How do I get the new telephone to work with the Bellsouth digital answering machine model 1188?

SOURCE: Won't work on my cable line

Yeah, I called Thompson's too....no help at all. I had the cable phone guy come out and he's never seen anything like it. Finally bought new phones and gave mine to my parents...they have bellsouth and the phones work fine there......strangest thing.

SOURCE: instructions for model 1188

Hi Diana - To record your outgoing message, hold down your ogm button ( outgoing message) for two seconds and it will ask you to record a message. To play back your message, just push the same button and it will play your message. If you don't like it just do it again. If this solves your problem PLEASE rate this as fixed. If you need more help just add a comment and I'll be happy to assist you further. Thanks and have a good day.

Jeff

SOURCE: My child messed up with

switch off for few minutes and then try again your password it would work definitely.......

SOURCE: User manual for a Bellsouth answering machine model 1188

Found my manual!
To set the time, press and hold the time/code button for 2 seconds. You will hear "TO SET CODE PRESS TIME AND CODE BUTTON."
Release the time/code button.
Press the 2 way/m button once. You will hear "SET DAY AND TIME, SUNDAY"
Press the << or >> button until you hear the correct day.
Press the time/code button once. You will hear "TWELVE"
Press the << or >> button until you hear the correct hour.
Press the time/code button once. You will hear "OH".
Press the << or >> button until you hear the correct minutes.
Press the time/code button once. You will hear "PM".
Press the << or >> button if you need to change to AM.
Press the time/code button once and you will hear the complete time and day setting.

To record an outgoing message, press and hold the ogm button. Release the ogm button and start to record after you hear "PLEASE RECORD AFTER THE TONE" followed by a beep tone. When finished, press the ogm button.

Make sure you put a battery in the answering machine so you don't lose these settings if the power goes out!

SOURCE: Bellsouth model 1188 digital ans machine

Press and hold the "clock" button. You will hear a beep and the display will begin flashing a number which represents the day of the week. 1=sun, 2=mon, and so on. Press the left and right arrow buttons to scroll through. After choosing the day, press the "clock" button again to set the hour. It will start with 12 am and go through 11pm. Press "clock" again after setting the hour to set the minute.You will be able to scroll through 0-59 to choose the minute. When finished, press the "clock" button again to exit the time setting feature.