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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
Features
- Your TomTom GO BASIC
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- 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
TomTom services
- About TomTom services
Connecting a smartphone
- Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device?
- Connecting a smartphone
- Disconnecting a smartphone
- Reconnecting a smartphone
- Unable to get a connection
- Personal Area Networks
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
- Selecting a faster route
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- Road Trips collection - sending a route to your device
- Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search
- Planning a route using quick search
Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step by step search
- Planning a route using step by step search
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
- About Map Share
- Creating a map change report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Speed Cameras
- About 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
- 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
- Receiving an SMS or IM
- Switching off messages
Settings
- Appearance
- 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
Using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
- Connecting to the internet using MyDrive Connect
TomTom account
Addendum
Copyright notices

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