View Poll Results: How many of you have utilized the SYNC3 update?
Upgraded
627
69.05%
Choosing to wait for Ford
281
30.95%
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Current SYNC 3 and CarPlay/Android Auto Information
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I have some Sandisk USB drives that I got from Costco that look like that, and they are SLOW. I would never use them for an update. Sandisk makes great stuff in general, those weren't though.
I've updated multiple modules using a fast 64gb drive formatted as FAT32, not even empty, and have never had a real issue.
I've updated multiple modules using a fast 64gb drive formatted as FAT32, not even empty, and have never had a real issue.
Success.
What I was doing wrong was not dragging the auto-install and the other downloaded file into the drive with
the 3.0 update files.
For someone that isn't very computer literate... kinda proud of myself for figuring it out. lol
EDIT:
After spending the last hour going through the 3.0 update I have found it to work perfectly. I use carplay/amazon/usb sticks for my music. Works great. Gracenote is working perfectly with not pop ups as well. 1.1.1. 1139 NA0010
The best part FOR ME is it has added the heated steering wheel Icon to the home screen. I didn't/don't want the seat icons on the home screen as I've just always used the buttons directly underneath. Haven't been able to have just the HSW Icon without the Seat Icons displayed as well. Now just the HSW Icon is by it's lonesome on the home screen. Really happy about this.
Build 17194 - Nav NA114
Also, My Sync 3 replaced Sync 2 that came with my 2015. Bought the unit from Texasfording and installed approx. 6
months a go. Unit has and is working flawlessly. Nav 3.0 Update complete and working perfectly.
Thanks to all.
What I was doing wrong was not dragging the auto-install and the other downloaded file into the drive with
the 3.0 update files.
For someone that isn't very computer literate... kinda proud of myself for figuring it out. lol
EDIT:
After spending the last hour going through the 3.0 update I have found it to work perfectly. I use carplay/amazon/usb sticks for my music. Works great. Gracenote is working perfectly with not pop ups as well. 1.1.1. 1139 NA0010
The best part FOR ME is it has added the heated steering wheel Icon to the home screen. I didn't/don't want the seat icons on the home screen as I've just always used the buttons directly underneath. Haven't been able to have just the HSW Icon without the Seat Icons displayed as well. Now just the HSW Icon is by it's lonesome on the home screen. Really happy about this.
Build 17194 - Nav NA114
Also, My Sync 3 replaced Sync 2 that came with my 2015. Bought the unit from Texasfording and installed approx. 6
months a go. Unit has and is working flawlessly. Nav 3.0 Update complete and working perfectly.
Thanks to all.
I guess my question is why does it work for some and not others? At this point I would never go back to 2.3.
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I have some Sandisk USB drives that I got from Costco that look like that, and they are SLOW. I would never use them for an update. Sandisk makes great stuff in general, those weren't though.
I've updated multiple modules using a fast 64gb drive formatted as FAT32, not even empty, and have never had a real issue.
I've updated multiple modules using a fast 64gb drive formatted as FAT32, not even empty, and have never had a real issue.
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Yes FAT32. Unless you have a file larger than 2gb, which the sync install does not once it's uncompressed into the usb drive, you don't need exFAT. All of these infotainment units can read and mount FAT32, otherwise they'd have trouble mounting some media devices.
Edit:
I have some much newer/faster Samsung usb drives, but this one's on my keychain and has been "ole trusty" for my sync installs ... I didn't intentionally format it as FAT32, it was already that way when I re-purposed it for my sync installs.
I even have a different directory on the USB where I moved all of 2.2 while placing 2.3 in the main directory ....
Last edited by Acool; Nov 20, 2017 at 03:35 PM.
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Most of my usb flash drives and portable external drives are exFAT so I can use then on my Hackintosh.
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exFAT is just the name for 64-bit FAT instead of FAT64... it's not exactly that simple, but close.
Last edited by TexasRebel05; Nov 20, 2017 at 04:30 PM.
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Anyway I'm glad ford implemented the use of exFAT rather than HFS that is now being replaced with APFS in High Sierra.
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It seems like Ford's exFat support is still not fully cooked though. When I use a exFat volume for my USB "jukebox," it only shows the volume's UUID instead of the name. Right now I am still using NTFS, which properly shows the volume name, and Paragon's NTFS for Mac software to support NTFS on my Mac.
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From: South St. Louis county, Mo.
It seems like Ford's exFat support is still not fully cooked though. When I use a exFat volume for my USB "jukebox," it only shows the volume's UUID instead of the name. Right now I am still using NTFS, which properly shows the volume name, and Paragon's NTFS for Mac software to support NTFS on my Mac.