Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single CD operating elements . . . . . . . 14
MP3 operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . 16
CD changer* operating elements. . . . . 18
Telephone* operating elements . . . . . 20
Navigation* operating elements . . . . . 22
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . . . 24
Selecting the multifunction display 25
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 30
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Balance and fader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Audio main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Opening the Audio main menu . . . . 36
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Switching to radio mode . . . . . . . . . 37
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . 37
Tuning to a FM/AM station . . . . . . 38
Tuning to a station on
Weather Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Storing FM/AM stations . . . . . . . . . 42
Single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 44
Switching to Single CD mode . . . . . 45
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Single CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 49
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49MP3 operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tips on data storage media . . . . . . 50
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . . 50
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 51
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . 52
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Switching to MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . 53
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 60
Switching to CD changer mode . . . 61
Accessing the CD changer . . . . . . . 61
Retracting the CD changer . . . . . . 61
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
CD changer main menu . . . . . . . . . 66
Contents
Selecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Audio AUX operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Satellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Introduction to Satellite radio . . . . . 74
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Switching to Satellite radio mode . . 75
SAT main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Obtaining additional text
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Calling the Sirius Service Center . . 80
Telephone*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Tips on telephone operation . . . . . 83Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Switching the phone ON/OFF . . . . 85
911 emergency calls. . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . . 87
Entering the unlock code . . . . . . . . 88
Switching to telephone mode . . . . 89
Telephone main menu. . . . . . . . . . . 89
Answering an incoming call . . . . . . 90
Placing an outgoing call . . . . . . . . . 91
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . . . 92
Dialed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Opening the phone book. . . . . . . . . 98
Selecting a phone book entry and
establishing a connection . . . . . . . 99
Adding spoken names to a phone
book entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Deleting a phone book entry . . . . 100
SMS (Mail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Reading a message . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Exiting from the SMS menu . . . . . 103
Navigation*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Loading/ejecting the DVD . . . . . . 107
Travelling abroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Route guidance with GPS . . . . . . . 108
Route guidance after
vehicle transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Trip interruption during
route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Selection lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Calling up the
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . 110
Avoiding certain road types . . . . . 111
Adjusting the acoustics for
navigation announcements . . . . . . 111
Destination entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Entering data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Destination entry menu. . . . . . . . . 117
Entering a destination . . . . . . . . . . 117
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . . 117
23 At a glance
Navigation* operating elements
FunctionPage
1
Navigation main menu
Cancelling route
guidance
110
134
2
Switching map display
134
3 Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
4 , , , ,,
Selecting options
Selecting characters for
text entry
Scrolling map
FunctionPage
5
Confirmation
6Navigation computer107
7Navigation DVD slot107
8
Cancelling navigation an-
nouncements
Switching navigation an-
nouncements OFF
131
131
FunctionPage
9
Current navigation an-
nouncement
Switching navigation an-
nouncements ON
131
131
a
Ejecting navigation DVDs
107
b
Switching ON/OFF
30
c
Volume adjustment
30
46 Audio
Single CD operation
The COMAND CD drive holds one CD. The
slot for inserting a CD is located above the
display (
page 15).
Insert a CD into the CD slot while
COMAND is switched ON. Insert the
CD face up.
COMAND pulls in the CD. If the CD is
an audio CD, the system switches to
Single CD mode.
Press.
COMAND ejects the CD.
Remove the CD from the slot.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx. 7
seconds.
Open the Audio main menu
(
page 36).
Press the CD soft key.
The system switches to Single CD
mode.The center of the status bar shows: The track number and total number
of tracks
The elapsed playing time of the
track
!
If a CD is already loaded, it must be
ejected before inserting the new CD.
Inserting a second CD in the slot with
another CD still loaded will cause dam-
age to the CD drive not covered by the
Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty.
i
If the CD is an MP3 CD, the system
switches to MP3 mode (
page 53).
Ejecting a CD
Single CD main menu
i
The CD soft key is shaded out if no audio
CD is loaded. The system will not
switch to Single CD mode.
Load an audio CD into the
COMAND CD drive (
page 45).
The
MP3 soft key instead of the CD soft
key is visible when a MP3 CD has been
loaded.
53 Audio
MP3 operation
Call up the MP3 main menu
(
page 53).
or
Insert an MP3 CD into COMAND.The COMAND CD drive holds one CD. The
slot for inserting a CD is located above the
display (
page 17).
Insert a CD into the CD slot while
COMAND is switched ON. Insert the
CD face up.
COMAND pulls the CD in and loads the
data. It may take a while to load the da-
ta, depending on the number of folders
and tracks.
After loading, COMAND plays the CD.
Press.
COMAND ejects the CD.
Remove the CD from the slot.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx. 7
seconds.
Open the Audio main menu
(
page 36).
Switching to MP3 mode
i
MP3 CDs can only be played back in
the COMAND CD drive.
Loading a MP3 CD
WarningG
In order to avoid distraction which could
lead to an accident, the driver should insert
CDs with the vehicle at a standstill and oper-
ate the audio system only when road, weath-
er and traffic conditions permit.
Bear in mind that at a speed of just 30 mph
(approximately 50 km/h), your vehicle is
covering a distance of 44 feet (approximate-
ly 14 m) every second.
!
If a CD is already loaded, it must be
ejected before inserting the new CD.
Inserting a second CD in the slot with
another CD still loaded will cause dam-
age to the CD drive not covered by the
Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty.
Ejecting a MP3 CD
MP3 main menu
65 Audio
CD changer* operation
The following options are available:
Ejecting one CD
Ejecting all CDs (page 66)
Ejecting one CD
1CD slot
2Magazine compartment buttons
Access the CD changer (page 61).
Briefly press the appropriate magazine
compartment button 2.
The button LED 2 flashes red. The CD
changer ejects the CD.
Within 15 seconds, remove the CD
from the slot 1.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx.
15 seconds. The system starts playing
the CD again.
The ejection procedure is completed.
Retract the CD changer (page 61).
Ejecting CDs i
If you are listening to a CD in the CD
changer and you eject another CD from
the changer:
While ejecting the CD, the system
interrupts CD playback.
The CD you were last listening to
starts from the beginning once the
ejection procedure is completed.
If you eject the CD you are currently lis-
tening to:
The next available audio CD is
played.
If there are no other CDs available,
the system switches to the audio
source listened to before CD chang-
er mode.
66 Audio
CD changer* operation
Ejecting all CDs
Access the CD changer (page 61).
Press and hold the button of a loaded
magazine compartment 2 for more
than 2 seconds.
The button LEDs of all loaded magazine
compartments will briefly flash red,
several times.
The CD changer ejects the CDs one af-
ter another.
Within 15 seconds, remove each CD
from the slot 1.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx.
15 seconds. The system starts playing
the CD again.The ejection procedure is completed
when all CDs are removed, or when the
procedure is aborted by the CD chang-
er.
Retract the CD changer (page 61).
Open the Audio main menu
(
page 36).
Press the CDC soft key.The CD changer main menu appears.
You will hear the CD listened to last. If
the CD listened to last is no longer
available, the unit plays the next avail-
able audio CD.
If the CD contains CD text data, the CD
changer main menu will show the name
of the CD and the title of the track cur-
rently playing.
The status bar also contains:
The track number and total number
of tracks
The elapsed playing time of the
track
CD changer main menu
i
The CDC soft key is shaded out if no CD
is loaded. The system will not switch to
CD changer mode.
Load an audio CD into the
CD changer (
page 61).
The
CDC soft key will only be visible if a
CD changer is connected.
107 Navigation*
Important notes
COMAND calculates the route with the
help of data that is stored on the naviga-
tion DVD.
Only use Mercedes-Benz navigation DVDs
designed for the E-Class (211) COMAND
system. No other CDs or DVDs will work.
Using other navigation CDs or DVDs might
lead to malfunctions.
Because of changes in local traffic patterns
(e.g. road works) and/or incomplete data,
errors in calculation may occur.
As a result, the recommended route may
deviate from the ideal route. The data
stored on the DVD only reflects local con-
ditions at the time of DVD production. DVD
maps do not cover all areas nor all routes
within an area.The DVD is loaded into (and ejected from)
the navigation module.
The navigation module is mounted on the
left-hand side of the trunk.
1Ejecting DVDs
2DVD slotLoading
Insert the DVD into the DVD slot 2
with the label facing up.
The navigation computer pulls the DVD
in.
Ejecting
Press and wait until the navigation
computer ejects the DVD.
Navigation DVDLoading/ejecting the DVD i
Your Navigation DVD drive has been
designed to play DVDs which corre-
spond to the IEC 60908 standard.
If you insert thicker data carriers, e.g.
ones that have data on both sides (one
side with DVD data, the other side with
audio data), they cannot be ejected
and will damage the drive.