2006 MERCEDES-BENZ R-Class Comand Manual

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COMAND Operator’s Manual
Order-No. 6515 6729 13 Part-No. 164 584 58 81 US Edition C 2006COMAND Operator’s Manual 164 / 251

We reserve the right to modify
the technical details
of the COMAND system as given
in the data and illustrations
of this Operator’s Manual.
Press time: 07/20/2005
Reprinting, translation and copying,
even of excerpts, is not permitted
without prior authorization in writing.
Title illustration no. P00.01-2982-31

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

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
CD changer* operating elements. . . . . 16
MP3 CD operating elements . . . . . . . . 18
Satellite radio* operating elements . . . 20
Telephone* operating elements . . . . . . 22
Navigation operating elements . . . . . . 24
Service operating elements . . . . . . . . . 26
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting the multifunction
display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching the COMAND
control unit on and off . . . . . . . . . . 34Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bass and Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Audio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Opening the Audio menu . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting an audio source . . . . . . . 43
Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Switching to radio operation. . . . . . 44
Changing the Radio band . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
General information
on CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 53
Loading/Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . 53
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switching to CD changer* mode . . 56Accessing the CD changer* . . . . . . 56
Retracting the CD changer* . . . . . . 56
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Switching to CD operation . . . . . . . 61
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting a CD (CD changer* only). 63
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
MP3 CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Tips on data storage media . . . . . . 70
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . . 71
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 71
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . 73
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Switching to MP3 CD mode . . . . . . 74
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Contents
Selecting a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
AUX operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Rear Audio/Video*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Rear Audio operation* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Connecting headsets . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Selecting the audio source . . . . . . . 85
Switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Rear Seat Entertainment
(RSE) operation* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
General information on
CD/DVD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
DVD playback requirements . . . . . . 89
Operating the Rear Seat
Entertainment* (RSE) . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Replacing the batteries . . . . . . . . . . 92
Connecting headsets . . . . . . . . . . . 93Switching the rear monitor
on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Loading/ejecting CDs. . . . . . . . . . . 94
Connecting external
video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Adjusting the headset volume . . . . 97
Adjusting the display brightness . . . 97
Switching to CD mode . . . . . . . . . . 98
Switching to MP3 CD mode . . . . . 100
Switching to DVD mode . . . . . . . . 103
Switching to AUX mode . . . . . . . . 109
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
RSE audio playback through
speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Muting on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Setting bass and treble . . . . . . . . . 113
Monitor off /on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Satellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Subscribing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Subscribing to satellite radio . . . . 117
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Changing the program category . . 119
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Displaying information . . . . . . . . . 122
Displaying service information . . . 123
Station list updates . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Telephone* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Switching telephone operation
on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Switching telephone operation
off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Emergency call “911” . . . . . . . . . . 131
Entering codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Switching to telephone
operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Incoming call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Contents
Navigation* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Route guidance after the vehicle
has been transported . . . . . . . . . . 150
Trip interruption during
route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Activating the Navigation
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Setting the routing mode . . . . . . . 154
Saving current location. . . . . . . . . 155
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Activating the Enter street menu . 156
Selecting the state/province . . . . 157
Entering destination address . . . . 158
Selecting home address . . . . . . . . 169
Displaying the compass screen . . 170
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 173
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Recalculating an existing route. . . 173
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . 177
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 178
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 179
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Saving the current location. . . . . . 186
Defining route guidance displays . 186
Last destinations and
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 192
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 193
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Selecting a POI on the map . . . . . 199
Entering a POI by phone number . 200
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Adding a destination
to today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Software Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Service main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Activating the Service main menu 210
SMS* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
SMS Received list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Reading SMS message received . . 212
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 213
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Selecting the time zone . . . . . . . . 216
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 217
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off . . . . . 218
Selecting display settings . . . . . . . 219
Selecting Voice control* settings . 220
Resetting all settings to the
factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Contents
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231