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announcing the caller’s name, you
can press
to mute the ringer.
• After you picked up a screened home
call and the telephone is announcing
the screening options, you can press
to hang up the call.
• If Smart call blocker is on and you
receive a call waiting home call:
• Smart call blocker will not screen
a call waiting home call without
number while on a call. You can
press
or to take the new
call.
• After you have picked up a screened
home call, the telephone checks
whether the call waiting number
is in the phonebook, block list or
allow list. It also checks whether
the caller name is in the star name
list. After that, The telephone then
displays the caller ID information
or “Blocked call” accordingly. You
can press
or to take the
new call.
• While the telephone is screening
a home call, the new call will be
ignored and logged as missed call
in the caller ID log.
• Robocalls are unable to respond
to the screening announcement,
and therefore, will not get through
and ring. If you want to allow some
robocalls to get through, save their
names in the star name list.
• The telephone can respond to remote
access code while it is playing the
screening announcement. This allows
you to access your answering system
from an unknown number remotely.
Screen robocalls
If Smart call blocker is on, and you
have set profile to screen robocalls,
the telephone plays a screening
announcement to the caller when
receiving the following incoming home
calls. It asks the caller to press the pound
key (#) before putting the call through
to you.
• Incoming home calls with numbers
that are “out of area“ or with
numbers set to “Private“;
• Incoming home calls with absent
caller ID numbers;
• Incoming home calls with numbers
that are not in your phonebook,
allow list, nor block list; or
• Incoming home calls with names
that are not in your star name list.
Screen calls without asking for caller
names
When screening a home call, the
telephone announces to the caller,
“Hello. Calls to this number are being
screened by Smart call blocker. If you’re
a family member, friend or invited caller,
please press pound to be connected. If
you’re a solicitor, please hang up now.”
After the caller presses the pound key
(#), the telephone announces to the
caller “Please wait a moment while your
call is connected.”
The telephone starts ringing, and
you can answer the call. This option is
suitable for you to filter calls that uses
autodialers to deliver prerecorded
messages, for example, robocalls and
telemarketing calls.
NOTES
• The telephone announces to the
caller with “Hello. Calls to this
number are being screened by
Smart call blocker...” If you have
recorded your name in the screening
announcements, your recorded
name will replace “this number” in
the announcements (See Screening
announcement).
• The screening feature of Smart call
blocker is applicable to home calls
only.
• If the caller hangs up before the
home call is screened, or without
leaving his/her name while the call
is being screened, the call will be
logged as missed call in the caller ID
log.
• While a home call is being screened,
you can press
or to stop
screening and answer the call.
• If Smart call blocker is on and you
receive a call waiting home call:
• Smart call blocker will not screen
a call waiting home call without
number while on a call. You can
press
or to take the
new call.
• After you have picked up a
screened home call, the telephone
checks whether the call waiting
number is in the phonebook,