TomTom Navigator 5 406-10581-00 User Manual

Quick Start Guide

Contents

English

Starting up for the ﬁrst time 3 Getting started 4 How to plan your ﬁrst route 4 What’s on the screen? 7 Finding alternative routes 8 Advanced planning 9 Preferences 10 TomTom PLUS 12 More information 12

French

Démarrage initial 13 Prise en main 14 Planiﬁcation d’un premier itinéraire 14 Contenu de l’écran 17 Recherche d’un itinéraire bis 18 Planiﬁcation avancée 19 Préférences 20 TomTom PLUS 22 Complément d’information 22

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Spanish

Puesta en marcha inicial de la unidad 23 Inicio de la unidad 24 Cómo planiﬁcar la primera ruta 24 Contenido de la pantalla 27 Búsqueda de rutas alternativas 28 Planiﬁcación avanzada 29 Preferencias 30 TomTom PLUS 32 Más información 32

Starting up for the ﬁrst time

Installation

Before you can use TomTom NAVIGATOR 5 you must install the application and map from the CD /DVD set or have a memory card with NAVIGATOR pre-installed. Please refer to the installation poster for more information.

Activation

Some TomTom maps need to be activated before they can be used. You can activate maps automatically using GPRS or CDMA mobile wireless data service, or manually on a PC via our website. To activate your map you will need a TomTom Navigator product code (15 characters) found on the TomTom NAVIGATOR CD/DVD package.

NOTE: For automatic activation, you need a wirel ess data service -ready mobile phone with Bluetooth. If you already pick up email or browse the Internet on your phone, then it’s probably already wireless data service-ready; if you’re not sure, ask your network provider.

To activate your map via mobile wireless data service, select the ‘Automatic’ button and follow these instructions:

1. Type in your product code and then press

‘Activate’

To activate your map using your PC, select the ‘Manual’ button and follow these instructions:

1. Go to www.ttcode.com using your PC Internet browser.

2. Select your preferred language and then enter your product code.

3. When prompted, type in your device code (displayed on the screen of your device).

4. Select ‘Activate’ on your device and then type in the activation code shown on your PC screen.

Once the map has been activated, you can continue through the rest of the start up process.

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Getting started

The application starts by displaying the navigation view. The screen will appear in black and white until your GPS receiver locates your current position. Once this is done, the navigation view is shown in full color. In future, your position will be found much faster, normally within a few seconds. Everything can be accomplished easily using just your ﬁnger. Importantly, you can bring up the main options menu by tapping your ﬁnger somewhere in the middle of the screen.

As with many of the m enus, there are more option s than can be shown on on e screen. Try selectin g cycle throug h all the different things you c an do.

Your position ( and di rection) is indic ated by the icon.

a few times, to

NOTE: Some newer vehicles may have a heat reﬂective shield embedded in the windscreen. In some cases this can prevent proper GPS signal reception. If this turns out to be a problem in your vehicle, try mounting your GPS receiver behind your rear view mirror or parcel shelf.

How to plan your ﬁrst route

1. If you haven’t already done so, go outside so that the GPS hardware can locate your position. This may take some time, and will happen more quickly if you remain still. The screen displays your current position on its map, represented in a ‘3D’ navigation view, from a driver’s perspective. When you start moving, the navigation view will match the streets outside as you would see them through your windshield.

2. Bring up the main menu as explained previously. Use a few times to browse through all the different features and options, then choose ‘Navigate to...’

to start planning

your ﬁrst route.

Tip: Don’t worry if some of the icons are ‘greyed out’, this just indicates that these menu options aren’t available yet. E.g. as you haven’t yet planned a route then ‘Find alternative...’, ‘View route’ and ‘Clear route’ are all greyed out.

3. Choose ‘Address’ . You’ll see a standard browser screen, used for entering place names (e.g. towns, streets and favorite locations). Letters can be entered using the onscreen keyboard or device keypad.

4. The best way to see how your TomTom system works is to just use it, so think of the address that you want to visit and enter the ﬁrst few letters of the city, town or village. Be as speciﬁc as possible. As you type, the letters are compared to the built-in list of possible names and any matches appear in the browser window.

5. When you see the name of the place you want, select it using the touchscreen. A new browser window is now shown, this time with the prompt ‘Street:’ at the top. Again, start entering the road name of your destination, selecting it when the full name is shown among the matches. In cases where there is more than one road of the same name, additional information is displayed to help you choose the correct location.

Remember that always means that th ere’s more to see on the next p age - in this case extra ways of c hoosin g a destination.

Quick- matching a to wn name.

and or the joystick

Use to scroll throug h other poss ible matches. If yo u make a mistake, use

or the ‘Clear’ key to

delete the la st letter entered.

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If you’d rath er pick a crossing than a house n umber, just select the ‘Crossin g’ button.

White arrow heads show the direction yo u need to move al ong the current road an d a speci allyshaped g reen arrow shows what to do at the next tu rn or intersectio n.

6. A third and ﬁnal keyboard and browser are shown, this time for you to select a house number. For some roads (such as those that don’t have house numbers), you’ll be asked to select a particular ‘Crossing:’ ( i.e. an intersection). Select a crossing, or enter the house number and then choose ‘Done’.

7. The fastest route from your current position to your destination is then calculated. This should only take a few seconds and its progress is shown on the screen. When done, a summary is shown, on a suitably scaled map. Studying this summary can be useful for you to get a feel for your journey’s scope and to check if the route includes roads that you’d rather avoid ( in which case, see ‘Finding alternative routes’, below).

8. Select ‘Done’ and you’ll ﬁnd yourself back at the main navigation view, but with the route now clearly colored in for you. As you approach a speciﬁc turn in the calculated route, your chosen voice will tell you what to do. For example, “In 100 yards, turn left”, followed by “Turn left”. As you travel, following the voice instructions, you’ll notice that the navigation view is updated constantly, always showing coming roads and junctions and presenting the best route to you.

Don’t worr y if you miss a turn or drive down the wrong road. A new fastest route will be calculated automatically, based on your new position and direction of travel. Wherever you go, it will always give you instructions that will take you to your chosen destination.

What’s on the screen?

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Much of the information on the main navigation view is conﬁgurable (see the ‘Preferences’ section for details). By default, you’ll see something like the illustration below.

Your next turn instruction.

The name of the next street to turn onto.

Conﬁgurable journey information including arrival

time, time to destination and distance to destination.

Your current GPS position.

‘Zoom out’ and ‘Zoom in’ buttons.

‘Next highway’ indicator, if applicable. See ‘Name

preferences’ if you want to turn this off.

A ‘phone-style’ signal indicator to give an idea

of how good or bad the GPS reception is in your current location. The more bars, the better.

If you miss a voice instruction, tap on the turn instruction in the bottom left hand corner ( or press 7, 8, 9, 0, # or *, to generate a new one. And if you’d like to view the route summary again, tap anywhere in the journey information panel in the bottom right hand corner (

) or press the right soft key.

Most of the time, the voice and turn instructions are all you need to navigate successfully, which means never having to look at the screen. At complicated junctions, where simple instructions aren’t adequate, the navigation view comes into its own. A quick comparison between the screen and the world in front of you should be all you need.

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Finding alternative routes

Maybe a route has been planned that you’re not happy with? Perhaps you have been routed through a busy junction? Have you have spotted roadworks up ahead? Or perhaps you really wanted to go ‘via’ one particular location? In each of these cases, ‘Find alternative...’ you’ll see it on the main menu, right next to ‘Navigate to…’

can help you. Again,

Which ‘Find alternative’ option you go for depends on why you’re dissatisﬁed with the ﬁrst route.

Choose ‘Travel via...’ planned route goes past one particular location, perhaps to pick up or drop someone off. If you spot signs of trouble, choose ‘Avoid roadblock’

particular road junction, choose ‘Avoid part of route’ . Finally, if you want an alternative route because you simply don’t like the original, choose ‘Calculate alternative’

Tip: If you want to include more than a single ‘via’ location in your journey, use the comprehensive ‘Itineraries’ feature instead.

if you want to make sure the

. Or if you want to avoid a

Advanced planning

Although navigating from your current position is the function that you’ll use most often, there may be times when you want to plan ahead. Choosing ‘Advanced

planning’

route and journey time between any two given locations or get directions that will help someone else get to your current position.

Tip: You may need to use in order to see the ‘Advanced planning’ ic on.

Rather than use your GPS position, with ‘Advanced planning’ you choose your departure location using either

an address, a Point Of Interest, or a favorite location, for example. You then pick a destination in the same way and ﬁnally choose a planning option (fastest, shortest, walking, etc.).

This means that you can use ‘Advanced planning’ to calculate routes even when you do not have a GPS signal.

on the main menu lets you look at the best

If you’d like this choice every time you navigate, or if you’ d like to change the default setting, see

‘Planning pref erenc es’ in the ‘Change p references ’ menu.

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The default night colors, designed not to affect your night vision.

Preferences

You can personalize much of the look and feel of your TomTom system to your own liking by using the main menu option ‘Change preferences’ the different pages of preferences. Here are some of the most important ones.

Tip: The icons shown for some preferences will change, depending on the setting the preference is currently in. For example, choosing ‘Turn off sound’ instructions. Once disabled, the option and icon change to ‘Turn on sound’ , reﬂecting the action to take when it is next selected.

Use night colors

Bright colors are normally used in the maps so that you can see them clearly even in sunlight. When it is dark outside, you may want to use the preference ‘Use night colors’ show the map in (by default) dark and subdued colors that will not interfere with your night vision. You can use the preference

‘Use day colors’

to revert to the original color scheme.

. Use to cycle through

disables the voice

, to

Manage POI

POI is an abbreviation you’ll see a lot, standing for ‘Point Of Interest’. Dozens of categories of POIs are built-in, from airports to gas stations, from restaurants to theaters. Most importantly, POIs can be used as destinations, can be shown on the map and can even warn you of their proximity (for example, looking for a parking garage or gas station while driving in a strange city).

You can choose which Points Of Interest categories you’re interested in by selecting the option ‘Enable/Disable POI’

, or set up a warning (you can have as many as you like)

with the option ‘Warn when near POI’

Once you’ve spent time carefully browsing through the categories in ‘Manage POI’ and have chosen the ones you need, you can hide all of them from the main navigation view in one stroke with ‘Hide POI’ preferred set again with ‘Show POI’

and then show your

NOTE: When navigating to a POI, you will only see locations within a certain radius of your location. If you wish to search for a POI not in your immediate area, you will need to use the ‘POI in city’ option.

Change Home location

You can set or change your ‘Home’ location at any time by using ‘Change home location’

. You will then be able

to select this quickly later as a departure or destination point.

A typical s electio n of POIs from the categories selected in the ‘Mana ge POI ’ preference.

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