I use this feature all of the time. It's great.
What I do is set the Newt on my desk (it's usually flat, in its case)
then set it to dial, pick up the phone from the cradle, and literally
put the phone's mouthpiece, or mike, directly on the Newt's speaker. If
I only hold the mouthpiece close to the speaker, other noise in my
office (or the volume of the tones) may interfere.
If you are just holding the Newt close to the phone, perhaps the tone is
not loud enough to set off the "trigger" in the phone system for the
numbers. Try literally holding the phone on the Newton.
If this were just happening on one phone, I would ask if the phone was
set to pulse as opposed to tone dialing, but I believe that you said you
have tried this on multiple phones.
Patrick
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
A Message from Patrick Jendraszak ... Reply to indyibook_at_home.com
On Sunday, February 10, 2002, at 01:07 PM, James Elliott wrote:
>
>> on 10/02/02 01:54, James Elliott at rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>> For some reason I can never dial a phone using the Newt's speaker. I
>>> tell the Newt to dial using the speaker and then hold it near the mic
>>> on the phone. All I get is a dial tone. I am missing something?
>>
>> James,
>>
>> What do you mean, all you get is a dial tone? You mean, for the entire
>> number, you only hear one (1) dial tone? That's odd...
>>
>> -Laurent.
>
> I hear the dial tone when I first pick up the receiver, and I hear an
> unbroken dial tone all through the time that the Newt is dialing.
> I've tried his on multiple Newts with multiple phones. Am I leaving
> out a step or something?
>
> -James
>
> The James Elliott Newton Site:
> http://www.geocities.com/rootbeeraddict/newton.html
> All work and no play makes James a dull boy and prevents this week's
> update.
>
> --
> This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net
> To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or
> mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
>
>
-- This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Sat Mar 02 2002 - 10:02:30 EST