Using your Treo 650 to dial extensions

July 30th, 2005 | Jeff Boulter | General

One poorly-documented feature of the Treo 650 is setting it up to dial extensions after the main number.

I use this to dial into a conference call which requires a 10 digit passcode I never want to have to remember. You can also use it to quickly send a page a to numeric pagers. Trying to dial these long sequences while driving could be fatal.

Strangely you cannot do this in the regular contact list. You have to use a favorites button (that grid that pops up from the main phone screen).

Here’s how to set one up:

  1. From the phone, navigate to an empty favorites button using the navigation pad.
  2. Hit the menu button then hit the E key to edit the button.
  3. Make sure the type is Speed Dial and enter a Label like “Conference Call”
  4. Enter the main number
  5. Click the “More” button
  6. In the Extra Digits box, start by entering a bunch of commas, probably at least 7. Each comma will wait for one second before dialing the digits that follow it. You can also use # and *.
  7. Check “Dial Extra Digits Automatically”
  8. Click OK and OK again.
  9. Try dialing your new Speed Dial button.

It may take a few tries to get the number of commas right. You can listen in as it dials to determine if you’ve got too many or too little.

Anyway, it’s a handy little feature that I use quite a bit.



10 Responses to “Using your Treo 650 to dial extensions”

  1. treo Addicts » Blog Archive » Speed dialing #’s with extensions Says:
    August 2nd, 2005 at 8:38 am

    [...] Jeff Boulter | Using you Treo 650 to dial extensions [...]

  2. Brian Says:
    December 14th, 2005 at 9:11 am

    Jeff,

    Thanks for the tip! Not even Palm support was able to give me this answer.

  3. Tony Says:
    February 6th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    This is such a cool feature for calling cards as well as conference calls

  4. Marc Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at 9:26 am

    Excellent tip!! Such simple yet so elusive . Thanks a bunch. It solved my problem with use of calling cards and Treo

  5. International phone cards Says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 7:10 pm

    Is there any specific reason to put 7 comma’s ?

  6. Doan ("dwon") Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge and making it so easy!

  7. Sunil Says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    Awesome, not many people know this.. Did spend a lot of time trying to figure it out

    Thanks

  8. aras Says:
    August 26th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

    fabulous jeff! i am very into using the treo 650. i love all the ways it makes my life easier. thanks for the info.

  9. Ken Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 5:52 am

    I have hunted around for this solution for MONTHS. The “P” worked on a couple of other VM strings …. but not on this one. I was the comma’s …… … you are the MAN …. Thanks Jeff!!!

  10. Brentt Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Still works after all these years. :) Great tip - thanks a million.

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