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COMAND Operator’s Manual
Order-No. 6515 6784 13 Part-No. 204 584 13 81 US Edition A 2008COMAND Operator’s Manual C-Class
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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 rea-
sonably 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 therefo-
re 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
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Content
i
Please also refer to the index (page 217).
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Declaration of conformity regarding
the distribution of
telecommunica-tions equipment . . 11
Intended purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Function restrictions when driving
the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
COMAND control system . . . . . . . . . . . 14
COMAND components . . . . . . . . . . 14
COMAND display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
COMAND control unit . . . . . . . . . . . 17
COMAND controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Back button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Clear button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . . . 23
Operating the Multifunction display 24
Multifunction display . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Menus and submenus . . . . . . . . . . 24
Navi menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Audio menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Tel menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Operating COMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening menu for a main function . 31
Selecting menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Character entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operating example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Basic functions of COMAND . . . . . . . . 35
Switching COMAND on/off . . . . . . 35
Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Selecting sound settings . . . . . . . . 36
Surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Switching to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . 40
Submenu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tuning to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching to weather band . . . . . . . 44
Satellite radio* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Subscribing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . 47
CD audio/DVD audio and MP3 . . . . . . 52Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Notes on MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Notes on CD/DVD discs . . . . . . . . . 54
Notes on the care of
CD/DVD discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading PCMCIA memory card . . . 57
Ejecting CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . 57
Ejecting PCMCIA memory card . . . . 58
Submenu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Switching to CD audio, DVD audio
or MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Stop function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Pause function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting CD/DVD/MP3 media . . . 62
Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Gracenote Media Database . . . . . . 64
Setting audio format . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Music Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Switching to Music Register . . . . . . 67
Recording music files . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Deleting all music files . . . . . . . . . . 69
Requesting memory space
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Folder functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Content
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Content
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Audio Aux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Switching to Audio Aux . . . . . . . . . . 71
Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
DVD video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Automatic picture switch-off. . . . . . 74
Notes on storage media . . . . . . . . . 74
Notes on the care of discs . . . . . . . 74
DVD playback conditions . . . . . . . . 75
Functional restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 75
Loading DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Ejecting DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Submenu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switching to DVD video . . . . . . . . . 77
Displaying/hiding control menu . . . 77
Displaying/hiding menu system . . . 77
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Selecting DVD media . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Stop function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Pause function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Selecting a scene/chapter . . . . . . 79
Selecting a film/track. . . . . . . . . . . 79
Picture settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
DVD menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Setting language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Subtitles and camera angle . . . . . . 82
Interactive content . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Making calls via Bluetooth®
interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Interruptions to the connection while
driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Operating options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Functional restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 85
Activating the mobile phone . . . . . . . . . 86
Mobile phone with Bluetooth
®
interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Setting transmit and receive
volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
“911” emergency call . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Submenu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Phone main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
COMAND phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Opening COMAND phone book . . . 93
Selecting an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Initiating call to an entry . . . . . . . . . 94
Creating a new entry. . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Adding phone number to a phone
book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Call lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Making calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Incoming call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Initiating an outgoing call . . . . . . . 101
Functions during a single call . . . . 102
Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Opening the address book . . . . . . 104
Submenu overview for
address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Selecting entry in the
address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating a new address book
entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Searching for an address book
entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Displaying details for an
address book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Changing entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Initiating a phone call to an entry . 109
Starting navigation to an entry . . . 109
Voice tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
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Content
Importing vCards from a
PCMCIA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Updating the map software . . . . . 112
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Input restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Switching to navigation mode . . . 118
Basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Introduction to destination input . 126
Entering a destination via the address
126
Entering a destination from the desti-
nation memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Entering destination from the last des-
tinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Entering destination via the map . 137
Entering stopover destination. . . . 138
POI input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Entering a POI in local area of
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Entering a POI in the vicinity of the
location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Entering a POI in the vicinity of a
specific location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Entering a POI via a name search . 141
Entering a POI via a phone number
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Choosing a POI category . . . . . . . 142
Entering a POI via the map . . . . . . 147
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Driving maneuver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Example display without driving
maneuver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Traffic lane recommendations . . . 150
Destination or destination region
reached. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Off-road and off-map . . . . . . . . . . 152
Navigation announcements . . . . . 153
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 154
Resuming route guidance after
cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Detour function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Alternative route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Route browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Displaying destination information . . .
155
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Saving a destination in the
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Deleting destination or home
address from the destination
memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Saving a destination permanently
in the destination memory . . . . . . 162
Saving vehicle location in the last
destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Saving crosshairs position in the
last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Deleting one of the last
destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Opening System menu . . . . . . . . . 164
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Read-out settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Voice control settings . . . . . . . . . . 167
Bluetooth® settings . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Reset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Setting the system language . . . . 171
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
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Emergency calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Information calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Voice Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Operating Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Symbols only used in this chapter 176
Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Phone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Entering an address . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Radio and Satellite Radio* . . . . . . . . . 195
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
DVD changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
External equipment (AUX) . . . . . . . . . 199 Audio aux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Command list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
General commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Phone commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Navigation commands . . . . . . . . . 202
Address book commands . . . . . . . 203
Audio and video commands . . . . . 204
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Satellite Radio* (SIRIUS). . . . . . . . 205
CD changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
MP3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Hard disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Memory card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
DVD audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
AUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Help function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Technical terminology. . . . . . . . . . . 213
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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7
Where to find it
Introduction
This operating guide has been designed to
help you use your COMAND control unit in
all situations. Each chapter has its own col-
or code in order to make it easier to find in-
formation.
At a glance
Here you will find an overview of the com-
ponents of COMAND. Then you will find ex-
amples illustrating how to operate
COMAND and information on the basic
functions. If you are operating a COMAND
for the first time or have rented the vehicle,
you should first read this chapter.
Audio
Here you will find all information regarding
the audio function and its radio, SatRadio*,
CD-audio/DVD audio/MP3, music register
and audio aux modes.
Video
Here you will find all information regarding
the video system.
Telephone
The telephone functions are described
here. You will also find information on the
address book.
Navigation
Here you will find detailed information re-
garding the following topics:
Setting options for the map display and
the route calculation
Destination input
POI input
Route guidance
Destination memory
System settings
Here you will find all the important infor-
mation regarding the system settings of
the COMAND.
Furthermore, you will find here basic infor-
mation about TeleAid* (SOS, Roadside as-
sistance and Information calls).
Voice Control
Here you will find information about oper-
ating several COMAND functions via Voice
Control.
Indexes
The technical terminology glossary ex-
plains the most important technical terms.
Content and keyword indexes are intended
to help you find information quickly.
Where to find it