2004 MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class navigation system

135 Navigation*
Last destinations and destination memory
Starting route guidance to a destina-
tion stored in the destination memory 
Select a destination (
page 134).

Press .
The Start Route Guidance menu
(page 116) appears.
Deleting a destination from the destina-
tion memory

Select a destination (
page 134).

Press the Delete soft key:
A delete prompt appears.

Use  to select the menu item Yes.

Press .
The system deletes the entry from the
destination memory.

149 System
System settings
Setting the time
The UTC time transmitted by the GPS sat-
ellites has to be set to the local time zone.
This enhances
correct navigation for routes with time-
dependent traffic guidance, and

correct calculation of the estimated
time of arrival.

Use or  to select the hours or
the minutes.

Press or .
Depending on the selection, hours or
minutes are set.
Setting the minutes:
With GPS reception, each time you
press  or  changes the time in in-
crements of 30 minutes. Without GPS
reception, the time is changed in 1
minute increments.
Setting the hours:
Each time you press  or , the
hours change in increments of 1 hour.

Press the Back soft key.
The new setting is stored.Setting the date

Use or  to select the day, the
month or the year.

Press or .
Depending on the selection, the day,
the month, or the year is set.

Press the Back soft key.
The new setting is stored.
Date/Time format

Press the Format soft key.
You will see the date and time following
the currently selected format, as well
as a list of possible formats.
iThere is no automatic change from day-
light saving time to standard time.
This has to be changed manually.
When you change the time zone, the
clock time also changes automatically.
If you enter an incorrect time, the time
difference remains unchanged when
you change time zone.
iThe date can be set only if GPS recep-
tion is available.


150 SystemSystem settings
Setting the format: 
Use or  to select a format.

Press.
The appropriate format is selected.

Finally, press the Back soft key.
The language setting changes the display
language as well as the language used for
voice instructions in navigation announce-
ments.

In the System menu, press the
(page 148) Lang. soft key.
The language list is displayed.

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.

Instr. cluster settings:
The system switches to the language
already set in the vehicle instrument
cluster.

Other options:
The system switches to the requested
language.

Finally, press the Back soft key.
iList entry 1-3:
Date formats
List entry 4 and 5:
Time formats
Solid circle : format set
Empty circle : format not set
Setting the language

155 System
System settings
Canceling individualization
You can cancel individualization at any
time during either the first or second
stage. All existing data remains un-
changed.
During any individualization stage,
press the Cancel soft key.
Individualization is cancelled.
Deleting individualization

From the Individualization menu,
press to selec t m enu it em Delete
individualization.

Press.
A prompt appears, which asks if you re-
ally want to delete the data.

Press to select Yes.

Press.
The individualization is deleted.Actuating the Reset function resets CO-
MAND to the factory settings.
In addition, it deletes:

SMS: All SMS messages.

Navigation*: All entries in the Destina-
tion memory and in the Last destina-
tion memory.
Reset activation

Call up the System menu (
page 148).

Press the Reset soft key.
iThis function is not available if no indi-
vidualization data has been saved.
Reset function


157 Glossary
Autostore
Enters the stations with the best recep-
tion (signal strength) into the autostore
memory in order of their reception
quality (from strong to weak).
Balance
Volume adjustment between left and
right speakers.
CDMA
(C
ode D
ivision M
ultiple A
ccess)
A digital spread-spectrum modulation
technique used mainly with personal
communication devices such as mobile
phones. CDMA digitizes the conversa-
tion and tags it with a special frequency
code.
COMAND
(Co
ckpit Man
agement and D
ata Sys-
tem)
Information and operating center for
vehicle sound and communication sys-
tems, including the radio and CD play-
er, as well as for other optional
equipment (CD changer*, telephone*,
satellite radio*, navigation*). DVD
(D
igital V
ersatile D
isc)
Digital storage medium for storing
large volumes of data (e.g. films).
Fader
(Fader control)
Volume control between front and rear
speakers.
GPS
(G
lobal P
ositioning S
ystem)
Satellite-based system for relaying
geographic location information to and
from vehicles equipped with special re-
ceivers. Employs DVD digital maps for
navigation.
GSM
(G
roupe S
peciale M
obile)
Set of standards used for cellular com-
munication; widely used in Europe.LOGIC7®
A 7-channel surround matrix that con-
verts any 2-channel material into
breathtaking multi-channel surround
sound, creating a natural, 360-degree
“enveloping” soundfield with a maxi-
mum “audio sweetspot” for all passen-
gers.
PIN
(P
ersonal I
dentification N
umber)
Personal identification number, must
be entered to activate the telephone.
POI
(P
oint o
f Interest)
Points of Interest include service sta-
tions, rest areas, parking lots, hospi-
tals, sight-seeing points, etc.
Provider
Service provider offering access to a
mobile communication network or oth-
er services within the network.
Glossary

159 Index
A
Accident hazard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Answering
Call (telephone*). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Audio AUX mode
Switching to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Automatic volume control . . . . . . . . 29
Autostore (in radio mode). . 37, 41, 157
AUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157B
Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 157
Bass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Blocking
Route segments (Navigation) . . . . . 123
Break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
destination, changing . . . . . . . . . . . 126
destination, deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . 126C
Call
terminating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 83, 84Call (telephone*)
answering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
initiating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
rejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
CALL NOT POSSIBLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Calling up
Destination Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Cancelling
Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Navigation announcements . . . . . . 117
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Category list (satellite radio*) . . . . . 65
CD
Copy protection . . . . . . . 42, 43, 48, 50
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 53
Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 58
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 49
Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Repeat track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 58
Reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 58
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 56
Track mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 58CD changer*
accessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
retracting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
CD changer* mode
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CD slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Changing
Break destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Detour (Navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Changing map scale. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
COMAND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Connecting
Call (telephone*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Controls
CD changer* mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Multifunction steering wheel. . . . . . . 22
Navigation* mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Radio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Telephone* mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Index

160 IndexCopy protection . . . . . . . 42, 43, 48, 50
Current navigation announcement 117D
Deleting
Break destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Destination from the last
destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Destination in destination memory . 135
SMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Telephone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Destination
deleting
from the last destinations . . . . . . 133
in destination memory . . . . . . . . . 135
Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
saving in destination memory . . . . . 133
Special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Destination Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
requesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Selecting destination . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Starting route guidance to a stored
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Destination memory
Saving a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Detour function (Navigation) . . . . . 123
switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Display
Adjust brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Call not possible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Enter unlock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
NO SERV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 77
No telephone available . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Phone not installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Please insert phone. . . . . . . . . . . 72, 73
Please insert SIM card . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SIM card blocked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switching design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Telephone not plugged in . . . . . . . . . 73
wrong PIN number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Displaying
Route (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95, 157
E
Ejecting
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 53
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Ejecting (CD changer*) . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . . 145Emergency calls “911”. . . . . . . . . . . . 74
ENTER UNLOCK CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Entering
Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Frequency (in radio mode) . . . . . . . . 39
home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
new telephone book entry. . . . . . . . . 87
Phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 76
Entering a phone number . . . . . . . . . 79
Entering data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
F
Fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 157
Forward
in CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 58
Frequency input (in radio mode) . . . 39G
General information
on CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . 48
on Single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Global Positioning System
see GPS
GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

161 Index
GPS position display
switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130H
Handling of
CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 48
Home address
entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102I
Interrupting journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97L
Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Selecting destination . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Starting route guidance to a last
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
List (Satellite radio* mode)
Program categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
List (telephone* mode)
Missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Loading
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 49
Navigation DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Location determination. . . . . . . . . . . 96
Low tones, see Bass
M
Manual tuning (in radio mode). . . . . 38
Memory
Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 40
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Mercedes-Benz Information . . . . . . 146
Missed calls (telephone*). . . . . . . . . 80
Mix
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CD track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 58
Multifunction steering wheel
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Mute function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34N
Navigation announcements . . . . . . 117
after vehicle transport . . . . . . . . . . . 96
cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
current announcement . . . . . . . . . . 117
switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Navigation* mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Navigation soft key displays
show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
New telephone book entry . . . . . . . . 87
NO SERV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 77
Notes
on the handling of CDs . . . . . . . . 42, 48
on the Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . 96
O
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81P
Personal Identification Number
see PIN
Personal Unblocking Key
see PUK
PHONE NOT INSTALLED . . . . . . . . . . 73
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Entering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 76
PLEASE INSERT PHONE. . . . . . . . 72, 73
PLEASE INSERT SIM CARD . . . . . . . . 73