2008 MERCEDES-BENZ R-Class language

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

41 At a glance
Quick reference COMAND
If your vehicle is equipped with the
premium sound system*, the sound
functions* will be available for the
following operating modes:
Radio: FM-, AM- and
Weather (WB) bands
Single CD (CD) and CD changer*
(
CD)
MP3 CD operation
AUX
Satellite radio*The following sound functions* are
available:
Default Settings:
COMAND sets the default settings
(Bass, Treble, Bal/Fad) for the active
source mode.
Standard:
COMAND sets the sound linear for the
center of the vehicle.
Speech:
Playback optimized for language
comprehensibility.
LOGIC7 Surround:
Surround playback.
You can use different sound functions* for
the modes mentioned above.
E.g.:
For radio operation the function
Standard, for CD operation the function
LOGIC7 Surround.
Sound functions*i
LOGIC7 Surround sound offers a sound
quality superior to conventional stereo
sound.
If the radio reception is poor, the
system should be switched back to
standard stereo playback. Switching
back to standard stereo playback may
improve audio quality.

103 Rear Audio/Video*
Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) operation* (except CLK-Class)
Activating DVD menu
The DVD menu is the menu on the DVD.
The structure of the menu may vary
depending on the DVD and allows certain
settings or actions.
For example, multilingual DVDs allow the
DVD language to be selected in the menu.
Activating the DVD menu is possible by
selecting the
Menu soft key
while the soft keys are displayed
(
page 101) or
after stopping the DVD playback
(
page 102).
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Menu soft key and press to confirm.
The highest level of the DVD menu is
displayed, if available.Selecting an item from the DVD menu
Use h, H, g or G to select a
menu item.
Press E.
The RSE CD/DVD player will perform
the action defined by the menu item se-
lected.Activating Setting menu
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Setting soft key and press to select.
The Setting menu will appear.
Setting options:
4:3, 16:9 or Zoom soft key:
You can change the aspect ratio.
Lang. soft key:
You can change the DVD language.
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A DVD menu may contain several sub-
menus or include an item for closing
the DVD menu. Submenus may include
a menu item to go up one level in the
menu.

104 Rear Audio/Video*
Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) operation* (except CLK-Class)
Subtitle soft key:
You can display and switch between
the subtitles.
Angle soft key:
You can change the camera view, if
possible.
Back soft key:
Switches back to the soft key display.
Changing the aspect ratio
You can manually change the aspect ratio
during playback of the DVD.
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
top left soft key. Press the thumb
wheel in succession to scroll to each
ratio.Possible aspect ratios are:
4:3, 16:9 and
Zoom.
The soft key indicates the aspect ratio to
which you will change when you press the
thumb wheel.Changing the DVD language
In the Setting menu (page 103), turn
the thumb wheel to highlight the
Lang. soft key and press to select.
The language list is displayed. The con-
tent of the list depends on which lan-
guages the DVD supports.
Use g or G to select a language.
Press E.
The selected language is set.
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Zoom is useful to watch movies in cin-
ematic aspect ratio. You can use this
function to reduce the width of the
black bars at the top and bottom.
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You can only change the DVD language
if the DVD supports several languages.
Some DVDs allow the language to be
selected exclusively in the menu on the
DVD.

109 Rear Audio/Video*
Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) operation* (except CLK-Class)
You can use the following functions:
Bright. soft key:
Adjusts the display brightness.
Design soft key:
Sets the display dimming characteris-
tics.
Pic off soft key:
Switches the monitor off and on. This is
also possible by pressing on the
remote (
page 111).
Lang. soft key:
Selects the language for the menu text
displays.
Speaker soft key:
Selects the source of the speakers
(
page 110).Adjusting the display brightness
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Bright. soft key and press to select.
Press H or h direction to adjust the
brightness.
Press E.
The setting is applied. The System
menu will appear.
Setting the display dimming character-
istics
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Design soft key and press to select.
Press G or g to select an entry.
Day Mode
The display is continuously set to
daylight design.
Night Mode
The display is continuously set to night-
time design.
Automatic
The display changes depending on the
ambient light sensor in the vehicle.
Press E.
The setting is applied. The System
menu will appear.
Switching the monitor on and off
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Pic off soft key and press to select.
The monitor is switched off.
Press the thumb wheel again.
The monitor is switched on again.

110 Rear Audio/Video*
Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) operation* (except CLK-Class)
Selecting the language
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Lang. soft key and press to select.
The languages list will appear.
Press G or g to select the desired
language.
or
Select Instrument cluster.
The display will use the same language
as is set in instrument cluster.
Press E.
The setting is applied. The System
menu will appear.Selecting the source of the speakers
If two audio sources (e.g. audio CD and
AUX 2) are playing back simultaneously,
one at the left monitor the other at the
right monitor, you can select which source
can be played through the vehicle
speakers via the COMAND AUX channel.
At the COMAND, you can set the volume,
bass and treble, balance and fader and
sound functions* (
page 81).
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Speaker soft key and press to select.
Press G or g to select Left
source
or Right source.
Press E.
The setting is applied. The System
menu will appear.RSE is set to playback
At the COMAND open the Audio menu
(
page 44).
Press the AUX soft key.
Playback begins.
Press during playback (CD or
MP3 CD mode, DVD mode).
The respective operation is muted and
theß symbol is displayed in the status
bar of the corresponding main menu.
Press again.
Playback will resume.
The ß disappears from the status bar.
RSE audio playback through
speakers
Muting on/off

208 System
System settings

System settings
Press {.
The System menu will appear.
System menu
In the System menu you can:
set the time
select the language (page 209)
switch verification and notification
tones on and off (
page 209)
adjust display settings (page 210)
switch the Screen off (page 211)
activate and deactivate the Voice
control system* help window
(
page 211)
reset all settings to the factory settings
(
page 214)
open the text message (SMS) inbox
folder (
page 215)
In the System menu, press the
Timeset soft key.
The hour digit of the time is highlighted.
Activating the System menu
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If a system submenu is displayed, you
need to press the
Back soft key.
Setting the time
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You can set the time in steps of 30
minutes if your vehicle is equipped with
Navigation and receives a GPS signal
(GPS controlled time).
If your vehicle has no navigation
function or if there is no GPS reception,
the time can be set in steps of one
minute.

209 System
System settings
Push the joystick to h to or h to
shift the highlighting from the hours to
the minutes or vice versa.
Push the joystick to g or G to set
minutes or hours respectively.
Press the Back softkey or E.
The new time is set and reappears in
the lower right corner of the display.
The language affects the menu text
displays and the voice output during route
guidance.
In the System menu (page 208),
press the
Lang. soft key.
The languages list will appear.
Select Instr. cluster setting.
COMAND will use the same language
as is set in instrument cluster.
or
Push the joystick to g or G to
select the desired language.
Press E.
The System settings menu will appear
with the display text in the language
selected.
In the System menu, press the Tones
soft key.
The Tones menu will appear.
Push the joystick to g or G to
select an entry.
Press E.
Selecting the language
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off
OptionSymbol
Tone activatedQ
Tone deactivatedq