Select to turn off all sounds made when a door
handle request switch is pushed, by selecting the
“OFF” key.
Intelligent Key Unlock Reply:Select to
change the sound of the Intelligent Key mode
used when a door handle request switch is
pushed to unlock.
Select to turn off all sounds made when a door
handle request switch is pushed, by selecting the
“OFF” key.
Lift Steering Wheel on Exit: Select to turn on
or turn off the steering wheel moving upward for
easy exit when the ignition switch is in the OFF
position and the driver’s door is opened. After
getting into the vehicle and placing the ignition
switch in the ACC position, the steering wheel
moves to the previous position.
Slide Driver Seat Back on Exit: Select to turn
on or turn off the driver’s seat moving backwards
for easy exit when the ignition switch is in the OFF
position and the driver’s door is opened. After
getting into the vehicle and placing the ignition
switch in the ACC position, the driver’s seat
moves to the previous position.
Return All Settings to Default: Select to
change all the comfort and convenience systems
to their default settings.
Others settings
Select the “Others” key by using the INFINITI
controller and pressing the ENTER button. Voice
recognition, language and units setting screen
will be displayed.
Voice Recognition:
For Voice Recognition settings, refer to “INFINITI
Voice Recognition system” later in this section. Language / Units:
Use the INFINITI controller to select the “Lan-
guage / Units” key and press the ENTER button.
Select which setting you want to change using
the INFINITI controller and selecting either the
“Select Language” key or the “Select Units” key
by pressing the ENTER button.
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Select Language:
Select the “English” key or the “Français” key to
change the language shown on the display.
If you select the “Français” key, French language
will be displayed so please use the French Own-
er’s Manual. To obtain a French Owner’s Manual
please see, “Owner’s Manual/Service Manual
Order Information” in the “Technical and con-
sumer information” section.Select Units:
Select the “US” (mi, °F, MPG) key or the “Metric”
(km, °C, L/100 km) key to change the units
shown on the display.
Audio settings
For audio settings, refer to “Audio System” later in
this section.
Navigation settings
Refer to the separate Navigation System Own-
er’s Manual for information regarding these set-
tings.
Volume and beeps settings
Navigation volume
For navigation volume settings refer to the sepa-
rate Navigation System Owner’s Manual for infor-
mation regarding these settings.
Phone volume
For phone volume settings refer to “Bluetooth
Hands-Free Phone System” later in this section.
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●When washing the vehicle with high-
pressure water, be sure not to spray it
around the camera. Otherwise, water
may enter the camera unit causing wa-
ter condensation on the lens, a mal-
function, fire or an electric shock.
● Do not strike the camera. It is a preci-
sion instrument. Otherwise, it may mal-
function or cause damage resulting in a
fire or an electric shock.
CAUTION
There is a plastic cover over the camera.
Do not scratch the cover when cleaning
dirt or snow from the cover.
HOW TO READ THE DISPLAYED
LINES
Lines which indicate the vehicle clearance and
distances to objects with reference to the
bumper line
Aare displayed on the monitor. They are indicated as reference distances to
objects. The lines and colors in the display indi-
cate distances from the back bumper line
Ain
the illustration.
11.5 ft (0.5 m) red
23 ft (1 m) yellow
37 ft (2 m) green
410 ft (3 m) green
The vehicle clearance lines are wider than
the actual clearance.
ADJUSTING THE SCREEN
To adjust the quality of the screen, press the
SETTING button. ● To adjust the Display ON/OFF, Brightness,
Tint, Color, Contrast, and Black Level of the
RearView Monitor, press the SETTING but-
ton with the RearView Monitor on, then
touch one of the adjustment keys. Press the
“–” or “+” key on the item and adjust the
level.
● Do not adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Tint
and Color of the RearView Monitor while the
vehicle is moving.
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FM/AM/SAT RADIO WITH
COMPACT DISC (CD) PLAYER
For all operation precautions, see “Audio opera-
tion precautions” earlier in this section.
The satellite radio mode will be skipped unless an
XMsatellite radio service subscription is active.
Satellite radio is not available in Alaska, Hawaii
and Guam.
Audio main operation
VOL/ON·OFF control:
Place the ignition switch in the ACC or ON
position and then push the VOL/ON·OFF control
knob while the system is off to call up the mode
(radio or CD) which was playing immediately
before the system was turned off.
To turn the system off, press the VOL/ON·OFF
control knob.
Turn the VOL/ON·OFF control knob to adjust the
volume.
This vehicle has Speed Sensitive Volume (SSV)
for audio. The audio volume changes as the driv-
ing speed changes. AUDIO control knob (Bass, Treble, Balance
and Fade):
Press the AUDIO control knob to change the
mode as follows:
Bass
→Treble →Balance →Fade
To adjust Bass, Treble, Balance and Fade, press
the AUDIO control knob until the desired mode
appears in the display. Turn the tuning knob to
adjust Bass and Treble to the desired level. You
can also use the tuning knob to adjust Fade and
Balance modes. Fade adjusts the sound level
between the front and rear speakers and Balance
adjusts the sound between the right and left
speakers.
Once you have adjusted the sound quality to the
desired level, press the AUDIO control knob re-
peatedly until the radio or CD display reappears.
Otherwise, the radio or CD display will automati-
cally reappear after about 10 seconds. Speed Sensitive Volume (SSV):
To change the SSV mode from OFF (0) to 5,
press the SETTING button. Then touch the “Au-
dio” key and the audio settings screen will be
displayed. Touch the “–” key or “+” key, to change
the SSV.
While in this screen you can also adjust the other
audio settings by touching the corresponding
key.
Once you have adjusted the sound quality to the
desired level, touch the “BACK” key.
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Precision phased audio:
To turn on or off the precision phased audio,
press the SETTING button. Then touch the “Au-
dio” key; the audio settings screen will be dis-
played. Touch the “Precision Phased Audio ON”
key. If the amber indicator light is displayed, the
precision phased audio is enabled. Touching the
“Precision Phased Audio ON” key again will turn
off the precision phased audio; the indicator light
will disappear.
When this item is turned on, super high pitch
sound and super low pitch sound are empha-
sized and midrange sound is played naturally.While in this screen, you can also adjust the other
audio settings by touching the corresponding
key.
Once you have adjusted the sound quality to the
desired level, touch the “BACK” key.
Clock set
For setting the clock, see “Clock” under the
“Control panel buttons – color screen with navi-
gation system” heading earlier in this section.
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CD/MP3 display mode
While listening to a CD or an MP3/WMA CD
certain text might be able to be displayed (when
CD encoded with text is being used) .
Depending on how the CD or MP3/WMA CD is
encoded the following text might be able to be
displayed by touching the “Text” key:● Folder displays the name of the current
folder being accessed.
● File displays the name of the file currently
playing.
● Song displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
song name. ●
Album displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
album name.
● Artist displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
artist’s name.
● Disc displays the disc name of the CD cur-
rently playing.
● Track displays the name of the song on the
CD currently playing.
Some of this text or modes might not display
while playing a regular CD. Press the BACK
button to exit the CD text display screen.
FM/AM/SAT radio operation
FM/AM/SAT band select:
Pressing the RADIO AM·FM button will change
the band as follows:
AM ←→ FM or SAT*
When the RADIO AM·FM button is pressed while
the ignition switch is in the ACC or ON position,
the radio will come on at the station last played.
The last station played will also come on when
the VOL/ON·OFF control knob is pressed ON.
*When the RADIO AM·FM button is pressed, the
satellite radio mode will be skipped unless an
XM satellite radio service subscription is active.
Satellite radio is not available in Alaska, Hawaii
and Guam.
If a compact disc is playing when the RADIO
AM·FM button is pressed, the compact disc will
automatically be turned off and the last radio
station played will come on.
The FM stereo indicator ST will illuminate during
FM stereo reception. When the stereo broadcast
signal is weak, the radio will automatically change
from stereo to monaural reception.
TUNE/FLDR (Tuning) knob:
To manually tune the radio, turn the TUNE/FLDR
knob to the right or left.
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CF display mode
While listening to CF certain text might be able to
be displayed.
Depending on how the files are encoded on the
CF the following text might be able to be dis-
played by touching the “Text” key:● Folder displays the name of the current
folder being accessed.
● File displays the name of the file currently
playing.
● Song displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
song name. ●
Album displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
album name.
● Artist displays the ID3 encoded tag of the
artist’s name.
Press the BACK button to exit the CF text display
screen.
SEEK/CAT and TRACK buttons:
Press theSEEK/CAT button while the CF
card is playing to return to the beginning of the
current track. Press the
TRACK button
while the CF card is playing to skip to the begin-
ning of the next track. If you press and hold the
SEEK/CAT (re-
wind) button or the
TRACK (fast forward)
button for more than approximately 1.5 seconds,
the CF card will play while rewinding or fast
forwarding. When the
SEEK/CAT (rewind)
button or the
TRACK (fast forward) button
is released, the CF card will return to the normal
playing speed.
The INFINITI controller can also be used to select
tracks when the CF card is being played.
For more information on how to use the INFINITI
controller, see “How to use the INFINITI control-
ler” earlier in this section.
Folder selection:
To change to another folder in the CF card either:
● Turn the TUNE/FLDR knob right or left.
● Touch the desired folder key on screen.
● Use the INFINITI controller.
SCAN·RPT button:
Pressing the SCAN·RPT button while the CF
card is playing changes the play pattern as fol-
lows:
1 CF CARD RPT →1 FOLDER RPT →1 TRK
RPT →1 CF CARD RDM →1 FOLDER RDM →
1 CF CARD RPT
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Recording CDs
1. Operate the audio system to play a CD.For information on playing CDs, see “Com-
pact Disc (CD) player operation” earlier in
this section.
2. Touch the “REC” key. REC CD appears on the screen.
NOTE: ● The system starts playing and recording the
1st track on the CD when the “REC” key is
selected. ●
Individual tracks from a CD cannot be se-
lected to be recorded to the Music Box
hard-disk drive.
● The skip, fast forward and rewind features
are disabled while the CD is recording.
● The recording process can be stopped at
any time. All tracks that were played before
the CD was stopped are stored.
● Individual tracks can be deleted from the
hard-disk drive after the CD is recorded.
● The system records faster than it plays. If the title information of the track being recorded
is stored either in the hard drive or in the CD, the
title is automatically displayed on the screen. For
title acquisition from the hard drive, music recog-
nition technology and related data are provided
by Gracenote.
To view the details of the track, touch the “Text”
key on the screen or use the INFINITI controller
and press the ENTER button. The track name and
album title are displayed on the screen.
If a track is not recorded successfully due to
skipping sounds, the
symbol is displayed
behind the track number.
The Music Box audio system cannot perform
recording under the following conditions:
● There is not enough space in the hard drive.
● The number of albums reaches the maximum
of 500.
● The number of tracks reaches the maximum
of 3,000.
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