Dialing Phone Numbers With Extensions
Bryan B has the badge ‘Forum Guru’ in our forums for good reason. While assisting the community at large on a daily basis, he’s been provided a wealth of knowledge. His latest tip is a real time saver. The question raised was how to add an extension into a phone number so your phone will dial it and you won’t need to manually dial it when connected. Bryan B’s answer was to add a comma into the phone number and each comma represents a one second delay. So dialing 555-123-4567,,999 will dial the number, wait two seconds (for the recipients phone system to pickup) and then dial the extension. I tested it out and it works as advertised. The one oddity is if you type in the number this way directly into the dialer it did not work for me but as a saved contact it was spot on. This is very helpful. Of course, you can use this for codes as well (like calling cards or other passcodes needed).
Thanks again to the super guru Bryan B!:)
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Baubleheadz Using “p” instead of a coma is works more universally over more phones and brands. This worked back when the first flip phones came out.
MPVee As baubleheadz the “p” works on all phones. I programmed my mom’s phone to call me internationally by using a combination of numbers and “p”
Jonathan back from the moto razr days, p is pause and w is wait. i don’t remember the specs exactly, but pause is 1 or 2 seconds, and w is like 5 seconds. mileage will vary by phone and a few ROMs don’t play well with these.
Vyapaar Hello David. Need help with something unrelated to this topic if you don’t mind. I am trying to use Remote Desktop Mobile app on my fuze to connect to my work computer. It does not connect and give error message saying “network error”. Any tips or guidance you can give me, I would really appreciate it. I do not have a data plan and only trying to connect using WIFI…could that be the issue ?? Or am I typing wrong DNS Server number — It gives me 2 numbers and I have tried both. Thanks for your help.
David K Vyapaar – it is likely caused by a firewall at your office. Try this app: http://t2remotetouch.blogspot.com/
I’ve used it and was able to connect when remote desktop could not. If that does not work go to the forums and post there and a lot more people can chime in. Good luck
Vyapaar Thank you Sir. t2remotetouch worked kinda but only via Activesync. When I disconnected and tried to connect via wifi, it did not. Gave me network, ip address error. So I guess I will keep trying. Thanks for your help. Definitely appreciate the quick response
Vyapaar
Deuce I’m trying to use the commat tip with my HCT TP2 but it isn’t working. for some reason the TP2 doesn’t recognize the commas as part of the number. My previous phone was a MotoQ and it worked perfectly. Any suggestions?
Like back in the dial up days, you did that when people had to dial 9 to get an outside line, you would add a comma after the 9.
Good info, i forgot all about it.