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⟨Basic information before operation⟩

� Initial screen 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Touch screen operation 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Inputting letters and numbers/List screen operation 28. . . . . . . . .

� Screen adjustment 31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Function help 32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Map screen operation 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Current position display 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Screen scroll operation (one−touch scroll) 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switching the screens 39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Map scale 41. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foot print map 42. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orientation of the map 43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Map icons 43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Speech command system 44. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Command list 47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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When the “ENGINE START STOP” switchis in ACCESSORY or IGNITION ONmode, the initial screen will be displayedand the system will begin operating.

CAUTIONWhen the vehicle is stopped with theengine running, always apply theparking brake for safety.

After a few seconds, the “CAUTION”screen will be displayed.

After about 5 seconds, the “CAUTION”screen automatically switches to the mapscreen. When the “MAP·VOICE” buttonis also pushed, the map screen is dis-played.

While the “CAUTION” screen is displayed,the “DEST” or “SETUP” button cannot beoperated. And if the “Calendar” button onthe “Information” screen is touched, thescreen will change back to the “CAUTION”screen. In about 5 seconds, or when the“MAP·VOICE” button is pushed or the“Show Map” is touched, the “CAUTION”screen will change to the map screen.

Initial screen

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� Maintenance informationThis system informs about when to replacecertain parts or components and showsdealer information (if registered) on thescreen.

When the vehicle reaches a previously setdriving distance or date specified for ascheduled maintenance check, the “Infor-mation” screen will be displayed when thenavigation system is in operation.

To disable this screen, touch “Do NotDisplay This Message Again”. Thisscreen goes off if the screen is not op-erated for several seconds.To prevent this information screen from be-ing displayed again, touch “Do NotDisplay This Message Again”.

To register maintenance information, see“— Maintenance” on page 276.

This system is operated mainly by thetouch screen buttons on the screen.

To prevent damage to the screen, light-ly touch buttons on the screen with thefinger. When a button on the screen istouched, a beep sounds. (To set a beepsound, see page 212.)Do not use objects other than the fingerto touch the screen.

INFORMATION� If the system does not respond to

a touch on a touch screen button,move the finger away from thescreen and then touch it again.

� Dimmed touch screen buttonscannot be operated.

� Wipe off fingerprints using a glasscleaning cloth. Do not use chemi-cal cleaners to clean the touchscreen.

� The displayed image may becomedarker and moving images may beslightly distorted when the displayis cold.

� Under extremely cold conditions,the map may not be displayed andthe data input by a user may be de-leted. Also, the touch screen but-tons may be harder than usual todepress.

� When you look at the screenthrough polarized material such aspolarized sunglasses, the screenmay be dark and hard to see. If so,look at the screen from differentangles, adjust the screen settingson the “Display” screen, or take offyour sunglasses.

Touch screen operation

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When searching for an address or a name,or entering, letters and numbers can be in-put via the touch screen.

INFORMATIONKeyboard layout can be changed.(See page 214.)

� To input letters and numbersTo display the alphabet keys, touch“A−Z”.

Enter letters by touching the keys directly.

: Touching this button erases one

letter. By holding this button, let-ters will continue to be erased.

On certain letter entry screens, letters canbe entered in upper or lower case.

: To enter in lower case.

: To enter in upper case.

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� To input symbolsTo display symbol keys, touch “Other”.

Enter symbols by touching the symbolkeys directly.

: Touching this button erases one

letter. By holding this button, let-ters will continue to be erased.

� To display the list

To search for an address or a name, touch“OK”. Matching items from the databaseare listed even if the entered address orname is incomplete.

If the number of matches is five or less, thelist is displayed without touching “OK”.

INFORMATIONThe number of matching items isshown to the right side of the screen.If the number of matching items ismore than 999, the system displays“∗∗” on the screen.

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� List screen operationWhen a list is displayed, use the appropri-ate button to scroll through the list.

To shift to the next or previouspage.

Touch or to scroll through

the displayed list.

This expresses a displayed screenposition.

If appears to the right of theitem name, the complete name istoo long for the display. Touchto scroll to the end of the name.

Touch to scroll to the beginningof the name.

� SortingThe order of a list displayed on the screencan be rearranged.

1. Touch “Sort”.

2. Select the desired sorting criteria.Sorting criteria are as follows:

“Distance”: To sort in the order of dis-tance from your current location.

“Date”: To sort in the order of the date.

“Category”: To sort in the order of thecategory.

“Icon”: To sort in the order of the icons.

“Name”: To sort in order by name.

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You can adjust the contrast and brightnessof the screen. You can also turn the displayoff, and change the screen to either day ornight mode.

� Contrast and brightness adjust-ment

The contrast and brightness of the screencan be adjusted depending on the bright-ness of your surroundings. You can alsoturn the display off.

1. Push the “DISP” button.

Contrast and brightness adjustment2. Touch the desired button to adjustcontrast and brightness.“Contrast” “+”: Strengthens the contrastof the screen.

“Contrast” “–”: Weakens the contrast ofthe screen.

“Brightness” “+”: Brightens the screen.

“Brightness” “–”: Darkens the screen.

3. After adjusting the screen, touch“OK”.The screen goes off when “Screen Off” istouched. To turn the display screen backon, push the “DISP” button again, or pushthe “DEST” or another screen mode but-ton.

INFORMATIONWhen you do not touch any button onthe “Display” screen for 20 seconds,the previous screen will be displayed.

Screen adjustment

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� Changing between day mode andnight mode

Depending on the position of the headlightswitch, the screen changes to day mode ornight mode.

To display the screen in day mode evenwith the headlight switch on, touch“Day Mode” on the adjustment screenfor brightness and contrast control.If the screen is set in day mode with theheadlight switch turned on, this condition ismemorized in the system even with the en-gine turned off.

When appears on the screen, an ex-

planation of the function can be displayed.

1. Touch .

2. Touch the button of the desiredfunction.

Function help

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When starting the navigation system, thecurrent position is displayed first.

This screen displays the current vehicleposition and a map of the surrounding localarea.

The current vehicle position mark ( 1 ) ap-pears in the center or bottom center of themap screen.

A street name will appear on the bottom ofthe screen, depending on the scale of themap ( 2 ).

You can return to this map screen thatshows your current position at any timefrom any screen by pushing the“MAP·VOICE” button.

While driving, the current vehicle positionmark is fixed on the screen and the mapmoves.

The current position is automatically set asthe vehicle receives signals from the GPS(Global Positioning System). If the currentposition is not correct, it is automaticallycorrected after the vehicle receives sig-nals from the GPS.

INFORMATION� After battery disconnection, or on

a new vehicle, the current positionmay not be correct. As soon as thesystem receives signals from theGPS, the correct current positionis displayed.

� To correct the current positionmanually, see page 227.

When any point on the map is touched,that point moves to the center of the screenand is shown by the cursor mark ( 1 ).

Use the scroll feature to move the desiredpoint to the center of the screen for lookingat a point on the map that is different fromthe current position of the vehicle.

If the finger is continuously held on thescreen, the map will continue scrolling inthat direction until the finger is removed.

A street name, city name, etc. of thetouched point will be shown, depending onthe scale of the map ( 2 ). Distance fromthe current position to will also beshown ( 3 ).

After the screen is scrolled, the map re-mains centered at the selected locationuntil another function is activated. The cur-rent vehicle position mark will continue tomove along your actual route and maymove off the screen. When the“MAP·VOICE” button is pushed, the cur-rent vehicle position mark returns to thecenter of the screen and the map moves asthe vehicle proceeds along the designatedroute.

INFORMATIONWhen the one−touch scroll feature isused, the current vehicle positionmark may disappear from the screen.Move the map with a one−touch scrollagain or push the “MAP·VOICE” but-ton to return to the current vehicleposition map location display.

Map screen operation — — Current position display

— Screen scroll operation(one−touch scroll)

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� To set the cursor position as a des-tination

A specific point on the map can be set asa destination using the one−touch scrollfunction.

Touch “Enter ”.The screen changes and displays the maplocation of the selected destination and theroute preference. (See “Starting routeguidance” on page 70.)

� To register the cursor position as anaddress book entry

Address book entry registration enableseasy access to a specific point.

Touch “Mark”.When you touch “Mark”, the followingscreen appears for a few seconds, andthen the map screen returns.

The registered point is shown by on themap.

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To change the icon or name, etc., see “ (b)Editing address book entries” on page108.

Up to 100 address book entries can be reg-istered. If there is an attempt to registermore than 100 address book entries, anerror message will appear.

� To see information about the iconwhere the cursor is set

To display information about an icon, setthe cursor on it.

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POI INFORMATIONWhen the cursor is set on a POI icon, thename and “Info.” are displayed at the topof the screen.

Touch “Info.”.

Information such as the name, address,and phone number are displayed.

If “Enter ” is touched, the position of thecursor is set as a destination.

If there is already a set destination, “Go to” and “Add to Route” are displayed.

“Go to ”: To delete the existing destina-tions and set a new one.

“Add to Route”: To add a destination.

To register this POI as an address bookentry, touch “Mark”. (See page 107.)

If is touched, the registered tele-

phone number can be called.

INFORMATIONThe desired Point of Interest can bedisplayed on the map screen. (See“ — Display POI icons” on page 90.)

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ADDRESS BOOK ENTRYINFORMATIONWhen the cursor is set on an address bookentry icon, the name and “Info.” are dis-played at the top of the screen.

Touch “Info.”.

Information such as the name, address,and phone number are displayed.

If “Enter ” is touched, the position of thecursor is set as a destination.

If there is already a set destination, “Go to” and “Add to Route” are displayed.

“Go to ”: To delete the existing destina-tions and set a new one.

“Add to Route”: To add a destination.

To edit an address book entry, touch“Edit”. (See “(b) Editing address book en-tries” on page 108.)

To delete an address book entry, touch“Delete”.

If is touched, the registered tele-

phone number can be called.

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DESTINATION INFORMATIONWhen the cursor is set on a destinationicon, the name and “Info.” are displayedon the top of the screen.

Touch “Info.”.

Information such as the name, address,and phone number are displayed.

To delete a destination, touch “Delete”.

If is touched, the registered tele-

phone number can be called.

XM� NavTraffic TEXT INFORMATIONWhen you touch the XM� NavTraffic iconon the map, the XM� NavTraffic info. barwill appear on the upper part of the screen.

Touch “Info.”.

Traffic information is displayed on thescreen.

Touch “Detail” to display detailed trafficevent information.

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Any one of the screen configurations canbe selected.

1. Touch this button to display the fol-lowing screen.

2. To select the desired screen config-uration, touch one of the following but-tons.

Depending on the conditions, certainscreen configuration buttons cannot beselected.

:To display the single map screen.(See page 40.)

:To display the dual map screen.(See page 40.)

:To display the compass modescreen. (See page 41.)

:To display the freeway screen.(See page 76.)

:

To display the turn list screen.(See page 78.)

:To display the arrow screen. (Seepage 78.)

:To display the intersection guid-ance screen or the guidancescreen on the freeway. (See page77.)

— Switching the screens

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� Screen configurationsSINGLE MAPThis is a regular map screen.

While on a different screen, touching

will display the single

map screen.

The screen shows the single map.

DUAL MAPA map can be displayed split in two.

While on a different screen, touching will display the dual map

screen.

The screen shows the dual map. The mapon the left is the main map.

The right side map can be edited by touch-ing any specific point on the right side map.

This screen can perform the following pro-cedures:

1. Changing the map scale2. Displaying the POI icon3. Show XM� NavTraffic Info. (See page

96.)

4. Changing the orientation of the map

Touch “OK” when you complete edi-ting.The screen returns to the dual map screen.

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COMPASS MODECurrent vehicle position is indicated with acompass.

While on a different screen, touching will display the compass

mode screen.

Information about the destination and cur-rent position, as well as a compass, is dis-played on the screen.

The destination mark is displayed in the di-rection of the destination. When driving re-fer to the longitude and latitude coordi-nates, and the compass, to make sure thatyour vehicle is headed in the direction ofthe destination.

INFORMATIONWhen the vehicle travels out of thecoverage area, the guidance screenchanges to the compass modescreen.

Touch or to change the scale

of the map display. The scale bar and indi-cator at the bottom of the screen indicatesthe map scale menu. The scale range is150 feet (50 m) to 250 miles (400 km).

Touch or until the scale bar

changes normally. By continuing to touchthe button, the scale bar changes smooth-ly.

The scale of the map display can bechanged by touching the scale bar directly.It is not available while driving.

The map scale is displayed under thenorth−up symbol or heading−up symbol atthe top left of the screen.

INFORMATIONWhen the map scale is at the maxi-mum range of 250 miles (400 km),

is not shown. When the mapscale is at the minimum range of 150feet (50 m), is not shown. Inareas where the foot print map isavailable the map scale changes from

to when at the minimumrange.

— Map scale

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For the area which is covered by the footprint map (Some areas in the followingcities: Detroit, Chicago, N.Y., L.A), you canswitch to the foot print map on a scale of 75feet (25 m).

� To switch to the foot print map

changes into when the map

is scaled down to 150 feet (50 m).

To display the foot print map, touch.

To delete the foot print map display, touch

.

INFORMATION� If the map or the current position is

moved to the area which is not cov-ered by the foot print map, thescreen scale automaticallychanges to 150 feet (50 m).

� On the foot print map, a one waystreet is displayed by .

� It is not possible to perform scroll-ing on the foot print map (one−touch scroll) while driving.

The building footprints and related car-tographic information in this productcomes with MAPMASTER digital mate-rials.

� To display building informationInformation is available only for buildingsfor which information is recorded on themap disc.

Touch “Info.” while the foot print map isdisplayed.

Details of POIs in some buildings may bedisplayed.

For detailed POI information, touch thebuilding name. You can see details of theselected POIs.

— Foot print map

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The orientation of the map can be changedfrom North−up to Heading−up by touchingthe orientation symbol at the top left of thescreen.

Touch or .

� North−up screen

� Heading−up screen

North−up symbol

Regardless of the direction of vehicle trav-el, North is always up.

Heading−up symbol

The direction of vehicle travel is always up.A red arrow indicates North.

Icon Name

Island

Park

Industry

Business facility

Airport

Military

University

Hospital

Stadium

Shopping mall

Golf

— Orientation of the map —Map icons

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The speech command system enablesyou to operate the navigation system, au-dio system and hands−free system by giv-ing a command.

1. Push the talk switch.After a beep sounds, the “Voice Menu”screen is displayed.

INFORMATIONVoice guidance for the speech com-mand system can be skipped bypushing the talk switch.

2. After a beep sounds, say the com-mand of your choice.

Speech commands are marked with .

Speak the commands as displayed on thescreen.

If you want to check the command list, say“Command list” to display the commandlist screen. (See “— Command list” onpage 47.)

Speech command system —

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3. Following voice guidance, say thecommand displayed on the screen.If a desired outcome is not shown, or if nochoices are available, say “Go back” ortouch “Go Back” to return to the previousscreen.

To cancel speech command recognition,say “Cancel”, touch “Cancel”, or pushand hold the talk switch.

If the navigation system does not respondor the confirmation screen does not disap-pear, please push the talk switch and tryagain.

If a speech command cannot be recog-nized within 6 seconds, the voice guidancesystem will say “Pardon?” (“Command notrecognized.” will be displayed on thescreen) and speech command receptionwill restart.

If a speech command cannot be recog-nized two consecutive times, the voiceguidance system will say “Paused. To re-start voice recognition, push the talkswitch.”, then be suspended.

� Microphone

It is unnecessary to speak directly intothe microphone when giving a com-mand.

INFORMATION� Wait for the confirmation beep be-

fore speaking a command.� Voice commands may not be rec-

ognized if :� Spoken too quickly� Spoken at a low or high volume� The windows or sunroof are open� Passengers are talking while

voice commands are spoken

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� Speech command example: Search-ing for a route to your home.

1. Push the talk switch.2. Say “Go home”.If a home address is not registered, thevoice guidance system will say “Yourhome is not set” and you will be promptedto enter a home address. (See page 101.)

When the speech command is recog-nized, a map of the area around your homeis displayed.

3. Touch “Enter” or say “Enter”, andthe system starts searching for a routeto your home.To return to the “Voice Menu” screen, say“Go back” or touch “Go Back”.

Touch “Cancel” or say “Cancel”, and thespeech command system will be can-celed.

When you search the destination byPOI, this screen is displayed.

INFORMATIONIn the following conditions, the sys-tem may not recognize the commandproperly and using speech com-mands may not be possible.

� The command is not correct orclear.Note that certain words, accents, orspeech patterns may be difficult forthe system to recognize.

� There are some noises such aswind noise, etc.

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The system has a voice recognition com-mand list. You can operate the voice rec-ognition system by saying any commandfrom the displayed command list. Howev-er, the XM� NavTraffic commands cannotbe used where the XM� NavTraffic serviceis not available. (For details, see “XM�NavTraffic” page 96.)

1. Push the talk switch.

2. Say “Command list”.

3. Say the command of your choice tooperate the system.To confirm commands on the screen,

touch or to scroll through the

command list. This function is availableonly when the vehicle is not moving.

INFORMATIONWhen the “Voice Menu” screen is dis-played, all the commands in the voicerecognition command list can be rec-ognized.

— Command list

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� Speech command example: Chang-ing map screen

1. Push the talk switch.2. Say “Command list”.

3. Say “Dual map”.To confirm commands on the screen,

touch or to scroll through the

command list. This function is availableonly when the vehicle is not moving.

When or is touched, push the talk

switch again and say the command.

The screen shows the dual map.

� Speech command example:Chang-ing map scale

1. Push the talk switch.2. Say “Command list”.

3. Say “Zoom in” or “Zoom out”.To confirm commands on the screen,

touch or to scroll through the

command list. This function is availableonly when the vehicle is not moving.

When or is touched, push the talk

switch again and say the command.

The scale of the map display is changed.