Got a plain Tesco phone which started a strange behaviour which I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced before. It started ringing with a continuous (i.e. no spaces between rings) whilst on-hook - my mum thought a neighbour's car alarm had gone off! If the handset is lifted, it functions as normally. If one of the other phones has its handset lifted, the ringing on the faulty phone stops (until the other phone's handset is back on-hook). It's a 2 wire cable to the wall, so has its own "master socket" ring generation circuitry. That plugs in underneath and appears as the red and green wires in the middle on this pic:
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9 years ago