How to pair a plantronics c65 headset

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 2214

If you’re like me, and seem to spend what time you’re not sleeping or working on the telephone, then a headset is a mighty sodding good idea. Plantronics make one called the C65 which pairs with any GAP (Generic Access Profile) capable DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) phone such as the handy-dandy Seimens Gigaset E495 I now happen to own.

However, pairing the DECT headset trips some people up as indeed it got me earlier. The snag was the base station PIN.

Reset the PIN for the base station to 0000
Confirm the PIN is 0000 by re-registering a handset as per your DECT phone manual
Hold down the volume wheel on the C65 headset for 3 seconds (When the light comes on, you can let go)
Put your base station into pairing mode (On the E495 base unit, this simply requires you to hold down the button on the front of the unit for ~3 seconds)
After 4-5 seconds, the light on the C65 should go out. Press the main button on the headset and you should get a dialtone
You can now set the base PIN to something less obvious if you wish, but as registering a handset requires physical access to the base unit you’re not at risk from pikey neighbours stealing your phoneline.

Hope this helps someone, I had a brief headscratch moment earlier thanks to my over exuberance with changing the PIN before I’d registered the headset!

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5 Comment for “How to pair a plantronics c65 headset”

Zimchild Said this on April 8th, 2011 at 1305
I wanna thank you for helping out, your steps abover are great, even Siemens nor Plantronics could help, I spent 3 days on this.
Denyerec Said this on April 8th, 2011 at 2342
Glad I could be of some help!
swelt Said this on September 6th, 2011 at 2248
Thanks… if like me you were having problems with a Magicbox Touch phone, holding down the ‘page’ button equates to your step 4
SarahI Said this on October 1st, 2011 at 1306
Hi. We followed the above steps and got the dial tone on the handset. However, when I tried to dial out, the sound went on the headset and eventually I got the voice telling me to replace the handset.
Any ideas?
Denyerec Said this on October 10th, 2011 at 0936
Hey SarahI,
To dial out using the headset, you need to leave the headset off, dial out with the ordinary phone handset and connect the call *first*, then transfer the call from the phone to the headset once you’re on the call.

It’s a bit of a pain for short calls I’ll say that much, but if you know you’ll be on the line for a while it’s not too bad.