MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class 2005 W211 Comand Manual

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161 System
System settings

162 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 164).

Tones
soft key
For switching confirmation beeps
and acoustic signals ON and OFF
(
page 165).

Display
soft key
For changing the display settings
(
page 165).

VC tips
soft key
To call up the Voice control settings*
(
page 166).

Reset
soft key
For reversing COMAND to the factory
settings (
page 169).

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

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Setting the time
The UTC time transmitted by the GPS sat-
ellites has to be set to the local time zone.
This enhances
correct navigation for routes with time-
dependent traffic guidance, and

correct calculation of the estimated
time of arrival.

Use or  to select the hours or
the minutes.

Press or .
Depending on the selection, hours or
minutes are set.
Setting the minutes:
With GPS reception, each time you
press  or  changes the time in in-
crements of 30 minutes. Without GPS
reception, the time is changed in 1
minute increments.
Setting the hours:
Each time you press  or , the
hours change in increments of 1 hour.

Press the
Back
soft key.
The new setting is stored.Setting the date

Use or  to select the day, the
month or the year.

Press or .
Depending on the selection, the day,
the month, or the year is set.

Press the
Back
soft key.
The new setting is stored.
Setting the date/Time format

Press the
Format
soft key.
You will see the date and time following
the currently selected format, as well
as a list of possible formats.
iThere is no automatic change from day-
light saving time to standard time.
This has to be changed manually.
When you change the time zone, the
clock time also changes automatically.
If you enter an incorrect time, the time
difference remains unchanged when
you change time zone.
iThe date can be set only if GPS recep-
tion is available.


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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 162),
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 formats
List 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

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System settings

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.

In the System menu (
page 162),
press the
Tones
soft key.
The list of available sounds is dis-
played.

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.
The requested sounds are switched ON
or OFF.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The System menu appears. The new
setting is stored.

In the System menu (
page 162),
press the
Display
soft key.
The Display Settings menu appears.The following soft key and option are avail-
able:

Bright.
soft key
Provides access to adjusting the dis-
play brightness (
page 166).

Switching the display dimming charac-
teristics (
page 166).
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF
iThe square next to a list entry shows
the status.
Empty square = sound OFF
Solid square = sound ONDisplay settings

166 SystemSystem settingsSwitching the display dimming
characteristics
You can select from 3 display dimming
modes:
Day modeThe display is constantly set to daytime
design.

Night modeThe display is constantly set to night-
time design.

AutomaticThe display will change depending on
the illumination of the instrument clus-
ter.

Use or  to select an entry.

Press.Adjusting display brightness

Press the
Bright.
soft key.
The Brightness display appears.

Press or .
The brightness changes accordingly.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.Use this function to:

Start or delete voice control individual-
ization (
page 167)

Activate/deactivate the voice control
help window
Activate/deactivate the help window

Open the System menu (
page 162).

Press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.
Voice control settings*

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System settings

Press the  key to select the
Help
Window
menu item.
The status bar shows you whether the
help window is activated or deactivat-
ed.

Press.
The menu to activate or deactivate the
help window appears. The solid circle
shows whether the help window is
activated or deactivated.
In the following display example, the
help window is activated.

Press  or  to select the menu
item with the empty circle .

Press.
This will activate or deactivate the help
window.
Voice control individualization
The individualization function is used to
adapt the voice control to your own voice
and to therefore improve speech recogni-
tion. This does not affect speech recogni-
tion of other users.
Individualization consists of two stages.
The first stage involves training digits,
whilst the second stage trains specific
commands.

From the System menu (
page 162),
press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.

Press to select menu item Individualization
.

Press.
The Individualization menu appears.

168 SystemSystem settingsStarting individualization
Press to select menu item
Start new
individualization
.

Press.
The individualization process starts.
The system now guides you through
the individualization process using a di-
alog, all operations are voice inputs.
After completion of the first stage, the sys-
tem prompts you to save the data from the
first stage.If you don’t save the first stage:

Individualization is cancelled,

Data from an existing first stage re-
mains unchanged.
If you save the first stage:

Data from an existing first stage is
over-written but is not saved until the
second stage is started.
If you don’t start the second stage:

Data from the first stage remains un-
changed,

The individualization process is fin-
ished.After completion of the second stage, the
system prompts you to save the data of the
second stage.
If you don’t save the second stage:

Individualization is cancelled,

Data from an existing second stage re-
mains unchanged.
If you save the second stage:

Data from an existing second stage is
deleted and all new data is saved,

Individualization is finished.
iYou can only activate the individualiza-
tion function when the car is station-
ary. If the car is moving, the following
message appears:
Individualization only
possible when car is stationary
.
iIf you later decide to start the second
stage, you must restart the individual-
ization process from the beginning of
the first stage.

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System settings
Canceling individualization
You can cancel individualization at any
time during either the first or second
stage. All existing data remains un-
changed.
During any individualization stage,
press the
Cancel
soft key.
Individualization is cancelled.
Deleting individualization

From the Individualization menu,
press to select menu item
Delete
individualization
.

Press.
A prompt appears, which asks if you re-
ally want to delete the data.

Press to select
Yes
.

Press.
The individualization is deleted.Actuating the Reset function resets
COMAND to the factory settings.
In addition, it deletes:

SMS: All SMS messages.

Navigation*: All entries in the Destina-
tion memory and in the Last destina-
tion memory.
Reset activation

Call up the System menu (
page 162).

Press the
Reset
soft key.
iThis function is not available if no indi-
vidualization data has been saved.
Reset function