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COMAND Operator's Manual
Order No. 6515 6776 13 Part No. 219 584 01 87 USA Edition B 2007COMAND Operator's Manual E- Class / CLS- Class
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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
product and ask for your understanding
that we reserve the right to make changes
in design and equipment. Therefore, infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions in
this manual might differ from the equip-
ment installed in your vehicle. As such, the
information, illustrations and descriptions
contained in this manual may not be rea-
sonably 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
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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
Audio search function. . . . . . . . . . . 26
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 29
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Storing FM/AM stations . . . . . . . . . 43
Single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 45
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Tips on data storage media . . . . . . 51
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . . 52
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 52
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . 53
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching to MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 61
Switching to CD changer mode . . . 61
MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Accessing the CD changer . . . . . . . 62
Retracting the CD changer . . . . . . 63
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Contents
CD changer main menu . . . . . . . . . 66
Selecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Obtaining additional text
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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. . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . . 87
Entering the unlock code . . . . . . . . 88
Switching to telephone mode . . . . 88
Telephone main menu. . . . . . . . . . . 89
Answering an incoming call . . . . . . 90
Placing an outgoing call . . . . . . . . . 91
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . . . 92
Dialed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Opening the phone book. . . . . . . . . 97
Selecting a phone book entry and
establishing a connection . . . . . . . 98
Adding spoken names to a
phone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Deleting a phone book entry . . . . . 99
SMS (Mail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Reading a message . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Exiting from the SMS menu . . . . . 102
Navigation*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Loading/ejecting the DVD . . . . . . 105
Travelling abroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Route guidance with GPS . . . . . . . 106
Route guidance after
vehicle transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Trip interruption during
route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Selection lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Calling up the
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . 108
Avoiding certain road types . . . . . 109
Adjusting the acoustics for
navigation announcements . . . . . . 109
Destination entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Entering data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Destination entry menu. . . . . . . . . 114
Entering a destination . . . . . . . . . . 115
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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Entering a city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting city . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . . 118
Entering a street in the
destination city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting street . . . . . . . . . . 120
Entering an intersection . . . . . . . . 121
Entering a house number . . . . . . . 122
Entering a destination using the
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Entering a destination via geo
coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Storing map location . . . . . . . . . . 126
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Start route guidance menu . . . . . . 128
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Navigation announcements . . . . . 129
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 132
Partially digitized areas. . . . . . . . . 132
Off-road and off-map . . . . . . . . . . 134During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Showing soft key displays . . . . . . 136
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Displaying the route on the map . 137
Displaying the route list . . . . . . . . 138
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Stop-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Defining route guidance displays . 143
Setting symbols displays . . . . . . . 143
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . . 144
Map display menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . . 146
Scales for full-screen and
split-screen map display . . . . . . . . 146
Last destinations and
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 148
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 149
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Selecting POI in the local area of
the current position . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Selecting POI for a selected city. . 154
Selecting POI for a long-distance
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Selecting a POI using the map . . . 156
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 160
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 164
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . . 164
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . 167
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Voice control settings* . . . . . . . . . 168
Reset function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
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7
Where to find it
Introduction
Where to find it
This Operator's Manual is designed to pro-
vide support for you, the COMAND opera-
tor. Each chapter has its own guide color to
provide fast access to information.
At a glance
Here you will find an overview of all
COMAND control elements and system
components. If you are operating
COMAND for the first time, or if you have
rented or borrowed the vehicle, this is the
chapter you should read first.
Audio
Here you will find all the information on
how to use the audio system and its radio
and CD components.
Satellite radio*
This chapter contains all information relat-
ed to the satellite radio system.
Telephone*
Here you can learn in detail about the
many functions of the telephone, SMS,
how to initiate an emergency call and use
service numbers.
Navigation*
This chapter provides detailed information
covering the following topics:
Destination entry
Route selection and calculation
Route guidance
Destination memory
Service
This chapter contains information con-
cerning Tele Aid*.
System
This chapter provides information on how
to adjust COMAND system settings.
Directories
The glossary explains the most important
technical terms.
The table of contents and index directory
will help you quickly locate the information
you need.