key MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class 2008 W211 Comand Manual

100 Telephone*SMS (Mail)SMS messages can be received if your ve
-
hicle is equipped with a telephone and
SMS messaging is available from your car
-
rier.Received messages are saved in the folder
SMS inbox.
Open the Telephone main menu ( page
89)
.

Press the
SMS
soft key.
The folder SMS inbox appears.
The SMS inbox shows the list of re
-
ceived messages. The list is sorted
chronologically, the last message re
-
ceived is displayed at the top of the list.The corresponding date and time ap
-
pears in the status bar when the select
-
ed message has been received.

Use

or

to select another mes
-
sage.
iIncoming new messages are indicated
by the
symbol in the status bar.

Symbol
appears in the status bar if
the SMS memory is full.In addition, a corresponding message
is displayed when the folder is opened.SMS inbox
iIf no SMS messages have been re
-
ceived the
SMS
soft key is without func
-
tion and therefore shaded out.

101 Telephone*
SMS (Mail)
The SMS inbox offers the following op
-
tions:
Switching between subject and sender.

Reading a message
( page
101)
.

Deleting a message
( page
102)
.
Switching between subject and sender The SMS messages can be displayed with
the sender or the subject. In the SMS inbox ( page
100)
you can either see the
Subject
soft key or the
Sender
soft key.

Press the
Subject
soft key.
The first characters of the message
texts appears;
or

Press the
Sender
soft key.
The name(s) or phone number(s) of the
message sender(s) appear(s).

In the SMS inbox
( page
100)
,
use

or

to select a message.

Press

.
The message text appears.

To scroll through the message text,
press

or

as required.
Switching between content and sender You can either see the
Sender
soft key or
the
Contents
soft key.

Press the
Sender
soft key.
The sender’s name appears if it is
saved in the phone book. If not, only
the phone number appears.
or
iThe
symbol at the beginning of a list
entry indicates that the message has
not been read.
iThe sender’s number only appears if it
has been transmitted.The sender’s name only appears if, in
addition, the number and the name are
stored in the phone book
( page
97)
.
Reading a message


102 Telephone*SMS (Mail)
Press the
Contents
soft key
.
The message text appears;

To return to the SMS inbox press the Back
soft key.

In the SMS inbox
( page
100)
,
use

or

to select the message
to be deleted.

Press the
Delete
soft key.
A delete prompt is displayed.

Use

to select the menu item
Yes
.

Press

.
The message is now deleted.

Press the
Back
soft key.
This returns you to the Telephone main
menu.
Deleting a message
Exiting from the SMS menu

107 Navigation*
Important notes

Continuation of the trip more than 12
hours after interruption: Route guidance must be restarted.
Select the destination from the Last destinations
memory
( page
148)
,
or
Re-enter the destination ( page
114)
.
Some menus provide lists from which you
can select an item.Example: Menu to select a street
You can select a list item using

or

.
If, as shown in the example, you can see
the
Page
soft keys, then you can use the
soft keys to scroll up or down the list, page
by page.
As soon as you reach the beginning or end
of a list, the appropriate soft key is deacti
-
vated.
Selection lists

108 Navigation*Navigation main menu
Press

.
The Navigation main menu appears, if
no route guidance is active.

Use

or

to select a menu item
and press

;
or

Press one of the soft keys.The selected menu or the selected soft
key function appears.
Selectable menu items
Continue route guidance

Continues a cancelled route guidance,

Destination memory

Destinations can be selected from the Destination memory
( page
149)
,

Destination entry

Provides access to the Destination en
-
try menu
( page
114)
,

Last destinations

You can select from the list of last des
-
tinations
( page
148)
,

POIs

(Points
of Interest)

Provides access to POIs input ( page
152)
. POIs include stops at
gas stations, airports, rest areas, hospi
-
tals, etc.
Calling up the Navigation main menuiIf route guidance is active, a prompt is
displayed instead, asking if route guid
-
ance is to be cancelled
( page
132)
.
iThis menu item only appears:
if the route guidance had previously
been interrupted
( page
132)
, and
less than 30 minutes have expired
since the interruption,
or
if the trip was interrupted and is to
be continued 2 - 12 hours after in
-
terruption
( page
106)
.
iDestination memory
and
Last
destinations
can only selected only if
destinations are already stored in the
system.

109 Navigation*
Navigation main menu
Selectable soft keys
Home
soft key

Provides access to the input of a home
address
( page
113)
.

Mode
soft key

Provides access to the route mode set
-
ting for certain road types to be avoid
-
ed
( page
109)
.

Setting
soft key

Provides access to settings adjusting
the acoustics of navigation announce
-
ments (treble, bass, volume, balance
and fader)

( page
109)
.
Certain road types to be avoided can be
defined for the system’s route calculation.
Press the
Mode
soft key in the Naviga
-
tion main menu
( page
108)
.
The Setting Mode menu for road types
to be avoided appears.

Use

or

to select an option.

Press

.
This will switch the option ON or OFF.

Upon completion, press the
Back
soft
key.
The following acoustics criteria for naviga
-
tion announcements can be adjusted:
Bass / Treble
( page
110)
.

Balance / Fader
( page
110)
.

Volume
( page
110)
.

Press the
Setting
soft key in the Navi
-
gation main menu
( page
108)
.
The Setting menu appears.
Avoiding certain road types
iEmpty square
= option OFF

Solid square
= option ON
Several options can be activated.
Adjusting the acoustics for

navigation announcements

110 Navigation*Navigation main menuSetting bass/treble 
Press the
Bass
or
Treble
soft key in the
Setting menu.

Press

or

.
The cursor moves horizontally, adjust
-
ing bass or treble accordingly.

Press

or the
Back
soft key,
or
Wait until the display changes.The new setting is stored and activat
-
ed.
Setting balance and fader 
Press the
Bal/Fad
soft key in the Set
-
ting menu.A cross-hair cursor appears. The verti
-
cal line represents the balance setting.
The horizontal line represents the fader
setting.

Press

or

.
The vertical line moves, adjusting the
balance accordingly,
or
Press

or

.
The horizontal line moves, adjusting
the fader accordingly.

Press

or the
Back
soft key,
or
Wait until the display changes.The new setting is stored and activat
-
ed.
Adjusting the volume Automatically generated navigation an
-
nouncements are superimposed over any
other active audio source. The volume dif
-
ference is adjustable. This setting serves
to lower the volume of the currently active
audio source while the announcement is
being made.
In the Setting menu
( page
109)
,
press the
Nav.Vol
. soft key.
Use this menu to set the volume differ
-
ence.
iThe lines can be moved simultaneously
using
+
and
(
.

111 Navigation*
Navigation main menu

Press the

or

key to select the
desired setting.

Press

or the
Back
soft key.
The new setting is stored and activat
-
ed.iThe solid circle
. shows the current
setting.

112 Navigation*Destination entryEntering charactersFor character entry, the 12 button keypad
or the keypad menu can be used.
Entering a character via keypad menu
Use

, 
, , , (
or
+
to
select a character

Press

.
The character is entered.
Entering a character via 12 button key
-
pad
Use the
3
- "
keys to enter a char
-
acter.A key must be pressed once or several
times in quick succession.
After pressing the first time, the char
-
acter display 1 appears.
1Character display
You can see which characters can be
entered when using the keys.

Each additional depression moves you
to the next available character. The
character selected appears black.

Wait until the character display disap
-
pears, or press

.
The character is entered.
Entering dataiFor more convenient entry, COMAND
offers only available characters from
the character set based on your selec
-
tions and the data stored on the navi
-
gation DVD.

The character selected appears magni
-
fied or black.

The system will complete the entry if
the input matches data stored on the
navigation DVD.

113 Navigation*
Destination entry
Deleting a character
Press the
Delete
soft key, if necessary.
The character last accepted by the sys
-
tem is deleted.
Confirming the data entryAfter entering all the characters data entry
must be confirmed.
Press and hold

for approx. 2 sec
-
onds to confirm the entry;
or
Use

or

to select the
sym
-
bol and press

.
One frequently used destination address
can be established as the Home address.
Call up the Navigation main menu ( page
108)
.

Press the
Home
soft key.
A message
No home
address
stored
ap
-
pears or if a home address has already
been established, the home address
appears.

To start route guidance to the estab
-
lished home address press

.
or
To enter or change the home address,
press the
Change
soft key.
The Navigation main menu with menu
items to change the home address ap
-
pears.
iDo not confuse the
Delete
soft key (de
-
letion of the last character) with the Back
soft key (deletion of the complete
entry).
iThe
symbol can only be selected if
the system has recognized data entry.
ok
ok
Entering a home address