I have a 16 gb sd card, 800 songs on it. Seems like each time I start my truck it "indexes" the sd card which prevents me from being able to use voice commands. Anyone else have this issue? My 2010 only indexed when I first put it in or if I removed it and reinstalled it. Is there a way to fix it?

 

Try a "master reset". Had a similar fun experience after updating Sync last fall - neither of my USB/Micro SD drives would index properly. Master Reset cured all ills...

Good luck!

 

Hi dhageremtp,

I agree with jess1. Try a master reset:http://owner.ford.com/sync-technolog...c-myford-touch

Let me know if this helps!

Shaay

 

This did not seem to help. Did a reset, it indexed when I first put it in and has indexed every time I start the pickup.

 

Use a USB drive, not the SD card. I have a 32gig SD card maybe half full. Truck would index it every time I drove, multiple times a day running errands, with 30 minutes or more drive time each time. (This happened for months on end without removing the SD card or changing contents for a month or more at a time.)

I switched to a USB drive and haven't seen it index once. I've had my truck for about a year now, and had the indexing issue since the day I put the SD card in.

 

We have a bench across the front. The sd is great as no little person can knock it around with their little feet like the usb.

 

What about a low profile one like this?

http://smile.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultr...ords=usb+drive

After a year with my truck, 1 Sync update during that time, and hours spend scrubbing the music on the SD card (ID3 tags, folder structure, file names, etc) to try fixing the indexing issue I could never get it to work right.

It was so bad that I gave up even trying to use voice commands. It would randomly start indexing (and start playing from song 1 regardless of whatever I was listening to at the time) when I shifted to reverse and the camera came up. I wouldn't be unable to even browse back to the song/album I was previously listening to prior to shifting to reverse.

Based on that, I seriously think the SD reader is only intended for use as a data source for the navigation (trucks with nav have a data SD card for maps, and can't use nav without it). I've had none of those issues since I switched to a USB drive.

 

And just to confirm this, I pulled the same USB out last week, erased it, and added all new music. So I'm going to pay more attention when I put it in today and see if browsing by artist/album/etc is immediately available, if I see it indexing at all when I go to use it, and if the voice commands work.

Edit:
USB drive indexed for about a minute or 2 when I started this morning with 610 songs. Voice commands were available after that, and it didn't index again for the rest of the day, with 5 stops. So far an improvement for me.

 

I'm having the same issue with the USB. I have tried multiple drives and have an iPod in there right now. Sometimes it will work well for a few weeks and then it will randomly not read any USB devices at all! Did that today on the way to work as a matter of fact. Then when I went to lunch it randomly starts working again.

I have tried the master reset and updated to the latest Sync version. It is so glitchy but then again it is Microsoft after all and I deal with Microsoft products at work on a daily basis so I'm not surprised at all. I would call this a Microsoft issue and not a Ford issue.

I was actually considering trying the SD card reader instead and posted a thread today asking what cards seem to work the best? Samsung, Sandisk, Kingston, etc? Is there one better than the other? Reason I ask is this is a Microsoft system and Microsoft is picky as hell lol ;-)

 

I think I posted to your SD card thread earlier Buck.

I have a 64gb SD card I leave in pretty much 24/7. It used to always seem like it would start randomly indexing, but now it's settled down and seems like it only does it if something triggers it (like turning the key on and off before it completely loads, and other things I've done but didn't realize what it was)

I've also spent a lot of time tagging albums and creating playlists, and I know the frustration when your ready to jam out to a certain playlist and it has other plans instead.

But I use it about 90-95% of the time and it seems as more time goes by, the better it works. (now watch, I'll get in my truck after work and have to watch it index all the way home! knock on wood... haha)