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HFT and dialing from the phone

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#1 ·
Hello all, just wandered if anybody had any make or model of phone that lets you dial from the phone without it transferring the call to the phone? At the moment I am using the trick of dialling from the phone, hanging up and then using the redial voice command.

All my jobs come in via email on the phone and I usually just highlight the clients number in the email and press dial. That was with an old Nokia bluetooth car kit and it worked well. With the Honda system it then routes the call in the phone handset rather than keeping it in the bluetooth system.

If anybody knows of a phone that will let me dial from the phone but keep the call in the Honda system it would save me a lot of hassle.

many thanks
 
#2 ·
my D900 did this - I think...


I was sitting in the car park waiting for wife.
Phoned me mum (as you do) on my D900, thinking (wrongly as it turned out) that my (work) Nokia was bluetoothed to the Civ.

Dialed the number direct on the phone - it rang (on the phone speaker), but as soon as my mum answered, it all came through the Civ :D

Haven't tried repeating this -
might have been a one off...
 
#3 ·
If anybody knows of a phone that will let me dial from the phone but keep the call in the Honda system it would save me a lot of hassle.
Hi candle if your phone is not totally compatible with all the functions of the honda handsfree system, then go to www.hondahandsfree.com

This site lists all know phone models that work and will tell you how compatible the phones are, you should check your own phone on this site.

I believe what you want to do is not possible with any phone, as honda have setup the system not to allow automatic pass through when you dial using the handset (maybe a safety thing).

But there is a command called call transfer, if your phone supports it then I think this is similar to what you want but certainly not automatic. Below is a description of how to use it pinched from the honda site.

Call Transfer: Ability to transfer a call from the Honda Handsfree Telephone to the phone and the phone to HFL by pressing the TALK button, releasing and saying, “TRANSFER.”


Hope this helps. :)
 
#5 ·
Thanks for the reply, I did try this but the system will not allow you to transfer the call until after the person has answered and then it takes a little while. This is ok but I found when I am phoning customers the person on reception tends not to wait thinking it is a bad line or wrong number.

I may have to ask the boss to pull the old system out of my old car and get that installed if I can't find a phone to work.

Thanks again, I do appreciate the replies
 
#7 ·
I did - and it did :D

probably worth getting a second person with a D900 to confirm just incase it's a firmware version thing, but mine works in the way you are needing :)


having said that, I can't confirm how good the email browser is on the D900, cos I don't use that :oops:
 
#10 ·
Thanks

Thanks all, seems I will have to have a chat with the boss to see if he wants to get me a new phone or if he wants to install a different phone kit.

Appreciate the testing, if anybody else finds other phones that allow you to dial from the phone and keep the call in the HFT please let me know.

:D
 
#12 ·
Hi thanks for the tip, that's what I have been doing but it can be a pain as it seems to take the poor Honda lady hiding in my dash several attempts to understand redial.. Having said that once connected on a phone call people can hear me fine.
 
#17 ·
ta for that CP - reminded me of more detail I forgot to add last time :oops:

(it's not bad news though!)


I dialled on my phone.
niether the phone nor the HFT made ring ring noises.

fraction of a second after the call was answered, voice came through the HFT.

By fraction - I dialled my work phone as a test, which was switched off.

I've got it set to default Voda voice mail message at the mo, which says
"Welcome to Vodaphone Voicemail...."

What I heard on the HFT was
"lcome to Vodaphone Voicemail..."
 
#18 ·
Tried it with my Nokia E50, doesn't do it, but you can push the Bluetooth button on the handset which transfers it to the HFT, oh, and then disconnects after 3 seconds, returning the call to the phone.
 
#19 ·
I dial the number on the phone and immediately cancel the call on the phone.
Then talk to the HFT and say "redial" Works perfectly.
 
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