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Service
Requesting and displaying Info Services
Press
in any menu.
The main service menu will appear.
1New information service is requested from
provider, page 225
Note:
The characters are displayed in light grey during
active request transmission.2Shows date and time of the message,
a list (page one) of all received messages will
appear, move to the next message by pressing the
rotary/pushbutton
Info Services categories include news, weather,
stocks, sports and reminders. Choices can be
selected via www.MBUSA.com or by calling
1-800-FOR-MERCedes.
Note:
If no information is available, the characters are
displayed in light grey.
3The main system settings menu will appear,
page 227
Note:
Before you can use Info Services, TeleAid must be
activated at the Response center and Info Services
selected.
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Press
in any menu.
The main service menu will appear.
Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the “System
Settings” menu field and press to confirm.
The main system settings menu is loaded.1Information on the date, time
Format depends on the time format selected,
to select the time format, page 237
2Adjusting the brightness, page 228
3Accessing the settings menu, page 229
4Country setting,
the time zone can also be displayed
Note on (4):
Information is shown if the clock has been set to GPS
reception and if a country, e.g. USA, Canada and time
zone was selected, page 234.
Setting the clock with GPS reception, page 232.
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Adjusting the brightness
Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the
“Brightness” menu field and press to confirm.
The Brightness menu will appear.
1Previous setting
2Current setting
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To darken the screen:
Turn the rotary/pushbutton
to the left,
the triangle (2) moves to the left.
To brighten the screen:
Turn the rotary/pushbutton to the right,
the triangle (2) moves to the right.
To confirm the new setting:
Press the rotary/pushbutton .
The main system settings menu will now appear.
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Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the
“Settings” menu field in the main system settings
menu and press to confirm.
The settings menu will appear.1Selects the language, page 230
2Sets the date and time, page 231
3Switches the beep tones on and off, page 238
4Activates factory settings, page 239
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Selecting the language
Press the rotary/pushbutton
to confirm the
highlighted “Language...” menu field in the settings
menu.
The languages list will appear.
1Current language setting appears in red
2Page back, if the arrow is filled in
3Page forward for more languages
Use the rotary/pushbutton to highlight the desired
language and press to confirm.The message “Loading the xx language” will be
displayed.
The language selected will be loaded.
You will hear the corresponding voice output.
Note:
The language affects the menu text displays and the
voice output during route guidance.
After the language has been loaded, the main system
settings menu will appear with the display text in the
language selected.
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With GPS reception
Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the “Date/
Time ...” menu field in the “Settings” menu (page 229)
and press to confirm.
1GPS symbol indicates GPS time reception
2Setting the clock to a 30 minute increments,
Activating the setting mode, page 233
3Selecting the country and time zone, page 234
4Selecting the time format, page 237Without GPS reception
5Setting the date and time manually, page 236
Note:
If GPS time is not available, the GPS symbol (1) will not
appear in the display.
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Selecting the country and the time zone
Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the “Country
(Time)” menu field in the “Date/Time” menu and press
it to confirm.
An input menu will appear.
6Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the
initial letters for the country name one after the
other and press to confirm
7To access country list, use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight this menu field and press to
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8Highlighted country, entered previously
9Move to previous page,
Arrow is empty – start of list
10Move to next page,
Arrow is empty – end of list
Use the rotary/pushbutton
to highlight the desired
country and press to confirm.
To move to the next/previous page, highlight the
or
symbol with the rotary/pushbutton
and confirm
by pressing.
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For countries with several time zones (e.g. Canada,
USA):
After you have confirmed the country, the “Timezone”
menu is activated. Highlight the zone you want with the
rotary/pushbutton
and confirm by pressing.In the next menu, press the rotary/pushbutton
to set
the menu field “Automatic S/W time”.
“Automatic S/W time” menu field - there is change of
time in this country/timezone and the dates of time
changes are known. Checkmark
indicates that
automatic time change is active.
“Summer time” menu field – the dates of time changes
are unknown, the change to the winter time must be
made manually, page 236.
Press the rotary/pushbutton
longer than 2 seconds.
The settings are adopted, and the main system menu is
displayed.
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