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I have the stupidest phone known to man

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Xionide

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I recently grabbed this not too old looking panasonic digital 2.4ghz phone. I thought it would be a nice spare. Everything about this phone is great, it gets good reception and does everything it should. Except one thing. The people who designed it made it so you CANNOT make tone dialing default. ITS MADE TO BE PULSE! Why the fvck would they do that. I figured you know if I downloaded the pdf off of panasonics website that there might be something I am missing. Nope they designed it to do this. WHY? WHY?

After deciding the phones fate I quickly snapped a pic of it before its demise. It taunted me sitting there like it was something I could use. Realizing I had gone through all this trouble setting up a nice little stand for it today. I WANT THAT 15 MINUTES BACK! As the blood started to boil I ripped the cords out of it and tossed it outside. I grabbed the steel bat and tossed the handset into the air. *SNAP* is the first sound of destruction I heard but alas it was only the antenna. After that no more mr.nice bat. I tossed smacked the handset one more time but only the battery and cover came off. After that it was all over. This phone had taunted me enough. I painted my face as the indians did before saccrificing another and tossed the handset on the ground and smashed away. Pieces flying back into my face was the only thing that told me that it was over. But then I notice the base station. It was staring at me with its beady antennas. *HUZZAH!!!!* I screamed as I beat the fvckin thing till it lay in pieces, many pieces.

*WARNING: PICTURES ARE NOT FOR FAINT OF HEART*

OMG!!
TEH HORROR!!
EEK!!!
THE HUMANITY!!

Sorry about the pics guy, my camera is teh suck.
 
isn't there a button on the side that you can switch to tone? i know my 9-year old panasonic can...

btw 2.4Ghz is pretty bad. think 802.11b/g...
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
isn't there a button on the side that you can switch to tone? i know my 9-year old panasonic can...

btw 2.4Ghz is pretty bad. think 802.11b/g...
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No there is no button. It even says in the stupid manual that the stupid phone is the stupid problem. It has a temporary tone dialing "feature" Sounds like its time to go get the baseball bat.
 
wow, that IS pretty lame... I wonder why they even did that... you need pulse dialing for banking and stuff........

weird.
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
wow, that IS pretty lame... I wonder why they even did that... you need pulse dialing for banking and stuff........

weird.
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Ya I know I couldnt believe it actually said that in the manual too. anyone want any before/after baseball bat pics?
 
Originally posted by: Xionide
Originally posted by: CraigRT
wow, that IS pretty lame... I wonder why they even did that... you need pulse dialing for banking and stuff........

weird.
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Ya I know I couldnt believe it actually said that in the manual too. anyone want any before/after baseball bat pics?
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I do 😀
 
My 12 year old corded panasonic phone + machine has tone dialing standard.....
And all of the panasonic cordless phones I've seen at work have always been tone...
😕
 
On a scale of 1-10 I give your rant an 11! :thumbsup:

I was definitely laughing as I read it. Good job on destroying the bastard. Taking out your frustrations on inanimate objects can be so pleasurable even though the object in question feels nothing. 😀
 
Wow. I'm rather amazed. I've got one of the original 2.4GHz Panasonic phones and its been great. Yes, it has a nice switch for tone/pulse dialing. No idea why yours didn't.
 
sounds like my phone. My house still uses pulse dialing for whatever strange reason, and so we just buy pulse phones. Well, I took one to college with me, and the stupid phone doesn't have a switch to default to tone, I have to press the pound button everytime I want to make a call. It's faintly annoying.
 
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Wow. I'm rather amazed. I've got one of the original 2.4GHz Panasonic phones and its been great. Yes, it has a nice switch for tone/pulse dialing. No idea why yours didn't.
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Wow nutbucket congradulations. Your phone had a switch on its side and mine didn't. You know I looked for that exact same switch you were talking about and guess what? IT WASNT THERE! nor was it on the handset. The only thing that did have anything saying something about tone was that button. That button changed it to tone for one call only then the next time you used it it was back to pulse.

Oh and whats this? Oh ya thats the pdf I got from panasonic. Its realyl quite explanitory. Plus the fact that the phone had that temporary button means that they wouldnt have put a toggle switch on the phone.

I would just look at a phone and *think* there is no way to fix it. I researched my sh!t. Now go threadcrap somewhere else jackass.
 
Originally posted by: SWScorch
sounds like my phone. My house still uses pulse dialing for whatever strange reason, and so we just buy pulse phones. Well, I took one to college with me, and the stupid phone doesn't have a switch to default to tone, I have to press the pound button everytime I want to make a call. It's faintly annoying.
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Thats what this phone did.
 
Originally posted by: Xionide
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Wow. I'm rather amazed. I've got one of the original 2.4GHz Panasonic phones and its been great. Yes, it has a nice switch for tone/pulse dialing. No idea why yours didn't.
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Wow nutbucket congradulations. Your phone had a switch on its side and mine didn't. You know I looked for that exact same switch you were talking about and guess what? IT WASNT THERE! nor was it on the handset. The only thing that did have anything saying something about tone was that button. That button changed it to tone for one call only then the next time you used it it was back to pulse.

Oh and whats this? Oh ya thats the pdf I got from panasonic. Its realyl quite explanitory. Plus the fact that the phone had that temporary button means that they wouldnt have put a toggle switch on the phone.

I would just look at a phone and *think* there is no way to fix it. I researched my sh!t. Now go threadcrap somewhere else jackass.
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Its hardly a thread crap. I was just pointing out its interesting that your phone, with a higher model number then mine, was missing this feature. Sheesh.
 
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