2006 MERCEDES-BENZ R-Class display

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

8 Introduction
Symbols

Symbols
You will find the following symbols in these
operating instructions:
* The asterisk identifies optional
equipment. Since not all models
have the same standard equip-
ment, your COMAND system equip-
ment may deviate from some
descriptions and illustrations.This symbol points to instructions for
you to follow. A number of these sym-
bols appearing in succession indicates
a multiple-step procedure.
The continuation symbol
marks an interrupted proce-
dure which will be continued
on the next page.
(
page 9) This symbol tells you where
to look for further infor-
mation on this subject.
-> This symbol is used in the
glossary. It indicates that
the term immediately follo-
wing the symbol is also exp-
lained in the glossary.
Display Messages, menu items or
soft key names appearing in
the COMAND color display
are printed in the type
shown here.
WarningG
Warning notices draw your attention to ha-
zards that may endanger your health or life,
or the health or life of others.
Environmental NoteH
Environmental notes provide tips on envi-
ronmental protection.
!
Highlights hazards that may result in
damage to your COMAND.
i
Helpful hints or further information you
may find useful.


13 At a glance
Radio operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu42
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color display with Radio
main menu
44
41 - 0, *
Station selection
Saving stations manually
Selecting a station from
the preset memory
45
49
51
5Push the joystick to
H,h,g,G
Function selection
g and G
e.g.
Automatic seek tuning
H and h
e.g. Manual tuning
Press E to confirm
46
46
FunctionPage
6J
Muting
43
7Volume control35
8e Switching on and off34
9d and D
Automatic seek tuning
Manual tuning
46
46

15 At a glance
Single CD operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu42
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color screen with single
CD main menu
The status bar indicates
CD status information
61
41 - 0, *
Track select
64
5Push the joystick to
g and G
Track select
Press E to confirm
64
FunctionPage
6l
Ejecting/loading a CD into
the CD drive
i
There are two l
buttons. One is on the
display unit. The other is
located left of the CD
AUDIO slot behind the
display.
53
7J
Muting
67
8Volume control35
9e Switching on and off34
ad and D
Track select
Fast forward/reverse
64
66

19 At a glance
MP3 CD operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu42
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color screen with MP3
main menu
The status bar indicates
MP3 CD status
information
75
41 - 0, *
Track select
79
5Push the joystick to
H and h
Selecting a folder
Push the joystick to
g and G
Track select or
Activating playback mode
Selecting a folder
Press E to confirm
76
78
81
77
6l
Ejecting/loading a MP3
CD into the CD drive
i
There are two l
buttons. One is on the
display unit. The other is
located left of the CD
AUDIO slot behind the
display.
53
7J
Muting
80
8Volume control35
9e Switching on and off34
ad and D
Fast forward/reverse
80
FunctionPage

25 At a glance
Navigation operating elements
FunctionPage
1b
Navigation main menu
During route guidance:
Change over to navigation
display
Cancelling route guidance
152
175
178
2c
Switches to map display
Changing the map display
(split and full view)
175
177
3Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
4Color screen with
Navigation main menu
152
5Entering a house or street
number
Entering a POI by phone
number159
200
6Push the joystick to
H,h,g,G,F,f
Function selection,
Scrolling on map
Press E to confirm
7l
Updating software/
changing map data
i
There are two l
buttons. One is on the
display unit. The other is
located left of the DVD
NAVIGATION slot behind
the display.
205
FunctionPageFunctionPage
8J
During a voice instruction:
Muting current voice
instruction
Switching off voice
instructions
174
174
9j
Repeating current voice
instruction
Switching on voice
instructions
174
174
aVolume control35
be Switching on and off34