MAYBACH COMAND User manual

OPERATOR’S MANUAL
COMAND AND REAR-CABIN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM
Grafik in der Größe 216x79 mm
in den Grafikrahmen importieren!
Order-No. 6515 6853 13 Part No. 240 584 47 87 USA Edition A 2010
OPERATOR’S MANUAL COMAND AND REAR-CABIN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM

Welcome to COMAND and the rear-cabin
audiovisual system!
Please make yourself familiar with your CO-
MAND and rear-cabin audiovisual system
control units and read the instructions in
this manual before operating the COMAND
and rear-cabin audiovisual system. This will
help you derive a greater benefit from the
system. Please also follow the instructions
and warnings contained in this manual. Ig-
noring them could result in damage to the
vehicle or personal injury to you or others.
Depending on model, version and configu-
ration, your COMAND and rear-cabin au-
diovisual system equipment may differ.
Therefore, you may find explanations for
optional equipment not installed in your
vehicle. If you have any questions about
the operation of any equipment, your au-
thorized Maybach Studio will be glad to
demonstrate the proper procedures.
We continuously strive to improve our
product and ask for your understanding
that we reserve the right to make changes
in design and equipment. Therefore, infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions in this
manual might differ from the equipment
installed in your vehicle. As such, the infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions con-
tained in this manual may not be
reasonably relied upon in making any
claims with respect to the actual perfor-
mance of the product.
These operating instructions form an inte-
gral part of the vehicle and should there-
fore always be kept inside the vehicle and
passed on to the new owner if the vehicle
is sold.
We extend our best wishes for many miles
of safe, pleasurable driving.
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
A Daimler Company

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
At a glance – Front Cabin. . . . . . . . . . 13
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . . 14
CD operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MP3 operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 18
Satellite radio operating elements . . 20
Telephone operating elements . . . . . 22
Navigation operating elements. . . . . 24
General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . 27
Selecting the multifunction
display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Audio search function . . . . . . . . . 29
Voice Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening main menus . . . . . . . . . . 31
Menu display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Menu functions and submenus . . 32
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . 34
System structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting sound volume. . . . . . . . . . 35
Changing operation mode . . . . . . 37
Control of the rear cabin control units
from the front cabin (driver) control
unit.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Sound functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
System Settings - Front Cabin. . . . . . . 43
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 44
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting the date/time. . . . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 46
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . 46
Display settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Voice control settings . . . . . . . . . . 47
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Audio - Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Audio main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Calling up the Audio main menu . 52
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Switching to Radio mode . . . . . . . 53
Switching to Radio mode . . . . . . . 53
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . 53
Tuning to an FM / AM station. . . . 54
Tuning to a station on
Weather Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Storing of stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Tips on caring for your CDs. . . . . . 59
Switching to CD mode. . . . . . . . . . 59
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
MP3 operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Tips on data storage media . . . . . 64
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . 64
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 64
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . 65
Tips on copyright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Switching to MP3 mode . . . . . . . . 66
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Contents
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 70
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Audio AUX operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Switching to AUX mode . . . . . . . 72
Satellite radio – Front Cabin . . . . . . . 73
General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Introduction to satellite radio . . . 74
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . 75
Calling up the SAT main menu . . 75
Soft key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Selecting a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Obtaining additional text
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Storing of stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Calling the SIRIUS Service Center 79
Telephone – Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . 81
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Tips on telephone operation . . . . 82
Notes about Bluetooth®
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Switching the phone ON/OFF . . . . 85
"911" emergency calls . . . . . . . . . . 85
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . . 86
Entering the unlock code. . . . . . . . 87
Switching to telephone mode . . . 87
Telephone main menu . . . . . . . . . . 88
Selectable soft keys and options . . 88
Answering an incoming call. . . . . . 88
Outgoing call / Dialing a phone num-
ber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . . . 90
Dialed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Speed dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Establishing a connection . . . . . . . 92
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Opening the phone book . . . . . . . 94
Selecting a phone book entry
and establishing the connection . 95
Adding spoken names to a phone
book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Deleting a phone book entry . . . . 96
SMS (Mail). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Reading a message. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Exiting from the SMS menu. . . . . . 98
Navigation – Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . 99
Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Loading/ejecting the DVD . . . . . 101
Travelling abroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Route guidance with GPS . . . . . . 102
Route guidance after vehicle trans-
port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Trip interruption during route
guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Selection lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Calling up the Navigation
main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Avoiding certain road types . . . . 105
Adjusting the acoustics for
voice announcements . . . . . . . . . 105
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Entering data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Entering a home address. . . . . . . 108
Destination entry menu . . . . . . . 109
Entering a destination. . . . . . . . . 109
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . 109
Entering a city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Narrowing of the destination after
selecting a city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Contents
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . 111
Entering a street in the destination
city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Narrowing of the destination after
selecting the street . . . . . . . . . . 113
Entering an intersection. . . . . . . 113
Entering a house number. . . . . . 114
Entering a destination
using the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Entering a destination via geo coordi-
nates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Storing map location . . . . . . . . . 117
Route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . 118
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . 118
Voice announcements . . . . . . . . 118
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . 119
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . 121
Cancelling route guidance . . . . 121
Partially digitized areas . . . . . . . 121
During route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . 125
Showing soft key displays . . . . . 125
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Displaying the route
on the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Displaying the route list . . . . . . 126
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Stopover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Defining route guidance displays 130
Setting symbol displays . . . . . . . . 131
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . 132
Map display menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . 133
Scales for full-screen and split-screen
map display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Last destination and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 135
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . 136
POI (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Selecting POI in the local area of the
current location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Selecting POI for a selected city . 140
Selecting POI for a long-distance des-
tination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Selecting a POI using the map. . . 142
Software update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Voice Control – Front Cabin . . . . . . . 145
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Functional overview. . . . . . . . . . . 147
Command types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Active system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Activation/deactivation of
Voice Control System. . . . . . . . . . 148
Activating Voice Control. . . . . . . 148
Deactivating Voice Control . . . . . 148
Setting volume level . . . . . . . . . . 149
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . 150
Telephone commands . . . . . . . . . 150
Phone book operation . . . . . . . . 153
Phone book commands. . . . . . . . 154
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Radio operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Radio commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
CD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
CD player operation . . . . . . . . . . 162
CD player commands. . . . . . . . . . 162
MP3 player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
MP3 player operation . . . . . . . . . 163
MP3 player commands . . . . . . . . 163
Command list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
General commands . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Telephone commands . . . . . . . . . 165
Audio commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Sub commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Practical hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Help function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Help commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Help screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Contents
What to do... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Visual help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Individualization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Service - Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Tele Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . 176
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 176
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
At a Glance - Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . 179
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . 180
CD operating elements. . . . . . . . . . . 182
MP3 operating elements . . . . . . . . . 184
TV operating elements. . . . . . . . . . . 186
DVD operating elements . . . . . . . . . 188
Telephone operating elements . . . . 190
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Calling up main menus . . . . . . . . 196
Menu display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Menu functions and submenus . 197
Quick reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
System structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Setting sound volume . . . . . . . . . 199
Changing operation mode . . . . . 200
Headphones operation . . . . . . . . 202
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Balance and Fader . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
System Settings - Rear Cabin . . . . . . 207
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Calling up the System menu . . . . 208
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . 209
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . 210
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . 211
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Voice control settings. . . . . . . . . . 213
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Audio – Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Audio/Video main menu . . . . . . . . . . 216
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Calling up the Audio/Video main
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Selectable menu items . . . . . . . . 216
Switching between audio/video
source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Switching active audio/video source
on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Radio operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Switching to radio mode . . . . . . 218
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . 218
Tuning to an FM/AM station . . . 219
Tuning to a station on
Weather Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . 224
Switching to the CD mode . . . . . 224
CD changer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Selecting CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 232
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
MP3 operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Notes about discs . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Notes about handling MP3 discs. 234
Notes on creating MP3 discs . . . . 235
Notes on creating MP3 tracks . . . 236
Notes on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Contents
Switching to MP3 operation . . . 236
Loading MP3 discs. . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Ejecting MP3 discs. . . . . . . . . . . . 237
MP3 main menu, rear cabin . . . . 237
Selecting a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Fast forward/rewind. . . . . . . . . . 239
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Video - Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
TV operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 242
General Information. . . . . . . . . . 242
Switching to TV operation . . . . . 242
Tuning-out of image and audio 242
TV display and TV status bar . . . 242
Program selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Program storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
TV basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
DVD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 248
General information . . . . . . . . . 248
DVD Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Switching to DVD operation . . . 249
DVD display and DVD status bar 251
DVD display functions . . . . . . . . 251
DVD menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Interactive contents . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Video Aux operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Front Telephone – Rear Cabin. . . . . . 261
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Tips on telephone operation. . . . 262
Notes about Bluetooth®
connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Switching the phone ON/OFF . . . 264
"911" emergency calls . . . . . . . . 264
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . 265
Entering the unlock code . . . . . . 266
Switching to telephone mode . . 266
Telephone main menu . . . . . . . . 267
Selectable menu items
and options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Answering an incoming call . . . . 267
Placing an outgoing call . . . . . . . 268
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . 268
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Opening the phone book . . . . . . 272
Selecting a phone book entry and es-
tablishing the connection . . . . . . 273
Adding spoken names to a phone
book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Deleting a phone book entry . . 274
SMS (Short Message Service) . . . . . . 275
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Reading a message . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . 276
Exiting from the SMS menu . . . . 276
Rear Telephone - Rear Cabin . . . . . . 277
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Tips on telephone operation . . . 278
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Rear cabin telephone system . . . 279
Calls disconnected while the vehicle is
in motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Connecting the mobile phone . . . . . 280
Registering a mobile phone . . . . 280
Connecting a mobile phone with the
rear cabin telephone system. . . . 281
Switching off the rear cabin tele-
phone system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Rear cabin telephone system
bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Operating the rear cabin telephone sys-
tem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Main menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Contents
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Display keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Using the telephone . . . . . . . . . . 287
Service - Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Tele Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . 292
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 292
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

9
Where to find it
Introduction
This Operator's Manual is designed to pro-
vide support for you, the COMAND or rear-
cabin audiovisual system operator. Each
chapter has its own guide color to provide
fast access to information.
At a glance - Front cabin
Here you will find an overview of all
COMAND control elements of the driver’s
(front cabin) control unit. The following
chapter "General Operation" contains the
description of the basic functions, and of
the interactions between the various con-
trol units and the menu system. Study this
chapter thoroughly if this is your first at-
tempt to operate COMAND.
System settings - Front cabin
This part contains information concerning
the necessary system settings for the CO-
MAND at the front-cabin control unit.
The following second part of the operating
instructions covers the operation of the
rear-cabin control units.
Audio - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
Audio system, which includes the compo-
nents Radio, CD and MP3, and their control
at the front-cabin control unit.
SAT - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
satellite radio system, and its control at the
front-cabin control unit.
Telephone - Front cabin
This part contains all information required
for the operation of the telephone at the
front-cabin control unit, including emer-
gency calls.
Navigation - Front cabin
This part contains detailed information for
the operation of the Navigation system at
the front-cabin control unit, covering the
following topics:
Destination entry
Route selection
Route guidance
Destination memory
Voice Control System - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
Voice Control system, which includes all
functions, commands, practical hints and
preferences.
Service - Front cabin
This part contains information concerning
Tele Aid.
Where to find it