Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- What’s in the box
- Before You Start...
- Driving View
- Enhanced Positioning Technology
- Making your first trip
- Finding alternative routes
- Sounds and voices
- Voice address input
- Music and Media
- Help me!
- Favorites
- Browse map
- Points of Interest
- Itinerary planning
- Hands-free calling
- Preferences
- Hidden buttons and features
- Use night colors / Use day colors
- Show POI on map
- Safety preferences
- Voice preferences
- Turn off sound / Turn on sound
- Volume preferences
- Manage Favorites
- Change Home location
- Manage maps
- Manage POIs
- Change car symbol
- Change 2D/3D display / Turn on 2D display
- Show/Hide lane images
- Change map colors
- Brightness preferences
- Status bar preferences
- Automatic zooming
- Quick menu preferences
- Guided tours
- Name preferences
- Set units
- Operate left-handed / Operate right-handed
- Keyboard preferences
- Planning preferences
- Toll road preferences
- Set owner
- Speaker preferences
- Car preferences
- Music preferences
- Start-up preferences
- Bluetooth preferences
- Disable wireless data / Enable wireless data
- Send/Receive files
- Edit TomTom Services account
- Battery saving preferences
- Change language
- Set clock
- Hidden buttons and features
- Hide tips / Show tips
- Reset factory settings
- TomTom Services
- TomTom Map Share
- Traffic information
- TomTom Traffic
- Traffic information using RDS-TMC
- The Traffic Message Channel (TMC)
- Setting up TMC
- Using RDS-TMC traffic information
- Changing traffic preferences
- Making commuting to work easier
- Checking traffic incidents in your area
- Setting the radio frequency for RDS-TMC information
- Choosing the correct country for RDS-TMC reception
- The Traffic sidebar
- Traffic incidents
- Traffic menu
- Remote control
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- How Does Navigation Work?
- Using TomTom HOME
- TomTom Limited Warranty
- Addendum
- Copyright notices

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• Symbols shown in a red rectangle are weather related, because of their
nature, you cannot use Traffic to avoid them.
Traffic incident symbols and their meaning are shown below:
Weather related symbols and their meaning are shown below:
Traffic menu
Either, tap the Traffic sidebar in the Driving View or tap TomTom Traffic in the
Main Menu to open the Traffic menu. The following buttons are available:
Accident Road closed
Road works Traffic incident
One or more lanes
closed
Traffic jam
Fog Ice
Rain Snow
Wind
Note: The incident avoided symbol is shown for any traffic incident that
you avoid using TomTom Traffic.
Minimize
traffic delays
Tap this button to re-plan your route based on the latest traffic
information.
Show traffic on
route
Tap this button to see an overview of all traffic incidents on your route.
You can use the left and right buttons on the resulting screen to see more
detailed information about each of these incidents.
Show home-
work traffic
Tap this button to calculate and show the quickest route from your home
location to your place of work and back.
See Making commuting to work easier on page 77.