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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
Features
- Your TomTom GO BASIC
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Safety Notice
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your TomTom GO
TomTom services
- About TomTom services
Connecting a smartphone
- Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device?
- Connecting a smartphone
- Disconnecting a smartphone
- Reconnecting a smartphone
- Unable to get a connection
- Personal Area Networks
Wi-Fi connection
- About Wi-Fi®
- Connecting to Wi-Fi
- Forgetting a Wi-Fi network
- About updates and new items
- Installing updates and new items
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- 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
- 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
- Selecting a faster route
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- Road Trips collection - sending a route to your device
- Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop
- 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
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
Smartphone notifications
- Receiving an SMS or IM
- Switching off messages
Settings
- Appearance
- Route Planning
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- Updates and New Items
- Maps
- Sounds and Warnings
- Voices
- MyDrive
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
- Connecting to the internet using MyDrive Connect
TomTom account
Addendum
Copyright notices

Point of Interest

In the Drive To menu, select this button to search for a point of interest,

then plan a route to that location.

Latitude Longitude

In the Drive To menu, select this button to search for a latitude-longitude

coordinate, then plan a route to that location.

Drive Home

Select this button to drive to your home location. If this button is not

included in your Main Menu, go to My Places to set up your home location.

Drive to Work

Select this button to drive to your work location. If this button is not

included in your Main Menu, go to My Places to set up your work location.

Recent Destination

Select this button to open the list of your recent destinations. Select a

recent destination to plan a route to that destination.

Current Route /

Current Track

Select this button to clear or change your planned route or track.