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Grafik auf der Vorgabeseite in den Grafikrahmen importieren!
Mercedes-Benz
COMAND Operator’s Manual
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Welcome to COMAND!
Please make yourself familiar with your
COMAND control unit and read the instruc-
tions in this manual before operating the
COMAND system. This will help you derive
a greater benefit from the system. Please
also follow the instructions and warnings
contained in this manual. Ignoring them
could result in damage to the vehicle or
personal injury to you or others.
The asterisk* identifies optional equip-
ment. Depending on model, version and
configuration, your COMAND system
equipment may differ. Therefore, you may
find explanations for optional equipment
not installed in your vehicle. If you have
any questions about the operation of any
equipment, your authorized Mercedes-
Benz Center will be glad to demonstrate
the proper procedures. We continuously strive to improve our pro-
duct and ask for your understanding that
we reserve the right to make changes in
design and equipment. Therefore, informa-
tion, illustrations and descriptions in this
manual might differ from the equipment in-
stalled in your vehicle. As such, the infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions
contained in this manual may not be reaso-
nably relied upon in making any claims
with respect to the actual performance of
the product.
These operating instructions form an inte-
gral part of the vehicle and should there-
fore always be kept inside the vehicle and
passed on to the new owner if the vehicle
is sold.
We extend our best wishes for many miles
of safe, pleasurable driving.
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
A DaimlerChrysler Company
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Operating safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
COMAND control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Screen displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Multifunction display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 12
Switching the COMAND control unit
on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Satellite radio* operation . . . . . . . . 16
Telephone* operation . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Entering a destination and
calculating a route . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting beeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Switching another system on . . . . . 28
Changing the Radio band . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Multifunction display . . . . . . . . . . . 40
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
General information on
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching another system on . . . . . 50
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Selecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 54
CD track scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Naming a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Muting CD playback . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Multifunctional display . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adjusting sound settings . . . . . . . . 63
Satellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Subscribing to satellite radio . . . . . 69
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Switching another system on . . . . . 75
Changing the program category . . . 75
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Displaying track information . . . . . . 81
Displaying station information . . . . 82
Displaying service information . . . . 82
Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Multifunction display . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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ContentsTelephone*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Multifunction display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Display overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Switching telephone operation on . 96
Switching telephone operation off . 97
Incoming call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Editing the phone book . . . . . . . . . 116
SMS function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Activating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Reading SMS messages received . 122
Emergency call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Telephone is ready for operation . 125Service numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Calling a service number. . . . . . . . 126
Changing personal service
number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Changing the number for Roadside
Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Changing the navigation CD . . . . . 137
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Switching the navigation system
on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Entering destination address . . . . 141
Continuing destination input. . . . . 146
Selecting a destination via
the map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Entering Points of Interest . . . . . . 155
Selecting the last destinations . . . 159
Calculating a route . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Route guidance principles. . . . . . . 162
Requesting destination and route
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Beginning route guidance . . . . . . . 170
Turning onto a street. . . . . . . . . . . 172
Following the course of the road . 173
Driving through an intersection. . . 173
Changing to map display. . . . . . . . 174
Mix of map and symbol display . . . 175
Altering the map scale . . . . . . . . . 176
Selecting map orientation . . . . . . . 177
Marking a way point . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Resetting functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Deviating from the calculated
route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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Contents
Driving on a non-digitized road . . . 186
Interrupting route guidance during
a journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . 188
Activating audio system . . . . . . . . 189
Activating audio functions . . . . . . 189
Canceling route guidance . . . . . . . 191
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Retrieving a destination from
the destination memory . . . . . . . . 192
Saving the current destination . . . 193
Saving the current vehicle
location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Sorting destination memory . . . . . 196
Deleting a destination. . . . . . . . . . 197
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Entering the vehicle location . . . . 198
Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Info Services*/System settings. . . 201
Info Services*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Requesting and displaying
Info Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Activating the main settings menu 205
Adjusting the brightness. . . . . . . . 206
Activating settings menu . . . . . . . 206
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 207
Setting date and time . . . . . . . . . . 208
Switching beep tones on and off . 215
Setting the display dimming
characteristics
(day and night display) . . . . . . . . . 216
Resetting all settings to the
factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Auxiliary audio source . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Switching auxiliary audio source
on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Switching auxiliary audio source
off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
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1
Where to find itIntroduction
Where to find itThis Operator’s Manual is designed to pro-
vide support information for you, the
COMAND operator. Each chapter has its
own guide color to provide fast access to
information.At a glance
Here you will find an overview of
all COMAND control elements and system
components. If you are operating
COMAND for the first time or if you have
rented or borrowed the vehicle, this is the
chapter you should read first.Audio
Here you will find all the information on
how to use the radio, cassette player*, CD-
player, CD changer*, and adjust the audio
system settings.
Satellite radio*
This chapter provides information on how
to select a station and a program category.Telephone*
Here you can learn in detail about the
many functions of the telephone, SMS,
how to initiate an emergency call and use
service numbers.Navigation
This chapter provides detailed information
on the following topics:
Destination input
Route selection and calculation
Route guidance including detour
Destination memory
Info Services* and System settings
This chapter provides information on how
to:
Request and display info services such
as news, weather, stocks and sports
Adjust COMAND system settings
Directories
The glossary explains the most important
technical terms.
The table of contents and index directory
will help you quickly locate the information
you need.