Nokia 5165 - Restricting calls

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Restricting calls

Use Menu 4 3 1 to restrict outgoing or incoming calls.
This is handy if you want to lend your phone to someone but
don’t want them to make long-distance or other expensive
calls.

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Restricting incoming calls

Choose Restrict incoming calls to prevent your phone from
receiving incoming calls. Enter your security code, then
press OK. Press Mark, then press

. Press Yes to save this

change (or

to cancel).

Note: This feature requires the caller ID network service, and
the caller’s ID must be available to the phone in order for the
restriction to work.

Allowing incoming calls

To allow incoming calls once again, choose Restrict incoming
calls
and enter your security code. Press Unmark, then press

. Press Yes to save this change (or

to cancel).

Restricting outgoing calls

You can create a list of numbers to which outgoing calls
cannot be made. A call restriction can consist of an entire
phone number, an area code, etc. When the restriction is
selected, calls cannot be made to any number beginning
with those digits. For example, entering 2145551234 will
block calls to (214) 555-1234 only. 1 will block all calls
starting with 1, including long distance calls and 1-800 calls.
1800 will block 1-800 calls only.

Adding numbers to the restricted outgoing calls list

To prevent your phone from making outgoing calls, choose
Restrict outgoing calls. Enter your security code, then press
OK. Continue with the steps illustrated below.

1 Add restriction is selected.

Press OK.

2 Enter the phone number, area code,

etc. to which you want to restrict
calls, then press OK.

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3 If you want, give a name of up to

10 characters to the restriction
(such as Joey, Long dist, or 1-800
#s
), then press OK.

The entry is added to your list of
restricted numbers.

Allowing calls to a number on the list

If you later decide to allow calls to a
restricted number, press Select to see
your list of numbers. Press Unmark to
remove the restriction. (The number
remains in the list so that you can
restrict it again later by pressing Mark.) When you’re done,
press .

Press

Yes to save your changes (or

to cancel).

Making changes to the restricted outgoing calls list

To edit or completely erase an entry in the list, choose Edit
or Erase, select the entry you want to edit or erase, and
follow the instructions on the screen.