2008 MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class language

Contents
Entering an intersection . . . . . . . . 121Entering 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 . . . . . . . . . .
134
During
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

164 SystemSystem settings
Press

.
The System menu appears.
Selectable soft keys
Time
soft key

For setting the date and time.

Lang.
soft key

For setting the language
( page
166)
.

Tones
soft key

For switching confirmation beeps

and acoustic signals ON and OFF ( page
167)
.

Display
soft key

For changing the display settings ( page
167)
.

VC tips
soft key

To call up the Voice control settings* ( page
168)
.

Reset
soft key

For reversing COMAND to the factory
settings
( page
171)
.

In the System menu, press the
Time

soft key.
The Date/Time settings menu appears.
The following options are now available:
Setting the time

Setting the date

Setting the date/time format
Calling up the System menu
Setting the date/time

166 SystemSystem settings
Setting the format: 
Use

or

to select a format.

Press

.
The appropriate format is selected.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for the
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.
The language setting changes the display
language as well as the language used for
voice instructions in navigation announce
-
ments.
In the System menu
( page
164)
,
press the
Lang.
soft key.
The language list is displayed.
The following options are available:
Instr. cluster settings
:
The system switches to the lan
-
guage already set in the vehicle in
-
strument cluster (
 Vehicle
Operator’s manual).

All other options:

The system switches to the re
-
quested language.
iList entry 1-3: Date formatsList entry 4 and 5: Time formats

(Entry 5 is not visible on the display ex
-
ample below.)Solid circle
: format set

Empty circle
: format not set
Setting the language

179 Index
Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173random (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59repeat (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59selecting (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Forwardin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Frequency input (in Radio mode). . . 41 GGlobal Positioning Systemsee GPSGPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,
173
Greenwich meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . 173GSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,
87,
174
HHands-free microphoneswitching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Home addressentering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 IID3 tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,
174
ISO9660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,
174
JJoliet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,
174
LLanguage setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Last destinations memory . . . . . . . 148selecting destination. . . . . . . . . . . . 148starting route guidance to Last

destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Latitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,
174
List (Satellite radio mode)program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77List (Telephone mode)accepted calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Loading CDin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Loading navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 105LOGIC7®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,
174
Longitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,
174
MManual tuning (in Radio mode). . . . . 41Memorydestination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,
43
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Mercedes-Benz Information . . . . . . 161Missed calls (telephone). . . . . . . 92,
93
MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 . . . . 53,
61,
174
MPEG2 Audio Layer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 62MPEG2.5 Audio Layer 3. . . . . . . . . . . 62MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . 52tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . . 53tips on data storage media . . . . . . . . 51MP3 CDejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55file structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54MP3 formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,
61

182 IndexSettingbalance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110bass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31for navigation announcements . . 110date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164date format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164display brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166map orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
42
route mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164time format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164treble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31for navigation announcements . . 110volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110
Showing soft key displays (Navigation mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136SIM card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,
87,
175
SIM CARD BLOCKED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 37,
45
switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Sirius Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Sirius Service Centercalling the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Soft key displaysshowing in Navigation mode . . . . . . 136Soft keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,
175
Sound functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Speed dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Spoken names to a phone book entry. 99Starting route guidance. . . . . . . . . . 128Station (radio)presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,
42
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
42
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
42
storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Station (satellite radio)presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77scan search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Stop-over destinationchanging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Storingcurrent vehicle position . . . . . . . . . . 126destination in Destination memory . 150location selected via the map . . . . . 127radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43satellite radio station. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Subscriber Identity Modulesee SIM card