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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bass and Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Audio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Opening the Audio menu . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting an audio source . . . . . . . 41
Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching to radio operation. . . . . . 42
Changing the Radio band . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
General Information on
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 51
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching to CD changer* mode . . 54
Loading CDs into the CD changer* 54CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switching to CD operation . . . . . . . 56
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting a CD (CD changer* only). 58
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
MP3 CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Tips on data storage media . . . . . . 65
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . . 66
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 66
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . 68
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Switching to MP3 CD mode . . . . . . 69
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Selecting a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
AUX operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Contents
Satellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Subscribing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Subscribing to satellite radio . . . . . 81
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Changing the program category . . . 83
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Displaying information . . . . . . . . . . 86
Displaying service information . . . . 87
Station list updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Telephone*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Switching telephone operation on . 94
Switching telephone operation off . 94
Emergency call “911” . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Entering codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Switching to telephone operation . 98
Incoming call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Navigation*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Navigation DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Route guidance after the vehicle
has been transported . . . . . . . . . . 114
Trip interruption during route
guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Activating the Navigation
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting the routing mode . . . . . . . 118
Saving current location . . . . . . . . . 119
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Activating the Enter street menu . 120
Selecting the state/province . . . . 121
Entering destination address . . . . 122
Selecting home address . . . . . . . . 133
Route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 135
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Recalculating an existing route . . . 135
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Partially digitized areas/unverified
roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . . 145
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 145
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 146
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Saving the current location . . . . . . 153
Defining route guidance displays . 153
Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Last destinations memory. . . . . . . 159
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 160
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Selecting a POI on the map. . . . . . 166
Entering a POI by phone number . 167
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Adding a destination
to today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Contents
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Service main menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Activating the Service main menu 176
SMS* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
SMS Received list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Reading SMS message received. . 178
Tele Aid* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 179
Roadside Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . 179
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Selecting the time zone . . . . . . . . 182
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 183
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off . . . . 184
Selecting display settings . . . . . . . 185
Resetting all settings to the
factory settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
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 in-
structions for you to follow.
A number of these symbols
appearing in succession in-
dicates a multiple-step pro-
cedure.
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.
!
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 menu40
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color display with Radio
main menu42
41 - 0, *
Station selection
Saving stations manually
Selecting a station from
the preset memory
43
47
49
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
44
44
FunctionPage
6J
Muting
41
7Volume control35
8e Switching on and off34
9d and D
Automatic seek tuning
Manual tuning
44
44
15 At a glance
Single CD operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu40
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color screen with single
CD main menu
The status bar indicates
CD status information
56
56
41 - 0, *
Track select
59
5Push the joystick to
g and G
Track select
Press E to confirm
59
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.
51
7J
Muting
62
8Volume control35
9e Switching on and off34
ad and D
Track select
Fast forward/reverse
59
61
19 At a glance
MP3 CD operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu40
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color screen with MP3
main menu
The status bar indicates
MP3 CD status
information
70
41 - 0, *
Track select
74
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
71
73
76
72
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.
51
7J
Muting
75
8Volume control35
9e Switching on and off34
ad and D
Fast forward/reverse
75
FunctionPage
25 At a glance
Navigation* operating elements
FunctionPage
1b
Navigation main menu
During route guidance:
Change over to navigation
display
Cancelling route guidance
116
137
145
2c
Switches to map display
Changing the map display
(split and full view)
137
139
3Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
4Color screen with
Navigation main menu
116
5Entering a house or street
number
Entering a POI by phone
number122,
123
167
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.
172
FunctionPageFunctionPage
8J
During a voice instruction:
Muting current voice
instruction
Switching off voice
instructions
136
136
9j
Repeating current voice
instruction
Switching on voice
instructions
136
136
aVolume control35
be Switching on and off34