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Uniden TRAX350 User Manual

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ARE YOU READY FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WRONG TURNS?
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TRAX350 GPS
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  • Page 1 ARE YOU READY FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WRONG TURNS? User’s Guide TRAX350 GPS Navigation Device...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Choosing a destination you’ve What Do I Do First?..... 4 used before ......29 Make sure everything is OK ..4 Going Home.........29 TRAX350 GPS navigation device ...4 Choosing a recent destination ..29 Windshield mount ......4 Choosing a favorite location..30 Included accessories .....5 ..30...
  • Page 3 Customizing the Map screen ... 49 Tightening the bracket joint ..65 Why is it that...? ..... 66 Changing the default map view (Map Orientation) .....49 The POI icons disappear from Changing the Map Display Color50 the map?........66 Showing the Breadcrumb Trail..51 The screen is blurry and hard Changing the POI icon Display...51 to read .........66...

  • Page 4: What Do I Do First

    Make sure everything is OK If anything listed here is missing or damaged, call Customer Service (see back cover for contact information). Power button Power button TRAX350 GPS Notch for windshield Notch for windshield N N VIGATION DEVICE mount bracket.

  • Page 5: Included Accessories

    What Do I Do First? NCLUDED ACCESSORIES DC (car) DC (car) adapter adapter Adhesive Adhesive anchor anchor cable cable disk disk Plug it in Connect the power adapter to the power connector on the lower r of the device. Plug the other end into your car cigarette lighter (or any standar 12 V DC outlet).

  • Page 6: Choose Your Default Language

    What Do I Do First? Ch o o s e y o u r d e f a u l t l a n g u a g e turn on the device, it asks you which language you want to use for menus and voice prompts.

  • Page 7: Enter Your Home Location

    What Do I Do First? Tap the button to go to the second screen. In the to use twelve- TIME FORMAT hour (am/pm) time or 24 to use twenty-four-hour (military) time. Tap the button to go back to the Menu screen. Tap the button to go back to the Map screen.
  • Page 8 What Do I Do First? Use the alphabet keypad to enter the name of the city (or unincorporated area) where your home location is. Go back to Go back to The number of cities The number of cities Go to the Go to the the previous the previous...
  • Page 9 What Do I Do First? To switch back to letters, tap the button. Tap the When you tap (or if there are 5 or fewer city names that start with the letters you typed), the device goes to the Select City Name screen. Just tap the name of the city you want.

  • Page 10: The Payoff

    What Do I Do First? Enter any name you want for your home location (the default name is HOME). Tap the that it saved your new home location, and you’re done. PAYOFF That probably seemed like a lot of work, but here’s why you did it: In the top left corner of the menu screen, there’s a icon.

  • Page 11: What Do Those Icons Mean

    What Do I Do First? If the device doesn’t have a lock on your location, the icon will be gray. Tap the button to open the main Menu screen. MENU DO THO SE ICONS MEA E E N Icon Name What it shows Tap it to...

  • Page 12: Zooming In And Out

    What Do I Do First? OOMING IN AND OUT There are 12 different zoom levels, ranging from 125 feet to 100 miles in the English system measurements or 50 meters to 200 kilometers in the metric system. icon shows the map scale and the current ZOOM or 1 centimeter.

  • Page 13: Changing The Map View

    What Do I Do First? HANGING THE MAP VIEW Tap the icon to cycle through the three map views: COMPASS North up view (2D): North is always at the top of the screen, and the car icon rotates to point in the direction you’re going.

  • Page 14: Changing The Volume

    What Do I Do First? You can set any of the three map views as the default view. (See page 49 for Map screen options.) HANGING THE VOLUME Tap the icon to go to the Volume screen. VOLUME Tap the button to increase the volume or –...

  • Page 15: Getting More Information

    What Do I Do First? Tap the button to open the Mark menu and set the MARK current location as a destination, an origin, a favorite, etc. Tap the button to plot a route to the current location. to return to the map screen. to go back to the previous screen.

  • Page 16: How Do I Put It In My Car

    How Do I Put It in My Car? Safety considerations Don’t install any device where it will block your view (including your mirrors!) while you’re driving. Keep your attention on the road! Don’t try to operate or focus on any device while you’re driving. If you have to concentrate on a device, pull off the road for a few minutes.

  • Page 17: Attaching The Windshield Mount

    How Do I Put It in My Car? Attaching the windshield mount Insert the bracket hooks Insert the bracket hooks into the notches on the into the notches on the bottom of the device. bottom of the device. Rotate the Rotate the bracket bracket...
  • Page 18 How Do I Put It in My Car? DJUSTIN T T G THE WIND SHIELD MOUNT Lift the adjustment Lift the adjustment lock to move the lock to move the suction cup and suction cup and bracket bracket The bracket The bracket pivots in all pivots in all...

  • Page 19: Mounting On The Windshield

    How Do I Put It in My Car? Mounting on the windshield Make sure the device does not block your view of the road or your mirrors. Once you decide where you want the device, hold the suction cup in that position, then adjust the mount so you have the best view of the device.
  • Page 20 How Do I Put It in My Car? If you want to put the device somewhere other than your windshield (or anywhere the suction cup won’t stick), you can use the anchor disk. Once you glue the anchor disk down, the windshield mount installs inside the disk just like it does on glass.
  • Page 21 How Do I Put It in My Car? Hold the disk exactly above the spot where you want permanent!) along the edges, too, so that every part of the disk makes good contact with the surface. Before you install the windshield mount, gently tug on the disk to make sure it’s secure.

  • Page 22: How Do I Use It

    How Do I Use It? Most of the functions of the GPS navigation device can be summarized in two steps: Enter a destination. Decide what you want to do with it (see the map, plot a route to it, save it as a favorite, save it as your home location, etc.).

  • Page 23: Entering An Address Or Intersection

    How Do I Use It? NTERING AN ADDRESS OR INTERSECTION If you followed the instructions for Entering Your Home Location starting on page 7, the process is the same. The device shows you the last-used region of the map. If this is not the region you want, choose CHANGE REGION The device opens the Select Region screen.
  • Page 24 How Do I Use It? As you type, the device grays out any letters that don’t match a record in the map database. For example, if you type FO, the device grays out all the letters except for those that come after Fo on the list of city names. If any city names on the list include a symbol (punctuation, letter with...
  • Page 25 How Do I Use It? When only 5 (or fewer) city names start with the letters you typed, the device goes to the Select City Name screen. Just tap the name of the city you want. Enter the street name using the same procedure you used to enter the city name.

  • Page 26: Selecting A Point Of Interest (Poi)

    How Do I Use It? Tap the button to see a test run of the DEMO ROUTE route. Tap the button to see what else you can do with OPTIONS this destination. (POI) ELECTING A OINT OF NTEREST From the Destination screen, tap the button.
  • Page 27 How Do I Use It? When you select the category, the device goes to the Search Method screen. Choose the most convenient method: NEAR HERE Enter the name of a Enter the name of a Enter a city name, Enter a city name, POI item, then sort POI item, then sort The device...
  • Page 28 How Do I Use It? On the Select POI Name screen (the POI list), use the arrow buttons to want. The POI at the top of the screen is expanded to show more information. When you choose the POI, the device goes to the Destination screen.

  • Page 29: Choosing A Destination You've Used Before

    How Do I Use It? From the main Menu screen, tap the button. DESTINATION There are three ways to choose a destination you’ve used before: OING Tap the HOME e your home location e your home location as your destination as your destination button to use your home location as...

  • Page 30: Choosing A Favorite Location

    How Do I Use It? HOOSING A FAVORITE LOCATION You can save up to 50 locations to your favorites list, so you can use them over and over again (like using speed dial on your phone). Tap the button to FAVORITES open your favorites list.

  • Page 31: The Map (The Mark Button)

    How Do I Use It? Tap the button to see what else you can do with OPTIONS this destination. If the destination is not correct, tap the button to go back and choose another destination. MARK ton) hen you tap anywhere inside the map area, it centers the map on that...

  • Page 32: Using The Destination

    How Do I Use It? Using the destination Once you enter a destination, you have several options for how to use that location: See this location on the map. Save this location to your list of favorites. Save this location as your new home location.

  • Page 33: Home

    How Do I Use It? VE AS VORITE VE AS If you tap SAVE AS FAVORITE SAVE AS , the device goes to HOME the Input Name screen, which has the same alphabet keypad as the Input City Name screen. Enter a name for this location.

  • Page 34: Reading The Route Screen

    How Do I Use It? The device uses the default route options to calculate a route from your current location to the destination. This may take a few seconds, depending on how complicated the route is (how far the destination is, how many turns there are, etc.). While it’s calculating the route, the device shows a horizontal progress bar at the bottom of the screen.

  • Page 35: Changing The Route View

    How Do I Use It? icons work the exact same way as they do on the Map screen. Tap the button to stop the route CANCEL ROUTE completely and go back to the Map screen. Don’t worry: the device saves the destination information in the Recent Destinations list, so you can get it later.

  • Page 36: Testing The Route

    How Do I Use It? maneuver is further than 1000 feet away. At 1000 feet, it switches to the thousand-foot countdown bar. The full screen view replaces the map with arrows that show the next Direction Direction three of the third of the third Direction Direction...
  • Page 37 How Do I Use It? Getting more route information From any route view, you can tap the screen for more information and options without stopping the route: Tap on or above the next maneuver Tap on or above the next maneuver title bar to see the complete list of title bar to see the complete list of Tap the next...

  • Page 38: Reading The Route Info Screen

    How Do I Use It? Use the (single DOWN arrow) buttons to scroll through the list one maneuver at a time. Use the PAGE UP PAGE DOWN (double arrow) buttons to skip to the next screen. Tap the button to go to the route view screen. Tap the button to go to the main Menu screen.
  • Page 39 How Do I Use It? To change the default options for the route, tap the button. This takes you to the Route ROUTE METHOD Method screen (see page 45 for detailed information on the route method options). Tap the button to end the route (this DELETE ROUTE works the same as the button).

  • Page 40: What Else Can I Do With Routes

    Wh a t El s e Ca n I Do w i t h Ro u t e s ? Once you have plotted a route, you can make a lot of changes to it. You can construction, or whatever). Add intermediate stops or waypoints to the route.

  • Page 41: Adding Waypoints

    What Else Can I Do with Routes? avoiding that road, that’s OK: if you tap one of the highlighted lines, the device clears that selection and will no longer avoid that road. When you have selected all the roads you want to avoid, tap the button at the bottom of the screen.
  • Page 42 What Else Can I Do with Routes? Find the location you want to set as a waypoint. Follow the same steps you normally use to set a destination until you get to the screen. On the Destination screen, tap button. The OPTIONS Options screen now has one more button available:...

  • Page 43: Editing Or Deleting Waypoints

    What Else Can I Do with Routes? You can edit or delete waypoints from the Edit Waypoints screen. There are two different ways to get there: When you enter a waypoint, tap the button on the EDIT bottom of Waypoint screen. Tap anywhere on the route view screen, then tap the button to go to the...
  • Page 44 What Else Can I Do with Routes? Use the button to move the selected waypoint MOVE UP before the one above it. For example, if you want to go to Waypoint C before Waypoint A, use the move up button to move Waypoint C to the top of the list, above Waypoint Use the button to move the selected...
  • Page 45 What Else Can I Do with Routes? You have several different options for exactly how the device plots a route. You’ve already seen how you can if you missed it). You can also control the route method, which is the “background” choices the device makes when it calculates a route.

  • Page 46: Options

    What Else Can I Do with Routes? There are two different ways to get to the Route Method screen: Confirm Confirm From the From the Destination Destination screen, tap screen, tap button. button. OPTIONS OPTIONS Options Options On the On the screen, tap the screen, tap the ROUTE...

  • Page 47: What Options Do I Have

    The table below lists all the available menu items, the choice available for each one, and which option is set by default. See the page number(s) beside each menu item for detailed information. Available options Menu Item Use it to… (default in italics) page N-up (North up)

  • Page 48: System

    What Options Do I Have? Available options Menu Item Use it to… (default in italics) page YSTEM Change how bright the screen 15 levels Brightness backlight appears (default: 15) Set the device to your local time North American zone. (Other NA time zones: Time zone time zones Altantic, Eastern, Mountain,...

  • Page 49: Customizing The Map Screen

    What Options Do I Have? Customizing the Map screen The following pages give details and examples of all the options available for the Map screen. From the Menu From the Menu screen, tap the screen, tap the button. button. SETTINGS SETTINGS On the Settings On the Settings...
  • Page 50 What Options Do I Have? North up: North stays at the top of the screen, and the car icon rotates to point in the direction you’re going. Heading up: The direction you are currently going is always at the top of the screen. The car icon points up, and the map rotates as you change direction.

  • Page 51: Changing The Poi Icon Display

    What Options Do I Have? HOWING THE READCRU M B RAIL As you drive, the device can leave a trail of markers or “breadcrumbs” so you can retrace your route. This is useful if you are off-road or in an area where roads have changed since the latest map update.

  • Page 52: Customizing Guidance During Routes

    What Options Do I Have? If you change your mind about a POI icon, just tap the line again; the check mark turns back to gray, and the icons won’t show on the Map screen anymore. Customizing guidance during routes See the following pages for details and examples of the options you have for the guidance the device gives you during a route.

  • Page 53: Turning Off The Voice Prompts & Alert Tones

    What Options Do I Have? & URNING OFF THE OICE ROMPTS ALERT TONES As you approach the next maneuver, the device sounds an alert tone and announces the instructions for that maneuver. To turn off both the voice prompts and alert tones, set Voice Prompts to Off.

  • Page 54: Customizing General Options

    What Options Do I Have? Be aware of speed limit signs even when the speed alert feature is on. Posted speed limits may have changed since the data was recorded. There are two screens for system or general settings. Tap the arrow icons to switch to the next page.

  • Page 55: Changing The Screen's Brightness

    What Options Do I Have? ’ ’ B H H NGING THE SCREEN RIGHTNESS The screen has 15 different brightness levels; choose the level that is easiest for you to see. Tap the icon to make the screen brighter or the icon to make the screen less bright.

  • Page 56: Turning Off The Sounds

    What Options Do I Have? URNING OFF THE OUNDS The device usually beeps when you tap an option or a button on the screen. If you want to turn off these beeps, set Sounds to Off. Turning off the sounds on the Se t t i n g s screen doesn’t turn off the voice directions or reminder tones that you hear during a route.
  • Page 57 What Options Do I Have? When you select a favorite from the list, the device goes to the Edit Favorite screen. Edit the Edit the Go to the Go to the Go back to the Go back to the Map screen Map screen name of this name of this...

  • Page 58: Understanding The Zoom Options

    What Options Do I Have? From either screen, tap This only changes the name or phone number used on the favorites list; if this location is also on the POI list, editing the name here will not change it on the POI list.
  • Page 59 What Options Do I Have? Between 250 and 1000 feet, the device shows most of the smaller streets but only names the larger ones: Starting at one-half mile, the device no longer shows POI icons. It shows your home location and favorites at all zoom levels: Starting at two miles, the device shows only state and federal highways along with geographical features:...
  • Page 60 What Options Do I Have? At 100 miles the device shows only interstate highways, state lines, and large geographical features (coastlines, bays, etc.): Page 60...

  • Page 61: I Have A Question

    You can download any necessary software updates other than maps through www.uniden.com. Instructions on how Be sure to read the instructions before updating the software! OW DO...

  • Page 62: Why Can't I Get A Gps Signal Lock

    I Have a Question Menu screen, tap the button and then the INFO SYSTEM button. This opens the System Info screen, which tells INFO you the software version and the database edition. Why can’t I get a GPS signal lock? The most common cause of signal lock issues is external radio interference or signal blockage: if your cell phone or AM/FM radio are having trouble with reception, your GPS...
  • Page 63 I Have a Question GPS S EADING THE TATUS SCREEN The GPS St a t u s screen gives details about the satellite signals. To open the GPS St a t u s screen, go to the Me n u s c r e e n and tap the button in the bottom right corner.
  • Page 64 I Have a Question Some helpful things to know about the GPS St a t u s screen: There are a total of 27 GPS satellites in orbit, arranged so that at least 4 satellites can be seen from every point on the planet at all times.

  • Page 65: Tightening The Bracket Joint

    I Have a Question If the whole mount shifts out of position, the suction cup probably isn’t getting a good grip on the windshield. Try removing the mount from the windshield and re-installing it. See page 19 for hints on getting the suction cup to stick better.

  • Page 66: Why Is It That

    ’ T FIND A LOCATION ON THE MAP Newer addresses may not have existed when the map software was created. Check www.uniden.com for the latest maps. OME BUTTONS ARE GRAYED OUT If a button’s function is not available for some reason the button will be grayed out.

  • Page 67: What Else Do I Need To Know

    WARRANTOR: UNIDEN AMERICA CORPORATION (“Uniden”) ELEMENTS OF WARRANTY: Uniden warrants, for one year, to the original retail owner, this Uniden Product to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship with only the limitations or exclusions set out below.

  • Page 68: Navteq Data End-User License Agreement

    The data (“Data”) is provided for your personal, internal use only and not for resale. It is protected by copyright, and is subject to the following terms and conditions which are agreed to by you, on the one hand, and Uniden America Corp. (“UNIDEN”) and its licensors (including their licensors and suppliers) on the other hand.

  • Page 69: Terms And Conditions

    Data, and may not transfer or distribute it in any form, for any purpose, except to the extent permitted by mandatory laws. Multi-disc sets may only be transferred or sold as a complete set as provided by UNIDEN and not as a subset thereof.
  • Page 70 NO WARRANTY. This Data is provided to you “as is,” and you agree to use it at your own risk. UNIDEN and its licensors (and their licensors and suppliers) make no guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind,...

  • Page 71: Notice Of Use

    ENTIRE AGREEMENT. These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between UNIDEN (and its licensors, including their licensors and suppliers) and you pertaining to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes in their entirety any and all written or oral agreements previously existing between us with respect to such subject matter.

  • Page 72: Manual Information

    OPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK INFORMATION This manual is copyrighted by Uniden America Corporation, Ft. Worth, Navigation software and screen design is copyrighted by Space Machine, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA. All logos and trademarks used in the software or in the documentation are copyrighted by their respective owners.

  • Page 73: Canadian Regulatory Compliance

    (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC PART 15.21 Uniden, or operation of this product in any way other than as detailed by the owner’s manual, could void your authority to operate this product. ANADIAN REGULATORY COMPLIANCE ICES003, PARA 6.2...

  • Page 74: Electrical Safety Warnings

    Do not use any power adapter if the cord appears damaged, if either connector seems loose, or if any internal wires are visible. If you need a replacement adapter, contact Uniden Customer Service (see back page for contact information). ITHIUM ON BATTERY CAUTIONS This product contains a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery.

  • Page 75: Index And Glossary

    What Else Do I Need to Know? Index and glossary Term pages Breadcrumb A trail created by leaving markers along the path you trail are traveling Coordinates location The Global Positioning Satellites used by GPS receivers to calculate your location Heading The direction you are currently going.
  • Page 76 HAVE A QUESTION? NEED A PART? Our Customer Service Specialists are ready to help! During regular business hours* call 1-800-620-7531 or get answers 24/7 at www.uniden.com USZZ01209ZZ (0) *Central Time Printed in China.

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