Using Gigaset HX handsets with a FRITZ!Box

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Registering a Gigaset HX handset with a FRITZ!Box

Setting up the handset to make use of  the FRITZ!Box network answering machine

Transferring the telephone directory from one HX to another

Registering a Gigaset HX handset with a FRITZ!Box

Registering a Gigaset HX handset to a FRITZ!Box is very easy. Simply follow the seven steps below:

1. Click on "Telephony" in the user interface (http://fritz.box) of the FRITZ!Box.
2. In the "Telephony" menu, click on "Telephony Devices".
3. Click on the "Configure new device" button.
4. Activate the option "Telephone (with or without answering machine)" and click on "Next".
5. Activate the option "Cordless (DECT) telephone" and click on "Next".
6. Now start the registration process (Settings, Registration, Register Handset) on your handset.
7. If you are asked to do so, enter the four-digit PIN of the FRITZ!Box on the telephone and confirm with "OK".

Note: If you use the assistant for registering a handset you do not have to press a button on the FRITZ!Box.

Setting up the handset to make use of  the FRITZ!Box network answering machine

To use the network answering machine of the FRITZ!Box, proceed as follows:

1. Press the menu key
2. Select "Answer Machine"
3. Select "Network Mailbox"
4. "Network Mailbox" is shown: please enter **600 there (possibly 601 or 602)
5. Save (press the right-hand key below the display).
6. Then press the 1 key a little longer to go directly to the answering machine of the FRITZ!Box.

To operate the voicebox of the Telekom, please carry out the following steps:

1. Press the menu key
2. Select "Answer Machine"
3. Select "Network Mailbox"
4. "Network Mailbox" is shown: please dial there 08003032424
5. Save (press the right-hand key below the display).
6. Then press key 1 a little longer to go directly to the voicebox of the Telekom.

Transferring the telephone directory from one HX to another

You want to transfer the phone directory of your Gigaset HX to another Gigaset HX handset?  

1. First you have to transfer the phone directory of the Gigaset HX to the FRITZ!Box by pressing the phonebook button on your Gigaset HX. 
2. Then please select "Copy All" under Options. 
3. Select "to Base Directory" to start the transfer to the FRITZ!Box phone directory. 
4. Then press and hold the phone directory button on your second handset. 
5. This is how you will call up the telephone directory of the FRITZ!Box.
6. Find and select the option "Copy All" and select "to Handset Directory" to start receiving the FRITZ!Box phone directory.

You can transfer the whole phone directory, a single entry or several individual entries.

Please note:

• An external incoming call stop the transmission.
• Caller pictures and ringtones are not transmitted. Additional to the name and the phone numbers only the date of the birthday is transmitted.
• When transfering an entry between two vCard handsets: If the recipient does not yet have an entry with the name, a new entry is created.
• If an entry with the name already exists, this entry is extended by the new numbers. If there are more than 8 numbers in total, a second entry with the same name is created.
• If the recipient is not a vCard handset: A separate entry is created and sent for each number. Your handset receives entries from a non-vCard handset: Entries with numbers already stored are discarded, otherwise a new entry is created.
• CAT-iq support has to be activated on the FRITZ!Box.

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