Polycom CX5500 User Manual

USER GUIDE

Polycom® CX5500 Unified Conference Station for Microsoft® Lync™

Software 1.1.0 | May 2014 | 3725-67893-001 Rev A

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Contents

About This Guide .......................................................................................................... 6

Who Should Read this Guide? .............................................................................................. 6

Conventions Used in this Guide ........................................................................................... 6

Terms and Writing Conventions ......................................................................................................... 6

Information Elements .......................................................................................................................... 7

Typographic Conventions ................................................................................................................... 8

Get Help and Support Resources ......................................................................................... 9

Get Started ................................................................................................................... 10

About the Polycom CX5500 Unified Conference Station ................................................. 10

Use the CX5500 System with Microsoft Lync Client ........................................................................ 10

Use the CX5500 System as a Conference Phone ........................................................................... 11

Understand the CX5500 System Hardware ........................................................................ 12

Understand the Indicator Lights ........................................................................................................ 13

Connect the CX5500 System to a Computer ..................................................................... 14

Access the Web Configuration Utility ................................................................................ 15

Best Practices for Effective Camera Tracking ................................................................... 16

Use the CX5500 System with Microsoft Lync ........................................................... 17

Place a Video Call................................................................................................................. 17

Answer a Video Call ............................................................................................................. 17

Hang Up a Call ...................................................................................................................... 18

Adjust Audio and Video ....................................................................................................... 18

Use the CX5500 System as a Conference Phone ..................................................... 19

Navigate Phone Views ......................................................................................................... 19

Home View ....................................................................................................................................... 20

Lines View ........................................................................................................................................ 22

Active Call View ................................................................................................................................ 23

Calls View ......................................................................................................................................... 24

Understand Phone Icons and Status Indicators ............................................................... 25

Navigate Your Phone’s Interface ........................................................................................ 26

Enter Data and Update Fields ............................................................................................. 27

Use the Onscreen Keyboard ............................................................................................................ 28

Clean the Touchscreen ........................................................................................................ 30

Manage Calls on Your Phone .............................................................................................. 30

Place and End Calls ......................................................................................................................... 30

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Manage Active Calls ......................................................................................................................... 33

Manage Incoming Calls .................................................................................................................... 35

Redirect Calls ................................................................................................................................... 38

Manage Multiple Calls .......................................................................................................... 43

Dial in to Conference Calls .................................................................................................. 44

Manage Conference Calls.................................................................................................... 44

Initiate Conference Calls................................................................................................................... 45

Hold and Resume Conference Calls ................................................................................................ 45

End Conference Calls ....................................................................................................................... 46

Split Conference Calls into Two Held Calls ...................................................................................... 46

Manage Conference Call Participants .............................................................................................. 46

Manage Contacts and Directories ...................................................................................... 48

Use Your Contact Directory .............................................................................................................. 48

Manage Favorites ............................................................................................................................. 51

Work with a Corporate Directory ...................................................................................................... 53

Listen to Voicemail............................................................................................................... 55

View Recent Calls................................................................................................................. 56

Control Audio and Volume .................................................................................................. 57

Change the Speaker and Ringer Volume ......................................................................................... 58

Update the Incoming Call Ringtone .................................................................................................. 58

Update a Contact’s Ringtone ............................................................................................................ 58

Mute the Microphone ........................................................................................................................ 59

Work with Shared Lines ....................................................................................................... 59

Use Advanced Features .............................................................................................. 61

Use the Contact List............................................................................................................. 61

Update Your Status .......................................................................................................................... 61

Manage Your Contact List ................................................................................................................ 62

View Lync Contacts’ Presence Status .............................................................................................. 63

Integrate with Microsoft Lync Server ................................................................................. 65

Broadcast Messages Using Group Paging ........................................................................ 65

Group Paging Mode .......................................................................................................................... 65

Use the Calendar .................................................................................................................. 68

Open and Close the Calendar .......................................................................................................... 69

Navigate Month View ........................................................................................................................ 70

Navigate Day View ........................................................................................................................... 70

Navigate Meeting View ..................................................................................................................... 71

Work with Meeting Reminders .......................................................................................................... 72

Join Meetings from the Calendar ...................................................................................................... 73

Log in to a Phone ................................................................................................................. 74

Log In and Out of a Phone ............................................................................................................... 74

Place Calls from Phones That Are in the Logged-Out State ............................................................ 75

Change Your Password .................................................................................................................... 75

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Lock the Phone..................................................................................................................... 76

Change Your User Password ........................................................................................................... 76

Lock and Unlock Your Phone ........................................................................................................... 76

Call and Answer from a Locked Phone ............................................................................................ 77

Access Features with Your Login Credentials .................................................................. 77

Customize the Phone’s Display .......................................................................................... 78

Change the Language on Your Phone ............................................................................................. 78

Change the Time and Date Display .................................................................................................. 79

Change the Backlight ........................................................................................................................ 79

Change the Background Picture ....................................................................................................... 80

Use Power-Saving Mode ...................................................................................................... 81

Change Your Office Hours................................................................................................................ 82

Change Timeouts ............................................................................................................................. 82

Administrative Tasks .................................................................................................. 84

Investigate Phone Warnings ............................................................................................... 84

Restart the Phone................................................................................................................. 84

Update Phone Configuration ............................................................................................... 85

Test Phone Hardware ........................................................................................................... 85

Troubleshoot Issues ................................................................................................... 86

Get Help ....................................................................................................................... 87

Polycom and Partner Resources ........................................................................................ 87

The Polycom Community .................................................................................................... 88

Service Agreements ......................................................................................................................... 89

Governing Law .................................................................................................................................. 89

Limitations of Liability ........................................................................................................................ 89

Polycom Limited Warranty and Limitation Liability ........................................................................... 89

Exclusions ......................................................................................................................................... 90

Warranty Exclusive ........................................................................................................................... 90

Safety, Compliance, and Disposal Information ................................................................................ 90

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About This Guide

This user guide uses a number of conventions that can help you understand specific information and perform tasks.

Who Should Read this Guide?

This guide contains an overview of information that is useful whether you are just starting to learn about your Polycom® CX5500 Unified Conference Station for Microsoft® Lync™ or have experience and need a quick refresher. This guide is intended for beginning, intermediate, and advanced users who want to learn about the device’s features.

Conventions Used in this Guide

This user guide contains terms, graphical elements, and a few typographic conventions. Familiarizing yourself with these terms, elements, and conventions can help you successfully perform tasks.

Terms and Writing Conventions

● The system/your system This term refers to the CX5500 system.

● Tap This term refers to touching an item briefly on the screen with your finger.

● Press This action refers to pressing a screen item for a second or two.

● Press and hold When you press and hold a screen item, touch the screen for a second or two

before lifting your finger.

● Tap Submenu > Submenu > Submenu This convention describes how to access submenus.

Each submenu name is in boldface and separated by a ‘greater than’ symbol. If the instructions

indicate to tap Basic > Preferences > Language, tap the Basic submenu, tap the Preferences submenu, and tap the Language submenu.

● Highlight This action refers to tapping an item on the screen so that the item’s appearance

brightens. Soft keys apply to highlighted items.

● Select This refers to tapping an item on the screen so that another screen opens.

● Views A view is a specific screen on the phone interface that provides unique information and

enables you to perform specific tasks. Your phone has four main views: Home, Calls, Active Call, and Lines.

● Dialpad The dialpad is the area of the keypad you use to enter numbers and characters. The

dialpad consists of the number, the asterisk (*), and pound (#) keys.

● Scroll This action describes how to view lists that appear on more than one screen. To scroll

through items or lists, touch the screen, and drag your finger up, down, left, or right. To stop scrolling, stop the dragging motion.

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Name

Icon

Description

Note

The Note icon highlights information of interest or important information needed to be successful in accomplishing a procedure or to understand a concept.

Administrator Tip

The Administrator Tip icon highlights techniques, shortcuts, or productivity related tips.

● Swipe When you want to scroll quickly, swipe your finger across the screen, either up, down, left,

or right. To stop your screen from scrolling, press your finger anywhere on the screen. Touching the screen while it scrolls does not select anything. Swiping your finger to the left or right also displays other views.

● Key This term refers to any button on the tabletop unit. Keys on the CX5500 system include the

Mute key .

● Option An option is one of a series of items you can select for a setting, such as Enable or

Disable.

● Held call This term describes any call that is on hold.

● Active call This term refers to any current call, including conference calls.

● Soft key This term describes the context-sensitive keys that display along the bottom of the

screen—the soft key area—and that update depending on the task you are performing. To view additional soft keys, if additional soft keys are available, tap the More soft key. The More soft key is always on the far-right of the soft key area, as displayed in the next figure.

● Soft key area The soft key area displays context sensitive soft keys along the bottom of the

screen, as shown above.

● Status bar The status bar, displayed in the following figures, is the top-most part of the

touchscreen. The status bar displays the time and date and scrolling messages under the time display. The information that displays on the left of the status bar depends on what view you are in. From Home view, your line number displays. In other views, icons display that you can tap to access messages, recent calls, or view information. Icons can also display to let you know a certain feature, such as Do Not Disturb, is enabled.

Information Elements

This guide uses the following information elements to highlight important information.

Icons Used in this Guide

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Name

Icon

Description

Caution

The Caution icon highlights information you need to know to avoid a hazard that could potentially impact device performance, application functionality, or successful feature configuration.

Warning

The Warning icon highlights an action you must perform (or avoid) to prevent issues that may cause you to lose information or your configuration setup, and/or affect device or network performance.

Web Info

The Web Info icon highlights supplementary information available online such as documents or downloads on support.polycom.com or other locations.

Timesaver

The Timesaver icon highlights a faster or alternative method for accomplishing a method or operation.

Power Tip

The Power Tip icon highlights faster, alternative procedures for advanced administrators already familiar with the techniques being discussed.

Troubleshooting

The Troubleshooting icon highlights information that may help you solve a relevant problem or to refer you to other relevant troubleshooting resources.

Settings

The Settings icon highlights settings you may need to choose for a specific behavior, to enable a specific feature, or to access customization options.

Convention

Description

Bold

Highlights interface items such as menus, soft keys, file names, and directories. Also used to represent menu selections and text you enter.

Italics

Used to emphasize text, to show example values or inputs, and to show titles of reference documents available from the Polycom Support Web site and other reference sites.

Blue Text

Used for cross references to other sections within this document and for hyperlinks to external sites and documents.

Courier

Used for code fragments and parameter names.

Typographic Conventions

A few typographic conventions, listed next, are used in this guide to distinguish types of in-text information.

Typographic Conventions

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Get Help and Support Resources

This guide includes a Get Help section where you can find links to Polycom product and support sites and partner sites. You can also find information about The Polycom Community, which provides access to discussion forums you can use to discuss hardware, software, and partner solution topics with your colleagues. To register with the Polycom Community, you will need to create a Polycom online account.

The Polycom Community includes access to Polycom support personnel, as well as user-generated hardware, software, and partner solutions topics. You can view top blog posts and participate in threads on any number of recent topics.

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Get Started

You can make a variety of call types using the Polycom CX5500 system, as discussed in the following sections, which also introduce the CX5500 system’s hardware and how to connect, configure, and sign in using your system. This section also includes best practices for effective camera tracking.

As you read this guide, keep in mind that many features are enabled or disabled by your system administrator. Your system might look different from the examples shown in this guide, and all of the features described in this guide may not be available to you. In addition, your network environment can also limit the number of features available to you.

About the Polycom CX5500 Unified Conference Station

You can use the Polycom CX5500 Unified Conference Station to make the following types of calls:

● Audio and video calls made using Microsoft

computer running Lync client, the system provides a 360-degree view of the conference room and automatically identifies the active speaker.

Lync™. When your CX5500 system is connected to a

● Audio-only conference calls with Open SIP voice platforms or in a Lync Server environment.

You can also make calls in Lync client and conference calls on the CX5500 system at the same time. In this scenario, the audio from both calls is automatically bridged together enabling all callers to communicate with each other. Note that you cannot control calls made in Lync client on the CX5500 system.

Use the CX5500 System with Microsoft Lync Client

When you connect the CX5500 system to a computer running Lync client, you can access the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Lync voice, video, and content while automatically tracking the flow of conversation. The CX5500 system provides integrated cameras, a speaker, and microphones on one device. When the system is connected to a computer using a USB cable and port, you can place, answer, and control Microsoft Lync audio and video calls on the CX5500 system.

During a call, the integrated cameras capture the entire panoramic view of your conference room, and the integrated microphones capture the voices of participants at every location around the table. The system also automatically shows the person who is speaking during a call, along with a 360-degree view of the other participants in the room.

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The following illustration demonstrates how the panoramic video and microphones on CX5500 system works during a conference call when connected to a computer.

How the CX5500 system works during conference calls

Use the CX5500 System as a Conference Phone

You can use the CX5500 Unified Conference Station as a full-featured conference phone. When you use the CX5500 system as a conference phone, you do not need to connect the system to a computer. Note that you can make audio-only conference calls without video when the system is not connected to a computer.

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Feature

Description

Camera cover

Cameras

Active video indicator

Microphones

Speaker

Microphone mute buttons and status indicators

USB 3.0 Type B connection to computer

USB 2.0 connector for USB thumb drive

Touch screen

Understand the CX5500 System Hardware

The following figure and accompanying table introduces you to the parts of the Polycom CX5500 system, which includes the camera, microphones, and speakers.

Polycom CX5500 system

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Microphone Indicator

System State

Off

Not in a call

Green

In call

Green flashing

Ringing

Green slow flashing

System is starting up

Red

In call with microphones muted

Red flashing

Ringing with microphones muted, call on hold

Green/red flashing

Software update is in progress

Fast blink

Incoming call

Active Video Indicator

System State

Off

Not in a call, no video in a call Green

In call with active video

Flashing

Privacy cap is closed

Understand the Indicator Lights

The Polycom CX5500 system’s indicator lights let you know whether the system is sending, receiving, or holding audio or video calls. The three microphone indicator lights are located on the three ends of the system’s base, and the active video indicator light is located on the underside of the camera head. See the figure Polycom CX5500 system for the location of the microphone and active video indicators. The following tables describe the microphone and active video indicator lights used on the CX5500 system.

Microphone Indicator Lights

Active video indicator lights

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Connect the CX5500 System to a Computer

After you connect the CX5500 system to a computer, you can use the system to make video conference calls with your Microsoft Lync client. Note that the CX5500 system’s performance can vary based on the connected computer, your network connection, and the Lync client version. The computer you connect to the system must meet the minimum hardware and software requirements shown in the following table.

Minimum hardware and software requirements for the connected computer

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Web Info: Information on using the Web Configuration Utility

For detailed information on accessing, navigating, and using the utility, see the Polycom Web

Configuration Utility User Guide.

Access the Web Configuration Utility

You can update phone settings from your phone using the phone’s menu commands or update settings

remotely with the Polycom Web Configuration Utility. The Web Configuration Utility enables you to view and configure phone behavior from a computer using a web browser. The utility provides a browserfriendly view of your phone’s current settings and enables you to perform many of the same updates from your computer that you can perform using your phone’s menu system.

You can access the utility using any compatible web browser installed on a computer that resides on the same network as your phone. Before you begin, you need to know the IP address of your phone and the user password to log in to the utility.

To find your phone’s IP address:

» From Home view, select Settings > Status > Platform > Phone, and use the arrow keys to

navigate to your phone’s IP address.

To access the Web Configuration Utility for your phone:

1 Launch a web browser from a computer on the same network as your phone. 2 In the address bar of your web Browser, enter the IP address of your phone. 3 Click Enter. 4 From the Web Configuration Utility login screen, select User, and enter the user password. The

default user password is 123.

5 Click Submit.

The Web Configuration Utility Home screen displays.

Sign in to the CX5500 System with Lync

After you set up your CX5500 system, you can sign into Lync on your phone using your login credentials (your domain, user name, and password) or your PIN authentication, which are provided by your system administrator. If you are presented with a choice when signing into Lync on your phone, ask your system administrator which method to use.

To sign into Lync on your CX5500 system:

1 Tap the SignIn soft key or tap and select Settings > Features > Microsoft Lync > SignIn.

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Troubleshooting: I can’t sign-in using my login credentials

If you don’t have access to your Lync contacts, or you accidentally lock your account, see your

system administrator. User Tip: Using strong passwords

Follow your organization’s password policy when entering passwords for your login credentials. You can use ASCII, Latin, Katakana, and Cyrillic characters in all passwords on Polycom phones.

2 Enter your login credentials or your phone extension and a PIN number, as shown next.

A confirmation message displays when your phone successfully signs in to Lync.

To sign out of Lync on your phone:

» Tap the SignOut soft key or select Settings > Features > Microsoft Lync > SignOut.

After you sign out of Lync, you cannot contact or view your Lync contacts. But you can still use Polycom phone features after you sign out of Lync Server.

Best Practices for Effective Camera Tracking

Follow these best practices to ensure that your Polycom CX5500 system effectively tracks active speakers and participants during conference calls.

● Make sure no items are placed between your mouth and the microphones. For example, position

your laptop so that it does not block you when you speak.

● Face the CX5500 system, not the whiteboard or the wall, when you stand at the front of a small

conference room to speak. Facing the wall can cause echoes that interfere with the active speaker tracking.

● Avoid standing close to the conference table when speaking. Instead, sit at the table or move away

from the table so the camera can clearly track your movements.

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Use the CX5500 System with Microsoft Lync

Several steps are required for placing and answering calls using the Microsoft Lync 2013 client running on a computer that is connected to the CX5500 system. Although the following steps are applicable to Lync 2013, the steps are similar if you use Lync 2010. Note that you cannot control call activity for calls placed in the Lync client on the CX5500 system.

Place a Video Call

You can place calls to people and systems in your organization that are registered to the Directory Service.

To place a video call:

1 In Microsoft Lync, do one of the following:

 Click and scroll to the contact you want to call.  Start typing a name in the search box and click . As you type, the system finds matching

names.

 Click and choose a name from your Recent Calls.

2 Click a name to select it. 3 Click to start a video call.

To invite others to join a conference:

» From a conversation window in Microsoft Lync, do one of the following:

 Click and click Invite More People. Find the person you want and click OK.  Drag a contact from your contacts list into the conversation window.

Answer a Video Call

When you receive a call, you see a call notification that tells you who is calling.

To answer a call:

» In the incoming call notification, do one of the following:

 Click Accept to join the call.  Click Redirect > Reply with an Instant Message to send a message to the caller.

To refuse a call:

» In the incoming call notification, do one of the following:

 Click Decline.  Click Ignore to refuse the call.

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Note: Muting audio using Lync

You can also mute the system’s audio using the Mute button in the Lync client. However, if you are using a version of Lync 2013 or 2010 without the 2014 updates, muting the system in this way does not update the indicator lights on the tabletop unit.

Hang Up a Call

Hanging up a call with another person automatically disconnects the other person. When you hang up from a conversation that includes multiple participants, the other participants remain connected.

To hang up a call:

» In Microsoft Lync, click .

Adjust Audio and Video

During a call, you can control the audio volume for calls placed in the Lync client on the CX5500 system. You can also control what the far end can hear and see by muting the microphone and video on the system.

To adjust the volume:

» Do one of the following:

 Touch or on the base of the tabletop unit.  Click in your Windows tray and use the slider control

To mute the microphone:

» On the base of the system, touch . The microphone indicators on the base of the tabletop unit

are red when the system is muted: .

To mute the video:

» Lower the privacy cap on the tabletop unit.

The active video indicator flashes green to indicate that the system is not sending video to the far end.

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Use the CX5500 System as a Conference Phone

You can use the CX5500 system as an audio-only conference phone, navigate phone views, and perform tasks using the touchscreen, clean the touchscreen, and configure your device remotely using the Polycom Web Configuration Utility. Note that you can only control audio call features and capabilities using the touchscreen. You cannot control video features and capabilities on the system.

The following sections discuss how to use the CX5500 system as a conference phone:

● Navigate Phone Views

● Understand Phone Icons and Status Indicators

● Navigate Your Phone’s Interface

● Enter Data and Update Fields

● Clean the Touchscreen

● Manage Calls on Your Phone

● Dial into Conference Calls

● Manage Conference Calls

● Manage Contacts and Directories

● Listen to Voicemail

● View Recent Calls

● Control Audio and Volume

● Work with Shared Lines

Navigate Phone Views

Your device has four main views: Home, Calls, Active Call, and Lines. Home view displays the menu options available on the system. Calls and Active Call views display recent call history and active calls on the system. Lines view displays the line keys or favorites configured on the system. You can see all the phone views from the other main views; however, you can see Active Call view only when there is an active call on your phone.

To switch among views:

» Do one of the following:

 To switch to Home view from any view, tap at the top of the screen.  From Home view, tap on the screen to switch to Lines View.

 To switch between Lines view and Calls view, swipe the screen to the right or left.  During an active call, tap to view either Calls, Home, or Lines view. Tap again to view

Active Calls view from the other phone views.

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Troubleshooting: Why can’t I access a certain view?

The views you can access depend on whether your device is in an active call or on the number of active or held calls on your system. If your device is idle, you can access Home and Lines view. If your device has one active call, you can access Home, Lines, and Active Call view. If your device has multiple calls, or one held call, you can access Home, Lines, Calls, and Active Call view.

Home View

Home view displays automatically when your phone is idle, and you can display Home view from other phone views by tapping . Home view displays your phone’s line and home icons you can tap to access features, settings, and information. At the bottom of Home view is a page indicator that shows you the

number of pages available in Home view. You can also press and hold the Page Indicator to control how many icons display in Home view. The next figure shows the phone line, icons, and Page Indicator that display in Home view.

Home view

While in Home view, you can navigate to other icons in several ways:

● Swipe the screen right to left to view additional icons available in Home view.

● Press and hold the page indicator to display all of the home icons on one page in Home view.

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● Press and hold the Page Indicator again to return to the original Home view.

Additional home icons

Home view displays the following icons:

● New Call Displays the dialer where you can place a call.

● Messages Provides access to your voicemail.

● Directories Accesses your Contact Directory and Recent Calls list. Tap Directories to access a

Corporate Directory, Lync Directory, and a Buddy Status List, if available on your phone.

● Forward Displays the call-forwarding settings.

● DND Enables and disables Do Not Disturb (DND). When DND is enabled, your phone does not

ring and incoming calls are forwarded to voice mail.

● Settings Accesses the phone’s basic and advanced features and settings menus.

● Calendar (Optional) Displays a calendar with your meeting details. Using the Calendar feature,

you can join meetings directly from your phone.

You can also view additional phone lines and favorites in Home view, as shown in the next figure.

Lines and favorites from Home view

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To display additional phone lines and favorites in Home view:

» Tap the phone line.

From this screen, you can also tap a phone line to open the dialer or tap a favorite to dial that contact. To display the home icons again, tap Close.

Lines View

In Lines view, you can view your phone lines, your favorites, and soft keys. The following figure shows the phone line, favorites, and soft key area that display in Lines view.

Lines view

To display Lines view:

» From Home view, tap .

You can perform the following tasks in Lines view:

● Tap a phone line to access the dialer.

● Tap a favorite to call that contact instantly.

● Tap New Call to access the dialer.

● Tap Forward to access the call forwarding settings.

● Tap DND to enable Do Not Disturb.

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You can also view the status of a call and the number of active and held calls that are on your line in Lines view. When there is an active call on your line, a green bar displays on the line in Lines view. When the phone line has one or more held calls, a flashing red bar displays on the line in Lines view. The following figures display an active and held call on phone lines in Lines view.

Active and held calls in Lines view

To display all your calls:

» Press and hold the phone line or swipe the screen left to right.

A list of calls for that line displays in Calls view.

Active Call View

You can access Active Call view when an active call is in progress on your phone. Active Call view displays automatically when you answer an incoming call or when you place an outgoing call.

To view Active Call view:

» Do one of the following:

 From Home view, tap or tap in the status bar.  From Lines view, swipe the screen right to left.

In Active Call view, you can see the name and number of your contact and the duration of the call. You can also hold, end, or transfer the call, or initiate a conference call. The following figure displays an active call and the soft keys that display in Active Call view.

An active call and soft keys in Active Call view

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Calls View

You can access Calls view when you have one held call or there are two or more calls on your line. The following figure displays an active and highlighted call, an incoming call, and a held call in Calls view.

An active call, an incoming call, and a held call in Calls view

To display Calls view:

» Do one of the following:

 From Home view, tap , or tap in the status bar.  In Lines view, swipe the screen to the right or left.

You can scroll the screen right to left to view all active, held, and incoming calls on your line. If your phone has multiple lines, you can view the calls for each line by tapping the line in Calls view.

In Calls view, call status is indicated using several colors. A highlighted call is either bright green or bright blue and indicates that you have selected an active or held call. When you tap an active call, the call is highlighted in bright green, and when you tap a held call, the call is highlighted in bright blue. The soft keys that display in the soft key area apply to the highlighted call.

The following colors indicate a call’s status:

● Dark green Active call

● Dark blue Incoming and held calls

● Bright green Active call is highlighted

● Bright blue Incoming or held call is highlighted

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Icon

Description

Icon

Description

Registered line

Status indicators in Lines view: a flashing red bar indicates held calls, and a green bar indicates an active call

Unregistered line

Do Not Disturb enabled

Placing a call

Phone warning

Active call using Polycom HD Voice

Held call

Shared line

Incoming call in Lines view

Shared line with a held call

Incoming call in Call view

Tap to access messages

Active conference

Presence status (Available)

Understand Phone Icons and Status Indicators

At the top of each view, a status bar displays the date, time, your line, and icons that you can tap to access messages, recent calls, and warning messages, or to enable Do Not Disturb. When your device has information you need to know, icons and messages scroll in the status bar under the time display with the date. The next figures show the icons that display in the status bar in Home and other views.

Status bar in Home and other views

The following table displays icons and indicators that show the status of your device, an enabled feature, or a call or contact’s status. You can tap certain icons to access information or enable features.

Phone icons and status indicators

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Placed call

Presence status (Busy)

Received call

Presence status (Away)

Missed call

Presence status (Do Not Disturb)

Call forwarding is enabled

Presence status (Offline)

Tap to access recent calls

Presence status (Unknown)

Tap to access Home view and other views

Task

Action

Return to Home view from any screen.

Tap .

Return to the previous screen.

Tap .

Switch phone views.

If you are in an active call, tap to switch between Home view, Lines view and Calls view.

If you are not in an active call, tap to switch between Home view and Lines view.

If you are in Home view and tap , the Idle screen displays. Swipe the screen to display Lines view.

Highlight calls in Calls view.

Tap a call to highlight it. The soft keys apply to the highlighted call.

Select a menu item or option.

Tap the menu item or option.

Close an option box without selecting anything.

Tap .

Select an icon, soft key, menu item, or option.

Tap the icon, soft key, menu item, or option.

Navigate Your Phone’s Interface

The following table shows you how to navigate your phone’s screens, perform tasks, and select and highlight options.

Navigating your phone interface

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Task

Action

Select a soft key that’s not in view.

If a More soft key displays at the far-right of the soft key area, this indicates that additional soft keys are available. Tap More to view the additional soft keys.

Enter Data and Update Fields

You can use the onscreen keyboard to enter information and edit fields. Depending on the type of data needed for each field, you can choose from options that help you format the information you enter. You must choose an option before you display the onscreen keyboard.

To change how numbers and text are formatted:

1 Touch the field where you want to enter text. 2 Tap Encoding in the soft key area, and choose one of the following options:

 Abc Capitalizes the first letter and uses lower case for the remaining letters  ABC Enters upper case only  abc Enters lower case only  123 Enters numbers only  ASCII Enters standard text  Latin Enters accented characters  Katakana Enters Japanese characters  Unicode Enters characters as double byte  Cyrillic Enters Russian characters

To enter a URL or telephone number in the Contact field:

1 Touch the field where you want to enter a URL or telephone number. 2 Tap Mode in the soft key area, and choose one of the following options:

 URL Enters letters, numbers, and characters  Tel Enters numbers

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User Tip: Select Your Information Input Mode

Tap , , , or to select alphabetic, numerical, upper case, or lower case mode. For more information on these keys, see the table Using the Onscreen Keyboard to Enter

Information.

Use the Onscreen Keyboard

You can use the onscreen keyboard to update field information. When a data entry field requires only numbers, the onscreen keyboard displays only numbers.

Onscreen keyboard

To use the onscreen keyboard:

1 In the status bar, tap .

This icon displays in the status bar wherever you can enter information in a field.

2 To enter information in a specific way—for example, in upper case only and using the ASCII

format—tap and select the options you want, as shown next.

3 Press your finger on the character you want.

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