Posted by carkitter
The company I work for has a phone system where you listen to menu options and press a number for the appropriate option; very common I know. When dialling my branch office I found it slow and mildly irritating to have to always listen to the options.
I've looked in my V800 manual for a way around this but to no avail.
Then I remembered something from my old Ericsson DH-618 manual (yes, from 1997) about adding pauses to phone numbers to circumvent automated menus. I tried it and it works. A sample number would look like this:
123456789p1p2p3
where 'p' is the pause, created by holding down the 7 button, and is followed by the number of the menu option you want.
I've found that the Vodafone Simple can also add pauses, by holding down the * button instead of the 7.
I can't find a way to add pauses on the Nokia 6585s (CDMA) that my collegues use. Any ideas anyone?
Feel free to post here which phones you've found can add pauses and which can't.
Posted by gojnik064
I use that all the time for my voicemail pass and account status. For nokia press * 3 times.
Posted by carkitter
Aha! Thanks for the info.
As I couldn't find it in the V800 menu, I thought I'd mention it.
No-one I know knew about this before I told them, but then most kiwi's aren't into mobile phones to the extent I am.
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Posted by masseur
I don't have the paper V800 manual any more but the online manual certainly mentions it on page 34
(I tend to use PDF manuals as its so much easier to find stuff using the search capbilities - now there's a tip from me
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Posted by carkitter
So it is.
It's listed in the chapter entitled Entering Text.
I'd have thought it would be in the Calling pg23-27 or Phonebook pg38-43 sections.