TomTom GO Basic

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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 .............................................................................................. 11
Charging your device ............................................................................................ 11
Finding the memory card slot ................................................................................. 11
Caring for your TomTom GO ................................................................................... 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............................................................................................... 17
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 ................................................................... 23
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