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
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
46 Audio
Single CD operation
The COMAND CD drive holds one CD. The
slot for inserting a CD is located above the
display (
page 15).
Insert a CD into the CD slot while
COMAND is switched ON. Insert the
CD face up.
COMAND pulls in the CD. If the CD is
an audio CD, the system switches to
Single CD mode.
Press/.
COMAND ejects the CD.
Remove the CD from the slot.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx. 7
seconds.
Open the Audio main menu
(
page 36).
Press the CD soft key.
The system switches to Single CD
mode.
!
Only use CDs, which bear the label
shown and that conform to the com-
pact digital audio standard
(IEC 60908).
Do not play single-CDs (80 mm) with an
adapter. Only use round, 12 cm diame-
ter CDs.
Your CD drive has been designed to
play CDs which correspond to the IEC
60908 standard. Therefore only CDs
not exceeding a thickness of 1.3 mm
can be used.
If you insert thicker data carriers, e.g.
ones that have data on both sides (one
side with DVD data, the other side with
audio data), they cannot be ejected
and will damage the drive.
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Th e C O M A N D C D d r i v e m a y n o t b e a b l e
to play audio CDs with copy protection.
!
If a CD is already loaded, it must be
ejected before inserting the new CD.
Inserting a second CD in the slot with
another CD still loaded will cause dam-
age to the CD drive not covered by the
Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty.
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If the CD is an MP3 CD, the system
switches to MP3 mode (
page 54).
Ejecting a CD
Single CD main menu
65 Audio
CD changer* operation
Press and hold the button 2 of an
empty magazine compartment for
more than 2 seconds.
The LEDs of all magazine compartment
buttons 2 briefly light up green sever-
al times.
Wait until the LED in the first magazine
compartment button 2 flashes green.
This indicates that the CD changer re-
quests a CD.
Insert an audio CD into the CD slot 1
within approx. 15 seconds. Insert the
CD face up.
The CD is pulled in; the magazine com-
partment is loaded.
The red LED in the corresponding mag-
azine compartment button 2 li g ht s u p
continuously.
The CD changer then requests inser-
tion of the next CD. The LED in the cor-
responding magazine compartment
button 2 flashes green.
Repeat the last step until all six maga-
zine compartments are loaded.
The system plays the sixth CD. The
LEDs in all magazine compartment but-
tons 2 light up red continuously.
The loading procedure is completed.
Retract the CD changer (page 63).
The following options are available:
Ejecting one CD
Ejecting all CDs (page 66)Ejecting one CD
1CD slot
2Magazine compartment buttons
Access the CD changer (page 62).
Briefly press the appropriate magazine
compartment button 2.
The button LED 2 flashes red. The CD
changer ejects the CD.
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If, for example, only compartments 1
through 4 are to be loaded instead of
all six compartments, simply do not in-
sert the a fifth CD into the slot 1. The
CD changer attempts to load the fifth
CD, yet aborts the loading procedure.
The system automatically plays the last
(fourth) CD.
Ejecting CDs
66 Audio
CD changer* operation
Within 15 seconds, remove the CD
from the slot 1.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx.
15 seconds. The system starts playing
the CD again.
The ejection procedure is completed.
Retract the CD changer (page 63).
Ejecting all CDs
Access the CD changer (page 62).
Press and hold the button of a loaded
magazine compartment 2 for more
than 2 seconds.
The button LEDs of all loaded magazine
compartments will briefly flash red,
several times.
The CD changer ejects the CDs one af-
ter another.
Within 15 seconds, remove each CD
from the slot 1.
The CD will be pulled in again if it is not
removed from the slot within approx.
15 seconds. The system starts playing
the CD again.
The ejection procedure is completed
when all CDs are removed, or when the
procedure is aborted by the CD chang-
er.
Retract the CD changer (page 63).
Open the Audio main menu
(
page 36).
Press the CDC soft key.
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If you are listening to a CD in the CD
changer and you eject another CD from
the changer:
While ejecting the CD, the system
interrupts CD playback.
The CD you were last listening to
starts from the beginning once the
ejection procedure is completed.
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If you eject the CD you are currently lis-
tening to:
The next available audio CD is
played.
If there are no other CDs available,
the system switches to the audio
source listened to before CD chang-
er mode.
CD changer main menu
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Th e C D C s o f t k e y i s s h a d e d o u t i f n o C D
is loaded. The system will not switch to
CD changer mode.
Load an audio CD into the
CD changer (
page 63).
105 Navigation*
Important notes
COMAND calculates the route with the
help of data that is stored on the naviga-
tion DVD.
Only use Mercedes-Benz navigation DVDs
designed for the E-Class (211) COMAND
system. No other CDs or DVDs will work.
Using other navigation CDs or DVDs might
lead to malfunctions.
Because of changes in local traffic patterns
(e.g. road works) and/or incomplete data,
errors in calculation may occur.
As a result, the recommended route may
deviate from the ideal route. The data
stored on the DVD only reflects local con-
ditions at the time of DVD production. DVD
maps do not cover all areas nor all routes
within an area.The DVD is loaded into (and ejected from)
the navigation module.
The navigation module is mounted on the
left-hand side of the trunk.
1Ejecting DVDs
2DVD slotLoading Insert the DVD into the DVD slot 2
with the label facing up.
Th e n a v i g a t i o n c o m p u t e r p u l l s t h e D V D
in.
Ejecting
Press: and wait until the navigation
computer ejects the DVD.
The navigation DVD covers the continental
U.S., Hawaii and Canada.
Contact your Mercedes-Benz Center or the
Customer Assistance Center in the U.S. at
1-800-FOR-MERCedes (1-800-367-6372)
or in Canada at 1-800-387-0100 for other
DVDs that may be available.
Change the navigation DVD
(
page 105).
Navigation DVDLoading/ejecting the DVD
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Your Navigation DVD drive has been
designed to play DVDs which corre-
spond to the IEC 60908 standard.
If you insert thicker data carriers, e.g.
ones that have data on both sides (one
side with DVD data, the other side with
audio data), they cannot be ejected
and will damage the drive.
Travelling abroad
177 Index
A
Accepted calls (telephone). . . . . . . . 93
Accessing CD changer. . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Adding spoken names to a
phone book entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Answering call (telephone). . . . . . . . 90
Audio AUX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
switching to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Automatic volume control . . . . . . . . 30
Autostore (in Radio mode) . 40, 43, 173
B
Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 173
for navigation announcements . . . . 110
Bass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
for navigation announcements . . . . 110
Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Bit rate (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
permissible rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 62
C
Call (Telephone)
answering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91, 95
outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
placing an outgoing call . . . . . . . . . . 91
refusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
CALL NOT POSSIBLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Calling up Destination memory . . . 149
Cancelling
route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Caring for CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 52, 61
Category list (satellite radio) . . . . . . 77
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
see also MP3 CD
copy protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 63
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 65
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 63
random CD (CD changer mode) . . . . 71
repeat (CD changer mode) . . . . . . . . 71
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CD changer
accessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
retracting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63CD changer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
permissible file system (MP3) . . . . . . 61
permissible MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
permissible MP3 formats . . . . . . . . . 61
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
CD slot
CD changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63, 64, 65
MP3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
single CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
CD-R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 173
CD-RW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 173
Changing
detour (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
map scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
stop-over destination . . . . . . . . . . . 142
CHANNEL UNAVAILABLE. . . . . . . . . . 77
COMAND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Index
179 Index
Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
random (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
repeat (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
selecting (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Forward
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Frequency input (in Radio mode). . . 41
G
Global Positioning System
see GPS
GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106, 173
Greenwich meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
GSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 87, 174
H
Hands-free microphone
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Home address
entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
I
ID3 tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 174
ISO9660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 174
J
Joliet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 174
L
Language setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Last destinations memory . . . . . . . 148
selecting destination. . . . . . . . . . . . 148
starting route guidance to
Last destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Latitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125, 174
List (Satellite radio mode)
program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
List (Telephone mode)
accepted calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Loading CD
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 105
LOGIC7
® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 174
Longitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125, 174
M
Manual tuning (in Radio mode). . . . . 41
Memory
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 43
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Mercedes-Benz Information . . . . . . 161
Missed calls (telephone). . . . . . . 92, 93
MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 . . . . 53, 61, 174
MPEG2 Audio Layer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
MPEG2.5 Audio Layer 3. . . . . . . . . . . 62
MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . 52
tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . . 53
tips on data storage media . . . . . . . . 51
MP3 CD
ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
file structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
MP3 formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 61