User manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Get going
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging into your TomTom account
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Step by step search
- Using step-by-step search
- Planning a route using step-by-step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step-by-step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
- My Routes
- About My Routes
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
- Map Share
- Safety Cameras
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- Changing your home location
- Adding a location from My Places
- Add a location to My Places from the map
- Adding a location to My Places using search
- Adding a location to My Places by marking
- Deleting a recent destination from My Places
- Deleting a location from My Places
- Using community POI lists
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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Contents
Welcome to navigation with TomTom 6
Get going 7
Installing in your car .............................................................................................. 7
Positioning the device ............................................................................................ 7
Turning on and off ................................................................................................. 7
Setting up ........................................................................................................... 8
GPS reception ...................................................................................................... 8
Sending information to TomTom ................................................................................ 8
Device not starting ................................................................................................ 8
Charging your device .............................................................................................. 9
Finding the memory card slot ................................................................................... 9
Caring for your VIA ................................................................................................ 9
What's on the screen 10
The map view..................................................................................................... 10
The guidance view ............................................................................................... 12
The route bar ..................................................................................................... 13
Distances and the route bar ............................................................................... 14
The quick menu .................................................................................................. 15
Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 15
Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols ..................................................................... 17
Volume control ................................................................................................... 18
Using gestures .................................................................................................... 19
Changing the text and button size ............................................................................ 20
Reordering the Main Menu buttons ........................................................................... 20
Traffic 21
About RDS-TMC ................................................................................................... 21
Looking at traffic on the map ................................................................................. 21
Looking at traffic on your route ............................................................................... 22
Traffic incidents ................................................................................................. 22
Approaching a traffic jam warning ........................................................................... 23
Avoiding a traffic jam on your route ......................................................................... 24
Selecting a faster route ......................................................................................... 24
Advanced Lane Guidance ....................................................................................... 25
Time-dependent speed limits ................................................................................. 25
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive 27
About TomTom MyDrive ........................................................................................ 27
Logging into your TomTom account .......................................................................... 27
Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive ................................................................ 27
Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive ................................................................... 27
Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED ........................................... 28
Deleting a community POI list ................................................................................. 28
Importing a track GPX file...................................................................................... 28
Deleting a track GPX file ....................................................................................... 29
Saving and restoring your personal navigation information .............................................. 29