"Harry Stottle" <sorryspamdoesntwork@nospam.uk.co> wrote in message
news:taaIj.35925$kN5.27177@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>I have a Sipura 2000 connected to a Netgear WGT 624 router, and the dect
>phone that is plugged into the Sipura is a Philips SE 4351. The handset
>backlight on the phone is supposed to switch off after 20 seconds of no key
>pressing or activity, but remains on all the time, therefore draining the
>battery very quickly. I tried a second handset and this did not make any
>difference, and it is the same on both Sipgate and Voipfone. In desperation
>I tried unplugging the phone cable, and the backlight then switched off
>automatically as it should, so it appears that something from the Sipura
>setup might be triggering the phone circuitry and keeping the backlight
>alive. Can anyone suggest a setting I could try on the Sipura to try and
>cure this problem? I cannot try the phone in a normal landline as I am
>fully VoIP, and switching off the backlight completely makes the handset
>hard to read in certain lighting conditions, so I need the backlight
>working as it should be. A couple of hours of Googling has not turned up
>anything, and I have emailed Philips about this and am awaiting a reply,
>but wondered if anyone else has had a similar problem and how they got
>around it.


Many DECT phones automatically go off hook at intervals to see
if there is a voicemail message indicated by stuttered dial-tone.
I suppose it would make sense to illuminate the display for
a short time if a message was detected. I have noticed if there
are two such devices on the same line or Void port they
mutually trip each other and alternately go off hook every
few seconds.
I know this probably doesn't answer your query, I'm just
thinking aloud as it were, do you have a normal UK sounding
dial-tone from your Sipura? could there be anything else outputting
from the FXS port that could be mistaken for CWI like a non-
UK standard CLI?

--
Graham

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