User Manual

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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
What's new
- New in this release
- Video workshops
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Finding the memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your VIA
Connecting to TomTom services
- About TomTom services
- Personal Area Networks
- Connect to TomTom services using your smartphone
- Reconnecting your smartphone
- Connect to TomTom services using a different smartphone
- Deleting phones
- Unable to get a connection
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols
- Volume control
- Using gestures
- Changing the text and button size
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Traffic
- About TomTom Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- The route bar
- Looking at traffic on the map
- Looking at traffic on your route
- Traffic incidents
- Approaching a traffic jam warning
- Avoiding a traffic jam on your route
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
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
Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step by step search
- Planning a route using step by step search
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
- About Map Share
- Creating a map change report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Speed Cameras
- About speed cameras
- Crossing into another area or country
- Speed camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a new speed camera
- Confirm or remove a mobile speed camera
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Danger Zones
- About danger zones and risk zones
- Crossing into another area or country
- Danger zone and risk zone warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a risk zone
- Updating locations for danger zones and risk 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
- About TomTom services
- Connecting and disconnecting a phone
- Accepting an incoming call
- Ending or rejecting an incoming call
- Making a hands-free call to a recent contact
- Making a hands-free call to a contact
Settings
- Appearance
- Bluetooth Connections
- Voices
- Voice Control
- Maps
- Route Planning
- Sounds and Warnings
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Updating using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom 7

What's new 8

New in this release .............................................................................................................................. 8

Video workshops ................................................................................................................................. 8

Get going 10

Installing in your car ..........................................................................................................................10

Positioning the device .......................................................................................................................10

Switching on and off ..........................................................................................................................10

Setting up ..........................................................................................................................................11

GPS reception ...................................................................................................................................11

Sending information to TomTom .......................................................................................................11

Memory card slot ...............................................................................................................................12

Finding the memory card slot ............................................................................................................12

Device not starting .............................................................................................................................12

Charging your device ........................................................................................................................12

Caring for your VIA ............................................................................................................................12

Connecting to TomTom services 13

About TomTom services ...................................................................................................................13

Personal Area Networks ....................................................................................................................13

Connect to TomTom services using your smartphone......................................................................13

Reconnecting your smartphone ........................................................................................................14

Connect to TomTom services using a different smartphone ............................................................14

Deleting phones.................................................................................................................................15

Unable to get a connection ................................................................................................................15

What's on the screen 16

The map view ....................................................................................................................................16

The guidance view ............................................................................................................................18

The route bar .....................................................................................................................................19

Distances and the route bar .........................................................................................................20

The quick menu .................................................................................................................................20

Navigation buttons .............................................................................................................................21

Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols ..........................................................................................23

Volume control...................................................................................................................................24

Using gestures...................................................................................................................................25

Changing the text and button size .....................................................................................................25

Reordering the Main Menu buttons ...................................................................................................26

Traffic 27

About TomTom Traffic .......................................................................................................................27

About RDS-TMC................................................................................................................................27

The route bar .....................................................................................................................................27

Looking at traffic on the map .............................................................................................................28

Looking at traffic on your route ..........................................................................................................29

Traffic incidents .................................................................................................................................30

Approaching a traffic jam warning .....................................................................................................31