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Contents
Navigation* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Route guidance after the vehicle
has been transported . . . . . . . . . . 150
Trip interruption during
route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Activating the Navigation
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Setting the routing mode . . . . . . . 154
Saving current location. . . . . . . . . 155
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Activating the Enter street menu . 156
Selecting the state/province . . . . 157
Entering destination address . . . . 158
Selecting home address . . . . . . . . 169
Displaying the compass screen . . 170
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 173
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Recalculating an existing route. . . 173
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Navigation displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Arriving at destination . . . . . . . . . 177
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 178
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Displaying the soft keys . . . . . . . . 179
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Selecting a detour . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Stopover function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Saving the current location. . . . . . 186
Defining route guidance displays . 186
Last destinations and
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 192
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 193
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Selecting a POI on the map . . . . . 199
Entering a POI by phone number . 200
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Adding a destination
to today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Software Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Service main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Activating the Service main menu 210
SMS* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
SMS Received list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Reading SMS message received . . 212
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 213
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Selecting the time zone . . . . . . . . 216
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 217
Switching verification and
notification tones on and off . . . . . 218
Selecting display settings . . . . . . . 219
Selecting Voice control* settings . 220
Resetting all settings to the
factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

32 At a glance
Menu system
The main area 2 shows messages and
settings.
You can change the settings by operating
the system.
The status bar 3 is divided into three
areas.
Left side:
The current operating mode is indicated. In
this example: RadioCenter:
The status of the current operating mode
or other selectable functions are indicated.
In this example:FM = current waveband
1 = memory location of station,
e.g. “1”
Right side:
General status information is indicated
independent of the operating mode.
In this example:
Ready = Telephone* is ready for
operation
 = Reception strength of the
mobile phone*Menu functions and submenus
Using the soft keys, functions can be
switched ON or OFF, or submenus can be
called up.
E.g. the radio menu:The FM/AM soft key switches between
FM and AM band.
The Scan soft key starts/stops the
channel scan.
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A maximum of five soft keys may be
displayed on each side of the main area
2.

34 At a glance
Quick reference COMAND

Quick reference COMAND
Switching on
Turn the key in the starter switch to
position 1 or 2 if the COMAND was
switched off by turning the key in the
starter switch to position 0 and
removing it.
or
Press e.
In both cases, the system will activate
the operating mode which was active
when the system was switched off.Switching off
Turn the key in the starter switch to
position 0 and pull the key out.
or
Press e.
When the audio is playing, the volume
knob will adjust the audio volume, and also
the volume for telephone and navigation.
During a telephone call (talking or ringing),
the volume knob will adjust the telephone
voice and ringer volume.
The volume for the navigation announce-
ments can only be changed while an
announcement is being made.
When you adjust the volume, the system
will automatically store the setting for the
current operating mode.
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You have the following options to
control the system:
at the COMAND
at the multifunction steering wheel
(refer to vehicle Operator’s Manual)
This Operator’s Manual describes the
control at the COMAND.
Unless otherwise indicated, the
descriptions and illustrations refer to
the COMAND.
Switching the COMAND control unit
on and off
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For an explanation of starter switch
positions, refer to vehicle Operator’s
Manual.
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If the key is not in the starter switch in
position 1 or 2, the system will automa-
tically stop after around 30 minutes.
Volume

65 Audio
CD operation
Previous track or start of title (if more
than 10 seconds of playing time has
elapsed)
Press g.
Playback begins.
Select any desired track
Press g or h as many times as
necessary.
With the joystick
Push the joystick to g or G to play
the next or previous track.With the number keypad
Activate the CD main menu
(
page 62).
Press *.
An input line will appear in the CD main
menu.
1Number of tracks on CD corresponds
with the valid number range
2Input line
E.g.: Track 14.
Press 1 and 4 in short succession.
After entering the track number, wait
approximately 3 seconds.
The selected track is played. The CD
main menu is displayed.
CD track scan
The tracks on a CD can be scanned one
after the other for 8 seconds each. The
function will switch off automatically when
the starting track is reached. You can also
manually stop the scan function.
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Entries higher than the number of
tracks available on the CD are not
possible.

79 Audio
MP3 CD operation
Backward
Press d.
If the track has been playing for more
than approx. 10 seconds, the track is
replayed from the start. If the playing
time is shorter, the previous track is
played.
With the number keypad
The tracks of the current folder can be
selected with this function.
Activate the MP3 main menu
(
page 75).
In short succession, press button *
and the number key of the desired
track, e.g. 8.1Number of tracks in the current folder
(10 tracks)
After your entry the selected track is
played and visible.Using MP3 track scan
The tracks of the current folder can be
scanned one after the other for 8 seconds
each. Subfolders are not considered.
The function will switch off automatically
when the beginning track is reached.
You can also manually stop the scan
search.
Starting the scan search
Activate the MP3 main menu
(
page 75).
Press the Scan soft key.
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If the current folder contains less than
10 tracks, the system will only recogni-
ze the first digit entered and play the
appropriate track.
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When you start the scan search, the
playback mode
Normal sequence
(page 81) is automatically activated.

104 Rear Audio/Video*
Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) operation*
Tone soft key:
Brings you to the tone menu, where you
can set Bass and Treble (
page 108).
Bright., Contr. and Color soft
key
s:
Allow you to adjust brightness, cont-
rast and color (
page 108).
Pause function
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Pause soft key and press to confirm.
DVD playback is paused. The picture
stands still. The
Pause soft key
changes to
Play.
To resume playback, press the thumb
wheel to confirm the
Play soft key.
Playback of the DVD will resume.Stopping DVD playback
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Stop soft key and press to confirm.
DVD playback stops. The following
menu will appear.
To restart playback, press the thumb
wheel to select the
Play soft key.
The DVD is played from the beginning.Displaying full screen
Turn the thumb wheel to highlight the
Full scn. soft key and press to con-
firm.
The soft keys disappear. The full screen
will appear.
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While DVD playback is stopped, you
can press the
Menu soft key.
The menu on the DVD is displayed, if
available.

184 Navigation*
During route guidance
More soft key:
If you press this soft key, the
Navigation main menu (
page 152)
will appear.
Enter stopover will
appear on the status bar.
You can now enter an stopover
destination by
selecting one from the destination
memory (
page 193)
typing one in the Enter street menu
(
page 156)
selecting one in the Last
destinations
memory
(
page 192)
selecting a Point of interest
(
page 196)
entering a POI by phone number
(
page 200)
selecting one in the Today’s
plan
memory (page 202)
Press a soft key, e.g. .
One of the following displays will
appear
a list with restaurants (see below)
the map with one restaurant
spotlighted if the POI is close by.
Select a POI on the map
(
page 199).
The arrows indicate the direction of the
destination. The distances indicated are
straight line distances to the destination.Selecting a POI in a list
Push the joystick to G or g to
select an entry.
Use the Page soft keys to scroll page-
wise through the list (if available).
Press the Details soft key if required.
Details on the destination are shown.
After you have selected a destination,
press E.
The Start route guidance menu will
appear (
page 173).
Press E.
The system calculates the route to the
selected stopover destination. After
that, the route to the main destination
is also calculated from the stopover
destination.