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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Using RDS-TMC traffic information
Changing traffic preferences
Use the Change Traffic preferences button to choose how traffic information
works on your device.
Your device receives traffic information when it is broadcasted.
If there are any incidents on your route the Traffic sidebar on the right side
of the Driving View warns you. An example of a Traffic sidebar with a traffic
warning is shown to the left. For information on the Traffic sidebar, see The
Traffic sidebar on page 86.
In the example on the left there is a traffic jam on your route with an
expected delay of 38 minutes, 12 miles ahead of you. To find the quickest
route to your destination, do the following:
1. Tap the Traffic sidebar.
Tip: If you have trouble tapping the Traffic sidebar and the Main Menu is
being displayed instead of the traffic menu, try tapping your finger half on
the Traffic sidebar and half off the screen.
2. Tap Minimize traffic delays.
Your device looks for the quickest route to your destination.
It is possible that the new route may also include traffic delays, or may
even be the same route as before. You can re-plan the route to avoid all
delays, but this new route will take longer than the quickest route already
shown.
3. Tap Done.
Tip: It is possible to let your TomTom device automatically minimize traffic
delays for you, to do this, see Changing traffic preferences on page 83.
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Change
Traffic
preferences
To change your traffic preferences, do the following:
1. Tap the TomTomTraffic button in the Main Menu on your device.
2. Tap Change Traffic preferences.
You can change the following preferences:
• Automatically minimize delays after every traffic update - if you select
this option, your device automatically recalculates when new delays
occur on your route.
• Beep when traffic situation on route changes - if you select this option
your device beeps when a new traffic incident occurs on your current
route.
• Ask for traffic updates when preparing a route - this option has no
effect in RDS traffic.