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Chapter 6Messages & Setup®With Dial Tone Detection and‘Phone Avail.’ Detection both turnedoff, if you happen to be talking on thephone when the Recorder tries to call youwill hear the modem dial and try toconnect to the TiVo service.disrupted if the Recorder attempts to call the TiVo service. If you have a standard dialtone, and ‘Phone Avail.’ Detection is off, turn on Dial Tone Detection (below).If you are experiencing “Failed, Line unavailable” errors, or if the Recorder is notmaking daily calls, you may have a low-voltage phone system that the Recordercannot detect. In this case, it’s best to have ‘Phone Avail.’ Detection off.Set Dial Tone Detection. This setting is on by default. If you leave it on, the Recorderwill check for a dial tone before it starts dialing. However, if you have a non-standarddial tone, or a stuttering dial tone (as some voice messaging systems have), theRecorder will be unable to detect the dial tone and will not make its call.Restore previous options. The Recorder must make a successful test phone callbefore it will accept changes to Phone Dialing Options. If you want to restore yourprevious dialing options and continue past this screen without making a test phonecall, select “Restore previous options.”106TiVo Central Messages & Setup Settings Phone & Network