Connecting a mobile phone
General information
Before using your mobile phone with COMAND for the first time, you will need to connect it.
When you authorize a new mobile phone, it is connected automatically.
Connecting comprises:
• searching for a Bluetooth®-capable mobile phone
• subsequently authorizing it
You can connect up to 15 mobile phones.
Searching for a mobile phone
To call up the telephone menu: press the function button once or twice.
Select Data/Connections in the telephone basic menu by sliding and turning the COMAND controller and press to confirm.
Select Bluetooth Telephones and press to confirm.
Select Update and press to confirm.
COMAND searches for Bluetooth® telephones within range and adds them to the Bluetooth® telephone list.
The duration of the search depends on the number of Bluetooth® telephones within range and their characteristics.
Example of display: Bluetooth® telephones list
1 Currently connected and
authorized mobile phone
2 Mobile phone not within range but previously authorized (
symbol appears in gray)
3 Newly detected mobile phone in range, not yet authorized
The Bluetooth® telephones list shows all mobile phones within range and all previously authorized mobile phones, whether or not they are in range.
If the Bluetooth® telephones list is already full, you will be requested to de-authorize a mobile phone. If COMAND does not find your mobile phone, external authorization may be necessary.
Authorizing (registering) a mobile phone
In the Bluetooth® telephones list, select the not yet authorized mobile phone by turning the COMAND controller.
Select Options by sliding the COMAND controller and press to confirm.
Select Authorize and press to confirm.
or
Press to confirm the selected mobile phone.
The input menu for the passcode appears.
The passcode is any one to sixteen-digit number combination which you can choose yourself. You must enter the same number combination in COMAND and in the Bluetooth®-capable mobile phone (see the operating instructions of the mobile phone).
Some mobile phones require the input of a four-digit passcode or longer number combinations.
If you want to reauthorize a mobile phone following de-authorization, you can select a different passcode.
To enter a passcode in COMAND: press the number keys in sequence.
is available for selection after the first number has been entered.
or
Select the digits one by one by turning the COMAND controller and press to confirm.
To confirm an entry in COMAND: select using the COMAND controller and press to confirm.
or
Select SEND on the telephone keypad.
Now enter the same passcode in the mobile phone.
To make entries on the mobile phone: if the Bluetooth® connection is successful, you will be requested to enter the passcode (see mobile phone operating instructions).
Enter the same passcode on the mobile phone that you entered in COMAND.
After entering the passcode, you may also need to enter a confirmation in your mobile phone to connect calls. Please check your mobile phone display.
If the Error during authorization process message appears on the COMAND display, you may have exceeded the allowed time. Repeat the procedure.
The mobile phone is connected to COMAND (authorized). You can now make phone calls using the COMAND hands-free system.
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