audio VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 2012 Owner's Manual

External CD changer with magazine can be found
i n the right-hand side of the luggage compartment or beneath the passenger seat, depending on the
vehicle .
Removing and inserting the magazine
Slide the magazi ne cover =>fig. 37 pletely open in order to expose th e m agazine.
Press the for magazine removal and
remove the magazine ®.
order to insert the again , insert
and push the magazine as far as it
facing upwards and in the direction of the arrows
Close the magazine cover comple tely in
on page 3 and note the ductory
the Media Selection Menu and select the
39.
back of the last played CD is contin ued with the
las t played track.
F urther operation of the CD i s ca rried out similarly
to the operation
of an audio CD loaded into the
RNS RNS 315
Loading and removing
Hold the CD magazine with the label
facing upwards 38.
Hold the CD by the center hole or the outer
edge with the printed side facing up.
To remove turn the CD magazine over
and rotate the release lever® against the spring
force .
in the direc tion of the row through the opening in the rear of the mag a-
Fig. CD selectio n menu .
Changing a CD
Touch the 39 to open the Selection
Menu.
slots with readab le tive function buttons, i.e. , The currently played is highlighted.
Press other active CD slot numbe rs , or press
and turn the tuning fig. 1 access these
are indicated as inactive

Please first read and note the introduc­tory information and hee d the WARN ­on page 59.
A
one-time pairi ng of both devices is necessary to
connect a
some countries , pairing driving is not possi­
For 315, the radio navigation system can be
used to complete pairing.
63.
When connecting via the
315 radio navigation
system , the mobile ph one can be connected in one
of two ways :
Active connection
The Bluetooth® function must be activated
and v isible on both the
The should be disa­
The phone's key and warning tones should be disabled .
You
phone be automatically transferred . T he
length of the transfer depends on the volume of data saved on the phone . After the transfer is com­
p lete , the data is
active telephone pairing
An active mobile phone connection ends an exist­
ing connection to anot her mobile phone.
Press the button.
Press the (SETUP ) button.
Press the [Biuetooth settings)l l func tion button .
Press the [search for devices) function button.
T he scan ning process can
15 to seconds .
When the process has bee n comple ted, the names
o f t he Bluetoot h devices f ound
72.
Access the telephone to be paired from the 72.
T he radio navigation system and the mobile phone
code displaye d on th e screen of th e rad io nav ­
i gation system.
When the pairing is successfully completed, the
63 .
passive telephone pairing
Press the button.
Press button.
Press th e [Biuetooth settings)1l funct ion button.
Press the (Make BT fu nc tion butto n .
15 to phone
of Bluetooth audio accesso ries and
start a connec tion.
T he radio naviga tio n system and the
some cas­es, additional entries are required on the phone to complete the connection of both devices.
Where the code displayed on the
radio navigation system's screen must be entered
and confirmed with
is entered inco rrectly. For safety reasons ,
t h e duration of the radio navigatio n system's toot h visibil ity is li m ited to precisely 5 min utes.
When the pairing is successfully completed, the
63 .
tho connection function butto ns are not the d evice has to be connected via the instrument p age 63.

Making a to a saved phone number
th e te lephone book or list and 66.
Telephone book entry
Tag the desi re d entry by turning the tuning kn ob 1 and mak e a connection by pressi ng the
t uni ng knob .
Fig.
th e pho ne n umber and duration be disp layed on the sc reen .
Fig. 81 waiting .
Tag the desired entry by turnin g the tu nin g knob
a nd con nect to it by pressing the tu ning knob or tapping the function button.
Press the tagged telephone book entry to
begin a a phone number of a is save d in the phone
book . the save d name is sho wn instead of the
number .
Muting a call
To ensure that the during a audio transmis­
s ion can be interrupted .
Press the (E xtr a s) funct ion button during an tive
Pr ess th e (M UTE) fun ction butto n in the pop-up
window to stop sending an audio signal to t he er.
P ress th e (MUTE) function button in the pop-up
window to resu me sendi ng an aud io sig nal to the
can be rece ived during a phone
ca ll. You can switch from one to the other .

Settings (SETUP)
Sound,
this section
button
settings
Fig. 83 Tone setti ngs selection menu.
on page 3 and note the intro­ductory information on page 72.
Accessing the main m enu
Press the
Press the function button on the
83.
the overview the cu rrent se ttings are g raphica lly in the in the front of the respec­
tiv e menu item 83.
Adjusting
Press the (Treble), o r (Bass) function
button in order to open a settings menu for the ad­
justme nt
of the "pitch " 84.
Turn the rotary knob 1 function button in order to change the current
se ttings .
RNS RNS 31 5
More information:
Safety instructions 3
Device overview
Operation basics 8
Radio settings menu 12
Media settings menu
Navigation settings menu
settings menu 59
Fig. 84 Settings menu fo r tone pitch.
Turn the rotary knob or press the appropriate
function button in order to change the current set­
t ings .
Changing settings and adjustments
Vo lum e and volume adjustm ents can be pre -de­
f ined.
Whi le adjustmen ts are being made to the volume
settings , the current audio source is played back
using the
the main menu , press the (votume)
fun ction button 83.
Press the function , Navigati on

AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 , 75
Anti-theft protection code number .......•........ o 8 rad io coding ........ 8 Auto-zoom ........ 53
AUX
.......................•..•... 24,75
B
A UX volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
external audio source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 mul timedia socket . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 playba ck volu me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Balanc e
.............................. 72
Balance (Balance/Fader) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Bass . .....................•......... 72
Bluetooth audio ............. o 24
Brief introduction ........ ... 3
browsing ........ 11 BT audio see Bluetooth Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 volume ..................•..•...... 29
c
eject .......... o 22 mode see : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Changing frequency bands ... 13
Characteristics coding ..... 8
L owering volume ... . 8
r a dio coding ........ o 8
Clear memory see : Del eting .... 73
Code
number ............... 8 Confirmation tone Switching on or off ... 73 Controls ............. 6
Coordinates
....... 49 Cursor cu rsor .......... 41 see : Cu rso r ........ 41
D
Default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
RNS
Tags ................ 33
D elete entries
see : D ele ting .................. o 73
deleting
Navi gat ion data on memory card . . . . . . . . 38
user profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Deleting
ent ries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
d es tinatio n m emory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
destination s from the desti nation memory . 48
n
avigation destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
rad io memor y ........... 19
recent destinat ions ....... 48
Deleting data
see : Delet ing
........... 73
D eleting
user entries
see : Deleting ........... o 73
Demo
mode (Navigation) ... 57
D estination gas station or parking ..... 44
home address .......... 43
Last dests . . ............ 4 7
saved destinations .............. 43
D
estination guidance I nterm ediate de stination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Routing options ......... 51
Destination
input .......... 42
Destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 48
D est. memory delet ing destinations ..... 48
L ast dests . . ............ 4 7
renam ing destinations ....... 48
D evice buttons (hard keys) . . . . . . . . . . . . . overview ..... .............
6 Display AC display ............. 73
brightness .............. . . 73
keypad display ............. 73
ki lometers or m il es .......... 7 4
map appearance ........... 73
time .............................. 73 Driving recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

E
Eject see CD eject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
................ ... .............. 75
EQ settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 EQ (Treble/Mid /Bass) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
External audio source
CD changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 externa l data media . . . . . . . . . .............................. MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . requirements for data media . . . . . . . . . . 24 , 28
External
audio sources B lu etooth audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
External
. . . . . . . . . . . . 36 with front . . . . . . . . . 34
with magazine . . . . . . 35
E xternal data media
see:
MDI...................... .. ..
F
Factory settings . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 24
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Functions omitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 75
Function buttons Refer to: F unction buttons . . . . . . . . . .
Function buttons (soft keys) . . . . . . .
G
GALA ................. .............. 72
Geoposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
H
Hard keys Refer to: Device buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
. . . . . . . . .
input screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(AUX, MDI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Instructions safety instruct ions . . . . . . . . . 3
Interference from phone . . . .
. . 55 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
iPhone see: iPod . . . . .
. . . . . 32 iPod
K
controlling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . . . . . 29
playback volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
selection menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Keyboard appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3
Key
tones see: Confirmation To ne . . . . . . . . 73
Kilom e
ter and mileage display...... . . .
. .......................•... 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
sys tem ............................ 73
Map Day or Night view . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 73
speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................... ... .......
connect ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Error messages . . . . . . . . . . 32
iPod operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ope ration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEDIA ..................... .......... A UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
CD audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . changer . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . . 23
chang ing media sources . . . . . . . 26
chang ing track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ejecti ng a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Fast forw ard . . . . . . . . 26
Ind
ex 77

volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iPod .............................. 32 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ..............................
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
p layback sequence . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 playback volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
playing subfolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 random playback (shuffle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
rewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Searching directory structure . . . . . . . . . . . 27
selec ting track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SETUP .
............ ........... .... 28
shuff le ( random playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
track
info rmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
VBR (variable bitrate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
WMA files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see : Multimedia Interface . . . .
MEDIA-IN multimedia interface functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see also: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Media Player
Bluetooth Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Media
source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Media
sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Memory card
moving
scroll marks . . . . . . . . . . .... ....... 11
Multi-function steering wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Multimedia interface . . . . . . . . . Multimedia socket see: AUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
MUTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MW
.. '' ........... .................. 75
N
Navigation announcements volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
RNS 310, RNS 315
Navigation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 installing in navigation data memory . . . . . 3 8
us ing short-term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Navigation messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 to o quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
NAV (Navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
address input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 42
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
dest inat ion input overview . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . 42
Destinations on memory cards . . . . . . . . . 45
driving recommend ations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
53 Economica l route . . . . . . . 51 editing recent destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
entering blocks . . . . . . . 56 entering customized text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entering intermediate destination . . . . . . 55
Fast route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 flagged destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
home address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
I ncompletely digitized areas . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Info window ...... .................. 49
input screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 42
Last dests. as destination . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
map display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Map view
in route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
navigation data media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 navigation messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
N avigation region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
on-screen keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
posta l code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
renam ing destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
51 route list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
saved destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Saving destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
sea r
ching for parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
search: gas station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
settings............................ 58
SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Short route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
51

Route List
b locki ng s ectio ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Routing criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Routing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1
5
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
acti vation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
see: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 radio mode
see: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Saving rece nt de stin ations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
displa y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
................ ............ 28
M edia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 14 (s can) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Scan/Mix/Re pea t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
gas s tatio n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
........................... 64
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Bala nce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 pre se ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
so und . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
S ettings ............................ 7 3
see :
Route List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 browsing ch ann els . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
iTun es Tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
l a u nch ing
rad io . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ma in menu ...... ......... ... ...... .
s avi ng t rack in format ion .............. . ............ ....... ......... .
selecting stat ions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
swi tching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
a sta tio n b y ca te gory . . . . . . . . . 19
Function Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
............................. 72
Station preset buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Stopping ro ute gui dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
T
Tel ephone see : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Text input cursor cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Time d ela y (Timeout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 T im eout ............................... 8
.................•..•............ 75
Touc h scree n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Trip destination R efe r to des tinatio n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Tunin g knob (operati on) .........•....... 11
u
Unit s y ste m
met ric o r Ang lo-Am eri can . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
v
VBR .................... ............. 22
VHF ............ ...... .. ...•......... 75
Volume volum e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
in pu t volume (A U X. BT aud io) . . . . . . 29 n avigation announce ments . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
P D C audio reduc tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
playb ack volume (A U X, BT audio ) . . 29 see : C han ging the default vo lum e . . . . . . . . 9
Spe ed-depe nde nt vo lume ad jus tme nt .......................... 72
traffic ann ouncemen ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
w
Warnings ............... .............. 3 Wire less communication interfac e . . . . . . 24

-Rear window automatic wipe/wash
-Lever with buttons for the Volkswagen Information System (Basic version) . OK/RESET 24
Multi-function steering wheel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- Volume setting for radio , naviga
tion system notifications (if applicab le) , or telephone
- Display Phone main menu or accept telephone
- Audio, Navigation System (Premium ver-
sion) -
@ Ign ition switch or starter button (for vehicles with Keyless Access locking and starting sys-
tem ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
® Pedals ............ .................................... ....................... .
Lever for adjustable steering wheel
Driver front airbag . . . . . . . . . .
.............................................. .
Horn (only works when the ignition is switched on)
Passenger compartment 11
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