Uniden cordless phones: How to prepend a 1 to a phone number in caller-id
Lacey and I have had a several different sets of cordless phones over the past 8 years or so. They’ve all had caller-id, and we’ve moved from 900mhz->2.4ghz->5.8ghz.
When I say “sets of cordless phones”, I’m talking about cordless phones that come with two or more phones (and charger cradles) in the box, and only one of the bases needs to plug into the phone line wall jack. The other bases just need to plug into the AC power outlet.
Two or three of those sets were made by Uniden, and I recently re-learned how to do something that I haven’t had to do for a long time. When I wanted to dial a long-distance number that was in my caller-id list, I needed to put a ‘1′ in front of it.
So, I first tried using the directional pad, hoping I could just move the cursor all the way to the left, and then push 1. But the left side of the directional pad is a global hotkey that opens the Phone Book.
Next, I opened the phone’s “Settings” menu, and looked for an option to automatically put a ‘1′ in front of long-distance numbers. Some of the other phones we’ve had allowed you to configure that, but this one did not.
After looking through the settings, I decided to try pushing the button that our last set of phones used for toggling the ‘1′ prefix. With our previous set of phones, if you did not configure them to automatically put a ‘1′ before phone numbers in the caller-id when the area code was different from the one you were calling from, you could toggle it by pressing the pound (#) button.
But, that didn’t work. So I went online and googled for something along the lines of ‘uniden tru9280-4 how to add a 1 before calling from caller id’. I did not get (m)any results, though, so I kept trying variations of that, but never ran across the result I was looking for.
Finally, I went to Uniden’s website, and found the manual for the Uniden TRU9280-4. In the manual, in the section called ‘Using Caller ID, Call Waiting, and Redial Lists’, and under the sub-heading ‘Making a Call from a Caller ID Record’, I found the answer I was looking for.
Here is that paragraph, with the information I needed highlighted:
Making a Call from a Caller ID Record
When the phone is in standby, press [ ] to open the Caller ID list.
Use [ ] and [ ] to find the Caller ID record you want to dial.
To add (or delete) a “1” to the beginning of the displayed phone number, press [*/tone].
Press [ /flash] or [ ] to dial the number.
Note: You can also press [ /flash] or [ ] before you open the caller ID list. When you come to the phone number
you want to dial, press [select/ ].
So, the Uniden has a feature to toggle the 1 from the currently selected phone number, just like the VTech. The Vtech uses ‘#’, but the Uniden uses ‘*’.
Hopefully this information will save somebody some time, someday.
**UPDATE** I just noticed that when I copied/pasted that paragraph from the manual, all of the phone button icons disappeared. So, I uploaded a screenshot of the paragraph, with icons intact.
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November 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
what they oughtta do is… you pick up receiver, dial the 1, then select the caller id # and dial it — but the 1 has already been manually dialed. I’d be happy with that.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Or, make the left arrow on the directional pad actually move the cursor left. There’s already a ‘Clear’ function that works as a backspace key–deleting the last character rand moving the cursor left one position.
The D-pad should have local functions, but this particular phone does not do that. This phone makes the D-pad take on global functions (unlike some of the little buttons above the D-pad, which have local functionality, like Clear and Select), moving you from one major section to another (left=Phone Book, right=Caller ID). At least the up and down arrows scroll through whichever you’re looking at, rather than taking you to a different section (I think).
November 26th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
My first comment on Dave’s blog! Wooo! Tits!
All I have to do on my Uniden phone is scroll through caller id to the # I want and push 1- it automatically plugs in the 1 before the rest of the #. I have no idea how to remove a 1 though.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I thought that was my mom posting.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I did too. Then I read it, and realized there’s no way that was your mom. :)
November 30th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
@Anne:
Hmm, that’s interesting, I’ll have to see if that works on mine.
As for removing a ‘1′, though, have you tried pushing ‘*’? On my phones, that button TOGGLES the ‘1′ prefix.
You try that, and I’ll try what you said, and we can both report back here with our results.
oh, and nice tits btw :)
November 30th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Ok, sadly I do not have any long distance #’s in my caller id right now. Wait…that’s weird the few #’s that should be long distance do not have the 1 in front on my caller id. My friends in Tennessee and Norfolk are both listed but with no 1 in front. What’s up with that??
But the “*” does nothing(nor does “#” or any other key). And if I hit 1 it adds the one in front and if I hit 1 again it removes it. Hmmm.
Btw- me, my tits and cream puffs are gonna be at your house tonight ;-)
November 30th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Hell yeah, you know how I love your goodies, Anne. *drool*
In fact, so does Lacey. oh yeah, should be enjoyable for all.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:42 am
Oh yeah, and as for the results of trying just pressing ‘1′ on my phone when a long distance caller id entry was displayed: It does nothing.
‘*’ toggles a ‘1′ at the beginning of the number, and ‘#’ toggles whether or not the area code is included in the number.
These two functions work independently of each other, though, so if the caller ID says ‘434-555-1212′ and I press ‘#’, it becomes ‘555-1212′, and if I then press ‘*’ it becomes ‘1-555-1212′, which is just silly. :)
Anyways, apparently these features are not consistent from one Uniden phone to another. Oh well. At least I included the model number (tru9280-4), so someone googling for that model number will get useful info.
What model number is your phone, Anne? Might as well include that, since you posted a useful trick for that model (pressing ‘1′ to toggle the ‘1′ prefix… definitely more intuitive than ‘*’ or ‘#’).
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Ihave a old uniden cordless phone, I have calls being made from my house with the letter P after that example(244-5633P) what does that P mean? Can I retrieve stored calls in my phone, my husband and I are divorced and Icant get into the phone..
PLEASE HELP ME, i HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING….
April 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am
THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME INSANE FOR YEARS!! Your solution works, and I thank you. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!