2007 MERCEDES-BENZ SL-Class Comand Manual

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COMAND Operator’s Manual
Order-No. 6515 6730 13 Part-No. 230 584 87 83 US Edition A 2007COMAND Operator’s Manual SL-Class

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: 02/14/2006
Reprinting, translation and copying,
even of excerpts, is not permitted
without prior authorization in writing.
Title illustration no. P00.01-2917-31

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
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching the COMAND control
unit on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bass and Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sound functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Audio menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Opening the Audio menu . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting an audio source . . . . . . . 42
Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching the radio operation on . . 43
Changing the Radio band . . . . . . . . 43
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
General Information on
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 53
Playback information . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Switching to CD operation . . . . . . . 54
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Selecting a CD (CD changer only). . 58
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
MP3-CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Tips on caring for your MP3-CDs . . 64
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 64
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . 66
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Switching to MP3-CD operation . . . 67
MP3-CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Selecting a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Muting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
MP3 options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
DVD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
General information on
DVD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
DVD playback requirements . . . . . . 76

Contents
Switching to DVD operation . . . . . . 76
Loading a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Ejecting a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Soft key display and status bar. . . . 79
Soft key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
DVD menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Adjusting brightness, contrast
and color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Selecting a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Selecting a scene/chapter . . . . . . . 87
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Satellite radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Subscribing to satellite radio . . . . . 91
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Changing the program category . . . 93
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Displaying information . . . . . . . . . . 96
Displaying service information . . . . 97
Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Telephone* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Switching telephone operation on 104
Switching telephone operation off 104
Emergency call “911” . . . . . . . . . . 105
Entering codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Switching to telephone operation 108
Incoming call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Saving phone numbers . . . . . . . . . 121
Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Navigation DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Route guidance after the vehicle
has been transported . . . . . . . . . . 128
Trip interruption during route
guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Activating the Navigation
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Setting the route mode . . . . . . . . . 132
Audio settings for the navigation
announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Saving current position . . . . . . . . . 134
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Activating the Destination
Entry menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Selecting home address . . . . . . . . 150
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 151
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Recalculating an existing route . . . 151
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Partially digitized areas . . . . . . . . . 155
Off-road and off-map. . . . . . . . . . . 157
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . . 159
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 159
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 160
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Via function (soft key via) . . . . . . . 162
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Saving the current location . . . . . . 167
Defining route guidance displays . 167

Contents
Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 171
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 172
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Selecting a POI around your
current location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Selecting a POI around another
location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Selecting a POI around a global
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Selecting a POI on the map . . . . . 180
Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Service main menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Activating the Service main menu 184
SMS (Mail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
SMS Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Reading SMS message received. . 187
Saving a sender phone number . . 188
Deleting a SMS message* . . . . . . 191Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Activating the Address book
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Entries in the address book . . . . . 192
Selecting an entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Details on an address book entry . 194
Details on a mobile phone
internal memory entry . . . . . . . . . 198
New address book entry . . . . . . . . 201
Deleting an address book entry . . 202
Using an address book entry
in other system modes . . . . . . . . . 203
Tele Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Emergency call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Roadside Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . 206
Information call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Remote Door Unlock and
Stolen Vehicle Recovery . . . . . . . . 208
Entering data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Input via selection menu. . . . . . . . 209
Input via 12-button keypad. . . . . . 211
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . 214
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off . . . . . 217
Making display settings . . . . . . . . 217
Voice control system* . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Voice control system* functions . 219
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

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