GE 29016S Caller ID Box

Works great

. Well I was impressed initially but after a few days of "REPLACE BATTERIES" I gave up...... I used my normal new supply of spare batteries and after one day it said I needed to replace them, I did and the next day the same thing. These were standard batteries and after two attempts at this on the THIRD time replace batteries i pulled out the arsenal of rechargeable AA's and still the same problem. I don't know if I got a reject/lemon but after trying batter swapping for a week I just left a set of rechargeable batteries in it and it has been working for a month now but still saying recharge the batteries. I, like many of you have bought things from Amazon for years and this has been my only defective item so far. I'm not going through the return hassle for a crummy 17 Bux and just hope these caller I.D. boxes don't continue to be defective off the assembly line.. BTW, I have rebooted/power cycled this thing also.... I like Amazon so this defective item isnt' their fault and I will continue to purchase from Amazon just as I always have to "score the bargain."

Simply, it does the job. (visibility,even with contrast control, is good but not great) Good unit

I was happy with this item. GE is great!

Whatever happened to the good old days, when caller ID boxes featured readable displays? I have a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old unit both of which are far easier to read than this one. The digits contrast poorly with the background, and the display is covered with a cheap, shiny material which reflects light. There are five adjustable contrast settings: bad, worse, awful, atrocious, and worst. The polarity of the feed-through is reversed, which means that an older push-tone phone cannot be plugged in through the box (you can't dial out). Newer phones, and rotary phones, should work OK. When the caller is UNKNOWN (unavailable, out-of-area) the words UNKNOWN NUMBER blink, but very slowly, in an annoying way that forces you to wait a second to see what's going on. This box, in common with most others, cannot be used with a 2-line phone plugged into it (not even the phone will work, let alone the caller ID) because the manufacturer was too cheap to include two extra wires in the feed-through. Another feature missing from this and other boxes is a way to delete all calls from a specific number simultaneously (this would be especially handy with UNKNOWN calls). Not a great product, GE, but you're not alone, I guess.

GE unit works ok if line is not in use. If you have a call in progress and a new call beeps, I expect to see at least the number of the new call, but no new information occurs. My wife insists that since it has three display lines, it should indicate the new caller, because we have a phone with three display lines which works that way. We have tossed out the packing box. Maybe we expected more, because of the three line display on our phone. Anyway it works good before the call is answered, and the price was ok.

GE 290165 cALLER id BoxGlad you no longer sell this. I should have known you get what you pay for. It is not what one would expect from a GE product. Wish I had paid more for better eqpt. I do not recommend this by any stretch of imagination. Wish I could return it and pay more for better product.

Received the box (very fast). :) When we installed it - it would not work. I contacted the seller and they apologized.Well, my husband was not going to let this little box defeat him. We already have 2 other ones and there should be no problem with it. So he and a friend tried switching connections and pulling batteries out and in again...nothing. So they put another set of batteries it - it worked and has worked ever since. We are now going to get one more. Thanks.