View Poll Results: How many of you have utilized the SYNC3 update?
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69.05%
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30.95%
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I sent you a PM. I have NAV in my car. I will be getting a new USB hub tomorrow.
Ok it is time to spill the beans...I spent about 12 hours today messing with this stuff today.
Ford had ditched V1.1 a couple weeks ago on the dealer side but it was back this morning after the weekly Saturday night downtime. I decided to check different vehicle lines and found that some 16 Lincoln's with V1 were eligible for V2.2 upgrade on the dealer side. I did "legitimate" dealer upgrades on the bench to one nav and one non-nav unit. The NAV unit went flawless. A beautiful upgrade. I saved the USB upgrade for this.
Then I did the Non-Nav. Failure....it ran out of "space" for the update. For those that don't know the non-nav units have an 8GB daughter board inside and the NAV units have 32 GB daughter boards in them. So figuring that the update applications and existing applications together were taking up too much room I split the non-nav update in half. Messy but it gets the job done. I tested this on 3 bench units successfully.
The non-nav update will only work on 16 models (V1 and 1.1). It fails on 17s that came with V2.0. I suspect the memory structure is different in the 17 non navs than the 16 non navs. I will probably take one apart and see what size is on the daughter board.
The nav update works on 16 and 17 nav units (1.0,1.1,2.0,2.1).
BTW I checked the owner site for those same Lincolns and no dice on a download there.
Ford had ditched V1.1 a couple weeks ago on the dealer side but it was back this morning after the weekly Saturday night downtime. I decided to check different vehicle lines and found that some 16 Lincoln's with V1 were eligible for V2.2 upgrade on the dealer side. I did "legitimate" dealer upgrades on the bench to one nav and one non-nav unit. The NAV unit went flawless. A beautiful upgrade. I saved the USB upgrade for this.
Then I did the Non-Nav. Failure....it ran out of "space" for the update. For those that don't know the non-nav units have an 8GB daughter board inside and the NAV units have 32 GB daughter boards in them. So figuring that the update applications and existing applications together were taking up too much room I split the non-nav update in half. Messy but it gets the job done. I tested this on 3 bench units successfully.
The non-nav update will only work on 16 models (V1 and 1.1). It fails on 17s that came with V2.0. I suspect the memory structure is different in the 17 non navs than the 16 non navs. I will probably take one apart and see what size is on the daughter board.
The nav update works on 16 and 17 nav units (1.0,1.1,2.0,2.1).
BTW I checked the owner site for those same Lincolns and no dice on a download there.
Last edited by jm061; Dec 12, 2016 at 09:17 AM.
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Ok it is time to spill the beans...I spent about 12 hours today messing with this stuff today.
Ford had ditched V1.1 a couple weeks ago on the dealer side but it was back this morning after the weekly Saturday night downtime. I decided to check different vehicle lines and found that some 16 Lincoln's with V1 were eligible for V2.2 upgrade on the dealer side. I did "legitimate" dealer upgrades on the bench to one nav and one non-nav unit. The NAV unit went flawless. A beautiful upgrade. I saved the USB upgrade for this.
Then I did the Non-Nav. Failure....it ran out of "space" for the update. For those that don't know the non-nav units have an 8MB daughter board inside and the NAV units have 32 MB daughter boards in them. So figuring that the update applications and existing applications together were taking up too much room I split the non-nav update in half. Messy but it gets the job done. I tested this on 3 bench units successfully.
The non-nav update will only work on 16 models (V1 and 1.1). It fails on 17s that came with V2.0. I suspect the memory structure is different in the 17 non navs than the 16 non navs. I will probably take one apart and see what size is on the daughter board.
The nav update works on 16 and 17 nav units (1.0,1.1,2.0,2.1).
BTW I checked the owner site for those same Lincolns and no dice on a download there.
Ford had ditched V1.1 a couple weeks ago on the dealer side but it was back this morning after the weekly Saturday night downtime. I decided to check different vehicle lines and found that some 16 Lincoln's with V1 were eligible for V2.2 upgrade on the dealer side. I did "legitimate" dealer upgrades on the bench to one nav and one non-nav unit. The NAV unit went flawless. A beautiful upgrade. I saved the USB upgrade for this.
Then I did the Non-Nav. Failure....it ran out of "space" for the update. For those that don't know the non-nav units have an 8MB daughter board inside and the NAV units have 32 MB daughter boards in them. So figuring that the update applications and existing applications together were taking up too much room I split the non-nav update in half. Messy but it gets the job done. I tested this on 3 bench units successfully.
The non-nav update will only work on 16 models (V1 and 1.1). It fails on 17s that came with V2.0. I suspect the memory structure is different in the 17 non navs than the 16 non navs. I will probably take one apart and see what size is on the daughter board.
The nav update works on 16 and 17 nav units (1.0,1.1,2.0,2.1).
BTW I checked the owner site for those same Lincolns and no dice on a download there.
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From: Northern Mn
Jason set me up with the Sync 3 2.2 update. I can confirm everything works, I had a new USB hub waiting for the update that I installed & Car Play works great. I have an Samsung S7 edge phone & my wives is an Apple S6s and both work fine. (It's one or the other at a time). I'll have to play around with it more and see which I like better - hard to beat Google maps, but so far I think apple has the nicer interface. More colorful anyway
thanks again to Jason
thanks again to Jason
