display MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class 2008 W211 Comand Manual

161 Service
Tele Aid*
Ending the connectionOn the COMAND control unit
Press
/
.
On the multifunction steering wheel
Press
t
.
COMAND reverts to the system last ac
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tive before Tele Aid was activated.
A call to the Mercedes-Benz Response
Center will be initiated. Information re
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garding the operation of your vehicle, the
nearest authorized Mercedes-Benz Center
or Mercedes-Benz USA products and ser
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vices is available to you. Refer to your vehi
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cle Operator's Manual for additional
information.
When a call to the Mercedes-Benz Re
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sponse Center is initiated,
Connecting
ap
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pears on the display. When the connection is made, the mes
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sage
Call Connected
appears on the dis
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play.Even after the connection has been ended,
the service will remain active for 5 minutes
in order to transmit any required data. Dur
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ing this time, phone calls can not be made,
nor can SMS messages be received.The transmitted data can contain, e.g., text
messages or address details of a Mer
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cedes-Benz Center.
Cancelling text messages 
Press

after you have read the mes
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sage.The message disappears.
Starting route guidanceYou are prompted to confirm if route guid
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ance to the address is to be started.
Use

to select the
Yes
menu item
and confirm with

.
The system starts the route calcula
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tion, and subsequently the route guid
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ance to the defined address ( page
128)
.
Information

164 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
166)
.

Tones
soft key

For switching confirmation beeps

and acoustic signals ON and OFF ( page
167)
.

Display
soft key

For changing the display settings ( page
167)
.

VC tips
soft key

To call up the Voice control settings* ( page
168)
.

Reset
soft key

For reversing COMAND to the factory
settings
( page
171)
.

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

166 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
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ments.
In the System menu
( page
164)
,
press the
Lang.
soft key.
The language list is displayed.
The following options are available:
Instr. cluster settings
:
The system switches to the lan
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guage already set in the vehicle in
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strument cluster (
 Vehicle
Operator’s manual).

All other options:

The system switches to the re
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quested language.
iList entry 1-3: Date formatsList entry 4 and 5: Time formats

(Entry 5 is not visible on the display ex
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ample below.)Solid circle
: format set

Empty circle
: format not set
Setting the language

167 System
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
164)
,
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
164)
,
press the
Display
soft key.
The Display Settings menu appears.
The following soft key and option are avail
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able:
Bright.
soft key

Provides access to adjusting the dis
-
play brightness
( page
168)
.

Switching the display dimming charac
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teristics
( page
168)
.
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 ON
Display settings

168 SystemSystem settingsSwitching the display dimming

characteristics You can select from 3 display dimming
modes:
Day
mode

The display is constantly set to daytime
design.

Night
mode

The display is constantly set to night
-
time design.

Automatic

The 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
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ization
( page
169)

Activate/deactivate the voice control
help window
Activate/deactivate the help window
Open the System menu
( page
164)
.

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

169 System
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 individualizationThe 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
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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
164)
,
press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.

Press

to select menu item
Individualization
.

Press

.
The Individualization menu appears.

178 IndexControlsCD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Multifunction steering wheel. . . . . . . 24Navigation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Radio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Telephone mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173entering destination via . . . . . . . . . 125Copy protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,
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Copyright (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,
62
Current navigation announcement 129repeating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 DDeletingdestinationfrom Destination memory . . . . . . 150from Last destinations . . . . . . . . . 149detour (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139phone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99SMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102stop-over destination . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Destinationdeletingfrom Destination memory . . . . . . 150from Last destinations . . . . . . . . . 149Last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152storing in Destination memory . . . . 150Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 149calling up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149selecting destination . . . . . . . . . . . . 149starting route guidance to a stored des
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tination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150storing destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Detour (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Displayadjusting brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . 168switching design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Displaying route (navigation) . . . . . 137DVD (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . 105,
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EEjecting CDin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Ejecting navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . 105Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . . 160Emergency calls “911”. . . . . . . . . . . . 85Endingcall (telephone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,
95
ENTER UNLOCK CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Enteringdestination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115frequency (radio) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87unlock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 FFader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,
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for navigation announcements . . . . 110File structure (MP3 CD). . . . . . . . . . . 52

180 IndexMP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16multi session CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52permissible CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52permissible file systems . . . . . . . . . . 52permissible MP3 formats . . . . . . . . . 53safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Multi session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174CDs (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Multifunction steering wheelcontrols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Mute function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NNavigation announcementssee also current navigation announce
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mentafter vehicle transport. . . . . . . . . . . 106switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Navigation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Navigation soft key displaysshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136NO HOME ADDRESS STORED . . . . . 113NO SERV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,
89
OOutgoing calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 PPermissiblebit rates (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,
62
file system (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61file systems (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,
61
MP3 formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,
61
Personal Identification Numbersee PINPersonal Unblocking Keysee PUKPhone book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97adding spoken names . . . . . . . . . . . . 99deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99selecting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98switching display between number and name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98PHONE NOT INSTALLED . . . . . . . . . . 85
PIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87PLEASE INSERT PHONE. . . . . . . . 83,
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PLEASE INSERT SIM CARD. . . . . . . . . 85POI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,
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Points of interestsee POIPresets (Satellite radio mode) . . . . . 77Program categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Program category list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Program type listsee program category listProvider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,
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PUK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,
174
RRadio mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12switching to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37RandomCD (CD changer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71folder (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59trackin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . 71in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

181 Index
Reading SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101READY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Redial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Refusing call (telephone) . . . . . . . . . 91RepeatCD (CD changer mode) . . . . . . . . . . . 71folder (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59trackin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . 70in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Retracting CD changer . . . . . . . . . . . 63Reversein CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70in MP3 mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Roadside Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . 160ROAMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Root directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Route display (Navigation mode). . 137
Route guidanceafter vehicle transport . . . . . . . . . . 106cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136interrupting journey . . . . . . . . . . . . 106starting to a destinationof Destination memory . . . . . . . . 150of Last Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . 148with GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Route guidance info menu . . . . . . . 136Route mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 SSafety Instructionsfor CD changer operation . . . . . . . . . 61for MP3 operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51for navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104for radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37for single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . 45for telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . 82Satellite radio operation. . . . . . . . . . 75Scan rate (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175permissible rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,
62
Scan search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175in CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58in Radio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40in Satellite radio mode . . . . . . . . . . . 79in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Search radio station . . . . . . . . . . 38,
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SelectingCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67destinationof destination memory. . . . . . . . . 149of Last destinations . . . . . . . . . . . 148folder (MP3 mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56POIs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152satellite radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . 76telephone book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 98trackin CD changer mode . . . . . . . . . . . 69in MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57in Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

182 IndexSettingbalance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110bass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31for navigation announcements . . 110date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164date format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164display brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166map orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
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route mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164time format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164treble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31for navigation announcements . . 110volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110
Showing soft key displays (Navigation mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136SIM card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,
87,
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SIM CARD BLOCKED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Single CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 37,
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switching to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Sirius Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Sirius Service Centercalling the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Soft key displaysshowing in Navigation mode . . . . . . 136Soft keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,
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Sound functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Speed dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Spoken names to a phone book entry. 99Starting route guidance. . . . . . . . . . 128Station (radio)presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,
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search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
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setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,
42
storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Station (satellite radio)presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77scan search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Stop-over destinationchanging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Storingcurrent vehicle position . . . . . . . . . . 126destination in Destination memory . 150location selected via the map . . . . . 127radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43satellite radio station. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Subscriber Identity Modulesee SIM card