Nokia 6185 Owner's Manual

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78Configuring your data or fax softwareOnce properly connected and configured, your PC willrecognize your phone as an external standard fax/modem.However, your fax or data software may already beconfigured to use the existing PCMCIA or internal modem.Before you can use your phone to send and receive dataor faxes, you must reconfigure your fax or data softwareso that it uses your phone rather than your existingmodem. You may consider creating a separate set ofdialing properties to use when your phone is connected,rather than changing any existing settings.Please refer to the documentation or online help files foryour data or fax application when creating new dialingconfigurations, or modifying existing settings.To start a data or fax callNote: The restrict calls feature may affect any data/fax calls youattempt. If you experience problems, check your call restrictions.See page 57 for details.1. Initiate a data or fax call using your data or faxsoftware configured for your phone.2. When trying to connect to the network, the phonedisplays Connecting... Once connected, the textData call (or Fax call) remains on the display for theduration of the data or fax call.3. Terminate the data call from your data software; faxcalls typically terminate automatically.Note: Avoid terminating a call by pressing your phone’s key.This may cause your data or fax application to temporarily lock upand could cause loss of data.Note: Data or fax calls cannot be initiated using your phone’skeypad. All data and fax calls must be initiated using the data orfax software.79To receive a data or fax callYour phone must be connected to your PC via the datacable.1. The appropriate data or fax software must be run-ning. Consider setting your data or fax software toautomatically answer incoming calls so you canreceive them while away from your PC.2. Your phone will display either Data call or Fax call,depending on the type of incoming call.3. Terminate the data call from your data software; faxcalls typically terminate automatically.Note: Avoid terminating a call by pressing your phone’s key.This may cause your data or fax application to temporarily lock upand could cause loss of data.Manual selection of incoming data/fax callsCertain service providers require that you preset yourphone to receive the incoming data or fax call, ratherthan having the phone automatically detect the call type.Check with your service provider to see if “pre-arrangement” ofdata and/or fax calls is necessary.Most popular data and fax programs allow you to sendadditional initialization commands to the modem whenthe program is launched, or when the modem isinstructed to receive a call. You will need to modify yourphone’s modem configuration in the data or fax softwareso that it sends the following special initialization stringto the modem:To preset your phone to receive a data call:AT+CSP=1To preset your phone to receive a fax call:AT+CSP=2