User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Features
- Get going
- TomTom services
- Connecting a smartphone
- Wi-Fi connection
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- TomTom MyDrive
- Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search About search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- About mapcodes
- List of POI type icons
- 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 About search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- List of POI type icons
- 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
- 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
- Smartphone notifications
- Settings
- Appearance
- Display
- Route Bar
- Guidance view
- Automatic Zoom
- Motorway exit previews
- Route Planning
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- Updates and New Items
- Maps
- Sounds and Warnings
- Voices
- MyDrive
- Language and Units
- System
- Automatic route recording
- Enable IFTTT service
- About
- Choose a search style
- Quick search
- Step by step search
- Format memory card
- Reset device
- Battery settings
- Your information & privacy
- Use my location and the information I enter to receive TomTom services
- Keep journey history on this device for optional features
- Help
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Important Safety Notices and Warnings
- Safety messages
- Use with care warning
- Notice for oversized/commercial vehicles
- Proper mounting
- Pacemakers
- Other medical devices
- Device care
- Rating: DC5V, 1.2A
- Environmental and Battery information
- Operating temperature
- Device battery (Non-replaceable)
- Battery waste disposal
- WEEE – e-waste disposal
- Triman logo
- Warning for Australia
- Certification for New Zealand
- Customer support contact (Australia and New Zealand)
- TomTom MyDrive app
- Terms and Conditions: Limited warranty and EULA
- This document
- Model numbers
- CE mark and Radio Equipment Directive for TomTom GO Basic
- EU Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) compliance
- Accessories supplied with this device
- Copyright notices
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You can see your currently selected language on this screen. Select this setting to change the
language used for all buttons and messages that you see on your TomTom GO BASIC.
When you change the language setting, the voice automatically changes and units are set to
automatic.
Country
You can see your currently selected country on this screen. Select this setting to change the
country. When you change the country, the time/date format, distance units and voice are
changed automatically. The list includes the countries from the maps currently installed on your
device.
Keyboards
Select this setting to choose from a list of available keyboards.
You use the keyboard to enter names and addresses, such as when you plan a route or search
for the name of a town or a local restaurant.
Units
Select this setting to choose the units used on your device for features such as route planning. If
you want the units to be set to those used in your current location, select Automatic.
Time and date
The time and date are automatically set by satellite clocks but you can change the format of
both the time and date using these settings.
System
Select Settings in the Main Menu, then select System.
On this screen, you can change these settings:
Automatic route recording
Select this setting to switch route recording on or off. When route recording is on, any routes
driven are automatically added to your Route History. Switch this setting off to stop route
recording. The default is off.
Enable IFTTT service
Use this setting to switch the IFTTT service on or off. The service is switched off by default.
About
This screen shows you all sorts of useful information about your model of TomTom device. This
information is useful during calls to Customer Support and when renewing subscriptions using
the TomTom web shop.
Some of the information shown here includes:
Your service subscriptions - select a service to see how long your subscription has to run
before expiry.
Serial number.
Installed maps.
Free memory space.
GPRS status for always connected devices.
Choose a search style
The following two types of search are available:
Quick search
Start typing your destination, place or POI to immediately see a list of street names, places
and POIs that match.