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Welcome to TomTom ONE
Important
Never leave your TomTom ONE on display in your car when you
are not using it – it's an easy target for thieves.
You must be outside with a clear view of the sky for your
TomTom ONE to locate your current position. If you are inside a
building, your TomTom ONE will not be able to locate your
current position.
Don't forget to make a backup of your memory card (SD card)
using the backup option on the CD.
Welcome to the TomTom ONE manual. This manual describes the features of TomTom
ONE, the perfect navigation solution for anyone on the move. For a full list of the chapters,
see the menu on the left. Some of the most important starting points are listed below:
Using your TomTom ONE
first time.
Making your first journey
How to ...
- this section describes how to achieve some common tasks, such as:
o
Getting home
o
Avoid a traffic jam
o
Find a car park in a city you do not know
For lots more information, have a look at the support section of the TomTom website:
www.tomtom.com/support
What is in the box?
1. Your TomTom ONE
- switch on and starting using your TomTom ONE for the
- find out how to plan your first route, in a few simple steps.

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  • Page 1 Welcome to the TomTom ONE manual. This manual describes the features of TomTom ONE, the perfect navigation solution for anyone on the move. For a full list of the chapters, see the menu on the left. Some of the most important starting points are listed below: ...
  • Page 2 A. Touchscreen F. USB connector B. Charging LED G. Memory card (SD card) slot C. On/Off button H. Power connector D. External antenna connector I. Reset button E. Speaker J. Headphone connector 2. A memory card (SD card) containing the application and maps...
  • Page 3 3. Mounting kit: Holder, Suction mount 4. Car charger 5. USB cable 6. Documentation pack 7. Your product code card...

  • Page 4: Using Your Tomtom One

    Locating your current position The first time you start your TomTom ONE, it can take up to 5 minutes for the device to find your current position. If it takes longer than 5 minutes, make sure that you are in an open...

  • Page 5: Making Your First Journey

    It is important to take care of your TomTom ONE and to clean it correctly.  Use a soft cloth to wipe the screen of your TomTom ONE; do not use any liquid cleaners. If your TomTom ONE gets wet, dry it with a soft cloth.
  • Page 6 Now you have to specify where you want to go. This is done by selecting first the town, then the street and then either the house number or the point where two streets meet. Note: If you know the postcode of your destination, you can enter this instead of the address. From the Navigate to…...
  • Page 7 Enter the house number of your destination and then tap 'Done'.  To select a point where two streets meet, tap 'Crossing' and select the name of the street as in step 5. The route is calculated by your TomTom ONE.

  • Page 8: Driving View

    To guide you to your destination, TomTom ONE will give you spoken instructions and visual instructions on the screen. Note : Before you can plan a route in this way, your TomTom ONE must first locate your current position. Driving View 1.
  • Page 9 Tap this button to start planning a route. For more information, see: Navigate to... Find alternative… Tap this button to find an alternative route to the one currently planned. You might change your route to avoid roadblocks up ahead, or to incorporate a stop into your route. For more information, see: Find alternative...
  • Page 10 You may have already set your 'Home' location when you first switched on your TomTom ONE. If you want to change the location you set, or if you have not set the 'Home' location, you can set it to your current location by following these steps: 1.
  • Page 11 When you want to travel to a shopping centre, a tourist attraction, a car park, or any other Point of Interest (POI), but you do not know the address, use TomTom ONE to find the POI. To navigate to a POI when you do not know the address, follow these steps:...
  • Page 12 5. Tap the Point of Interest you'd like to navigate to. Your TomTom ONE will calculate the route to the POI for you. 6. Tap 'Done' to return to the Driving view.
  • Page 13 5. Tap 'Done' to return to the Driving view. Your TomTom ONE will start to give you instructions to take you around the jam. You may be advised to turn off at the next junction or to turn around completely, so be prepared to manoeuvre.
  • Page 14 6. Matches are listed in order of proximity to the centre of the town. Tap the one you would like to navigate to. Your TomTom ONE calculates the route to the POI you selected.
  • Page 15 2. Tap 'Find alternative...'. 3. Tap 'Avoid part of route'. 4. Tap on the road section that you want to avoid. Your TomTom ONE will calculate an alternative route which avoids the section you specified. 5. Tap 'Done' to return to the Driving view.
  • Page 16 How to use your TomTom ONE at night The default colours of the Driving view on your TomTom ONE are very bright to make them easy to see, even on very sunny days. But at night, you do not want the screen to be very bright.
  • Page 17 Using TomTom ONE you can always know about traffic problems on your route. Your TomTom ONE can alert you to traffic problems as they occur, and alter your route accordingly. Traffic information can also be taken into account when planning a route.
  • Page 18 8. Tap 'Done'. then tap 'Cancel' to return to the Driving view. You can now plan routes in the usual way. TomTom ONE will automatically download traffic updates and adjust your route accordingly. How to find out what the weather is like at your destination Using your TomTom ONE, you can find out about the weather situation at your destination.
  • Page 19 Choosing this will display icons for the five categories that you use most often. If the one you want now isn't shown here then use bring up a list of all categories that are available.
  • Page 20 . You can then scroll around the map, zooming in or out as needed. Finally, select a point on the map as your destination and use 'Done'. For more information on using the TomTom map browser, see the chapter on 'Maps'.

  • Page 21: Favourite Locations

    You can 'drag' the map to scroll it in any direction or drag the zoom control up or down to zoom out or in. When travelling into an unfamiliar city, you might not know a destination road name, of course. Choose 'City centre' to automatically navigate to the geographical centre of any city name entered in the usual way.
  • Page 22 Choose 'Point of interest' to select a POI from the built-in databases as a favourite. As with navigating to a POI, you'll first see the five categories that you use most often, if the one you want isn't shown then use to bring up the full list.
  • Page 23 Choose 'Travel via...' if you want to make sure the planned route goes past one particular location, perhaps to collect (or drop off) a letter or person. The new location is picked in exactly the same way as you would pick a departure point or destination, with the usual options of 'Home', 'Favourite', 'Address', 'Point of Interest', and so on.

  • Page 24: Advanced Planning

    Choose 'Recalculate original' to return to the original best route. TomTom Traffic If you have enabled TomTom Traffic and have a valid subscription, you can also use the menu option 'Minimise traffic delays' to recalculate a route to your destination that takes into account all current traffic incidents.
  • Page 25 at the best route and journey time between any two given locations or perhaps to get directions that will help someone else get to your current position. Tip: 'Advanced planning' may be found on another page in the main menu. You may need to in order to see it.

  • Page 26: View Route

    View route If you already have a route planned, you can explore it in various ways by choosing 'View route' Choose 'Browse as text' for a simple list of the junctions involved and the distances (or times, use the 'Options' button to change the numbers shown) between them. Selecting an individual junction from this display or using 'Browse as images' instead presents each junction in 3D, with your turn instruction clearly marked.

  • Page 27: Itinerary Planning

    From this moment on, your position will still be tracked on the map, but no instructions or guidance will be provided. Tip: You do not need to clear a route before planning a new one: this happens automatically. Itinerary planning Although 'Navigate to...'...
  • Page 28 (by default it takes its name from your last destination). By saving your itineraries, you can re-use them at a later date without having to re-enter any of the locations. Use this page to save, load or delete an itinerary, or to start a new one.

  • Page 29: Connecting To Your Phone

    Bluetooth-enabled phones. This is the very first time you have used your TomTom ONE with your phone and there are a few steps needed to 'pair' the two devices, i.e. make a connection. 1. Select ‘Connect to your phone’...
  • Page 30 'Enable traffic' to switch on the main TomTom Traffic service and the other related route planning and map display functions. If there is traffic information available for your area, TomTom traffic will stay enabled until you choose 'Disable traffic' later on.
  • Page 31 Back in the main navigation view, you'll notice a new traffic 'route bar' on the right hand side of the display. In the top right corner is a special animation, which TomTom Traffic uses to show you its current status:...
  • Page 32 TomTom Traffic status animation. Imagine the bar, from bottom to top, represents the remainder of your journey. Traffic incidents are then shown at the appropriate relative points along the route bar, so that you can see what obstacles await you. TomTom Traffic uses a variety of different incident icons, as shown below:...
  • Page 33 Note: A planned route may still take you through a traffic jam if this is still considered to be the fastest way to your destination (i.e. faster than less congested alternatives). Tip: As an alternative to using 'Replan' on the TomTom Traffic overview display, you can use 'Minimise traffic delays' on the 'Find alternative' menu.

  • Page 34: Tomtom Weather

    Using your configured wireless GPRS Internet connection, TomTom looks up weather information from thousands of weather stations around the world, presenting the most suitable to the selected location.
  • Page 35 TomTom system. For example, if you're planning a weekend or city trip, you can download the city map for your destination. Follow the prompts, choosing a country and then searching for the city you want.
  • Page 36 Your TomTom system comes with a number of voices that guide you during navigation. With TomTom PLUS you can download new voices to find one that suits you better (or just for fun). The digital voice sample files are relatively large in size, so you shouldn't normally download them directly to your device using GPRS.

  • Page 37: Browse Map

    Download update Choose 'Download update' to check for application updates for your TomTom system. If one is available, note that it may have to be installed via your desktop computer. Edit service account You can use 'Edit service account' to enter updated TomTom PLUS username and password details on your device, perhaps because you changed them to something more memorable on www.tomtom.com.

  • Page 38: Cursor Functions

    Choose 'Browse map' to get started in the map browser. The map view is oriented in the same way as in a paper map, i.e. with north 'upwards', and shows the usual cities, towns, major roads, streets, railway lines, rivers and lakes. Unlike a paper map, you can zoom in and out and vary the amount of detail shown.
  • Page 39 Points of Interest, neatly sorted according to their distance from your cursor position. Choose the one you want, to display it (or as near as it's possible to get to it using standard roads) in the centre of the map display.

  • Page 40: Map Options

    Selecting 'Favourites' will pop up a yellow star for each favourite location (only on the map view). If TomTom Traffic is enabled, note you can select 'Traffic' to show current traffic information on the map (whose appearance will be altered to highlight traffic...

  • Page 41: Use Night Colours/Use Day Colours

    Preferences to switch maps or even download a new one. Preferences You can change much of the look and feel of your TomTom system to your own liking by using 'Preferences' . To see all the options described in this chapter, use to cycle through the different pages.

  • Page 42: Turn Off 3D Display/Turn On 3D Display

    Choose 'Turn off 3D display' revert to an overhead 'plan' map, albeit one which is constantly rotated to keep your current direction of travel pointing 'up' the display. Choose 'Turn on 3D display' to return to the original view.
  • Page 43 You can also rename them, if you wish. Use to scroll up and down the list and pick the one you want to change or delete. You can back up your favourite locations by connecting your TomTom ONE to your PC or Mac. See 'Connecting to your computer' for more details.

  • Page 44: Manage Maps

    'Add POI' . You'll then be asked to pick a category (and prompted to add one if you haven't made any yet), then pick a location in the usual way. In both the main navigation view and on all map views, you can choose which Points of Interest categories are shown by selecting 'Enable/Disable POI' .
  • Page 45 Locations in your chosen categories are plotted on the map (and navigation view), each represented by its own icon. Tip: You can choose whether or not to show Points Of Interest at all, using 'Hide POI/Show POI' for the navigation view or 'Map options' for the map browser.

  • Page 46: Status Bar Preferences

    'AM' or 'PM' symbol to switch between morning and afternoon/evening hours. Tip: If your TomTom ONE is outdoors, with a good view of the sky, you can tap on the 'Sync' button to set the clock's time automatically from the GPS satellites. You might have to adjust the hours for your correct time zone.
  • Page 47 Select 'Change map colours' to choose between the alternative colour schemes that are available for the maps used in your TomTom system (several of which are most suitable for use at night). Use to cycle through the different 'day colour schemes', using 'Select' when you're happy with the scheme shown.

  • Page 48: Change Voice

    . Use to cycle through the different voices and languages, choosing 'Test' to hear a sample in each one. Use 'Select' when you're happy with the voice that's indicated. Note: Most languages feature more than one possible voice. To change the volume of the...

  • Page 49: Keyboard Preferences

    To revert to the original button placement, choose the preference 'Operate right-handed' Operating your TomTom system left-handed! Keyboard preferences Choose 'Keyboard preferences' to choose the size (large or small) of the touchscreen keyboard for the entry of text and numbers (the smaller version leaves more room for items in scrolling lists), and to choose between alphabetic (ABCD), typewriter (QWERTY) and French (AZERTY) layouts.

  • Page 50: Show Version

    Connecting to your computer To get the most from your TomTom ONE, you'll probably want to link it to your PC or Mac to back up (and restore) the contents of your memory card (SD card) including your Favourite locations and preferences, to load new maps and to install new navigation voices.

  • Page 51: What Is Gps

    In order to locate your position, your TomTom ONE must have a clear view of the sky. It will not work if you are inside a building or in a tunnel. It is not affected by the weather conditions and works anywhere in the world.

  • Page 52: Battery Notes

    Battery notes We recommend that you fully charge your TomTom ONE the first time that you plug it in. It takes about 2 hours to charge the battery completely. Note: Your TomTom ONE uses a small amount of battery power to maintain its state when you switch it off.
  • Page 53  32 MB RAM  Memory card (SD card) with software and maps  USB port and cable to connect to a computer  Internal rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery giving approx. 2 hours depending on use  Alternatively power using the car charger attached to the cigarette lighter ...

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