language MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class 2005 W211 Comand Manual

Contents
Entering a city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting city . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . . 120
Entering a street in the
destination city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting street . . . . . . . . . . 122
Entering an intersection . . . . . . . . 123
Entering a house number . . . . . . . 124
Entering a destination using the
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Entering a destination via
geo coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Storing map location . . . . . . . . . . 128
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Start route guidance menu . . . . . . 130
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Navigation announcements . . . . . 131
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 134
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Showing soft key displays . . . . . . 135
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Displaying the route on the map . 136
Displaying the route list . . . . . . . . 137
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Stop-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Defining route guidance displays . 142
Setting symbols displays . . . . . . . 142
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . . 143
Switching GPS position display
ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . . 145
Scales for full-screen and
split-screen map display . . . . . . . . 145
Last destinations and
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 147
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 148
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Selecting POI in the local area of
the current position . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Selecting POI for a selected city. . 153
Selecting POI for a long-distance
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Selecting a POI using the map . . . 155
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 158
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 162
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . . 162
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Switching confirmation beeps
and acoustic signals ON/OFF. . . . 165
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Voice control settings* . . . . . . . . . 166
Reset function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

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

164 SystemSystem settings
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

177 Index
Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
random (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
repeat (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
selecting (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Forward
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Frequency input (in Radio mode). . . 41G
Global Positioning System
see GPS
GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108, 171
GPS position display
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Greenwich meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
GSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 87, 172H
Hands-free microphone
switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Home address
entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
I
ID3 tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 172
ISO9660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 172J
Joliet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 172L
Language setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Last destinations memory . . . . . . . 147
selecting destination. . . . . . . . . . . . 147
starting route guidance to
Last destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Latitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 172
List (Satellite radio mode)
program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
List (Telephone mode)
accepted calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
outgoing calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Loading CD
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 107
LOGIC7®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 172
Longitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 172
M
Manual tuning (in Radio mode). . . . . 40
Memory
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Last destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 42
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Mercedes-Benz Information . . . . . . 159
Missed calls (telephone). . . . . . . 92, 93
MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 . . . . . . . . 52, 172
MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . 51
tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . . . 52
tips on data storage media . . . . . . . . 50

180 IndexSelecting
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
destination
of destination memory. . . . . . . . . 148
of Last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . 147
folder (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
POIs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
satellite radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
telephone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
track
in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . 68
in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting
balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
for navigation announcements . . 112
bass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
for navigation announcements . . 112
date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
date format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
display brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
for navigation announcements . . 112
language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
map orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 41
route mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
time format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
for navigation announcements . . 112
volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
for navigation announcements . . 112
Showing soft key displays (Navigation
mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
SIM card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 88, 173
SIM CARD BLOCKED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 44
switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Sirius Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Sirius Service Center
calling the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Soft key displays
showing in Navigation mode . . . . . . 135
Soft keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 173
Sound functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Speed dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Spoken names to a phone book
entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Starting route guidance. . . . . . . . . . 130
Station (radio)
presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 42
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 41
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 41
storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Station (satellite radio)
presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
scan search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79