Caller ID is not shown for incoming calls
Caller ID is not shown for incoming calls:
- When you receive calls, a phone connected to the FRITZ!Box does not show the caller's phone number (caller ID), or the caller's phone number is only shown briefly in its display.
- A phone does not show which phone number the caller has called.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the problem is solved.
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
1 Activating text information in the FRITZ!Box
The following steps are only necessary if you are using a FRITZ!Fon:
- Enter #960*2* on your phone and press the call key (pick up the handset).
- Hang up again after about 3 seconds.
Note:To deactivate text information display again, enter #960*0*.
2 Defining display names in the FRITZ!Box
The following step is only necessary if the phone shows caller ID, but not the number that the caller called:
- Click on 'Telephony' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click on 'Phone Numbers' in the 'Telephony' menu.
- Click the
(Edit) button for the respective phone number. - Enter a name of your choice in the 'Display name' field.
Example:
You can enter 'VOIP_12345', 'provider_12345', 'office', 'private' or '12345' as the display name for the internet phone number 12345. - Click on 'Apply' to save the settings.
3 Enabling caller ID display (CLIP) in the FRITZ!Box
The following steps are only necessary if the phone is connected to an analogue extension (for example 'FON 1'):
- Click on 'Telephony' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click on 'Telephony Devices' in the 'Telephony' menu.
- Click the (Edit) button for the respective phone.
- Click on the 'Telephony Device Features' tab.
- Enable the 'Calling line identification presentation (CLIP)' option.
- If only the number of the caller should be shown, enable the 'Simple mode' option.
- If you want to see which number the caller has called in addition to seeing the caller's number, enable the 'Expanded mode' option.
- Click on 'Apply' to save the settings.
4 Checking the FRITZ!Box's call list
- Click on 'Telephony' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click on 'Calls' in the 'Telephony' menu.
- Check whether caller ID is shown is for incoming calls (blue or red handset).
- If caller IDs are displayed, the FRITZ!Box detects the numbers of the callers. The phone does not display the caller IDs because it does not process the numbers signaled by the callers according to the general specifications. However, the phone may display caller ID when connected directly to your line, but not when it is connected to the FRITZ!Box.
Note:CLIP can be used with many cordless phones, for example with all FRITZ!Fon models and many phones from the Siemens Gigaset series. However, we cannot guarantee that CLIP will work with phones from other manufacturers.
- If caller ID is not shown for calls to an ISDN or internet number, either your telephony provider did not enable CLIP for your line, or the callers do not transmit their caller ID.
- If caller ID is not shown for calls to an analogue landline number, continue with the next section.
5 Checking the analogue phone line and devices
The following step is only necessary if the caller ID is not shown when your analogue landline number is called:
Checking CLIP support
- Disconnect the FRITZ!Box from the DSL splitter's phone socket.
- Connect an analogue phone to the DSL splitter's phone socket.
- If the phone does not show caller ID now, either your telephony provider did not enable CLIP for your line yet, your phone does not support CLIP, or the caller did not transmit his caller ID.
Connecting all phones and telephony devices to the FRITZ!Box
- Connect all telephony devices (for example phones, faxes) to the FRITZ!Box.
Important:Connecting additional telephony devices or sockets to the phone jack can cause errors.
Excluding another device as source of interference
Either a device connected to the FRITZ!Box or the power mains may be transmitting interference to the FRITZ!Box. Perform the following test to see if this is the case:
- Remove all devices and cables from the LAN ports and the USB port on the FRITZ!Box. If no devices were connected, connect a computer to a LAN port on the FRITZ!Box.
- If the error no longer occurs, then a device connected to the FRITZ!Box was transmitting interference to the FRITZ!Box or the computer now channels it off. Usually, you can eliminate the cause of the interference through one of these measures:
- Use a power strip to connect the FRITZ!Box and all of the connected devices to the same electrical socket.
- Test different electrical sockets and power strips.
- Use UTP network cables to connect devices to the LAN ports on the FRITZ!Box. UTP network cables do not have a ground wire and do not transmit interference to the FRITZ!Box, unlike STP network cables such as the one included with delivery.
Important:If the problem occurs with a FRITZ!Powerline device, use the UTP network cable included with the FRITZ!Powerline device.
- If a device connected to the USB port is transmitting interference to the FRITZ!Box, connect the device to a USB port on your computer instead of to the FRITZ!Box.
Swapping the wires of the first phone jack
The error can occur on an analogue landline if the wires that feed into the phone jack from your provider are reversed/swapped:
- Swap both of the wires that feed into the first phone jack (main phone jack) from your provider in your home. When you unscrew the cover of the phone jack, the two wires you should swap are normally found on the left of the screw terminal at the top, depending on the type of jack. The contacts are labelled 1 and 2 or 1a and 1b.
Signal quality is too low
If your FRITZ!Box still does not show caller ID for incoming calls, the signal quality of your analogue landline is too low.
Compared to simple phones, phone systems always place higher demands on the signal quality of analogue phone lines. The FRITZ!Box is capable of recognizing and processing all incoming signals correctly well beyond the specification limits. However, when used on lines subject to much interference, the FRITZ!Box's tolerance to errors is slightly lower than that of an analogue phone connected directly to your line. Therefore, under some circumstances, a phone that is connected directly to your line can evaluate the CLIP information even though the FRITZ!Box cannot. This is not due to an error with the FRITZ!Box; instead, it is because the signal quality of the analogue landline is too low.
