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CONTENTS

OF YOUR OWNER’S MANUAL

CONTENTS

Introduction............................................................1

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Welcome............................................................1

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Features ............................................................1

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Included in Your Package ..............................................2

Installing and Adjusting Your Phone ........................................3

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Desk/Tabletop Installation..............................................3

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Wall Installation......................................................4

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Installing the Handset Battery Pack ......................................9

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Charging the Battery Pack ............................................10

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Cleaning the Battery Contacts..........................................11

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Page ..............................................................11

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Setting the Pulse/Tone Switch .........................................12

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Adjusting the Ringer Controls ..........................................12

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Changing the Handset Ringer ..........................................12

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Installing the Beltclip.................................................13

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Headset Installation ..................................................14

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Automatic Digital Code Security ........................................14

Using Your New Phone ..................................................15

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Making and Receiving Calls............................................15

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Flash and Call Waiting ...............................................15

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Storing a Phone Number in Memory ....................................16

• Dialing a Number ...................................................16

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Chain Dialing.......................................................17

• Erasing a Stored Number from Memory..................................17

• Redial .............................................................17

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Tone ..............................................................18

• Mute ..............................................................18

• Traveling Out-of-Range ...............................................18

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Using the Speaker Phone .............................................18

Setting Up the Integrated Answering Device .................................19

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The Integrated Answering Device .......................................19

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Features ...........................................................19

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Turning the Answering System On/Off ..................................20

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Setting the Clock ....................................................20

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Setting Your Outgoing Message (OGM) ..................................23

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Selecting the Message Time............................................24

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Memo .............................................................24

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Selecting a Pin Code .................................................25

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Calling Party Control Feature ..........................................26

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Setting the Toll Saver Switch ..........................................26

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Using the Reset Button ...............................................26

Using the Integrated Answering Device .....................................27

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Playing Your Messages ...............................................27

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Repeating a Message .................................................28

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Skipping a Message ..................................................29

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Deleting a Message ..................................................30

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Recording a Conversation .............................................30

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Remote Access Away from Home .......................................31

Troubleshooting........................................................32

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Quick Reference Chart................................................32

Specifications ..........................................................35

NOTE

Fold out the back cover of

this owner’s manual to use

the handy “Controls and

Functions” page

for reference.

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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen CONTENTS NOTE CONTENTS OF YOUR OWNER’S MANUAL Fold out the back cover of this owner’s manual to use the handy “Controls and Functions” page for reference. C:\Manuals 7\EXS9500\EXS9500.vp Tue Oct 06 09:19:11 1998 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 • Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION Introduction WELCOME Congratulations on your purchase of the Uniden EXS9500 cordless telephone and answering system. This phone is designed for reliability, long life, and outstanding performance utilizing the latest in 900 MHz Spread Spectrum technology.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKAGE TIP To get the most from your phone, please read this owners manual thoroughly. Also be sure to complete and mail the product registration form. Handset Base AC Adapter NOTE If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact the Uniden Parts Rechargeable Battery Short Telephone Cord Beltclip Long Telephone Cord Desktop/ Wall Mount Wall Mounting Adapter Screws Department at (800)554-3988. Hours are from 8:00 a.m.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Installing and Adjusting Your Phone DESK/TABLETOP INSTALLATION TIP AND ADJUSTING YOUR PHONE 1) Plug the AC adapter cord into the 9 VDC input jack on the back of the base. 2) Wrap the AC adapter cord around the strain relief notch. Place the power cord so that it does not create a trip hazard or where it could become chafed and create a fire or electrical hazard. 3) Plug the AC adapter into a standard 120 VAC wall outlet.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 7) Attach the desktop stand to the base. HINT Before using your phone, fully charge the NickelCadmium battery pack for 15-20 hours. 8) Set the base on a desk or tabletop, then place the handset into the base as shown. Then, raise the antenna to a vertical position. WALL INSTALLATION CAUTION Place the power cord so that it does not create a trip hazard or where it could become chafed and create a fire or electrical hazard.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 3) Plug the AC adapter into the base. ! DO NOT use an outlet controlled by a wall switch. Before you plug the other end of the telephone cord into the modular jack on the wall, charge the battery (refer to “Charging the Battery Pack,” page 10). INSTALLING AND ADJUSTING ! 4) Put the AC adapter cord inside the molded wiring channel, then wrap it around the strain relief notch. Plug the AC adapter into a standard 120 VAC wall outlet.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 8) Flip the retainer from front to back, then slide it back into the slot so that the lip of the retainer faces up and the oval is at the bottom of the retainer. This will hold the handset in place. ▼ Direct wall mounting If you don’t have a standard wall plate, you can mount your phone directly to the wall. Before doing this, consider the following: • Select a location away from electrical cables, pipes, or other items behind the mounting location.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 2) Remove the wall mount adapter from the notches at the top of the base. INSTALLING AND ADJUSTING 3) Rotate the wall mount adapter 180 degrees and snap it into place at the bottom of the base. 4) Plug the AC adapter into the base. 5) Put the AC adapter cord inside the molded wiring channel, then wrap the AC adapter cord around the strain relief notch. Plug the AC adapter into a standard 120 VAC wall outlet.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 7) Line up the mounting slots on the base with the mounting screws on the wall, then push in and down until the phone is firmly seated. 8) On the base unit, pull the handset retainer out of the slot and rotate it clockwise 180 degrees. 9) Flip the retainer from front to back, then slide it back into the slot so that the lip of the retainer faces up and the oval is at the bottom of the retainer. This will hold the handset in place.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen INSTALLING THE HANDSET BATTERY PACK 1) Press in on the battery cover release and slide the cover down until it comes off. ! 2) Install the nickel-cadmium battery with the label facing down. INSTALLING AND ADJUSTING Use only the Uniden battery (BT-990) supplied with your phone. 3) Slide the battery cover on until it snaps into place. 9 C:\Manuals 7\EXS9500\EXS9500.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK ▼ Initial battery charging Before plugging the phone line into your new phone for the first time, fully charge the rechargeable battery pack for 15-20 hours without interruption. 1) Place the handset on the base. 2) Make sure that status LED lights. If the LED doesn’t light, check to see that the AC adapter is plugged in and that the handset makes good contact with the base charging contacts.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ▼ Low battery indicator CLEANING THE BATTERY CONTACTS To maintain a good charge, clean all charging contacts on the handset and base about once a month with a pencil eraser or other contact cleaner. DO NOT use liquids or solvents; you may damage your phone. PAGE To locate the handset (while it’s off the base), press page on the base. The handset beeps for about 15 seconds. 11 C:\Manuals 7\EXS9500\EXS9500.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen SETTING THE PULSE/TONE SWITCH TIP Most phone systems use tone dialing. Check with your local phone company if you’re not sure whether your system is tone or pulse. Be sure the PULSE/TONE switch is in the TONE position unless your local phone system uses pulse dialing. ADJUSTING THE RINGER CONTROLS ▼ Handset ringer volume When the phone is either charging or in standby mode, pressing the vol ▲ or ▼ key on the handset selects the handset ringer volume.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen INSTALLING THE BELTCLIP ▼ To attach the beltclip 1) Remove the slot cover. INSTALLING AND ADJUSTING 2) Put the beltclip in the slot and press down until it clicks. ▼ To remove the beltclip 1) Pull back on the release tab and pull the beltclip up. 2) Replace the slot cover. You can store either the beltclip or slot cover on the bottom of the base. 13 C:\Manuals 7\EXS9500\EXS9500.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen HEADSET INSTALLATION Your phone may be used with an optional headset, the Uniden HS910. To use this feature, simply plug the headset plug into the headset jack. Your headset is ready for hands-free conversations. IMPORTANT Use only the Uniden HS910 headset specifically designed for Spread Spectrum phones. You will hear a buzz or hum on other headsets.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Using Your New Phone MAKING AND RECEIVING CALLS To make a call To hang up To redial Handset Off Base Pick up the handset. Press any button. 1) Press talk. 1) Pick up the handset. 2) Listen for dial the tone. 2) Press talk. 3) Listen for the dial tone. 3) Dial the number. 4) Dial the number. Press talk, or return the handset to the base (AutoStandby). 1) Pick up the handset. 1) Press talk. 2) Press talk. 2) Listen for the dial tone.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen STORING A PHONE NUMBER IN MEMORY 1) Remove the handset from the base. NOTE The pause button counts as one digit. Pressing redial/p more than once increases the length of pause between numbers. 2) Press mem and the talk/batt low LED blinks. 3) Enter the phone number, up to 16 digits. If a pause is needed during dialing to access a long distance service, press redial/p to insert a pause. 4) Press mem again.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen CHAIN DIALING On certain occasions after dialing a number, you may be requested to enter an access code, such as your account number. You can enter this number into a memory location for later use by doing the following. NOTE An error sounds and the erase procedure will be canceled if more than 20 seconds elapse between each keystroke. 1) Store the access code into one of the memory locations (01-20) or memory keys a, b, c, or d following steps 1-5 above.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen TONE NOTE The tone feature only applies when the base unit is set to pulse. If you are dialing in the pulse mode and need to enter tone digits, press tone to enter the digits. Once the call has ended, the tone mode is canceled and pulse dialing resumes. MUTE To use the mute feature during a conversation, press mute. The other party will not be able to hear you although you can hear them. To disable the mute feature, press mute again.
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Setting Up the Integrated Answering Device THE INTEGRATED ANSWERING DEVICE The EXS9500 has a built-in answering system that answers and records incoming calls. You can also use your answering system to record a conversation, leave a memo message for others who use the phone, or to announce a special message to callers when you’re away from your phone.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen TURNING THE ANSWERING SYSTEM ON/OFF 1) To turn the answering system on, press answer. A tone sounds and the current outgoing message plays on the base speaker. A second tone sounds after the outgoing message plays and the message counter LED turns on to indicate that the unit is ready to answer calls. 2) To turn the answering system off, press answer again. A tone sounds followed by the announcement “Answer off” and the message counter LED turns off.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ANSWERING DEVICE HINT 2) Press skip/repeat until the correct day is announced. Numbers zero through six display on the base as each day is announced. SETUP skip/repeat refers to either the skip button or the repeat button. 3) Press clock again to select the day. The hour setting is announced. NOTE Press skip/repeat multiple times to scroll through days, hours, minutes, etc. 4) Press skip/repeat until you hear the current hour setting.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 6) Press skip/repeat until you hear the current minute setting. The numbers 0 through 59 display on the base as each minute is announced. 7) Press clock again to select the correct minute. The AM/PM setting is announced. 8) The LED displays an A or P. Press skip/repeat until you hear the correct AM/PM setting. 9) Press clock again to end the time/day setting. The EXS9500 announces the correct time. 22 C:\Manuals 7\EXS9500\EXS9500.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ANSWERING SETTING YOUR OUTGOING MESSAGE (OGM) ▼ DEVICE When you receive a call, the answering system automatically plays either a preset message or your own personal outgoing message. Preset message The following message is prerecorded at the factory: To record your own OGM, follow the steps below. NOTE ▼ You can record up to a 30-second OGM.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ▼ Announce only feature The Announce Only feature plays a prerecorded outgoing message or your own personal outgoing message, but it will not allow the caller to leave a message. Move the REC TIME switch to the ANN position. The message counter LED displays A when the system is on standby. SELECTING THE MESSAGE TIME You can set your answering system to record messages up to one or four minutes long. One minute option: move the REC TIME switch to 1.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen NOTE Press skip/repeat multiple times to scroll through numbers on the display. SETUP 1) On the base, press and hold the pin button. A beep sounds, and the LED displays 00. 2) To set the first number, press skip/repeat to scroll from 0 to 9. When the desired number appears in the display, press PIN. This selects the first number. 3) To set the second number, press skip/repeat to scroll from 0 to 9.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen CALLING PARTY CONTROL FEATURE The Calling Party Control (CPC) feature automatically sets your answering system to disconnect and reset if the caller hangs up before leaving a message. This prevents your answering system from recording a hang up/dial tone. SETTING THE TOLL SAVER SWITCH The ring time/toll saver switch allows you to set the number of rings the caller hears before your answering system plays your outgoing message.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Using the Integrated Answering Device PLAYING YOUR MESSAGES The base LED shows the number of total messages on the display. If the display is blinking, then there are new messages waiting for you. The EXS9500 is designed to play your new messages first. After you play your new messages, you can then play your stored messages. HINT 1) Press play/stop. The system announces the number of new and old messages.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen REPEATING A MESSAGE NOTE 1) Press play/stop to review your messages. The number of stored messages is announced. Pressing repeat before one and one half seconds of the message has played causes the system to scan back one message. 2) After a message has played for a few seconds, press repeat to replay the message.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen SKIPPING A MESSAGE 1) Press play/stop to review your messages. The number of messages is announced. HINT ANSWERING DEVICE USE Each time skip is pressed, the system scans forward one message. If you have several messages, press skip to find the message you want to play. 2) Press skip at anytime to skip to the next message. 3) Press play/stop at any time to stop reviewing your messages and return to standby.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen DELETING A MESSAGE 1. Press play/stop to review your messages. NOTE When you press delete, you are permanently deleting the message. Once deleted, the message cannot be replayed. NOTE 2. If you decide to delete a message, press and release delete anytime during the message. The system beeps and immediately goes to the next message. 3. After you have played all of your messages, a long tone sounds on the base speaker.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen REMOTE ACCESS AWAY FROM HOME You can operate your answering system from a remote location using any touch-tone telephone. Use this function to check for recorded messages, to play or delete messages, or even to record a new outgoing message. 1) Call your telephone number. 2) During the outgoing message playback, press # followed by your PIN code. Refer to page 25 for instructions on how to select a PIN code.
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YOUR NEW PHONE TROUBLESHOOTING Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 32 E:\EXS9500\EXS9500.vp Thu Oct 08 14:54:40 1998 Troubleshooting QUICK REFERENCE CHART If your phone is not performing to your expectations, please try these simple steps first. PROBLEM SUGGESTION The charge light won’t come • Make sure the AC adapter is on when the handset is placed plugged into the base and wall outlet. in the base. • Make sure the handset is properly seated in base.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen PROBLEM SUGGESTION • The Nickel-Cadmium battery pack may be weak. Charge the battery on the base unit for 15-20 hours. • The handset may be too far away from the base unit. • Place the base unit away from appliances or metal objects. • Place the handset back on the charging cradle for a few seconds. The status LED will blink indicating that the phone has been reset. The answering system does not work. • Make sure the base unit is plugged in.
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen PROBLEM Cannot access remote call-in features from another touch-tone phone. 34 E:\EXS9500\EXS9500.vp Thu Oct 08 14:54:40 1998 SUGGESTION • Make sure you’re using the correct PIN number. • Make sure that the touch-tone phone you’re using can transmit the tone for at least two seconds. If it cannot, you may have to use another phone to access your messages.
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SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS OF YOUR NEW PHONE Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Specifications G E NERA L The EXS9500 complies with FCC Parts 15 and 68. Frequency control: PLL Modulation: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum; DBPSK Operating temperature: 0º to 50º C (+32º F to +122º F) BASE Frequency: 904.2 to 925.8 MHz (20 channels) Power requirements: 10 V 500 mA (from AC adapter) Size: 7-3/8in.(W) x 3-1/2in. (D) x 8-3/4in. (H) Weight: Approx. 110.9 oz.
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