2007 MERCEDES-BENZ R-Class Comand Manual

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COMAND Operator’s Manual
Order-No. 6515 6770 13 Part-No. 251 584 79 71 US Edition B 2007COMAND Operat or’s Manual ML-Class / GL-Cl ass / R- Cl ass

We reserve the right to modify
the technical details
of the COMAND system as given
in the data and illustrations
of this Operator’s Manual.
Press time: 03/20/2006
Reprinting, translation and copying,
even of excerpts, is not permitted
without prior authorization in writing.
Title illustration no. P00.01-2982-31

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 pro-
duct and ask for your understanding that
we reserve the right to make changes in
design and equipment. Therefore, informa-
tion, illustrations and descriptions in this
manual might differ from the equipment in-
stalled in your vehicle. As such, the infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions
contained in this manual may not be reaso-
nably 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

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
Audio search function. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching the COMAND control
unit on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bass and Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Rear view camera* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
General information on
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 53
Loading/Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . 53CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switching to CD changer* mode . . 56
Accessing 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

Contents
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Permissible CDs/DVDs. . . . . . . . . . 88DVD playback requirements . . . . . . 89
Operating the Rear Seat
Entertainment* (RSE) . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Connecting headsets . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Switching the rear monitor
on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Loading/ejecting CDs. . . . . . . . . . . 93
Connecting external video sources . 95
Adjusting the headset volume . . . . 96
Adjusting the display brightness . . . 96
Switching to CD mode . . . . . . . . . . 97
Switching to MP3 CD mode . . . . . . 99
Switching to DVD mode . . . . . . . . 102
Switching to AUX mode . . . . . . . . 108
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
RSE audio playback through
speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Muting on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Setting bass and treble . . . . . . . . . 112
Monitor off /on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Replacing remote batteries. . . . . . 113
Satellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Subscribing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Subscribing to satellite radio . . . . 117
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Changing 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

Contents
Entering codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Switching to telephone operation 134
Incoming call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Phone book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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. . . . . . . . . 155Destination 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Recalculating an existing route. . . 173
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Partially digitized areas/unverified
roads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . 183
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 183
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 184
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Saving the current location. . . . . . 191
Defining route guidance displays . 191
Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 197
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 198
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Selecting a POI on the map . . . . . 204
Entering a POI by phone number . 205
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Adding a destination
to today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Service main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Activating the Service main menu 214

Contents
SMS* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
SMS Received list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Reading SMS message received . . 216
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 217
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Selecting the time zone . . . . . . . . 220
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 221
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off . . . . . 222
Selecting display settings . . . . . . . 223
Selecting Voice control* settings . 224
Resetting all settings to the
factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235