entries
- Selecting a directory entry
- Dialing with the directory
- Managing directory entries
- Using Shortcut keys
- Transferring the directory to another handset
- Copying a displayed number to the directory
- Copying a number from the directory
- Using the network mailbox
- ECO DECT: Conserving energy
- Setting the alarm clock
- Using multiples handsets
- Handset settings
- Changing the date and time
- Changing the display language
- Activating/deactivating the screensaver
- Quickly accessing functions
- Activating/deactivating auto answer
- Changing the handsfree/earpiece volume
- Setting ringers
- Activating/deactivating advisory tones
- Setting the battery low tone
- Restoring the handset default settings
- Setting the base station via the handset
- Making VoIP settings on the handset
- Operating the base station on the PABX
- Setting the phone with the PC
- Connecting the PC with the telephone's Web configurator
- Logging in, setting the Web configurator language
- Logging off
- Using the Web pages
- Menu bar
- Navigation area
- Working area
- Buttons
- Opening Web pages
- Setting the phone with the Web configurator
- Configuring the IP
- Configuring telephone connections
- Optimizing voice quality for VoIP connections
- Setting the telephone's default connection
- Activating the fixed line network connection as an alternate connection
- Assigning send and receive numbers to handsets
- Activating Call Forwarding for VoIP connections
- Entering your own area code, activating/deactivating an automatic area code for VoIP
- Activating/deactivating network mailbox, entering numbers
- Setting DTMF signaling for VoIP
- Defining Flash key functions for VoIP (hook flash)
- Configuring call forwarding via VoIP
- Defining local communication ports for VoIP
- Messaging
- Configuring info services/activating idle display
- Changing internal handset numbers and names
- Transferring handset directories to/from the PC
- Activating VoIP status message display
- Starting a firmware update
- Activating/deactivating the automatic version check
- Copying the date/time from time server
- Querying the phone status
- Getting help with your phone
- Protecting our environment
- Appendix
- FCC / ACTA Information
- Gigaset A580 IP - free software
- Accessories
- Glossary
- Index
- Mounting the charging cradle to the wall
- Mounting the base station to the wall
27
First steps
Gigaset A580 IP / US English / A31008-xxxx-xxxx-x-xxxx / starting.fm / 24.04.2009
Version 8, 03.09.2008
Icons on the idle display
The following is displayed:
u the internal number, e.g.
INT 1.
u the quality of the reception signal between base station and handset (signal
strength):
–poor to good:ÒÑiÐ
–no reception: | flashes
u battery charge status:
– = e V U (empty to full)
– = flashes: batteries almost empty
– e V U flashes: charging procedure
No connection to the Internet/VoIP server
If one of the following messages is displayed instead of the internal name after
the connection wizard is closed, errors have occurred:
u
Server not accessible!
u
SIP registration failed
Below you will find possible causes and measures you can take.
Server not accessible!
The phone has no connection to the Internet.
¤ Check the cable connections between the base station and the router (the
LED on the base station must light up) and the connection between the
router and the Internet connection.
¤ Verify that the phone is connected to the LAN.
– It may not have been possible to dynamically assign an IP address to the
phone
or
– You have assigned a static IP address to the phone that has either already
been assigned to another LAN subscriber or does not belong to the
router's address block.
¤ Press the Paging key on the base station. The IP address appears on the
handset display.
¤ Press the Talk key on the handset to end paging call.
¤ Start the Web configurator with the IP address.
¤ If no connection can be established, change the settings on the router
(activate DHCP server) or the phone's IP address.