Setting MERCEDES-BENZ C-Class 2008 W204 Comand Manual

171 System settings
System settings
i You can fully reset COMAND to the factory
settings. This process deletes all personal data,
among other things, (e. g. station memory, ad-
dress book entries, entries in the destination
memory and in the last destinations of the navi-
gation system). It is recommended that you per-
form a reset before the vehicle is handed over or
sold, for example.

Select “System” K “System Settings”
K “Reset”.
You will be prompted to confirm that
you wish to perform the reset.

Select “Yes” or “No”.
After selecting “Yes”, you will again be
prompted to confirm that you wish to
perform the reset.

Select “Yes” or “No”.
After selecting “Yes”, COMAND is reset
and restarted.

Select “System” K “Language”.
The language list appears.
The dotRindicates the current setting.

To change setting: Select the desired
language.
The language is set.
i Setting the system language also changes
the language of the multifunction display.
ResetSetting the system language

172 System settings
Tele Aid*
The Tele Aid* system
(Tele Aid – Telematic Alarm Identification
on Demand)
The Tele Aid* system consists of three
types of response:
automatic and manual emergency
Roadside Assistance
Information
Automatically
An emergency call is initiated automatical-
ly following an accident in which the emer-
gency tensioning devices (ETDs) or air
bags deploy.
Initiating an emergency call manually
The SOS button is located in the overhead
control panel.

Briefly press SOS button cover to open.

Press SOS button (for longer than
2 seconds).
The indicator lamp in the SOS button
will flash until the emergency call is
concluded.

Wait for a voice connection to the Re-
sponse Center.

Close cover after the emergency call is
concluded.
i During the emergency call message “Emer-
gency Call Activated” is displayed, operation
from COMAND is not possible.
For a complete description and additional
information on Emergency calls please re-
fer to the vehicle Operator's Manual.
Tele Aid*Emergency calls

173 System settings
Tele Aid*
The Roadside Assistance button • is lo-
cated in the overhead control panel.

Press and hold Roadside Assistance
Button  (for longer than
2 seconds).
A call to a Mercedes-Benz Roadside As-
sistance dispatcher will be initiated.
The button will flash while the call is in
progress.

Describe the nature of the need for as-
sistance.
For a complete description and additional
information on Roadside Assistance calls
please refer to the vehicle Operator's Man-
ual.The Information button ¡ is located in
the overhead control panel.

Press and hold Information button
¡ (for longer than 2 seconds).
A call to the Customer Assistance Cen-
ter will be initiated. The button will
flash while the call is in progress.
For a complete description and additional
information on Information calls please re-
fer to the vehicle Operator's Manual.
Roadside AssistanceInformation calls

178 Voice Control
Overview
Canceling the dialog
Press the L button.
or
Say the command “Cancel” (except
when creating and storing voice tags,
navigation entries or during individual-
ization).
or
Press any button on COMAND.
Adjusting the volume
Start the dialog.
Give a command, e.g. “Help”.
Press the æ or ç button.
The volume increases or decreases
during voice output.
or
Set the volume for the voice output on
the volume control for COMAND.
Display messages
The audible help function can be supple-
mented by visual help on the display
(
page 167). If the help function is
switched on, the most important com-
mands that are currently possible appear
in the display when you start the dialog.
In the address book and navigation sys-
tem, a selection list is shown in the display
if voice control requires additional informa-
tion from you.
1Display
Entering numbers

Digits from “zero” to “nine” are permit-
ted.

Say the phone number in groups of
three to five digits.
Spell

The letters of the alphabet and the
numbers 0 - 9 are permitted.

Say the letters in groups of five to sev-
en letters.

Say each individual letter clearly.
i Using individualization, you can fine-tune
voice control to your own voice and thus improve
voice recognition. The process of individualiza-
tion is described in chapter “System Settings”
(
page 167).
i If you use individualization, it may impair
recognition of other users. Switch off individual-
ization if it makes recognition of other users
worse.

184 Voice Control
Navigation
You can use voice control to:

enter a state

enter a province

enter a city

enter a district (center)

enter a street

enter a house number

enter an entire address

enter a zip code

find address

enter a point of interest

select one of your previous destina-
tions

call up route information

store a destination

display the map

enlarge/reduce the size of the map

listen to the destination memory

start and stop route guidance

switch the guidance instructions on
and off
To select the navigation application
press the ! button on the multi-
function steering wheel.
Give the “Navigation” command.
Press the ! button.
Give one of the navigation commands
explained below.
You cannot start the route guidance until
all the necessary address data has been
entered.
“Help navigation”/“Help”
Using the “Help navigation” command, you
can have all the essential commands for
the navigation system read out.
i If voice control fails to recognize your entry,
it is advisable to spell the name of the town and
street. Spell names of towns and streets when
abroad.
The system guides you completely through
the dialog to route guidance. As soon as a
valid address is entered (at least the town),
you can use the “Start route guidance”
command to start the route guidance.
“Enter state”/“Enter province”
You can use the “Enter state”/“Enter pro-
vince” command to change the state or
province setting of the navigation system.
Example of dialog:
sEnter state
tPlease enter the name of the state.
uThe system shows a numbered list
of possible state names on the dis-
play. If there is only one entry on
the list, voice control asks if it is
correct.
tPlease select a line number.
sLine number 1 ...
tLine number 1 accepted.
Operation
Commands
Entering an address

215 Technical terminology
PAL
(P
hase Alternating Line)
TV standard, widespread mainly in Eu-
rope.
PCM
(P
ulse Code Modulation)
Optional format for audio data on an
DVD-audio or DVD-video.
The audio data are provided in com-
pressed form, similar to ->MP3,
->MPEG1 Audio-Layer 3, but in contrast
are not subject to losses.
PDA
(P
ersonal Digital Assistant)
Small portable computer featuring
functions for managing dates, addres-
ses and appointments, for example.
PIN
(P
ersonal Identification Number)
Personal identification number, to be
entered to activate the telephone.
Provider
Service provider offering access to a
mobile phone network or services
within the network.RDS
(R
adio Data System)
Digital data transmission system for
FM radio stations.
Region code
Because of the region code, video
DVDs can only be played on DVD
equipment with the same code as that
of the ->DVD. The factory setting of the
COMAND is code 2 (

page 75). It can
only play video DVDs which also have
code 2 or code 0 (no region code).
Root directory
The uppermost directory on a data sto-
rage medium.
Scan rate (->MP3)
Indicates the frequency at which volta-
ge samples are taken during the con-
version of an analogue signal into a
digital signal. The analogue-to-digital
converter converts the samples into di-
gital signals.UDF
(U
niversal Disc Format)
Standard for recording data, e.g. for
DVDs.
vCard
An address book entry may contain up
to 8 telephone numbers that are placed
in a vCard (business card). When an
entry of this kind is stored in the mobile
phone’s telephone book, a separate
entry in the vCard is created there for
every telephone number.
Voice Control
A system which can be used to operate
the ->COMAND or the telephone using
speech.
WAV
Standard audio file format for storing
audio on PCs.
WMA
(W
indows® Media Audio)
A means of compressing audio data
which is subject to losses.

217 Index
A
AAC
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Address book
Changing entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Creating an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Details for an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Initiating phone call . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Searching for entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . . 109
Voice tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
DVD mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Authorizing
Bluetooth
® device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Aux
Audio mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
B
Back button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Bit
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Bit rate
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Bit rate (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Block Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Bluetooth®
Activating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Switching on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Bluetooth® interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Business cards
Receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
C
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 213
Ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ejecting from the DVD changer . . . . 57
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading the DVD changer . . . . . . . . . 55
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 70
Selecting medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CD-R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CD-RW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Character entry
Accepting first list entry . . . . . . . . . . 32
Cancelling an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Deleting an entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Entering characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
COMAND
Basic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Character entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Display settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Opening menu for a main function . . 31
Operating example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Selecting menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
COMAND controller
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
D
De-authorizing
Bluetooth
® device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Declaration of conformity regarding
the distribution of telecommunica-
tions equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Delete button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Index

218 Index
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Dolby Digital
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Driving maneuver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
DTMF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DTS
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ejecting from the DVD changer. . . . . 57
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading the DVD changer . . . . . . . . . 55
Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 70
Selecting medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting audio format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
DVD audio
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Pause function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Stop function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61DVD video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Pause function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Picture settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Selecting a film/track . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Selecting a scene/chapter . . . . . . . . 79
Selecting medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Setting audio format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Setting language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Stop function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Video game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
DVD+R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DVD+RW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DVD-R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DVD-RW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
E
Emergency calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
automatic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
F
Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
G
GPS
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Gracenote Media Database. . . . . . . . 64
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Switching read function on/off . . . . . 65
Gracenote® music recognition techno-
logy
End user licence agreement (EULA) . 64
GSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
H
Highway information. . . . . . . . . . . . 125
I
ID3 tag
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Information calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
ISO9660
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
J
Joliet
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

219 Index
K
Kilobyte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
L
List entry
Selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
LOGIC7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
M
Making calls
COMAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Map
Information on map . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Map display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Setting map scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Menu COMAND
Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MLP
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 214MP3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 70
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Multifunction steering wheel. . . . . . 23
Multisession
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Music Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67, 214
Recording music files . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
N
Navigation
Basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Block Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Displaying/hiding menu system . . . 119
Driving maneuver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Navigation announcements . . . . . . 153
Off map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Off-road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
POI input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Traffic lane recommendation . . . . . 150
Navigation announcements . . . . . . 153
Switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
NTSC
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
O
Off map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Off-road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

220 Index
P
PAL
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Passcode
Entering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PCM
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
PCMCIA card
Ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
PCMCIA memory card
Ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Personal Identification Number
see PIN
Phone
Accepting/ending a call (COMAND) 101
Entering a phone number . . . . . . . . 101
Redial (COMAND) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Single call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
POI category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Provider
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215R
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tuning to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tuning to a station (COMAND) . . . . . 42
RDS
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Region code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Route mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
S
SatRadio* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Automatic tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Program category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Service information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Service provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 51
Station list updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Storing channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Subscribing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Scan rate
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Selecting
Satellite radio* channel. . . . . . . . . . . 50
Sound
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Stopover destination
Entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Switching on
Satellite radio* operation . . . . . . . . . 47
System settings
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
T
Time
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Traffic lane recommendation . . . . . 150
U
UDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Updating
Gracenote
® music recognition
technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Map software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
V
vCard
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215