Voice Mail Our phone system goes to voice mail at 4 rings, how can I extend to 10 rings? Thank You:

Follow the Ring Time instructions in the "Using the Answering System" section beginning on page 15 of the manual.

go to voice mail option in our phone and switch it off and extend the time to put on voice mail

When it stops ringing, the caller goes to your voice mail, right?

If so, then you need to contact your phone company and have them change your "Ring Cycle" -- that's the number of rings before the voice mail system picks up.

Some phone companies have a way for you to do this yourself from their website, other require that you call up the customer service line. Either way, the thing you want to adjust is your voice mail ring cycle.

ask your local admin to remove your phone from coverage path

deactivate your voice mail service

Try going into your settings/call settings/call divert.
Go into Call Divert and cancel all diverts.
This should solve your problem.

You have to change the rings from the voice mail server. If you don't know your way around the server, its best to get a local NEC tech although it is fairly simple to navigate. Depends on your skill. Typical default password for the server is NEC

You can try the steps below:

A) The simplest method is to call your carrier and request a longer ring time, up to 30 seconds.
B) If you have a GSM based phone, some have had success by dialing this number from your phone: **61*XXXXXXXXXXX**30#

• Replace XXXXXXXXXXX with the number of your carrier voice mail center (find it by looking at your Phone Dialer > Options > VoiceMail > Access Number. Put your access number in place of the Xs above.

For example, the T-Mobile voice mail access number is 18056377243, and thus the string to dial would be **61*18056377243**30#

• Replace the 30 at the end of the string with your desired seconds. For most carriers, 30 seconds is the longest allowed.

• NOTE: Has been reported this doesn't work for Rogers (8700r) . 6/17/2005. Morser

Your programming is off by one hour. Check the system clock and make sure it is on local time. Some systems require a manual reset back and forth for daylight savings.If the clock wasn't corrected, this will account for the voice mail redirect. Thank You. Jerry

Typically you want your phone system to ring your phones (say extension 10, 11 and 15) and then if no one answers after so many rings the call is transfered to the port the voice mail is on (let's say it's port 16) The voice mail is set to answer right away but does not "ring" until the call is transfered to it. This way (at 4 rings) if a call comes in on line 1 and you answer after 3 rings but a call comes in on line 2 at the same time, the first ring on line 2 will not make the total = 4 and set off the voice mail. I would guess the port at your voice mail is not set to ring and nothing is set up to transfer calls to your voice mail. Did you set this up yourself? How did you program the phone system?