2007 MERCEDES-BENZ CLS-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
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
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

8 Introduction
Symbols
The following symbols are used in this
Operator’s Manual:* The asterisk identifies optional
equipment. Since not all models
have the same standard equip-
ment, your COMAND system’s
equipment may deviate from
some descriptions and illustra-
tions.
This symbol points to instruc-
tions for you to follow.
A number of these symbols ap-
pearing in succession indicates
a multiple-step procedure.
 This continuation symbol marks
an interrupted procedure which
will be continued on the next
page.
page This symbol tells you where to
look for further information on
this subject.
->This symbol is used in the glos-
sary. It indicates that the term
immediately following the sym-
bol is also explained in the glos-
sary.
Display Words appearing on the
COMAND display or the multi-
function display are printed in
the type shown here.
WarningG
Warning notices draw your attention to haz-
ards that may endanger your health or life,
or the health or life of others.
!
Highlights hazards that may result in
damage to your COMAND.
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Helpful hints or further information you
may find useful.

23 At a glance
Navigation* operating elements
FunctionPage
1 5
Navigation main menu
Cancelling route
guidance
108
132
2 6
Switching map display
131
3 Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
4 #, $, %, &,07,0
8
Selecting options
Selecting characters for
text entry
Scrolling map
FunctionPage
5 '
Confirmation
6Navigation computer105
7Navigation DVD slot105
8 (
Switching navigation an-
nouncements OFF
129
9 9
Current navigation an-
nouncement
Switching navigation an-
nouncements ON
129
129
FunctionPage
a :0
Ejecting navigation DVDs
105
b )
Switching ON/OFF
29
c *
Volume adjustment
29

24 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
E-Class illustrated
FunctionPage
1 Multifunction display
2 Volume setting:
ç Volume down
æ Volume up
29
29
3 Making calls:
s Answering calls
Redialing
t Ending or refusing
calls
Entering a phone num-
ber:
t Deleting the entire
entry
90
92
91
91
4 Multifunction display
menu change:
è forward
ÿ back
25
25
FunctionPage
5 Radio mode:
j Next station
k Previous station
via station search
via station presets
38
39
5Single CD, CD changer*
and MP3 mode:
j Next track
k Previous track
69
69
5Satellite radio* mode:
j Next station
k Previous station
79
79
5Telephone* mode:
j Next list entry
k Previous list entry
94
94

25 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
Switch the multifunction display to the re-
spective system if you wish to operate the
system using the buttons on the multifunc-
tion steering wheel.
On the multifunction steering wheel,
pressè or ÿ repeatedly until
one of the following, Radio, Single CD,
MP3, CD changer*, Satellite radio* or
Telephone* display appears in the mul-
tifunction display of the instrument
cluster.
Radio operation
1Waveband and position in Preset menu
2Station frequencySingle CD operation
1Single CD operation
2Current track
CD changer* operation
1Current CD
2Current trackMP3 operation
1MP3 operation
2Current track
Selecting the multifunction display
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Depending on vehicle production date
COMAND may not be equipped with
the MP3 functionality. If so, the CD
changer* may be used for playback of
MP3 CDs.

26 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
Satellite radio* operation
1SAT and position in Preset menu
2Channel name
Telephone* operation
Either the main display, or a list appears on
display.
Telephone main display:In the list screen, instead of the READY mes-
sage, either a phone book entry or one of
the last 10 outgoing calls will be displayed.
In order to close the list display,
presst
.
This switches to the telephone main
display.
The following functions are available:
Freq. function:
You can tune to stations via the station
search (
page 38).
Memory function:
You can tune to stations via the station
presets (
page 39).
Setting audio search function
On the multifunction steering wheel,
pressè or ÿ repeatedly until
the
Settings... menu appears in the
multifunction display in the instrument
cluster.
Pressj and switch to the submenu
options.
Press æ or ç and select the
Vehicle menu.
Pressj and select Audio Search
Function
.
By pressing æ or ç, select Freq.
or
Memory.Audio search function
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Memory is set at the factory.

27 At a glance
Menu system

Menu system
The menu system allows for easy opera-
tion of COMAND.
Each of the following main functions has a
main menu:
Audio
(Radio, Single CD, CD changer* and
AUX mode)
Satellite radio*
Telephone*
Navigation*
Service
Opening main menus
Audio (page 36):
Press -.
Satellite radio* (page 73):
Press ;.
Telephone* (page 89):
Press 2.
Navigation* (page 108):
Press 5.
Service (page 159):
Press <.
Menu display
A display can be composed of 3 sections.
Example: Radio main menu
1Soft key sections
2Main area
3Status bar
The functions currently assigned to the
soft keys are displayed in the soft key sec-
tions 1.Messages or settings are displayed in the
main area 2.
The settings can be changed by operating
controls accordingly.
The status bar 3 is divided into three ar-
eas.
Left side:
The selected operating mode is given. In
this example: Radio
Center:
Indication of the selected operating mode.
In this example:
FM = selected waveband
1 = selected station is stored on
preset 1
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A maximum of five soft keys may be
displayed on each side of the main area
2.