Step 2: Setting up the base unit. Uniden EXS 2080, 900 MHz, EXS2080

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If your phone is not performing to your expectations, please try these simple steps first.

Symptom

The status LED won't come on when the handset is placed in the base unit.

Suggestion

• Make sure the AC adapter is plugged into the base unit and wall outlet.

• Make sure the handset is properly seated in the base unit.

• Make sure the charging contacts on the handset and base unit are clean.

The audio sounds weak and/or scratchy.

Can't make or receive calls.

background noise.

• Make sure that the base unit antenna is in a vertical position.

• Move the handset and or base unit to a different location away from metal objects or appliances and try again.

• Make sure that you are not too far from the base.

• Check both ends of the base unit telephone line cord.

• Make sure the AC adapter is plugged into the base unit and wall outlet.

• Disconnect the AC adapter for a few minutes, then reconnect it.

• Reset the digital security code

(See page 47).

The handset doesn't ring or receive a page.

• The battery pack may be weak.

Charge the battery on the base unit for more than 15-20 hours.

• The handset may be too far away from the base unit.

• Place the base unit away from appliances or metal objects.

• Reset the digital security code

(See page 47).

• Make sure the ringer switch is on

(See page 15).

Symptom

The Caller ID/CIDCW does not display.

Suggestion

• The handset was picked up before the second ring.

• The call was placed through a switch board.

• Call your local telephone company to verify your Caller ID service is current.

• Make sure that the CIDCW option is set to ON.

The answering system does not work.

Messages are incomplete.

After a power failure, the outgoing message is deleted.

No sounds on the base unit speaker during call monitoring or message playback.

Cannot access remote call-in features from another touch-tone phone.

• Make sure the base unit is plugged in.

• Make sure that the answering system is turned on.

• Make sure that the message record time is not set to ANN (See page

39).

• The incoming messages may be too long. Remind callers to leave a brief message.

• The memory may be full. Delete some or all of the saved messages.

• Record your greeting again.

The preset messages should remain.

• Adjust the speaker volume on the base unit.

• Make sure you are 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 cannnot, you may have to use another phone to access your message.

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