TomTom Rider User Manual

1 TomTom Rider User Manual Contents Welcome to navigation with TomTom 8. What's new 9. What's new compared to Rider 450 ..9. TomTom videos ..10. Installing your Rider 11. Mounting on a motorcycle ..11. Using the anti-theft Installing in your car ..16. Switching on and off ..17. Setting GPS reception ..18. Sending information to TomTom ..18. Memory card slot ..19. Device not starting ..19. Charging your device ..19. Caring for your TomTom Rider ..19. Connecting a headset 21. About motorcycle headsets ..21. Connecting a multi-channel headset ..22. Connecting a single channel headset ..23. Improving the quality of navigation instructions ..24. TomTom services 26. About TomTom services ..26. Connecting a smartphone 28. Why do I want to connect a smartphone to my device?..28. Connecting a smartphone ..28. Disconnecting a smartphone ..29. Reconnecting a smartphone ..29. Unable to get a connection ..30. Personal Area Wi-Fi connection 31.

2 About Wi-Fi ..31. Connecting to Wi-Fi ..31. Forgetting a Wi-Fi About updates and new items ..32. 2. Installing updates and new items ..33. Using your Rider 35. Navigation buttons ..35. The glove-friendly keyboard ..37. Using quick settings ..38. Road Trips collection - sending a route to your Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop ..42. Planning a thrilling route ..44. Planning a thrilling round trip route using stops ..44. Planning a thrilling ride to a Looking at trip statistics ..47. What's on the screen 49. The map view ..49. The guidance view ..51. The route bar ..53. Distances and the route bar ..54. The quick menu ..55. Quick access to settings ..55. Smaller buttons and symbols ..56. Using gestures ..57. Reordering the Main Menu buttons ..57. Calls and smartphone notifications 59. About phone calls ..59. Accepting an incoming Ending or rejecting an incoming call ..59. Ignoring an incoming Making a phone call.

3 60. Receiving an SMS or Switching off messages ..60. Talking to Siri or Google Now ..61. Traffic 62. About TomTom Traffic ..62. The route bar ..62. Looking at traffic on the map ..64. Looking at traffic on your route ..64. Traffic incidents ..65. Approaching a traffic jam warning ..66. Avoiding a traffic jam on your route ..66. Advanced Lane Guidance ..67. Time-dependent speed limits ..68. 3. TomTom MyDrive 69. About TomTom MyDrive ..69. Logging in to MyDrive ..69. Road Trips collection - sending a route to your Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop ..72. Setting a destination using MyDrive ..74. Planning a route with stops using MyDrive ..75. Choosing where you want to start driving a route ..75. Showing a planned destination in MyDrive ..77. Clearing a MyDrive destination ..77. Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app ..77. Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive.

4 78. Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive ..78. Importing a community POI list ..78. Deleting a community POI list ..79. Importing a track GPX file ..79. Deleting a track GPX file ..80. Saving and restoring your personal navigation information ..80. Quick search 81. Choosing which search to Using quick search ..82. About search ..82. Entering search terms ..82. Working with search results ..84. About postcodes ..85. About mapcodes ..86. List of POI type icons ..86. Planning a route using quick search ..91. Using destination prediction ..91. Planning a route to an address ..91. Planning a route to a city centre ..94. Planning a route to a POI ..96. Planning a route to a POI using online search ..98. Planning a route using the Planning a route using My Places ..102. Planning a route using coordinates ..103. Planning a route using a mapcode ..105. Planning a route in advance ..106. Finding a car park ..107. Finding a petrol station.

5 109. Step by step search 113. Choosing which search to Using step by step search ..113. About search ..113. Entering search terms ..114. Working with search results ..115. 4. About postcodes ..116. List of POI type icons ..117. Planning a route using step by step search ..120. Using destination prediction ..120. Planning a route to an address ..121. Planning a route to a POI ..123. Planning a route to a city centre ..124. Planning a route to a POI using online search ..126. Planning a route using the Planning a route using My Places ..130. Planning a route using coordinates using step by step search ..132. Planning a route in advance ..133. Finding a car park ..134. Finding a petrol station ..137. Changing your route 140. The Current Route Avoiding a blocked road ..142. Avoiding part of a route ..143. Finding an alternative route ..143. Types of route ..144. Avoiding features on a route ..144. Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar.

6 145. Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu ..146. Adding a stop to your route using the map ..146. Deleting a stop from your route ..146. Skipping the next stop on your Reordering stops on a route ..146. My Routes 148. About My Routes ..148. About GPX and ITN files ..149. Adding to My Routes using MyDrive ..149. Saving a Navigating using a saved route ..153. Navigating to a stop on a saved route ..154. Adding a stop to a saved route using the map ..156. Recording a Navigating using a track ..157. Deleting a route or a track from My Routes ..158. Exporting tracks to a memory card ..158. Importing routes and tracks from a memory card ..158. Importing routes from your computer using USB ..159. My Places 161. About My Setting your home or work Changing your home location ..162. 5. Adding a location from My Places ..163. Add a location to My Places from the map ..164. Adding a location to My Places using search.

7 164. Adding a location to My Places by marking ..165. Deleting a recent destination from My Places ..165. Deleting a location from My Places ..165. Using community POI lists ..165. Map Share 167. About Map Share ..167. Creating a map correction report ..167. Creating a map change report from a marked location ..168. Types of map change ..169. Speed Cameras 171. About speed cameras ..171. Crossing into another area or country ..171. Speed camera warnings ..171. Changing the way you are warned ..173. Reporting a new speed camera ..173. Confirm or remove a mobile speed camera ..174. Updating locations for cameras and Danger Zones 175. About danger zones and risk zones ..175. Crossing into another area or country ..175. Danger zone and risk zone warnings ..176. Changing the way you are warned ..176. Reporting a risk zone ..176. Updating locations for danger zones and risk zones ..177. Settings 178. Display ..178. Route Bar.

8 180. Guidance view ..181. Automatic Motorway exit previews ..181. Route Planning ..181. Wi-Fi ..183. Updates and New Items ..184. MyDrive ..185. Sounds and Warnings ..186. Touch Sensitivity ..188. 6. Language and System ..189. Help ..190. Getting Help 191. Help ..191. Using MyDrive Connect 192. About MyDrive Setting up MyDrive Connecting to the internet using MyDrive Connect ..192. TomTom account ..193. Addendum 194. Copyright notices 200. 7. Welcome to navigation with TomTom Welcome to your TomTom Rider , your essential motorcycling companion! We know you probably have more exciting things to do than read manuals so here are some quick links to some important bits: What's new compared to Rider 450. Installing your Rider Connecting a headset TomTom services Connecting a smartphone Wi-Fi connection Road Trips collection - sending a route to your Rider We hope you enjoy discovering your next adventure using your new TomTom Rider !

9 Note: You can use your device both on your bike or in your car. Tip: There are frequently asked questions (FAQs) at 8. What's new What's new compared to Rider 450. Rider 550 only TomTom Road Trips Get on the road with the world's best curated routes available exclusively to sync with your Rider 550. Learn more: Road Trips collection - sending a route to your Rider Third party Points of Interest (POIs). Enjoy over 1000 pre-installed points of interest for motorcyclists. Rider 500/550. New touch sensitivity setting for no gloves Learn more: Touch Sensitivity Quick access to settings You can now see the status of settings more quickly. Tap the menu bar at the top of the main menu. You see status information for the Traffic service, MyDrive, Bluetooth wireless technolo- gy, and Wi-Fi . Learn more: Quick access to settings Updates via Wi-Fi . Get the latest maps and software for your TomTom Rider using built-in Wi-Fi. No computer needed.

10 Learn more: Wi-Fi connection Smartphone messages Have smartphone messages read aloud in your headset. Learn more: Receiving an SMS or IM. Compatible with Siri voice recognition software and Google Now service Unlock the use of your smartphone via voice for onboard music access, calling, messaging and more. Learn more: Talking to Siri or Google Now . Fast Quad-Core processor Plan routes faster than ever before. 9. What's in the box Rider 500/550: TomTom Rider , Motorcycle mount, RAM mounting kit Rider 550 Premium pack: As above plus Car Mounting kit, RAM Anti-theft Solution, Protective Carry Case TomTom videos You can find many videos on our YouTube channel to help you learn about your new TomTom Rider and other TomTom products. Visit to find out more! Here are links to some videos that you might find interesting: Tip: Look on the TomTom YouTube Channel for videos in your own language. The TomTom Rider Pairing a headset with both your Rider and a smartphone: Improving the quality of GPS instructions for Rider 500/550: Setting up a headset with only one Bluetooth channel for Rider 500/550: TomTom Traffic How to get TomTom Traffic via your iPhone device: How to get TomTom Traffic via your Android Smartphone: The TomTom GO.