2008 MERCEDES-BENZ GL-Class Compass

Contents
Saving current location. . . . . . . . . 149
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Activating the Enter street menu . 150
Selecting the state/province . . . . 151
Entering destination address . . . . 152
Selecting home address . . . . . . . . 163
Displaying the compass screen
(except CLK-Class) . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 167
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Recalculating an existing route . . 167
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Partially digitized areas/unverified
roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . 177
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 177
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 178
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Saving the current location . . . . . 185
Defining route guidance displays . 185Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 191
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 192
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Selecting a POI on the map . . . . . 198
Entering a POI by phone number . 199
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Adding a destination to
today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Software Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Activating the System menu . . . . 208
Setting the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 209
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off. . . . . 209
Selecting display settings . . . . . . . 210
Switching the screen off or on . . . 211
Selecting Voice control* settings
(except CLK-Class) . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Resetting all settings to the
factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
SMS* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
SMS Received list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Reading SMS message received . . 216
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 217
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

147 Navigation*
Navigation main menu
Destination memory
You can select destinations from the
Destination Memory (page 193).
Enter destination
Activates the Enter street menu
(
page 150).
Last destinations
You can select last destinations from
the
Last destinations memory
(
page 191).
Points of interest:
Brings you to the
Select point
category
menu (page 195).
POIs are e.g. gas stations, parking
facilities or airports.
Phone number:
You can select a POI by phone number.
Brings you to the
Enter POI phone
number
menu (page 199).
Today’s Plan:
You can select destinations from the
Today’s Plan list one after the other or
sort destinations as Bestway or Round
trip (
page 201).Available soft keys
Home soft key:
You can edit the home address and
start route guidance (
page 163).
Mode soft key:
You can edit the routing mode for the
next route guidance (
page 148).
Compass soft key:
You can display direction of travel,
altitude and steering angle of the
vehicle (
page 165).

164 Navigation*
Destination input
selecting a destination from the Last
destinations memory (
page 191)
selecting a Point of Interest
(
page 195)
entering a POI by phone number
(
page 199)
selecting a destination from the
Today’s plan memory (
page 201)After entering the address the screen may
look as follows
Press E.
The home address is saved.
The Start route guidance menu will
appear (
page 167).If your vehicle is equipped with Navigation
Activate the Navigation main menu
(
page 146).
or
Activate the Info menu (page 179).
Press the Compass soft key.
The Compass screen will appear.
If your vehicle is not equipped with
Navigation
Press b or c.
The Compass screen will appear.
Displaying the compass screen
(except CLK-Class)

165 Navigation*
Destination input
To cancel the compass screen in vehicles
with Navigation
Press any soft key, then press the Back
soft key.
or
Press b or c.
To cancel the Compass screen in vehicles
without Navigation
Press the A, B, a or {
buttons.Compass screen
1Pointer shows the steering angle on a
half circle scale in degrees
2Steering icon shows the position of the
vehicle wheels
3Dynamic compass displays the driving
direction at the top of the screen, the
white arrow always points to North
If your vehicle is equipped with Navigation
4Height indication, the scale scrolls as
the vehicle's altitude changes
5Status bar shows GPS coordinates,
height above sea level and the number
of currently received satellites
i
Compass screen is activated during
route guidance:
COMAND continues to provide route
guidance via voice instructions
(
page 168). The Navigation screens
are visible in the instrument cluster
multifunction display.
i
Keep in mind, steering angle 1 and the
steering icon 2 are approximations.

166 Navigation*
Destination input
Additional information for 1, 3 and 4
IndicationRemarks and
value range
1 Steering angle Pointer shows to the
left
-35° to 0°
Pointer shows to the
right
0° to +35°
3 Dynamic
compass card 0° to 360°
4 Height above
the sea level i
The white indicator
is fixed, the scale
scrolls as vehicle
altitude changes
Scale range:
The display unit is
set to miles
-328 ft. to 19680 ft.
The display unit is
set to km
-100 m to 6000 m
IndicationRemarks and
value rangei
Using the control system, the display
unit can be changed between km or
miles (see your vehicle’s Operator’s
Manual).
When the instrument cluster
multifunction display is set to miles,
the COMAND will indicate
distances in miles (mi) or feet (ft.)
When the instrument cluster
multifunction display is set to
kilometers, the COMAND will
indicate distances in kilometers
(km) or meters (m)

179 Navigation*
During route guidance
Display the soft keys.
Press the Info soft key.
The Info menu will appear.
Info menu
Available soft keys
Compass soft key:
Displays direction of travel, altitude
and steering angle of the vehicle
(
page 165).
Rte list soft key:
Shows a list of the route.
Mode soft key:
Brings you to the route mode selection
menu (
page 148).
Details soft key:
See all information about the
destination.
Displaying the route list
Press the Rte list soft key.
The list of the remaining roads/route
sections appears.
The road currently travelled on is at the
top of the list.
Push the joystick to G or g to scroll
through the list.
Use the Page V and Page v soft keys
to display the next or previous page.
Info menui
If a stopover destination has been
entered:
The estimated time of arrival and the
remaining distance to the stopover
destination are displayed.
When the stopover destination is
reached, the system indicates
estimated time of arrival and remaining
distance to the main destination.
i
Depending on the distance to the
destination, it may take a few moments
before the route list is completed.
The list will only be complete when the
route is completely calculated.

187 Navigation*
During route guidance
Setting map view
In the Settings menu (page 185),
press the
View soft key.
The available options are displayed.
You can select the following map
orientations:
Heading Up
Dynamic map alignment, map is
displayed facing driving direction
pointing up
North Up
Map is displayed facing north
Changing map view
Use the joystick to g or G to select
the deactivated option.
Press E.
The orientation is changed.
Press the Back soft key to confirm and
return to the map.
OptionSymbol
On_
Off -
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A symbol is shown on the bottom left
side of the status bar.
North symbol Y:
Map is displayed facing north
Compass symbol <:
Dynamic map alignment, map is
displayed facing driving direction
pointing up

226 Index
Changing
aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
camera view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
DVD language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
map display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
CODE INCORRECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
COMAND
switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Compass function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
CONNECTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217, 218
Connecting
external video sources (rear seat
entertainment*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
headsets (rear audio operation*) . . . 84
headsets (rear seat entertainment*). 92
CONTINUE ROUTE GUIDANCE. . . . . 146
Current vehicle location . . . . . . . . . 169
D
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Dialing
subsequent dialing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Displaying
full screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 108
phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
route list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
soft keys during playback . . . 101, 107
the compass screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Displaying and switching
between subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
DRIVE EMPTY (rear seat entertain-
ment*). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
DVD
playback requirements (rear seat
entertainment*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
E
Ejecting
CD
at the COMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
at the RSE CD/DVD player . . . . . . 94
MP3 CD
at the COMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
navigation DVD
at the COMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Emergency call "911". . . . . . . . . . . 127
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . . 217
Ending
call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132, 133
ENTER UNLOCK CODE. . . . . . . . . . . 124Entering
city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
destination address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
house number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
PUK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
telephone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
unlock code
GSM mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . 129
TDMA or CDMA mobile phone . . . 129
F
Frequency range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
G
GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
H
Hands-free microphone
switching on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Headsets
adjusting volume (rear audio
operation*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
connecting (rear audio operation*) . . 84
connecting (rear seat
entertainment*) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92