Mikey52

Hi All,

Looking for a final answer on this... I've accessed the engineering menu and enabled internet. I now have the globe beside settings and am able to access COMAND Online. My Iphone is paired with the COMAND but I'm still getting the "Phone doesn't support this feature" error.

From the searching I've done, the issue is directly related to the IPhone 5 not supporting DUN (Tethering). Is there a work-around for this? Any help would be much appreciated.
Vehicle is a 2012 C350 (Canada)
Phone is a Iphone 5

Thanks!

Andriy242

There is definitely a work around. I got it to work with my android and you should be able to do the same with your iphone. What I did is install a DUN tethering app and that solved my problem. But I am not even sure if Iphone App Store has any DUN tethering apps, see for yourself.

Mikey52

Thanks for the response. I don't think there's a DUN tethering app available through app store. I'm not interested in jailbreaking but I guess that's my only option at this point.

IloveC300

Can you share the name of the Android app? I have Android phone and I have enabled the Internet settings. Would like to try it out.
Thanks

Andriy242

The app that you are looking for is BlueDUN

nycphotography

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Searched for BlueDUN. No such app in the apple store.

Andriy242

Yea like I said, I don't know if there have that app in the Apple Store. I have an S4 (Android) thus I go by this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...d=com.blue_dun

nycphotography

Doh! I thought you meant the apple app.

FWIW I think that cars that can utilize the internet (for nav / traffic / program listings, or whatever) will finally drive the end of this asinine stance against tethering from the US mobile providers. If I'm paying for 6GB of data, it really burns my *** when they refuse to let me use it for whatever I want. I effin paid for the bandwidth. It's mine. Get outta my way and deliver what I paid for.

And the way Apple censors iTunes.. they are permanently on my do not buy list. No iPhone, no iPad, no iMac, no iNothing. Ever.

Oh yeah, I do have an iPod I bought back in 2005 or so... before iTunes was really much of a store.... even then, the aggravation of having to use iTunes (the software) to beg plead and negotiate to put files on and off the iPod I swore then never again. No USB interface to a generic file system, then no buy your product. Period.

Andriy242

Lol you do know that you can set any ipod or iphone to manually manage music and files so it just acts like a usb flash drive and you can still manage your own music and files without going through iTunes.

Also in regards to the data thing. THe thing is mercedes uses the old way of Bluetooth internet teathering which pretty much no phone supports anyways these days so they will have to upgrade their systems...but i think NTG5 already has it solved.

nycphotography

It's a 5th gen 80gb ipod classic, and NO you CAN'T get the files off via USB like a flash drive. I haven't updated the music on it since 2010 when iTunes refused to install on my new at the time 64bit windows 7 pc. Even the Apple lovers I work with couldn't get it to work.

At this point a new ipod would be pointless. About 3 years ago they gave me an iPhone 4 at work... I tried to use it but after 6 months I finally gave up and begged for something with a keyboard... which pretty much meant I was stuck with a blackberry. I know blackberry's suck as "tech toys"... but I send too many emails and play too few useless games to give up my useful bby for a cutesy useless iPhone. Guess if I was playing candy crush 12 hours a day, I'd be in love with an iPhone. But I don't, so I'm not. But at least the iPhone isn't completely 100% useless, only 95% so. It still works as my alarm clock. ba da BUM BUM ba DUM. I wake up every morning and slide into the bathroom like Tom Cruise.

I have an android tablet... it's ok... great for maps and kindle reading. OK for reading email, but it syncs like a week behind it seems, and it seems to hang for no reason at times. Maybe next cycle I'll try a Samsung phone and hope 1) android more robust and 2) that Samsung doesn't b*st*rdize it beyond reliability. At least Samsung doesn't insist on telling me that I don't really want bigger screen on my phone. Or that I don't really want a SD slot. ?wtf?apple?wtf?

Samsung is finally starting to pick up a lot of momentum and the arrogance of Apple as a company will come home to roost. Eventually. Hope I live long enough to see it happen. I hate really hate to root for a Korean company against an American one, but Apple is one of those few rare vile foul companies that I can't wait til someone, anyone, kills em dead.

Andriy242

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1535

In regards to your iphone send me a Pm and ill help you so this doesn't get out of controll.

acr2001

You cannot connect any iPhone to any COMAND unit for internet access, as of the 2012 model year. I know that in newer models Merc is fixing/fixed this. If you are jailbroken, MAYBE there is some hack out there, but when I tried a year ago, there was absolutely nothing that worked.

It's really MBs fault. Bluetooth DUN was an extremely old, outdated, and unsupported feature when they rolled it out for COMAND online. Apple *could* support it, but chooses not to. Newer modern methods of bluetooth tethering are far superior.

nycphotography

It's not just that Apple could but refuses to do it themselves.... but Apple also refuses to let anyone else release an app that does it too.

Mikey52

I know it would be tough for anyone to answer with certainty, but is there any feeling MB would release a firmware update for pre-2013 COMAND units to address this issue??

acr2001

You never know. I'd like that. I highly doubt it will happen.

acr2001

I'm pretty sure that's true, but even so, I can't even find an app that will do it on a jailbroken phone. There was one app (I forgot the name) that was supposed to, but did not work.

terrencetong168

am i able to enable comand online for 2013? i cant seem to find that option in engineering menu

acr2001

Nope, as far as I know it was further hidden in the 2013 models, because in the future MB will be charging a monthly fee to use it. An absolute joke. If you go on their website you'll see it as an option for an additional price. Pretty damn slimey of them.

Cheezy

Hi Mikey
Don't know if you are still having issues with connecting the Internet with your command head unit. But if you are...
Try this
When stationary. (That's forced by Merc) and Bluetooth connection is on and your phone is visible in the head unit.
Go to the Internet globe on the far right.
Then bottom left connections. Set this to auto settings for your iPhone.
Then on the iPhone turn on personal hotspot. This should then allow you to use the web browser on the command unit. It ain't fast. But it did work on my 2012 ML and my 2014 ML. Hope you get some joy.

n3cr1d

only models made after 06/2013 (NTG4.7) with command can connect internet iphone.