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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The name of the next road on your route.

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Lane guidance at some junctions.

Route symbols. Symbols are used on your route to show your starting location, your stops, and

your destination.

Main Menu button. Select the button to show the Main Menu.

Speed panel. This panel shows the following information:

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The speed limit at your location.

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Your current speed. If you drive more than 5 km/h or 3 mph over the speed limit the speed

panel turns red. If you drive less than 5 km/h or 3 mph over the speed limit the speed panel

turns orange.

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The name of the street you are driving on.

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The speed camera or risk zone report button.

Current location. This symbol shows your current location. Select the symbol or the speed panel

to open the quick menu.

Route bar. The route bar is shown when you have planned a route.

The route bar

The route bar is shown when you have planned a route. It has an arrival information panel at the

top, and a bar with symbols underneath.

The arrival information panel shows the following information:

Tip: If your destination is in a different time zone, you see a plus (+)

or a minus (-) sign and the time difference in hours and half hours in

the arrival information panel. The estimated time of arrival is the

local time at your destination.

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The estimated time that you will arrive at your destination.

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The length of time to drive to the destination from your current

location.

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A parking button is shown near the destination flag when parking is

available near your destination.

If you have stops on your route, select this panel to change between

information about the next stop and your final destination.

You can choose the information you see on the arrival information panel.

Traffic status - if your TomTom GO BASIC isn't receiving any traffic

information, a symbol showing traffic with a cross appears underneath

the arrival information panel.

The bar uses symbols to show the following information:

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A faster route, if there is traffic on your route.

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The stops on your route.

Tip: To quickly remove a stop, select it in the route bar and use the

Note: Select the instruction panel to see a list of turn-by-turn text instructions for your

planned route.

Note: If your TomTom GO cannot find your location the symbol appears grey.

Note: You cannot change the current location symbol.

Tip: You can also choose to see a wider route bar showing additional route information (not

available on all devices or apps).

Note: The distance ahead shown by the route bar depends on the overall length of your route.