I do have a battery charger so once I see the update hit, I'll hook it up.

Is 2.8.1 where I'll finally get BlueCruise? I appreciate you looking into that for me!

 

No OTA history on your truck in the past 60 days. Your truck is also on a recent Sync revision, so I see no indications that your truck is stuck not getting updates. Ford just hasn't shown you any love recently.

I fixed the Wiki to prevent confusion. 4.1.1 is only for the Lightning. It allows you to use the phone as a key like Teslas. Our trucks do not have the capability for that, so that update will never be sent to us. The Wiki is a useful tool, but it is easy to misinterpret.

I would recommend a 10amp minimum. Even with a 10amp charger people have reported the update failing numerous times and when I check the reason why in PTS, it says it failed due to low battery voltage.

 

Nope. 2.8.2 will give you Bluecruise and 2.8.3 will give you cameras in motion and something else which I do not remember right now.

Edit: When you get the update, you will physically have to go into your touch screen and start it manually. Having auto-updates on will not initiate this update. Any update that requires the vehicle to be inhibited have to be manually initiated.

 

Understood and see what you're talking about 4.1.1. I can care less about my cell phone being a key. I just want updated software that I was promised (BlueCruise). Since Ford hasn't shown me any love, do I just wait or do you think contacting them will push it through faster? Any insight as to how they decide on who to give updates to? Who does my wife have to bang to make this happen? LOL

 

Lmfaooooo@the wife comment. Waiting on the OTA gods is your only option other than investing the time and money to perform the updates yourself. Or go to your local dealer and bitch and complain to make them do it and hope they do (if they can as many dealers have tried and failed). Calling Ford will do absolutely nothing. They will at best give you a case number which is a fallacy to make you feel better; it's an illusion they create to make you think they are doing something about it. I invite @Ford Motor Co. to come in here and say otherwise.

 

Coincidently I just got off the phone with Ford Customer Service, and in the end, he instructed me to take it into the dealer. They washed their hands with me. I am a very technical guy and would not have any problem updating the firmware myself but I could not find any way or instructions on how to do that. I guess my next step is to bring it in to get the software that makes the hardware I ALREADY BOUGHT work. Crazy and unnecessary situation here if you ask me... which you didn't.

Anyway, thank you for your help and I'll post an update after the dealer screws my wife... I mean me. :P

 

Everything you need to know to do it yourself is in the first post on this thread:

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/thre...ing-fdrs.8249/

The Mongoose OBDII tool costs $539 on Amazon, and a two day FDRS license with Ford will cost you another $50. It took me 13 hours to update mine when I did it. When Android Auto gets the full-screen capability update, I am going to spend another $50 to get another 2 day FDRS license and update the truck to the latest goodies. No sense in doing it now since I can't take advantage of the full-screen capability yet. I am hoping Ford starts pushing out that update again before it gets to the point that I have to do it myself.

 

THANK YOU! I will check this tonight when I'm visiting the porcelain God.

 

charger got it done. But now my drivers side led lights and headlights aren't working. Man, one step forward, one step back.

 

This same headlight issue was reported earlier as a bad BCM version release - I heard (other forum) it was removed from FDRS (to prevent the error) and if you update 1 more time it will roll back and go back to working code. One BCM update (now removed) even corrupted hardware and needed the module replaced.