New stereo firmware update available!

[rclee]

Ie tried many times to get the new updates with no success so any help? I’ve got strong wifi signal. Tia

Try going to an area free of WIFI signals. Like a park or a large parking lot and try your cellphone as a hot spot. That was the only way I could get mine to update. Also it is not a bad idea to reset the unit using the soft reset method, hold down Power and Fast Forward buttons until screen goes black.

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[Eagle11]

Try going to an area free of WIFI signals. Like a park or a large parking lot and try your cellphone as a hot spot. That was the only way I could get mine to update. Also it is not a bad idea to reset the unit using the soft reset method, hold down Power and Fast Forward buttons until screen goes black.

Use your phone's hot spot, this works too.

 

[robbyrob]

I have tried everything new USB flash drive
CANNOT PLAY MP3'S FROM ANY FLASH DRIVE
Made sure the USB drive was FAT32 deleated my phone added it back on did all the updates still Ford carplay or whatever it is never sees my USB What a waste I moved on

 

[Eagle11]

I have tried everything new USB flash drive
CANNOT PLAY MP3'S FROM ANY FLASH DRIVE
Made sure the USB drive was FAT32 deleated my phone added it back on did all the updates still Ford carplay or whatever it is never sees my USB What a waste I moved on

First off it's Apple Care Play

There are directions to ensure you can play a Thumb drive, a quick search on You Tube will get you up and running.

 

[AltoBlueLariat]

First off it's Apple Care Play

There are directions to ensure you can play a Thumb drive, a quick search on You Tube will get you up and running.

I love it when someone corrects someone, but is also incorrect.

 

[Eagle11]

I love it when someone corrects someone, but is also incorrect.

What wrong?

 

[AltoBlueLariat]

What wrong?

No worries, just having a laugh. Apple Care Play?

 

[Bob The Builder]

I care very much about my Apple CarPlay.

Continuing to have dropouts on CarPlay so today on a jaunt to the "big city" I hit up Best Buy and picked a top tier cable. Had to get it in 4' which sucked but whatever. Seems to have made a huge difference in connectivity with zero dropouts after another hour of driving.

My old cable was new, but cheap. You know the ones, 3 for 10 bucks on Amazon. I admit it. Sometimes I am my own worst enemy. I be suspecting the radio is very intolerant of these cheap cables.

 

[mannyk12]

I wish this (or anything) would enable me to play Mp3 from inserting a flash drive in the usb insert
Ive tried it all

you can play usb just have to change the usb format to exfat or something. Have your tried that?

 

[robbyrob]

I have tried everything new USB flash drive
CANNOT PLAY MP3'S FROM ANY FLASH DRIVE
Made sure the USB drive was FAT32 deleted my phone added it back on did all the updates still Ford carplay or whatever it is never sees my USB What a waste I moved on

 

[Scupking]

Just did the update today. It took about 2 hours with the truck on, sitting in my driveway hooked up to my 1 gig Internet. Nice thing being a hybrid my engine never turned on! Don't notice any big changes. System might feel a little faster.

 

[Potatomafia]

Welp, that was a PITA.

So to preface, I had auto updates and WiFi turned off. My update experience went like this:

1. Get in and start the truck
2. Navigate to the Settings-->Wifi menu
3. Turn wi-fi on
4. Have it fail to connect to the 2.4GHz band on my home wifi. Phone had 4 bars of connectivity, truck had 1.
5. Turn on Wi-Fi hotspot on my phone
6. Rescan available networks and have truck connect to my phone hotspot.
7. Truck fails to connect to phone hotspot.
8. Truck decides that it did in fact connect.
9. Enable auto updates on truck.
10. Sit and wait for truck radio to do anything.
11. Nothing happens after 5 minutes.
12. Soft reboot truck radio using power and FF button.
13. Radio reboots, navigate to auto updates menu.
14. Truck decides that it wants to update and starts downloading update.
15. Update downloads in about 10 minutes.
16. Update installs in about 8 minutes.
17. Nothing happens.
18. Decide to soft reboot radio again.
19. Radio reboots.
20. Robot lady voice startles the shit outta me.
21. Update complete

 

[Bushpilot]

Did mine yesterday, it downloaded in about 4-5 songs over the radio, and today I got a message about it being successfully updated.

Connection was via an eero router WiFi on Starlink satellite Internet.

No noted differences yet.

 

[Mav_RICK]

Have you upgraded to iOS17? When I did that apple car play seemed to respond better, then upgraded the truck.

No I’m still on 16.6.1

 

[LGRW_GoGRG]

Did the update today. CarPlay launches way faster than before and the backup camera seems to be more stable and less laggy. Also haven’t noticed any audio pops.

Used my iPhone hotspot with “Maximze compatibility” enabled as it wasn’t working initially. Took about 15 minutes to complete once it started downloading.

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