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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 01:10 PM
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I park my 03' E500 car in my garage or other garages most of the time. I do know I need to avoid a rooftop for GPS signals to be received.

My DVD-based navi works at times[drive is in the trunk]... but when i drove a few days back it did not know my actual position and placed me in a few streets away from where I was...
It never managed to relocate my actual position - I ended up disconnecting my navi drive from the wires in the trunk a few times and in about a day and a half it was up and running perfectly again.

I didn't install a GPS splitter, but rather disconnected my Teleaid and put the navi antenna cable in its place - my MFD shows 1 malfunction, the TeleAid...maybe that's causing the GPS to go nuts after a little while of working?

Anyone got a navi guide I can read through or any tip on using the navi system?

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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 05:17 PM
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This may help - 04 COMAND manual: http://home.earthlink.net/~phdwebsite/comand_manual.htm
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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by smb7420
I park my 03' E500 car in my garage or other garages most of the time. I do know I need to avoid a rooftop for GPS signals to be received.

My DVD-based navi works at times[drive is in the trunk]... but when i drove a few days back it did not know my actual position and placed me in a few streets away from where I was...
It never managed to relocate my actual position - I ended up disconnecting my navi drive from the wires in the trunk a few times and in about a day and a half it was up and running perfectly again.

I didn't install a GPS splitter, but rather disconnected my Teleaid and put the navi antenna cable in its place - my MFD shows 1 malfunction, the TeleAid...maybe that's causing the GPS to go nuts after a little while of working?

Anyone got a navi guide I can read through or any tip on using the navi system?
Is it an EURO comand?..Do you have a phone system integrated?
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Old Mar 17, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by georgedaman
Is it an EURO comand?..Do you have a phone system integrated?
Yes, It is a euro comand which I cannot access the engineering menu in
My DVD is sadly set to region 2.
I have a Bluetooth V60 puck that uses my telephone.
The GPS is up and working normally again - I suppose it may have mis-positioned itself due to me taking a detour on a route or me hitting the detour button.
And God bless whoever may find a way to access the engineering menu.
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by smb7420
Yes, It is a euro comand which I cannot access the engineering menu in
My DVD is sadly set to region 2.
I have a Bluetooth V60 puck that uses my telephone.
The GPS is up and working normally again - I suppose it may have mis-positioned itself due to me taking a detour on a route or me hitting the detour button.
And God bless whoever may find a way to access the engineering menu.
Hi I know its not excatly related to the solution of your problem but i am just wondering..since you have your tele aid "deactivated''..Does the phonebook download into the comand in the euromode?????
..It looks like your comand got "locked up"...I have the service cd to flash the software.That might reset the access to the enginering menu.
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 04:44 AM
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the service CD may work, is there anyway you can get me a copy?

I've heard trying to rollback the software on the comand will freeze it and make it unusable...have you used the CD yourself? If so why?
Thanks for the help though
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 02:03 PM
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I used the CD myself on 2 comands ..No problem
This is how it started https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w211/159952-euro-comand-froze-up.html
The CD only work on selected A 211.part # comands.Let me know what version you have.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 10:01 AM
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georgedaman:

I have the euro command head unit and I would be interested in knowing more about the software flash.

thanks.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 12:00 PM
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georgedaman:

I have the euro command head unit and I would be interested in knowing more about the software flash.

thanks.
Hi
It is just the basic operating system of the comand...not an upgrade or update.
You only need it if the comand doesnt function properly.
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Old Mar 24, 2007 | 06:06 AM
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Georgedman:

Any way I could get a copy of the CD? I have one of the units affected.

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