2005 MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class display

162 SystemSystem settings
Press.
The System menu appears.
Selectable soft keys

Time
soft key
For setting the date and time.

Lang.
soft key
For setting the language (
page 164).

Tones
soft key
For switching confirmation beeps
and acoustic signals ON and OFF
(
page 165).

Display
soft key
For changing the display settings
(
page 165).

VC tips
soft key
To call up the Voice control settings*
(
page 166).

Reset
soft key
For reversing COMAND to the factory
settings (
page 169).

In the System menu, press the
Time
soft
key.
The Date/Time settings menu appears.
The following options are now available:

Setting the time

Setting the date

Setting the date/time format
Calling up the System menu
Setting the date/time

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

Press.
The appropriate format is selected.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for the
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.
The language setting changes the display
language as well as the language used for
voice instructions in navigation announce-
ments.

In the System menu (
page 162),
press the
Lang.
soft key.
The language list is displayed.The following options are available:

Instr. cluster settings
:
The system switches to the lan-
guage already set in the vehicle in-
strument cluster (
Vehicle
Operator’s manual).

All other options:
The system switches to the re-
quested language.
iList entry 1-3: Date formats
List entry 4 and 5: Time formats
(Entry 5 is not visible on the display ex-
ample below.)
Solid circle : format set
Empty circle : format not set
Setting the language

165 System
System settings

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.

In the System menu (
page 162),
press the
Tones
soft key.
The list of available sounds is dis-
played.

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.
The requested sounds are switched ON
or OFF.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The System menu appears. The new
setting is stored.

In the System menu (
page 162),
press the
Display
soft key.
The Display Settings menu appears.The following soft key and option are avail-
able:

Bright.
soft key
Provides access to adjusting the dis-
play brightness (
page 166).

Switching the display dimming charac-
teristics (
page 166).
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF
iThe square next to a list entry shows
the status.
Empty square = sound OFF
Solid square = sound ONDisplay settings

166 SystemSystem settingsSwitching the display dimming
characteristics
You can select from 3 display dimming
modes:
Day modeThe display is constantly set to daytime
design.

Night modeThe display is constantly set to night-
time design.

AutomaticThe display will change depending on
the illumination of the instrument clus-
ter.

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.Adjusting display brightness

Press the
Bright.
soft key.
The Brightness display appears.

Press or .
The brightness changes accordingly.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.Use this function to:

Start or delete voice control individual-
ization (
page 167)

Activate/deactivate the voice control
help window
Activate/deactivate the help window

Open the System menu (
page 162).

Press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.
Voice control settings*

167 System
System settings

Press the  key to select the
Help
Window
menu item.
The status bar shows you whether the
help window is activated or deactivat-
ed.

Press.
The menu to activate or deactivate the
help window appears. The solid circle
shows whether the help window is
activated or deactivated.
In the following display example, the
help window is activated.

Press  or  to select the menu
item with the empty circle .

Press.
This will activate or deactivate the help
window.
Voice control individualization
The individualization function is used to
adapt the voice control to your own voice
and to therefore improve speech recogni-
tion. This does not affect speech recogni-
tion of other users.
Individualization consists of two stages.
The first stage involves training digits,
whilst the second stage trains specific
commands.

From the System menu (
page 162),
press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.

Press to select menu item Individualization
.

Press.
The Individualization menu appears.

176 IndexControls
CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Multifunction steering wheel. . . . . . . 24
Navigation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Radio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Telephone mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
entering destination via . . . . . . . . . 127
Copy protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 62
Copyright (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Current navigation announcement 131
cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
repeating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131D
Deleting
destination
from Destination memory . . . . . . 149
from Last destinations . . . . . . . . . 148
detour (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
phone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
stop-over destination . . . . . . . . . . . 141Destination
deleting
from Destination memory . . . . . . 149
from Last destinations . . . . . . . . . 148
Last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
storing in Destination memory . . . . 149
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
calling up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
selecting destination . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
starting route guidance to a stored
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
storing destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Detour (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Display
adjusting brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
switching design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Displaying route (navigation) . . . . . 136
DVD (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . 107, 171
E
Ejecting CD
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
in Single CD mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Ejecting navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 107
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . . 158
Emergency calls “911”. . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Ending
call (telephone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91, 96
ENTER UNLOCK CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Entering
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
frequency (radio) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
unlock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88F
Fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 171
for navigation announcements . . . . 112
File structure (MP3 CD). . . . . . . . . . . 51

177 Index
Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
random (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
repeat (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
selecting (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Forward
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Frequency input (in Radio mode). . . 41G
Global Positioning System
see GPS
GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108, 171
GPS position display
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Greenwich meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
GSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 87, 172H
Hands-free microphone
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Home address
entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
I
ID3 tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 172
ISO9660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 172J
Joliet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 172L
Language setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Last destinations memory . . . . . . . 147
selecting destination. . . . . . . . . . . . 147
starting route guidance to
Last destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Latitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 172
List (Satellite radio mode)
program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
List (Telephone mode)
accepted calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Loading CD
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 107
LOGIC7®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 172
Longitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 172
M
Manual tuning (in Radio mode). . . . . 40
Memory
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 42
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Mercedes-Benz Information . . . . . . 159
Missed calls (telephone). . . . . . . 92, 93
MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 . . . . . . . . 52, 172
MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . 51
tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . . 52
tips on data storage media . . . . . . . . 50

178 IndexMP3 CD
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
file structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
MP3 formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
multi session CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
permissible CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
permissible file systems . . . . . . . . . . 51
permissible MP3 formats . . . . . . . . . 52
safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Multi session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
CDs (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Multifunction steering wheel
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Mute function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36N
Navigation announcements
see also current navigation announce-
ment
after vehicle transport. . . . . . . . . . . 108
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Navigation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Navigation soft key displays
show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
NO HOME ADDRESS STORED . . . . . 115
NO SERV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 90
O
Outgoing calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94P
Permissible
bit rates (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
file systems (MP3 CD) . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
MP3 formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Personal Identification Number
see PIN
Personal Unblocking Key
see PUKPhone book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
adding spoken names . . . . . . . . . . . 100
deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
selecting entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
switching display between number
and name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
PHONE NOT INSTALLED . . . . . . . . . . 85
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PLEASE INSERT PHONE. . . . . . . . 84, 85
PLEASE INSERT SIM CARD. . . . . . . . . 85
POI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151, 172
Points of interest
see POI
Presets (Satellite radio mode) . . . . . 76
Program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Program type list
see program category list
Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87, 172
PUK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88, 172