User manual

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Contents
Welcome to navigation with TomTom 6
What's new 7
New in this release .............................................................................................................................. 7
Video workshops ................................................................................................................................. 7
Get going 9
Installing in your car ............................................................................................................................ 9
Positioning the device ......................................................................................................................... 9
Switching on and off ............................................................................................................................ 9
Setting up ..........................................................................................................................................10
GPS reception ...................................................................................................................................10
Sending information to TomTom .......................................................................................................10
Device not starting .............................................................................................................................10
Charging your device ........................................................................................................................11
Finding the memory card slot ............................................................................................................11
Caring for your START ......................................................................................................................11
What's on the screen 12
The map view ....................................................................................................................................12
The guidance view ............................................................................................................................14
The route bar .....................................................................................................................................15
Distances and the route bar .........................................................................................................16
The quick menu .................................................................................................................................16
Navigation buttons .............................................................................................................................16
Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols ..........................................................................................18
Volume control...................................................................................................................................20
Using gestures...................................................................................................................................20
Changing the text and button size .....................................................................................................21
Reordering the Main Menu buttons ...................................................................................................21
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive 22
About TomTom MyDrive ...................................................................................................................22
Logging in to your TomTom account .................................................................................................22
Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive ...................................................................................22
Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive .......................................................................................22
Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED ......................................................23
Deleting a community POI list ...........................................................................................................23
Importing a track GPX file .................................................................................................................23
Deleting a track GPX file ...................................................................................................................24
Saving and restoring your personal navigation information ..............................................................24
Using step by step search 25
About search .....................................................................................................................................25
Entering search terms .......................................................................................................................25
Working with search results ..............................................................................................................26
About postcodes ................................................................................................................................27
List of POI type icons ........................................................................................................................28