User 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
- Planning a route using quick search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- 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 parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step-by-step search
- Planning a route using step-by-step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- 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 using step-by-step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas 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
- Safety 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
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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Contents
Welcome to navigation with TomTom 7
Features 8
Your TomTom GO COMFORT ..................................................................................... 8
Get going 9
Installing in your car .............................................................................................. 9
Positioning your TomTom GO COMFORT ....................................................................... 9
Turning on and off ................................................................................................. 9
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 COMFORT ...................................................................... 11
TomTom services 12
About TomTom services ........................................................................................ 12
Connecting a smartphone 14
Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device? .................................................. 14
Connecting a smartphone ...................................................................................... 14
Disconnecting a smartphone ................................................................................... 15
Reconnecting a smartphone ................................................................................... 15
Unable to get a connection .................................................................................... 15
Personal Area Networks ........................................................................................ 16
Wi-Fi connection 17
About Wi-Fi® ..................................................................................................... 17
Connecting to Wi-Fi ............................................................................................. 17
Forgetting a Wi-Fi network .................................................................................... 18
About updates and new items ................................................................................. 18
Installing updates and new items ............................................................................. 19
What's on the screen 21
The map view..................................................................................................... 21
The guidance view ............................................................................................... 23
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 24
Distances and the route bar ............................................................................... 25
The quick menu .................................................................................................. 26
Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 26
Smaller buttons and symbols .................................................................................. 28
Volume control ................................................................................................... 30
Using gestures .................................................................................................... 30
Changing the text and button size ............................................................................ 31
Reordering the Main Menu buttons ........................................................................... 31