How do i turn off the silent mode on a uniden phone, ive held down the # sign and nothings happening

Silent Mode
You can silence the ringers on the base and all handsets for a specific period of time; the answering system answers any incoming calls without playing anything through the speaker.
With the phone in standby, press and hold # on any handset. The phone prompts you to select the number of hours (1 - 9 or Always On) that you want it to stay in silent mode.
To confirm, press # or just wait about 5 seconds. The phone turns on the answering system and displays Silent Mode On on each handset.After the selected number of hours, the phone automatically exits silent mode. To exit silent mode manually, press and hold # again.
If the phone is in silent mode and you turn off the answering system, the phone exits silent mode.
Multihandset Features To use the features in this section, you need at least 2 handsets.
Your base supports a total of 12 cordless handsets: the one that came with the base and up to 11 DCX160 accessory handsets.You must register accessory handsets to the base before using them. (Handsets that came packaged with the base are already registered.)Handsets that aren't registered display a Not Registered message. For registration instructions, see p. 18, or see the accessory handset manual.If a handset was ever registered to a base, you must reset it before it can register to a new base; see p. 18, or see the accessory handset manual.Conference Calling
When an outside call comes in, two handsets can join in a conference call with the outside caller.
To join a call that's already in progress, just press Talk/flash or SpeSpeSpeaker.To leave the conference call, hang up normally; the other handset remains connected to the call.

The DECT2080 doesn't have a silent mode. Instead the ringer can be muted by lowering the ring volume. To increase the ringer tone, with the handset in standby, press the up arrow. (For the base, press the Volume+ button when in standby.) There are 4 settings (Off, low, medium and high).

The manual for the DECT2080 is available from Uniden. The number after the dash only indicates the number of handsets that come with the phone initially. So the manual for the DECT2080 is the same for the DECT2080-2 and the DECT2080-5. The direct link to the manual is http://www.uniden.com/content/ebiz/uniden/resources/ownersmanuals/DECT2080-2om.pdf . All Uniden DECT phone manuals in numerical and alphabetical order are here: http://www.uniden.com/bin/venda?ex=co_disp-view&bsref=uniden&scat=dectphones_mnl .

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells