User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- What's new
- Get going
- Connecting to TomTom services
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search
- Planning a route using quick search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step by step search
- Planning a route using step by step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step by step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
- My Routes
- About My Routes
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
- Voice control (Speak&Go)
- About voice control
- Starting voice control
- Making your own wake-up phrase
- The voice control screen
- Some tips for using voice control
- What you can use voice control for
- Saying commands in different ways
- Entering an address using voice control
- Going to home using voice control
- Going to a POI using voice control
- Changing a setting using voice control
- Map Share
- Speed Cameras
- Danger Zones
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- Changing your home location
- Adding a location from My Places
- Add a location to My Places from the map
- Adding a location to My Places using search
- Adding a location to My Places by marking
- Deleting a recent destination from My Places
- Deleting a location from My Places
- Using community POI lists
- Hands-free calling
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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Tip: If you have already connected your device to a phone, select Network status.
3. If you are prompted, select Yes to agree to send information to TomTom.
Note: You cannot use TomTom services unless you agree to send information to TomTom.
4. Follow the instructions on your navigation device about switching on a Personal Area Network on
your smartphone.
5. Switch on Bluetooth on your phone, and make sure your phone is discoverable.
6. Switch on Personal Area Network (PAN) on your phone.
7. Select the next screen arrow on your navigation device.
Your device searches for your phone.
Tip: If your device cannot find your phone, make sure your phone is still 'discoverable' or 'visible'
for other Bluetooth devices. Select Search for Phones from the pop-up menu to search for your
phone again.
8. Select your phone from the list on your navigation device.
Your navigation device connects to TomTom services using your phone's internet connection.
9. Create a new TomTom account or log in to your existing TomTom account.
Tip: If you already own a TomTom navigation device, we recommend that you open a new
TomTom account for your VIA using a different email address.
TomTom services are now active.
Reconnecting your smartphone
You do not need to do anything to reconnect your VIA to your phone.
Your VIA will remember your phone and will find it automatically when you have Personal Area
Network (PAN) and Bluetooth switched on and you are in range of your navigation device.
The Bluetooth symbol at the top of the Main Menu screen shows the status of the Bluetooth
connection:
Bluetooth not connected.
Bluetooth connecting. Your device is trying to automatically connect to your
phone.
Bluetooth connected. Your device is connected to your phone.
If you want to connect using another phone, you must turn on Personal Area Network (PAN) and
Bluetooth on that phone, then let your device search for the phone.
Connect to TomTom services using a different smartphone
1. Follow the instructions on your device about switching on a Personal Area Network on your
phone.
2. Switch on Bluetooth on your phone.
3. Select Bluetooth Connections in the Settings Menu.
4. Select Network.
5. Select the pop-up menu button then select Search.