Operation Manual

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Contents
Welcome to navigation with TomTom 6
What's new 7
New in this release ................................................................................................ 7
TomTom videos .................................................................................................... 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
Caring for your GO ............................................................................................... 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 16
The map view..................................................................................................... 16
The guidance view ............................................................................................... 17
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 19
Distances and the route bar ............................................................................... 20
The quick menu .................................................................................................. 20
Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 20
Other buttons ..................................................................................................... 22
Volume control ................................................................................................... 24
Using gestures .................................................................................................... 24
Changing the text and button size ............................................................................ 25
Reordering the Main Menu buttons ........................................................................... 25
Traffic 27
About TomTom Traffic .......................................................................................... 27
About RDS-TMC ................................................................................................... 27
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 27
Looking at traffic on the map ................................................................................. 28