How do I get the dial tone back? - Uniden TRU9485-2-R 5.8GHz Cordless Phone 1 Extra Handset / Charger

Is the base station plugged into the phone jack on the wall?

Since you declined to specify the model of your VTech 5.8GHz phone, I can only suggest that you enter it into the search box here to download a copy of the manual. The manual will describe how to switch between pulse and tone dialing.

Resetting the voice message waiting indicator
When you receive a new voice mail message, the new message LED on the top of the handset flashes. In the event your message waiting light gets out of sync with your phone company's
voice messaging system, you can manually reset it back to the "No messages waiting" state.
1. Press and hold FiND on the base for five seconds.
Note: The handsets connected to the base will start to beep, however, keep pressing for five seconds.
2. A beep sounds and the message alert tone is reset.
Changing the dial mode
Your phone can communicate with the telephone network in two different ways: tone dialing or pulse dialing. These days, most base networks use a method called tone dialing, so your phone comes programmed for tone dialing. If your phone company uses pulse dialing, you will need to change your phone's dial mode. If you don't get a dial tone or can't connect to the telephone network, please follow the steps below to modify your phone's settings:
1. Press MENU/SELECT.
2. Select the Global Setup menu, and then the Dial Mode submenu.
3. Scroll to highlight Pulse.
4. Press MENU/SELECT. You will hear a confirmation tone.
If you ever need to change the dial mode back to tone dialing, follow the same procedure, but select Tone in step 3.

Finally for future ease of use, here is a link to the user manual were I copied the above information from:

http://www.uniden.com/content/ebiz/uniden/resources/ownersmanuals/DECT1580-3om.pdf

Just press top left (R/<-) button about 3 sec. and a letter changes (p - pulse or t - tone).

I would contact your phone provider. It could be a coinceidence that the dial tone stopped working.
DSL does not require dial tone to work.

Here's what the manual says: Changing the Dial Mode (Tone or Pulse Dialing) (HS1 only) Your phone can communicate with the telephone network in two different ways: tone dialing or pulse dialing. These days, most phone networks use a method called tone dialing, so your phone comes programmed for tone dialing. If your phone company uses pulse dialing, you need to change your phone's dial mode. If you don't get a dial tone or can't connect to the telephone network, follow the steps below to modify your phone?s settings: With the phone in standby, press and hold [cid/menu]. Press [vol/ / ] to move the pointer to select DIAL. Press [select/channel] to set the phone to pulse dialing. Press [end]. Return the handset to the base. The handset communicates the new setting to the base, and the base activates the setting on any other handsets. Hope this helps out. K

Hello Mikenrgrsvll

This problem can be due to the software not handling a certain dial tone rather than a specific hardware fault. Around the world there is a variance in the signal quality of the dial tone which causes a report of no dial tone detection. Disable the dial tone detection to prevent the system from trying to detect a dial tone.
Disabling dial tone detection for modems:
Windows XP

1. Click Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Click Switch to Classic View to change the control panel view
4. Click Phone and Modem Options
5. Select the Modem Tab
6. Select the installed modem (Example: Lucent Technologies Soft Modem AMR)
7. Click the Properties button
8. Select the Modem tab in the Properties window
9. Click Wait for dial tone before dialing to remove the check from the checkbox
10. Select the Advanced tab
11. Add X3 to the Extra initialization commands field in the Extra Settings box
12. Click OK twice
13. Select Switch to Category View to change back the control panel view
14. Close Control Panel

if this does not work trying re-installing modem drivers.

hope this helps, have a good day.

my phone has no dial tone and when you call the phone it has a busy signal. There is no static just sounds like it is not hung up.

Dial Tone comes back even after I dial the phone!
Question:
Why does my phone allow me to dial a number, hear the numbers being dialed and then go back to a dial tone? Help me I want to call out!

Answer:
Sir the you are dialing on needs to have the other dial mode in operation. You have the ability to change dial mode on your phone. Instructions to change dial mode are usually at the beginning of the manual under install /set up the phone. If you are currently using pulse, please change the mode to tone. If using tone please change the mode to pulse. Doing this will allow you to call out.
answer found on www.uniden.com

for my phone I hold down the flash key then the menu comes up and you can press * for tone or # for pulse. Hope it helps!