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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
What's new
- New in this release
- TomTom videos
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your START
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols
- Volume control
- Using gestures
- Changing the text and button size
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to your TomTom account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in My Drive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
Using Quick Search
- About search
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- About mapcodes
- List of POI type icons
Planning a route
- Using suggested destinations
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Finding an alternative route
- 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
- Types of route
- Route features
- Avoiding a route feature on your route
- 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
- About Map Share
- Creating a map change report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- The route bar
- 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
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Speed Cameras
- About speed cameras
- Crossing into another area or country
- Speed camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Danger Zones
- About danger zones
- Crossing into another area or country
- Danger zone warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Updating locations for danger zones
My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home and work locations
- 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
Settings
- Appearance
- Voices
- Maps
- Route Planning
- Sounds and Warnings
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Updating using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

This symbol shows that your START is connected to your TomTom account.

This symbol shows that your START is not connected to your TomTom

account.

This button shows that you will hear voice instructions. Select this button

to switch off voice instructions. You will no longer hear spoken route

instructions but you will still hear information such as traffic information

and warning sounds.

Tip: You can select the types of instructions you want to hear. Select

Voices in the Settings Menu and select the instructions you want to

hear.

This button shows that you will not hear voice instructions. Select this

button to switch on voice instructions.

This button shows that the display is using day colours. Select the button

to reduce the brightness of the screen and display the map in darker

colours.

When driving at night or when driving through a dark tunnel, it is easier to

view the screen and less distracting for the driver if the brightness of the

screen is dimmed.

Tip: Your device automatically switches between day and night colours

depending on the time of day. To switch off this feature, select

Appearance in the Settings menu and switch off Switch to night colours

when dark.

This button shows that the display is using night colours. Select the button

to increase the brightness of the screen and display the map in brighter

colours.

Select this button to refresh your screen.

Volume control

On the map or guidance view, select the Main Menu button to open the Main Menu.

Select and slide the volume control to change the volume of voice instructions and warnings. If the

voice instructions are switched off, the volume control will still change the volume of the warnings.

Using gestures

You use gestures to control your START.