TOMTOM NAVIGATOR 6 User Manual

TomTom NAVIGATOR

Before You Start...

Installation

Chapter 1 Before You Start...

If you have purchased TomTom NAVIGATOR on a TomTom memory card, insert the memory card in your device. Then go to step 4 below.

If you are installing TomTom NAVIGATOR from a DVD do the following:

1. Connect your device to your computer, or insert the memory card you are using into a card reader/writer attached to your computer.

2. Insert the DVD in your computer.

3. Follow the instructions in the setup program.

When setup is finished, disconnect your device from your computer or insert the memory card into your device.

4. Switch on your GPS receiver.

5. Launch TomTom NAVIGATOR by tapping or selecting the TomTom button in your device menu.

You have to answer a few questions to set up TomTom NAVIGATOR. Answer the questions by tapping the screen or by using the joystick.

Note: TomTom GPS receivers connect automatically when you start TomTom NAVIGATOR. If you are using a different GPS receiver, refer to the receiver’s user manual for instructions.

Tap or select buttons

On devices with a touchscreen you tap buttons. On devices without a touchscreen you select buttons. This user guide always refers to tapping buttons.

On mobile phones, many buttons are numbered. You can select those buttons using the number keys on your phone.

Note: Depending on your device, the images shown in this manual may look different to the screen on your device.

Activation

You will be asked how you want to activate the map that comes with NAVIGATOR. There are two ways to do this:

• Automatically To activate automatically, your device must have an active wireless data connection (GPRS, EDGE, UMTS or CDMA).

Tap Automatic, then enter your product code. The product code is printed on the product code card that is included with your product. TomTom NAVIGATOR will connect to TomTom using the wireless data connection and activate the map.

• Manually To activate a map manually, do the following:

1. Tap Manual.

2. Go to this website: www.ttcode.com

3. Follow the instructions on this page to get an activation code.

4. Enter the activation code on your device to activate the map.

Once you have answered the questions and activated your map, NAVIGATOR displays the Driving View. The Driving View is shown in black and white until NAVIGATOR locates your current position.

For more information about the Driving View, see Driving View on page 10.

Locating your current position

Your GPS receiver must be outdoors to locate your current position. The first time you start NAVIGATOR, it can take up to 5 minutes to find your current position. If it takes longer than 5 minutes, make sure that you are in an open place without tall buildings or trees around you.

In the future, your position will be found much faster, normally within a few seconds.

Once NAVIGATOR has located your current position, the Driving View is shown in full color and shows your position on the map.

Backup TomTom NAVIGATOR

It’s always a good idea to make a backup of the contents of your memory card. You can make a backup using TomTom HOME.

For more information about TomTom HOME, see Using TomTom HOME on page 40.

Drive safely

Now you are ready to get going. When you start to use NAVIGATOR, make sure you always drive safely by using the Safety preferences in the Preferences menu.

You can choose to use the safety lock. If the safety lock is enabled, only a few buttons and features are available while you are driving. When you are stationary, all the buttons and features are available.

You can also choose to turn the map display off.

For more information, see Safety preferences on page 29.

Note: TomTom NAVIGATOR does not transmit your position. You can, however, send your position to TomTom Buddies. For more information, visit

www.tomtom.com/plus

Note: Some vehicles have a heat reflective shield embedded in the

windshield that may prevent TomTom NAVIGATOR from locating your current position. If this is a problem in your vehicle, try placing your GPS receiver in your rear window.

Chapter 2 Making your first trip

Making your first trip

Planning a route with TomTom NAVIGATOR is very simple. To plan your first route, follow the steps below.

Note: You should always plan your journeys before you start driving. It is dangerous to plan routes when you are already moving.

1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.

2. Tap

Navigate to...

For your first journey, we will navigate to an address.

3. Tap

Address

When you enter an address, you can choose from four options:

•

City center

town.

•

Street and house number

destination.

- tap this button to set your destination as the center of a city or

- tap this button to set an exact address as your

•

Postcode

- tap this button to enter a postcode as your destination.

Note: You can enter a zip code for any country. In the UK and the Netherlands, zip codes are detailed enough to identify a house on their own. In other countries you can enter a zip code to identify a town or area. You will then have to enter a street and address.

•

Crossing or intersection

- tap this button to set your destination as the point

where two streets meet.

For your first trip, we will enter an exact address.

4. Tap

Street and house number

5. Start to type the name of the town where you want to go.

As you type, the names of the towns that match what you have typed are shown.

6. Start to type the name of the street.

As with the name of the town, the names of the streets that match what you have typed are shown.

7. Now enter the house number of your destination and then tap

Done

8. NAVIGATOR asks you whether you need to arrive at a particular time.

Ta p

YES

to enter an arrival time. NAVIGATOR shows you whether you will arrive

on time. For more information, see

Arrival times

on page 6.

The route is then calculated by your TomTom NAVIGATOR.

Arrival times

9. When the route has been calculated, tap

Done

TomTom NAVIGATOR will immediately start guiding you to your destination with spoken instructions and visual instructions on the screen.

Note: Before you can plan a route in this way, TomTom NAVIGATOR must first locate your current position.

Ta p

YES

to enter an arrival time.

Your NAVIGATOR calculates your arrrival time and shows you whether you will arrive on time.

You can also use this information to work out when you need to leave. If your NAVIGATOR shows you that you will arrive 30 minutes early, you can wait and leave in 30 minutes time, rather than arrive early.

Your arrival time is constantly recalculated during your trip. The status bar shows whether you will arrive on time or late, as shown below:

You will arrive 55 minutes before the arrival time you entered.

If the estimated arrival time is more than five minutes before the time you entered, it is shown in green.

You will arrive 3 minutes before the arrival time you entered.

If the estimated arrival time is less than 5 minutes before the time you entered, it is shown in yellow.

You will arrive 19 minutes late.

If the estimated arrival time is later than the time you entered, it is shown in red.

What are the other navigation options?

Home

Favorite

Recent

destination

Point of Interest

When you tap

Navigate to...

, you can set your destination in many ways, not just

by entering the address. The other options are listed below:

Tap this button to navigate to your Home location.

You will probably use this button more than any other.

For information about setting your Home location, see Change Home location on page 31.

Tap this button to select a Favorite as your destination.

For more information about Favourites, see Favorites on page 17.

Tap this button to select your destination from a list of places you have recently used as destinations.

Tap this button to navigate to a Point of Interest (POI).

For more information about POIs and navigating to a POI, see Points of

Interest on page 21.

Point on map

Latitude

Longitude

Tap this button to select a point on the map as your destination using the map browser.

For more information about the map browser, see Using the Map on page 14.

Tap this button to enter a destination with latitude and longitude values.

Tap this button to navigate to the current position of a TomTom Buddy. Don’t forget that the Buddy may move before you reach him.

To m Tom

Buddy

For more information about TomTom Buddies, see TomTom PLUS on page 38.

Tap this button to navigate to the address of a contact on your device.

Contact

Planning in advance

You can also use your NAVIGATOR to plan trips in advance by selecting both your starting point and your destination. You could, for example, do the following:

• Find out how long a trip is going to take before you start.

• Check the route of a trip you are planning.

• Check a route for someone who is coming to you and explain the route to them.

To plan a route in advance, follow these steps:

1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.

2. Tap

Advanced planning

3. Select the starting point for your trip in the same way as you would normally select your destination.

4. Set the destination for your trip.

5. Choose the type of route that should be planned.

•

Fastest route

•

Shortest route

- the route which takes the least time.

- the shortest distance between the locations you set. This may not be the quickest route, especially if the shortest route is through a town or city.

•

Avoid freeways

•

Walking route

•

Bicycle route

- a route which avoids freeways.

- a route designed for making the journey on foot.

- a route designed for making the journey on a bicycle.

•

Limited speed

- a route for a vehicle which can only drive at a limited speed.

You have to specify the maximum speed.

6. Your TomTom NAVIGATOR plans the route between the two locations you selected.

More information about a route

Browse as

text

To find out about your route in detail, tap the

Details

button on the route summary

screen.

You can then select from the following options:

Tap this button for a list of all the turn instructions on the route.

This is particularly useful if you need to explain a route to someone else.

Tap this button to see each turn in the trip. Tap the right and left arrows to move forwards and backwards through the trip.

Browse as

images

Browse map

of route

Show route

demo

Show route

summary

Tap the screen to turn off the 3D display and view the map from above.

Tap this button to see an overview of the route using the map browser.

For more information about the map browser, see Using the Map on page 14.

Tap this button to watch a demo of the trip. You can interrupt the demo at any time by tapping the screen.

Tap this button to open the route summary screen.

Driving View

Chapter 3 Driving View

Buttons to zoom in and zoom out on your position (touchscreen devices only).

To zoom in and out on your position on devices without a touchscreen, push the joystick up to zoom in, and push the joystick down to zoom out.

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The name of the next major road or road sign information, if applicable.

The next instruction.

This area shows you what to do and when you will have to do it.

Tap this area to repeat the last spoken instruction and to change the volume.

The name of the next street to turn onto.

Information about your trip.

Normally this area shows the remaining trip time, remaining distance, and arrival time. To set which information is displayed, tap in the

Preferences

Indicator of the strength of the GPS signal.

For more information about GPS, see

menu.

How Does Navigation Work?

Status bar preferences

page 42.

Menus

Main menu

Chapter 4 Menus

Tap the screen at any time when TomTom NAVIGATOR displays the Driving View to open the Main Menu.

•

Navigate to...

Tap this button to start planning a route.

•

Find alternative...

Tap this button if you want to avoid part of your route, travel via a specific location or calculate an alternative route.

•

TomTom Traffic

Tap this button to enable or disable traffic information. For more information, see

TomTom Traffic

•

Add favorite

Tap this button to create a Favorite.

•

Change preferences

This button opens the Preferences menu. You can change many things about the way TomTom NAVIGATOR looks and behaves. For more information, see

Preferences

on page 29.

on page 36.

Chapter 5 Finding alternative routes

Finding alternative routes

Find

alternative...

Calculate

alternative

Once you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the route, without changing your destination.

Why change the route?

Maybe for one of these reasons:

• You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.

• You want to travel via a particular location, to pick someone up, stop for lunch or fill up with gas.

• You want to avoid a difficult intersection or a road you don’t like.

Ta p Find alternative... in the Main Menu to change the route that is currently planned.

Then tap one of the options below.

Tap this button to calculate an alternative to the route already planned.

Your NAVIGATOR will look for another route from your current location to your destination.

If you decide you would prefer to use the original route after all, tap

Recalculate original.

Avoid

roadblock

Why would I need to do this?

Apart from the roads near your position and near your destination, the new route will use totally different roads to reach your destination. This is an easy way of calculating a totally different route.

Tap this button if you can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead. You then have to choose how much of the route ahead you want to avoid.

Choose from the different options: 100m, 500m, 2000m, 5000m. Your NAVIGATOR will recalculate your route avoiding the section of the route for the distance you selected.

Don’t forget that once a new route is calculated, you may have to turn off the road you are on very soon.

If the roadblock suddenly clears, tap Recalculate original to return to your original route.

Tap this button to change your route so that it passes a particular location, perhaps to pick someone up on the way.

Travel via. ..

Recalculate

original

Avoid part of

route

Minimize

traffic delays

You choose the location you want to pass in the same way as you choose a destination. So you can select from all the same options: for example, Address, Favorite, Point of Interest and Point on map.

Your NAVIGATOR will calculate a new route to your destination that passes the location you chose.

Using this button, you can only travel via one location. If you want to pass more than one, use an Itinerary. For more information, see Itinerary planning on page 26.

Tap this button to return to the original route without any deviations for roadblocks or to travel via particular locations.

Tap this button to avoid a part of the route. Use this button if you see that your route includes a road or junction you don’t like, or which is well-known for traffic problems.

You then choose the road you want to avoid from a list of the roads on your route.

Tap this button to recalculate your route so that it avoids traffic problems as much as possible. Your NAVIGATOR will check if there are any traffic problems on your route and work out the best route to avoid the problems.

For more information about using TomTom Traffic, see TomTom Traffic on page 36.

Chapter 6 Using the Map

Using the Map

Every time you use your TomTom NAVIGATOR to plan a route, you are using the map. However, you can use the map in many other ways.

To open the map, tap

Note: If you are using TomTom NAVIGATOR on a device without a touchscreen, the map browser looks slightly different. There is no scale bar and there are only two buttons: Options and Done. The Find and Cursor buttons are part of the Options menu. Use the number keys to zoom. See below for details.

Browse map

in the

Main Menu

Place your finger on the screen and drag it across the screen to move the map. Alternatively, you can also move around the map by moving the cursor. Use the joystick to move the cursor.

The scale bar

Move the handle on the scale bar to zoom in and out on the cursor position.

On devices without a touchscreen, you can zoom in and out on the cursor position using the number keys. Use OK to zoom in. Use 0 to zoom out. Use 1 - 9 to select a set zoom level.

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GPS button.

Tap this button to center the map on your current position.

The Options button

Use the Options button to set what is shown on the map.

On devices without a touchscreen, select the Options buttons to open the Options menu. In the Options menu, you find the buttons which are not shown

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