User's Manual

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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
Features
- Your TomTom GO BASIC
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning your TomTom GO BASIC
- 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 BASIC
TomTom services
- About TomTom services
  - Traffic & Speed Cameras
  - TomTom MyDrive
Connecting a smartphone
- Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device?
  - Connecting your phone with or without the TomTom MyDrive app
- Connecting a smartphone
- Disconnecting a smartphone
  - Clearing the pairing history
- Reconnecting a smartphone
- Unable to get a connection
- Personal Area Networks
  - Smartphone-connected devices only
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
  - Avoiding a traffic jam using the route bar
  - Avoiding a traffic jam using the map
- Selecting a faster route
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to TomTom MyDrive
  - Logging in to TomTom MyDrive on your TomTom GO BASIC
  - Logging in to MyDrive using a web browser or the TomTom MyDrive app
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- About TomTom Road Trips
Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
  -  Quick search
  -  Step by step search
- Using quick search About search
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
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- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- About postcodes
  - Postcodes for streets
  - Postcodes for areas
- About mapcodes
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- List of POI type icons
- Planning a route to an address
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route to a city centre
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route to a POI
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route using a mapcode
  - QUICK SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route in advance
  - Changing the starting point to be your current location
  - Changing the starting point into a stop
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
  -  Quick search
  -  Step by step search
- Using step by step search About search
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
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- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
- About postcodes
  - Postcodes for streets
  - Postcodes for areas
- List of POI type icons
- Planning a route to an address
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route to a POI
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
  - - Near me.
- Planning a route to a city centre
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
- 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
  - STEP BY STEP SEARCH ONLY
- Planning a route in advance
  - Changing the starting point to be your current location
  - Changing the starting point into a stop
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
  - Save Changes to Route
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
  -  Toll Roads
- 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 routes and tracks
- 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
  - Street Name
  - Turn Restriction
Speed Cameras
- About TomTom 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
  - Setting your home or work location using My Places
  - Setting your home or work location using the map
- Changing your home location
  - Changing your home location using My Places
  - Set 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
  - Switch messages off for your current session
  - Switch messages off permanently
Settings
- Appearance
- Display
  -  Day brightness
  -  Night brightness
- Route Bar
- Guidance view
  -  Show current street name
  -  Guidance view style
- Automatic Zoom
- Motorway exit previews
- 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
UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- About TomTom MyDrive Connect
- Setting up TomTom MyDrive Connect
- Connecting to the internet using TomTom 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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Contents 
Welcome to navigation with TomTom  7 
Features  8 
Your TomTom GO BASIC .......................................................................................... 8 
Get going  9 
Installing in your car ............................................................................................... 9 
Positioning your TomTom GO BASIC ............................................................................ 9 
Switching on and off ............................................................................................... 9 
Safety Notice ..................................................................................................... 10 
Setting up ......................................................................................................... 10 
GPS reception .................................................................................................... 10 
Sending information to TomTom .............................................................................. 10 
Memory card slot ................................................................................................. 11 
Device not starting .............................................................................................. 11 
Charging your device ............................................................................................ 11 
Caring for your TomTom GO BASIC ........................................................................... 11 
TomTom services  13 
About TomTom services ........................................................................................ 13 
Connecting a smartphone  15 
Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device? ................................................... 15 
Connecting a smartphone ...................................................................................... 15 
Disconnecting a smartphone ................................................................................... 16 
Reconnecting a smartphone.................................................................................... 16 
Unable to get a connection .................................................................................... 16 
Personal Area Networks ......................................................................................... 17 
Wi-Fi connection  18 
About Wi-Fi® ..................................................................................................... 18 
Connecting to Wi-Fi ............................................................................................. 18 
Forgetting a Wi-Fi network ..................................................................................... 19 
About updates and new items ................................................................................. 19 
Installing updates and new items ............................................................................. 20 
What's on the screen  22 
The map view ..................................................................................................... 22 
The guidance view ............................................................................................... 24 
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 25 
Distances and the route bar ................................................................................ 26 
The quick menu .................................................................................................. 26 
Navigation buttons ............................................................................................... 27 
Smaller buttons and symbols .................................................................................. 29 
Volume control ................................................................................................... 31 
Using gestures .................................................................................................... 31 
Changing the text and button size ............................................................................ 32 