2006 MERCEDES-BENZ G-Class Comand Manual

115 Telephone*
Telephone operation
You can enter a telephone number in the
notebook or edit an existing one
during a conversation

in the main telephone menu without
having a callOpening the notebook
The main telephone menu is displayed

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight the “V” symbol and
press to confirm.
Other menu fields will appear.

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v until “Notebook” is highlighted and
press to confirm.
Entering the telephone number

Press number keys 1 through 0, u
and t.
Correcting input
To delete only the last digit

Press r briefly.
To delete the whole entry

Press r longer than 2 seconds.Closing the notebook and storing input

Press *.
Dialing a telephone number from
the notebook

Open the notebook.

When the notebook phone number ap-
pears, press the right-hand rotary/
push-button v to confirm the “Send”
button.
Dialing begins.
Notebook
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116 Telephone*Telephone operationYou can edit the phone book and transfer
a phone number from the notebook.
In the main telephone menu, turn the
right-hand rotary/push-button v until
“Phone book” is highlighted and press
to confirm.
The “Phone book” selection menu will
appear.
“Phone book” selection menu1Changing entries in the phone book
2Adding entries in the phone book
(
page 119)
3Transferring a telephone number from
the notebook (
page 120)Changing entries in the phone book

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight 1 and press to con-
firm.
The phone book will either display
the list of names sorted alphabeti-
cally

the list of phone numbers sorted by
memory locations.
Editing the phone book
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117 Telephone*
Telephone operation
Changing a name
4Phone book entry selected
5Character list
6The character selected appears
magnified
7Confirming the changed entry
8Deleting the entry
Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight the desired phone book
entry and press to confirm.
An input menu appears.

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight the desired letters one
by one and press to confirm.
The name will appear in the input line.
The input cursor indicates the current
input position.
Correcting an input
Deleting the last digit

Press r briefly.
Deleting the whole entry

Press r longer than 2 seconds.Input with number keys

Select a character by pressing the key
as listed below the corresponding num-
ber of times.
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iYou can enter up to 20 characters.iYou can also select characters using the
number keys. Each number key has
more than one assignment. See table.
Key
Character
1
,
.
-
1
:
‘
/
2
A
B
C
2
3
D
E
F
3
4
G
H
I
4
5
J
K
L
5
6
M
N
O
6
7
P
Q
R
S
7
8
T
U
V
8
9
W
X
Y
Z
9
0
0
u
Blank

118 Telephone*Telephone operationThe selected character is automatically ad-
opted in the input line after 2 seconds
or
Press t or turn the right-hand rotary/
push-button v.
Storing changed names
Use one of these ways

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v until “Apply” is highlighted and
press to confirm.
or

Press the right-hand rotary/push-
button v longer than 2 seconds to
confirm the last letter of the name.
Now change the phone number.
If you do not wish to save the changes

Press *.Changing a telephone number
9Current name or name previously chan-
ged (light brown)
appears only if you have entered a
name for the telephone number
aInput line, highlighted when activated
bStores a telephone number in the pho-
ne bookEntering a telephone number

Press the number keys 1 through 0,
u and t.
The telephone number appears in a.
Correcting input

Deleting last digit
Press r briefly.

Deleting the whole entry
Press r longer than 2 seconds.
Storing the phone number in the phone
book

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v until b is highlighted and press to
confirm.
The main telephone menu will appear.
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119 Telephone*
Telephone operation
Deleting an entry in the phone book
1Name and telephone number of the
entry to be deleted (light brown)
2Query (light brown)
3COMAND will delete the entry from the
phone book
4The entry remains in the phone book

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight “Delete” in the input
menu (
page 117) and press to con-
firm.
The query 2 appears. “Yes” is high-
lighted.

Press the right-hand rotary/push-
button v and confirm “Yes”.
The main telephone menu appears. The
entry is deleted.
If you don't want to delete the entry:

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight “No” and press to con-
firm.
The phone book list will appear. Adding an entry to the phone book
Entering a name
1Input line
2Transfers name
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120 Telephone*Telephone operation
While in the selection menu
(page 116), turn the right-hand rota-
ry/push-button v until “Add an ent-
ry...” is highlighted and press to
confirm.
An input menu will appear.

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v until the desired character is high-
lighted and press to confirm.

Repeat this action.
The name will appear in the input line.
Confirm the name as described under
“Storing changed names”
(page 118).

Now change the phone number.
Correcting an input (
page 117). Entering and storing a telephone num-
ber
3Previously entered name
4Input line for phone number, entering
phone number with numeric keys 1 to
0, keyu and key t
5COMAND stores the phone number

Press the right-hand rotary/push-
button v to confirm the input.
COMAND stores the phone number
and the main telephone menu will ap-
pear.
Storing a phone number in the note-
book

While in the “Phone book” selection
menu (
page 116), turn the right-hand
rotary/push-button v to highlight
“Copy notebook...” and press to con-
firm.

Now you can enter a new name and
phone number or edit an existing entry,
and store the entry.
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121 Telephone*
SMS function

SMS function
With this function you can receive, read
and delete short text messages
1.
1 If available from your carrier.
1The symbol M will appear when a new
SMS message arrives, symbol “RM”
(roaming mode) that may have been
displayed before will be replaced
2Activates the SMS list

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight “V” in the main tele-
phone menu and press to confirm.
Other menu fields will appear.

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight 2 and press to con-
firm.
The SMS list will appear.
iCOMAND may have to read in SMS
messages first. The message “SMS loa-
ding...” will appear. The reading operati-
on may take up to 30 seconds.
Activating
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122 Telephone*SMS function1Current SMS message is highlighted,
telephone number or name (if it is in
the phone book), date and time appear
in brown
The SMS messages (max. 10) are listed
in the order when they were received.

Use the appropriate arrow symbols to
page through the list.

Turn the right-hand rotary/push-button
v to highlight the desired SMS mes-
sage and press to confirm.
The SMS message will appear.
SMS view2Deletes displayed SMS message
Reading SMS messages received
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iCOMAND does not display so called
“chained” SMS messages. These con-
tain more than 160 characters. For you
to be able to read these messages, the
sender should send the message again
in normal mode.
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