Receiving faxes with Samsung SPH-A620?

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James Moore wrote:
> I've set up my SPH-A620 to use Windows Fax (from XP Pro) to send faxes.
> That works just fine. Some people have suggested that you need to use
> special data numbers to make faxing work; that's not my experience. Fax
> calls to my regular fax machine number work just fine.
>
> Problem is I can't figure out how to get the phone to answer for an incoming
> fax call.
>
> Suggestions? I tried the standard AT&s0=2 (answer after two rings) and got
> an OK back from the phone, but it still doesn't answer incoming calls.
> ATDTXXXXXXX (replace the Xs with a real phone number) works to have the
> phone make an outgoing call.

There may be a menu setting. Keep in mind that it will almost definitely be
billed as a data call.


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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:24:13 -0800, James Moore wrote:

> I've set up my SPH-A620 to use Windows Fax (from XP Pro) to send faxes.
> That works just fine. Some people have suggested that you need to use
> special data numbers to make faxing work; that's not my experience. Fax
> calls to my regular fax machine number work just fine.
>
> Problem is I can't figure out how to get the phone to answer for an incoming
> fax call.
>
> Suggestions? I tried the standard AT&s0=2 (answer after two rings) and got
> an OK back from the phone, but it still doesn't answer incoming calls.
> ATDTXXXXXXX (replace the Xs with a real phone number) works to have the
> phone make an outgoing call.
>
> Failing that, and not really a sprint question: anyone know how go directly
> from a fax machine to a modem without having two phone lines? I'd really
> like to use my fax machine as a scanner with a document feeder for scanning
> paperwork (fax quality is perfectly acceptable for bills and such), but I
> don't have two wired lines.
>
> - James

That is what the data/fax phone number is for. To tell the phone to pick
up and treat the incoming call on the data/fax number as a data/fax
connection. The number is not for sending faxes out. The other method
instead of a special fax/data number is to look on the phone for a menu
that lets you set what the next incoming call is. Usually it will give you
a choice of voice/data/fax where setting it to data/fax tells the phone to
pick up the call and notify the connected devices there is an incoming
call.

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I've seen such a menu setting on my Samsungs older than the A620, but I
can't find such a setting on my A620.

Steve Sobol wrote:
> There may be a menu setting. Keep in mind that it will almost definitely
> be billed as a data call.

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