TomTom GO User Manual

1 TomTom GO User Manual 2 Contents What's new 7 New in this release .. 7 Video workshops .. 8 Get going 9 Installing in your car .. 9 Positioning the device .. 9 Switching on and off .. 9 Safety Notice .. 10 Setting up .. 10 GPS reception .. 10 Sending information to TomTom .. 10 Memory card slot .. 11 Device not starting .. 11 Charging your device .. 11 Caring for your GO .. 11 TomTom services 13 About TomTom services .. 13 Personal Area Networks .. 13 Connecting a smartphone 15 Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device? .. 15 Connecting a smartphone.

2 15 Disconnecting a smartphone .. 16 Reconnecting a smartphone .. 16 Unable to get a connection .. 17 What's on the screen 18 The map 18 The guidance view .. 19 The route bar .. 21 Distances and the route bar .. 22 The quick menu .. 22 Navigation 23 Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols .. 25 Volume control .. 26 using gestures .. 27 Changing the text and button size .. 27 Reordering the Main Menu buttons .. 28 Traffic 29 About TomTom Traffic .. 29 About RDS-TMC .. 29 The route bar .. 29 Looking at traffic on the map .. 30 Looking at traffic on your route.

3 31 Traffic incidents .. 32 3 Approaching a traffic jam warning .. 33 Avoiding a traffic jam on your route .. 33 Advanced Lane Guidance .. 34 Time-dependent speed limits .. 34 Syncing using TomTom MyDrive 35 About TomTom MyDrive .. 35 Logging in to MyDrive .. 35 Setting a destination using MyDrive .. 36 Planning a route with stops using MyDrive .. 36 Showing a planned destination in MyDrive .. 37 Clearing a MyDrive destination .. 37 Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places .. 37 Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app .. 37 Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive.

4 38 Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive .. 38 Importing a community POI list .. 38 Deleting a community POI list .. 38 Importing a track GPX 39 Deleting a track GPX file .. 39 Saving and restoring your personal navigation information .. 40 using Quick Search 41 About search .. 41 Planning a route to a POI using search .. 41 Planning a route to a POI using online search .. 43 Entering search terms .. 45 Working with search results .. 46 About postcodes .. 48 About mapcodes .. 48 List of POI type icons .. 48 Planning a route 53 using destination prediction.

5 53 Planning a route to an address using search .. 53 Planning a route to a city centre .. 55 Planning a route to a POI using search .. 57 Planning a route to a POI using online search .. 59 Planning a route using the map .. 61 Planning a route using My Places .. 62 Planning a route using coordinates .. 63 Planning a route using a mapcode .. 65 Finding an alternative route .. 65 Planning a route in advance .. 66 Finding a car park .. 68 Finding a petrol station .. 70 Changing your route 72 The Current Route menu .. 72 Avoiding a blocked road .. 74 Avoiding part of a route.

6 75 Types of route .. 75 Route features .. 75 Avoiding a route feature on your route .. 76 4 Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu .. 76 Adding a stop to your route using the map .. 76 Deleting a stop from your route .. 77 Skipping the next stop on your route .. 77 Reordering stops on a route .. 77 My Routes 78 About My Routes .. 78 About GPX and ITN files .. 78 Saving a route .. 79 Navigating using a saved route .. 80 Navigating to a stop on a saved route .. 80 Adding a stop to a saved route using the map .. 82 Recording a track.

7 83 Navigating using a track .. 83 Deleting a route or a track from My Routes .. 84 Exporting tracks to a memory card .. 84 Importing routes and tracks from a memory card .. 85 Voice control (Speak&Go) 86 About voice 86 Starting voice control .. 86 Making your own wake-up phrase .. 86 The voice control screen .. 87 Some tips for using voice control .. 88 What you can use voice control 88 Saying commands in different ways .. 88 Entering an address using voice control .. 89 Going to home using voice control .. 89 Going to a POI using voice control .. 90 Changing a setting using voice control.

8 90 Talking to Siri or Google Now .. 91 Map Share 92 About Map Share .. 92 Creating a map change report .. 92 Creating a map change report from a marked location .. 93 Types of map change .. 94 Speed Cameras 97 About speed cameras .. 97 Crossing into another area or country .. 97 Speed camera warnings .. 97 Changing the way you are warned .. 99 Reporting a new speed camera .. 99 Confirm or remove a mobile speed camera .. 100 Updating locations for cameras and hazards .. 100 Danger Zones 101 About danger zones and risk zones .. 101 Crossing into another area or country.

9 101 Danger zone and risk zone warnings .. 101 5 Changing the way you are warned .. 102 Reporting a risk zone .. 102 Updating locations for danger zones and risk zones .. 103 My Places 104 About My Places .. 104 Setting your home or work location .. 104 Changing your home location .. 105 Adding a location from My Places .. 106 Add a location to My Places from the map .. 106 Adding a location to My Places using search .. 106 Adding a location to My Places by marking .. 107 Deleting a recent destination from My Places .. 107 Deleting a location from My Places.

10 107 Hands-free calling 108 About hands-free calling .. 108 Accepting an incoming call .. 108 Ending or rejecting an incoming call .. 108 Ignoring an incoming call .. 108 Making a hands-free call .. 109 Making a hands-free using your contact book .. 109 Replying by SMS to a call .. 109 Receiving an SMS or IM .. 110 Switching off messages .. 110 Talking to Siri or Google Now .. 111 Settings 112 Appearance .. 112 Display .. 112 Route Bar .. 113 Guidance view .. 114 Automatic 115 Route Planning .. 115 Maps .. 116 Bluetooth .. 116 Wi-Fi .. 117 Updates and New Items.