User Manual

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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
What's new
- What's new compared to Rider 450
- TomTom videos
Installing your Rider
- Mounting on a motorcycle
- Using the anti-theft solution
- Installing in your car
- Turning on and off
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your TomTom Rider
Connecting a headset
- About motorcycle headsets
- Connecting a multi-channel headset
- Connecting a single-channel headset
- Improving the quality of navigation instructions
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
Using your Rider
- Navigation buttons
- The glove-friendly keyboard
- Using quick settings
- Road Trips collection – sending a route to your device
- Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop
- Planning a thrilling route
  - Planning a thrilling round trip route using stops
  - Planning a thrilling ride to a destination
- Looking at trip statistics
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Quick access to settings
- Smaller buttons and symbols
- Using gestures
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Calls and smartphone notifications
- About phone calls
- Accepting an incoming call
- Ending or rejecting an incoming call
- Ignoring an incoming call
- Making a phone call
- Receiving an SMS or IM
- Switching off messages
- Talking to Siri or Google Now
Traffic
- About TomTom Traffic
- 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
TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging into TomTom 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
- Choosing where you want to start driving a route
- 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
- Adding to My Routes using MyDrive
- 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
- Importing routes from your computer using USB
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
Map Share
- About Map Share
- Creating a map correction report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Safety Cameras
- About safety cameras
- Safety camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a new safety camera
- Confirm or remove a speed trap
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Settings
- Appearance
- Route Planning
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- Updates and New Items
- Maps
- MyDrive
- Sounds and Warnings
- Voices
- Touch Sensitivity
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- About TomTom MyDrive Connect
- Setting up TomTom MyDrive Connect
- Connecting to the internet using TomTom MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
Addendum
Copyright notices

Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom 7

What's new 8

What's new compared to Rider 450 ............................................................................. 8

TomTom videos .................................................................................................... 9

Installing your Rider 10

Mounting on a motorcycle ...................................................................................... 10

Using the anti-theft solution ................................................................................... 11

Installing in your car ............................................................................................ 15

Turning on and off ............................................................................................... 16

Setting up ......................................................................................................... 17

GPS reception .................................................................................................... 17

Sending information to TomTom .............................................................................. 17

Memory card slot ................................................................................................ 17

Device not starting .............................................................................................. 18

Charging your device ............................................................................................ 18

Caring for your TomTom Rider ................................................................................ 18

Connecting a headset 19

About motorcycle headsets .................................................................................... 19

Connecting a multi-channel headset ......................................................................... 19

Connecting a single-channel headset ........................................................................ 20

Improving the quality of navigation instructions ........................................................... 22

TomTom services 24

About TomTom services ........................................................................................ 24

Connecting a smartphone 26

Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device? .................................................. 26

Connecting a smartphone ...................................................................................... 26

Disconnecting a smartphone ................................................................................... 27

Reconnecting a smartphone ................................................................................... 27

Unable to get a connection .................................................................................... 27

Personal Area Networks ........................................................................................ 28

Wi-Fi connection 29

About Wi-Fi® ..................................................................................................... 29

Connecting to Wi-Fi ............................................................................................. 29

Forgetting a Wi-Fi network .................................................................................... 30

About updates and new items ................................................................................. 30

Installing updates and new items ............................................................................. 31

Using your Rider 33

Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 33