2007 MERCEDES-BENZ SL-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
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

8 Introduction
Symbols

Symbols
You will find the following symbols in these
operating instructions:
* The asterisk identifies optional
equipment. Since not all models
have the same standard equip-
ment, your COMAND system equip-
ment may deviate from some
descriptions and illustrations.This symbol points to instructions for
you to follow.
A number of these symbols appearing
in succession indicates a multiple-step
procedure.
The continuation symbol
marks an interrupted proce-
dure which will be continued
on the next page.
(
page 9) This symbol tells you where
to look for further infor-
mation on this subject.
-> This symbol is used in the
glossary. It indicates that
the term immediately follo-
wing the symbol is also exp-
lained in the glossary.
Display Messages, menu items or
soft key names appearing in
the COMAND color display
are printed in the type
shown here.
WarningG
Warning notices draw your attention to ha-
zards that may endanger your health or life,
or the health or life of others.
!
Highlights hazards that may result in
damage to your COMAND.
i
Helpful hints or further information you
may find useful.


13 At a glance
Radio operating elements
FunctionPage
1Audio menu42
2Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
3Color display with Radio
main menu
41 - 0, *
Station selection
Saving stations manually
Selecting a station from
the preset memory
46
48
50
5E Confirm
FunctionPage
6H,h,g,G
Function selection
g and G
e.g.
Automatic seek tuning
H and h
e.g. Manual tuning
45
45
7J
Muting
42
8Volume control35
9e Switching on and off34
ad and D
Automatic seek tuning
Manual tuning
45
45

25 At a glance
Navigation operating elements
FunctionPage
1Soft keys
(multifunction keys)
2Color screen with
Navigation main menu
3E Confirm
4H,h,g,G
F,f
Function selection
5J
During a voice instruction:
Muting current voice
instruction
Switching off voice
instructions
152
152
FunctionPage
6j
Repeating current voice
instruction
Switching on voice
instructions
151
152
7Volume control35
8e Switching on and off34
9b
Navigation main menu
During route guidance:
Change over to navigation
display
Cancelling route guidance
130
152
159
ac
Switches to map display
152

28 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel

Multifunction steering wheel
FunctionPage
1,
2Multifunction displays
3Volume setting
ç Volume down
æ Volume up
34
34
4Making calls:
s
Accepting calls,
Redialing
t
Ending or rejecting calls
109
111
110
5Multifunction display
menu change:
è forward
ÿ back
29
6Radio mode:
j Next station
k Previous station
45
45
Single CD and CD changer
mode:
j Next track
k Previous track
59
59
MP3 CD mode:
j Next track
k Previous track
69
69
Satellite radio mode
j Next station
k Previous station
93
93
Telephone* mode
j Next list entry
k Previous list entry
112
112
FunctionPage

29 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
Switch the multifunction display to the
respective system if you wish to
operate the system using the buttons
on the multifunction steering wheel.
On the multifunction steering wheel,
press è or ÿ repeatedly until
one of the following, Radio, Single CD
or MP3 CD, CD changer, Satellite radio
or Telephone* display appears in the
multifunction display of the instrument
cluster.
Radio operation
1Waveband
2Station frequencyWeather Band operation
1Weather Band (WB)
2Channel name
Single CD operation
1CD mode
2Current trackCD changer operation
1CD changer mode
2Current track
MP3 CD operation
1MP3 mode
2Current track
Selecting the multifunction display