Operation Manual

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Contents
Welcome to navigation with TomTom 6
What's new 7
What's new in this release ........................................................................................ 7
Get going 9
Installing in your car .............................................................................................. 9
Positioning the device ............................................................................................ 9
Switching on and off .............................................................................................. 9
Safety Notice ..................................................................................................... 10
Setting up ......................................................................................................... 10
GPS reception .................................................................................................... 10
Sending information to TomTom .............................................................................. 10
Memory card slot ................................................................................................ 11
Device not starting .............................................................................................. 11
Charging your device ............................................................................................ 11
Take care of your navigation device ......................................................................... 11
Connecting to TomTom services 12
About TomTom services ........................................................................................ 12
Always connected devices ...................................................................................... 12
Smartphone connected devices ............................................................................... 12
Personal Area Networks .................................................................................... 13
Connect to TomTom services using your smartphone ................................................. 13
Reconnecting your smartphone ........................................................................... 13
Connect to TomTom services using a different smartphone ......................................... 14
Deleting phones .............................................................................................. 14
Unable to get a connection ................................................................................ 14
What's on the screen 15
The map view..................................................................................................... 15
The guidance view ............................................................................................... 16
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 18
Distances and the route bar ............................................................................... 19
The quick menu .................................................................................................. 19
Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 19
Other buttons ..................................................................................................... 21
Volume control ................................................................................................... 22
Using gestures .................................................................................................... 22
Traffic 24
About TomTom Traffic .......................................................................................... 24
About RDS-TMC ................................................................................................... 24
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 24
Looking at traffic on the map ................................................................................. 25
Looking at traffic on your route ............................................................................... 26
Traffic incidents ................................................................................................. 27
Advanced Lane Guidance ....................................................................................... 28