1st Battery Saver Mode since AGM Install

[Gunnar88]

If I could not have an Ecoboost I’d not own a Maverick.

Im the exact opposite. In fact I would have just kept my Frontier that new motor is soooo strong 3.8L and the transmission was great too.

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[ListedGuru]

Thats basically my plan, im not trying to avoid buying a battery, 39 months is perfectly acceptable for a 12v battery. I'm trying to diagnose the issue apporriately; knowing that many have had these issues makes me want to make sure the battery is the problem before I swap it out. I charged it up, my charger can and has detected a bad battery before, but not a weak battery. It did charge up quickly. If I have another saver mode I am going to pull the battery, charge it up again and then have it load tested expecting it to be confirmed as bad. I will probably buy a Walmart H4 agm for $189, it comes with a 4 year warranty and I have had pretty good luck with Walmart batteries and the prices are usually pretty good, and you cant beat the availability. Meanwhile I will carry my jump pack with me, and Im not going anywhere soon either so its just running around town.

Interestingly my daughter had a beater 2008 Escape hybrid about 5 years ago and they had similar issues, in fact they was a button you could push that would allow the high voltage battery to charge up the 12v battery. Kind of a forward assist, , that would be nice to have, actually it would be nice if it was integrated into the system automatically. Im not an engineer but I dont know why they need a 12v battery system at all, why cant it do everything off the High Voltage battery, it seems like that would be a cleaner design.

Ok everyone! After literally scouring the internet and hitting every possible obsticle possible, I was able to change my charge settings to 95% Holy $#tt is was hard to do!

Here are some things I would do FIRST to help you save time:

1. Which ever adapter you choose to use, download every conceivable driver that your adapter is compatible to! If you don't, the adapter won't find your vehicle and/or your laptop! You'll keep trying to connect with no success! Trust me, download them all!

2. Start your vehicle without your foot on the brake and connect your laptop. DO NOT RUN FORSCAN YET!! Connect using which ever type of connection you have, (Wifi, Bluetooth or like me, USB cable) and run the OBD ONLY to make sure it sees your vehicle.

3. Now, if your are using the USB connected OBD device, leave it connect to your port in your vehicle and it to your laptop, but SHUT DOWN THE OBD SOFTWARE while you are connected! If you don't, when you run Forscan it will keep trying to reach your vehicle through the OBD software instead of straight through the USB cable. You'll keep getting messages that it cannot connect. Took me an hour to figure this one out!

4. Open Forscan. And Forscan should automatically connect. If it doesn't, click the connect button (it should be the little square at the very bottom left corner of the software screen). Down in the same area you should see the words "vehicle" and "Not Connected" with red squared indicators next to the words. When you click the connect button, the lights will turn green and your in!!

5. Now click on the computer chip in the far left column, 3rd from the bottom. At this point, I pray that you see "BdyCM Module Configuration", DON'T CLICK ON THE ONE THAT SAYS "AS BUILT format" if you do, this format is more for the auto tech novices out there! Click on the one that doesn't have the additional wording. Then, at the bottom left portion of the screen you see an icon that looks like a "play" button on a recording machine, click on it.............

6. Now another page will load up. Look for "BCM" (again, ignoring anything with "AS Built" next to it) Highlight this one and click the "play" button. Now you will see a column that states "battery" and next to that word you should see "AGM" (yeah folks, mine was set for AGM from the factory).

7. Now in my excitement, I think the next thing I did was highlight this column, pressed the play button, and the parameters at what percentage the charge is at comes up in a boxed window. All I did was change it from 80% to 95%, went down to the bottom of the screen where it says "Write new parameters" or "Write to save", clicked that button, it told me it was saved and got the hell outta dodge!!

Lastly, with my fully charge up battery, I did the battery sensor reset.

I sincerely hope this helps some else out there.

Reading some battery threads here as I'm getting ready to install a new AGM battery in our 2023 Ford Escape Hybrid this week. It's the same hybrid system that's in the Mavericks but I'm able to find more info on the Maverick threads compared to the Escape threads. Anyway I came across your post here and wanted to confirm this part:

6. Now another page will load up. Look for "BCM" (again, ignoring anything with "AS Built" next to it) Highlight this one and click the "play" button. Now you will see a column that states "battery" and next to that word you should see "AGM" (yeah folks, mine was set for AGM from the factory).

It looks like you have a 23 Maverick Hybrid (same year as our Escape) and you mention that the battery type was already set to AGM for your Maverick even though it came with a regular FLA battery? So you didn't have to change the battery type at all within FORScan when you installed your AGM battery correct? I came across a post on an Escape thread where someone mentioned the same thing for their 23 Escape - that it was already set to the AGM setting. I don't have FORScan so I can't check for sure on our Escape but it makes sense that it's most likely all ready set to AGM.

The reason I ask is I'm seeing some posts online that mention you need to go in via FORScan or have the Ford dealer reprogram the battery type to AGM but it sure sounds like it's already set for that from the factory. Supposedly an AGM charges differently than a regular FLA battery or at least that's what I've read. I just want to get as much information as I can before throwing an AGM in our Escape.

 

[Master Blaster]

I charged my battery, did the reset in the owners manual, and haven't had anymore issues. Went outside last night and my lights were all on, I urned them off. I am wondering if my whole problem was leaving the lights on? I had shit them off manually and then turned them back on, I dont do that much, but it could have been what happened.

How are you getting the headlights to stay on past the courtesy timeout with the ignition off? They switch to auto mode and turn off after typically 10-30sec, depending upon what your settings are.

 

[okgaz]

Reading some battery threads here as I'm getting ready to install a new AGM battery in our 2023 Ford Escape Hybrid this week. It's the same hybrid system that's in the Mavericks but I'm able to find more info on the Maverick threads compared to the Escape threads. Anyway I came across your post here and wanted to confirm this part:

6. Now another page will load up. Look for "BCM" (again, ignoring anything with "AS Built" next to it) Highlight this one and click the "play" button. Now you will see a column that states "battery" and next to that word you should see "AGM" (yeah folks, mine was set for AGM from the factory).

It looks like you have a 23 Maverick Hybrid (same year as our Escape) and you mention that the battery type was already set to AGM for your Maverick even though it came with a regular FLA battery? So you didn't have to change the battery type at all within FORScan when you installed your AGM battery correct? I came across a post on an Escape thread where someone mentioned the same thing for their 23 Escape - that it was already set to the AGM setting. I don't have FORScan so I can't check for sure on our Escape but it makes sense that it's most likely all ready set to AGM.

The reason I ask is I'm seeing some posts online that mention you need to go in via FORScan or have the Ford dealer reprogram the battery type to AGM but it sure sounds like it's already set for that from the factory. Supposedly an AGM charges differently than a regular FLA battery or at least that's what I've read. I just want to get as much information as I can before throwing an AGM in our Escape.

You can do it that way. And maybe that’s the “right” way.

But honestly, just doing a true BMS reset should suffice. It will “read” the new battery and operate as intended. From what I hear, that’s what most dealers will do too - they don’t mess with Forscan.

Make sure you do all the steps through. Charge fully, the high beam / brake combination, and then leave it locked (fob far away) overnight.

 

[ListedGuru]

You can do it that way. And maybe that’s the “right” way.

But honestly, just doing a true BMS reset should suffice. It will “read” the new battery and operate as intended. From what I hear, that’s what most dealers will do too - they don’t mess with Forscan.

Make sure you do all the steps through. Charge fully, the high beam / brake combination, and then leave it locked (fob far away) overnight.

Thanks for the reply and what you mentioned is what I plan to do. I will charge up the battery first before installation on my Noco 5 but hopefully it won't take long to charge if I get a freshly stocked battery. We've had the 12V battery replaced 2x on our Escape (under warranty) but now we are out of warranty so were just going to bite the bullet and install an AGM battery this time with a great warranty.

 

[Gunnar88]

How are you getting the headlights to stay on past the courtesy timeout with the ignition off? They switch to auto mode and turn off after typically 10-30sec, depending upon what your settings are.

IDK I dont really pay that close attention, I just went back outside and the light were still on, I guess the headlights auto off no matter what, but what about the interior?

 

[A Sturdy Beast]

It looks like you have a 23 Maverick Hybrid (same year as our Escape) and you mention that the battery type was already set to AGM for your Maverick even though it came with a regular FLA battery? So you didn't have to change the battery type at all within FORScan when you installed your AGM battery correct? I came across a post on an Escape thread where someone mentioned the same thing for their 23 Escape - that it was already set to the AGM setting. I don't have FORScan so I can't check for sure on our Escape but it makes sense that it's most likely all ready set to AGM.

The reason I ask is I'm seeing some posts online that mention you need to go in via FORScan or have the Ford dealer reprogram the battery type to AGM but it sure sounds like it's already set for that from the factory. Supposedly an AGM charges differently than a regular FLA battery or at least that's what I've read. I just want to get as much information as I can before throwing an AGM in our Escape.

I’m not the person you asked, but I have a 2023 Maverick Hybrid XL and last week I used Forescan for the first time. My ‘23 came with a regular flooded battery. Nine months ago I put in an AGM. When setting the state of charge from 80 to 95%, I noticed that it was already factory set to AGM.

 

[CurtisB]

Reading some battery threads here as I'm getting ready to install a new AGM battery in our 2023 Ford Escape Hybrid this week. It's the same hybrid system that's in the Mavericks but I'm able to find more info on the Maverick threads compared to the Escape threads. Anyway I came across your post here and wanted to confirm this part:

6. Now another page will load up. Look for "BCM" (again, ignoring anything with "AS Built" next to it) Highlight this one and click the "play" button. Now you will see a column that states "battery" and next to that word you should see "AGM" (yeah folks, mine was set for AGM from the factory).

It looks like you have a 23 Maverick Hybrid (same year as our Escape) and you mention that the battery type was already set to AGM for your Maverick even though it came with a regular FLA battery? So you didn't have to change the battery type at all within FORScan when you installed your AGM battery correct? I came across a post on an Escape thread where someone mentioned the same thing for their 23 Escape - that it was already set to the AGM setting. I don't have FORScan so I can't check for sure on our Escape but it makes sense that it's most likely all ready set to AGM.

The reason I ask is I'm seeing some posts online that mention you need to go in via FORScan or have the Ford dealer reprogram the battery type to AGM but it sure sounds like it's already set for that from the factory. Supposedly an AGM charges differently than a regular FLA battery or at least that's what I've read. I just want to get as much information as I can before throwing an AGM in our Escape.

Mine was already set for an AGM.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

IDK I dont really pay that close attention, I just went back outside and the light were still on, I guess the headlights auto off no matter what, but what about the interior?

Next time lights are on try pressing lock button on key fob twice that will turn all delay lights off within 2 seconds. The only thing that stays on is the dash and bed 12 volt power points, the interior lights including dash, radio, etc all turn off.

 

[ListedGuru]

Just curious if anyone has used one of those battery memory saver tools? I guess you plug them into the ODB II port and it will retain features like saved radio stations, memory seat settings, etc. If you've used one of these did it work well?

 

[MakinDoForNow]

Just curious if anyone has used one of those battery memory saver tools? I guess you plug them into the ODB II port and it will retain features like saved radio stations, memory seat settings, etc. If you've used one of these did it work well?

I eat two Brazil nuts every night about 8pm. The selenium keeps the fog lifted and I can remember where I left things like my glasses, TV control, cell phone, even wife of 55 year's name.

 

[rknrbt]

After 2 battery replacements in 18 months on my '24 hybrid I opted to have the Motorcraft AGM-H4 battery installed in August. I have had no issues...until today I got the dreaded "battery saver mode" warning on y FordPass. I am so damn sick and tired of the crap. I wish Ford would finally solve this problem. I had it on my '22 and still have it on my '24. After buying 5 new Fords in 6 years this Ford retiree is starting to look at something else.

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