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Table Of Contents

What's in the box
- What's in the box
Read me first
- Positioning the device
- Installing in your car
- Switching on and off
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- microSD card slot
- About MyTomTom
- Setting up MyTomTom
- Safety settings
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Safety Notice
- Take care of your navigation device
- Getting help to use your navigation device
Planning a route
- Planning a route
- Route summary
- Alternative routes
- Selecting a route type
- Frequent destinations
- Show my frequent destinations
- Using arrival times
- Navigation menu options
- Planning a route in advance
- Viewing route information
Voice control
- About voice control
- Using voice control
- Entering addresses using your voice
- Planning a trip using your voice
The Driving View
- About the Driving View
- The Driving View
- Driving View Symbols
- About replanning settings
Advanced Lane Guidance
- About lane guidance
- Using lane guidance
Changing your route
- Making changes to your route
- Change route menu
- About waypoints
- Adding the first waypoint to your route
- Adding further waypoints to your route
- Changing the order of waypoints
- Deleting a waypoint
- Changing notification settings for a waypoint
- Reactivating a waypoint
View map
- About viewing the map
- View map
- Options
- Cursor menu
Map corrections
- About Map Share
- Correcting a map error
- Types of map correction
Sounds and voices
- About sounds and voices
- About voices that speak street names
- Selecting a voice
- Changing the volume level
- Automatic volume control
Settings
- About Settings
- 2D/3D settings
- Advanced settings
- Battery saving
- Brightness
- Car symbol
- Clock
- Connections
- Enable / Disable Bluetooth
- Enable / Disable flight mode
- Favorites
- GPS status
- Home location
- Keyboard
- Language
- Make your own menu
- Manage POIs
- Map colors
- Map corrections
- Me and my device
- MyTomTom account
- Operate left-handed / Operate right-handed
- Phones
- Reset factory settings
- Route planning
- Safety settings
- Show POI on map
- Speaker
- Start up
- Status bar
- Switch map
- Turn off voice guidance / Turn on voice guidance
- Units
- Use night colors / Use day colors
- Vehicle and routes
- Voices
- Voice control
- Volume
Points of Interest
- About Points of Interest
- Creating POIs
- Using POIs to plan a route
- Showing POIs on the map
- Calling a POI
- Setting warnings for POIs
- Manage POIs
Help
- About getting help
- Using Help to phone a local service
- Help menu options
Hands-free calling
- About hands-free calls
- Connecting to your phone
- Making a call
- Receiving a call
- Auto-answer
- Connecting more phones to your device
- Mobile phone menu
Favorites
- About Favorites
- Creating a Favorite
- Using a Favorite
- Changing the name of a Favorite
- Deleting a Favorite
Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- Safety Notice
- Using traffic information
- Taking the fastest route
- Minimizing delays
- Making commuting to work easier
- Getting more information about an incident
- Checking traffic incidents in your area
- Changing traffic settings
- Traffic incidents
- Traffic menu
Speed Cameras
- About Speed Cameras
- Safety camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Safety camera symbols
- Report button
- Reporting a new speed camera while on the move
- Reporting a new speed camera while at home
- Reporting incorrect camera alerts
- Types of fixed safety camera you can report
- Average speed check camera warnings
- Speed Cameras menu
MyTomTom
- About MyTomTom
- Setting up MyTomTom
- MyTomTom account
Addendum and Copyright
Copyright notices

2. Traffic - current traffic incidents. Use the Options button to select whether traffic information is

shown on the map. When traffic information is shown on the map, POIs and Favorites are not

shown.

Note: To use a TomTom traffic information service, you may need a subscription or a receiv-

er. Traffic services are not supported in all countries or regions. For more information, visit

tomtom.com/services.

3. Marker

A marker shows the distance to a location. Markers are colored as follows:

 Blue - points to your current location. This marker is gray if you lose your GPS signal.

 Yellow - points to your home location.

 Red - points to your destination.

Tap a marker to center the map on the location pointed to by the marker.

You can also set your own marker. Tap the cursor button, then tap Set marker position to

place a green marker at the cursor position.

To turn markers off, tap Options, then Advanced and clear the Markers checkbox.

4. Options button

5. The cursor with street name balloon

Tap the button in the street name balloon to open the cursor menu. You can navigate to the

cursor position, make a Favorite of the cursor position, or find a Point of Interest near the cur-

sor position.

6. The Find button

Tap this button to find specific addresses, favorites or Points of Interest.

7. The zoom bar

Zoom in and out by moving the slider.

Options

Tap the Options button to set the information shown on the map and show the following infor-

mation:

 Traffic - select this option to show traffic information on the map. When traffic information is

shown, POIs and Favorites are not shown.

Note: To use a TomTom traffic information service, you may need a subscription or a receiv-

er. Traffic services are not supported in all countries or regions. For more information, visit

tomtom.com/services.

 Names - select this option to show street and city names on the map.

 Points of interest - select this option to show POIs on the map. Tap Choose POIs to choose

which POI categories are shown on the map.

 Images - select this option to show satellite images of the area being viewed. Satellite images

are not available in every map or for every location on the map.

 Favorites - select this option to show your Favorites on the map.