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Maximum amount of files that MFT can index
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
They are broken down into folders, but if you look at the file structure just using Windows file explorer, you do not see any artist or song names, just a jumbled mess for song titles. Using a 3rd party utility like Floola, I can see the artist name and song. I just backed up all of the music on my iPod to a 320 GB hard drive and am going to try that again this morning. I hope the update that is coming out has been tested. The Sync system in my Cmax has been flakey since the 2nd week I had the car. For a week or so, it would not recognize any USB device plugged into it. The day after I called Ford and setup an appointment for them to look at it, it started working again! Since then, it has just done this one time. One morning I was going to work and listening to the iPod, and all of a sudden the song I was listening to just started distorting, then quit. I could not get it to work again until I shut the car off and turned it back on. I have had no display a few times, twice had the system restart stating it was doing maintenance, voice commands do not seem to work, but that may be me! -
I own a 2013 Cmax Hybrid with the Sony audio system and want to know if there is a maximum amount of files or songs that the system will see on a music device, USB Drive, external hard drive, etc. Most of the time I use an iPod Classic 160 GB, and the system will not see all of the albums I have on it. My iPod has 14,418 songs on it with just under 27GB free. I can navigate to an artists folder, and on some, not all albums will be seen by the Ford's audio system. My car is using Sync VersionGen2 - V3.1.3. The system has been very buggy since I have had it and this is the latest thing to go wrong. When I plug the iPod into the car after I add files to it, the cars audio system seems to index the iPod and does not get stuck, as it apparently has done on some other peoples systems. Manually indexing it does not help. I have Googled this problem, but cannot find a direct answer. Any help would be appreciated!
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LOL...you are correct! My old Civic was not very big and had NO get up and go whatsoever!
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Consumer Reports is wrong. Ever since I have been doing this so called "pulse and glide", I have been averaging a bit above 47MPG. When we first purchased the Cmax, the AVG MPG on it was about 38.x. It is now 42.8 and I have been driving it like this for a few weeks now. My average goes up a little bit daily. Like you, however, we did get about 36-38 MPG on a recent trip where the speed limit was 70mph, but I knew the car was not going to work in EV mode above 63 MPH anyway. That is still higher than most cars on the road and all cars get lower gas mileage at high speeds. I still think it is odd how gas mileage in cars, up until hybrids became popular, has gone down over the years. I drive a Honda Civic back in 1984 that got 46 mpg around town and 55 on the highway. The next year, they made a car that beat that! Ford now seems to be ahead of the pack as far as gas mileage goes.
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Thanks for the info. I actually did some reading last night and got a lot of mixed information about this subject. One thing that I read that seemed to make sense was to set your tire pressure to 10% below the max stated on the tire. This was so when you are driving and the tire warms up, it does not go over the max PSI. Other vehicles that I have owned had tires that had a max PSI of about 36 and I never had a problem. However, I think I am just going to put it a few PSI over the recommended rating on the door to play it safe. I did read some online article a few days ago dealing with MPG tweaks and it had mentioned setting the pressure according to the max on the tire. Seems to me now that this is not a good idea and not worth the extra 1 MPG it may give you!
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I have done this all day today, and on my trips to work and back I averaged about 50 mpg! My trip to work is about 25 miles, half of which is on a beltline with a 65PH speed limit. I stayed in right lane and kepy my speed any between 60-63 the entire time there, and just drove 35-55 mph on the smaller roads. I did not drive any different than what I normally do other than just having quicker starts! Thank you fo the great information! It is informative and so easy to do. One more thing all of you may want to check is your tire pressure. I have found that on every car we have purchased, the tires on it are very underinflated to make the test drives smoother. The tires on my Cmax are rated for 51 psi and Ford had them at 32! The recommended rating on the door is 38 psi, but I have always followed the rated pressure on the tires themselves. You get better gas mileage and wear this way.
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Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
I tried a reset on my iPod, but did not reload the music onto it. My wifes Nano and my iPhone 3GS also did not work. I spoke to a support person at Ford today and she recommended I let the techs look at it. Oddly enough, today it worked!! Both my iPod Classic 160 and my external 320GB USB hard drive both worked fine. Go figure! I have also put music on my iPod that for some reason would not play in the order it should have on the album. I am not sure what Ford will do with it unless they have some way of hard resetting the system beyond what you can do manually. Maybe they will try a complete reinstall of the software. -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Looks like my C-max has to go to the doctor!! ..;(. Maybe the techs at Ford can sort it out!! -
I have been trying this since yesterday. I normally accelerate very slowly, but with this info, I have now been getting to the speed limit quicker (I have not been squealing tires or slamming down hard on the gas pedal!;;p) ). I have also been trying to keep my speed limit at 62 MPH and below. Is this what you have been doing? It seems like this is very similar to the way I usually drive, except to start and get to the speed limit quicker. Also, and this may be in the manual, how do you know the C-max is in EV mode?
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MFT rebooted this morning, while i was driving
mikekoz replied to R3dRyd3r's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Laurel, thank you very much! I will try to call them tomorrow. Us men are like kids, and we love our toys!..;p). -
MFT rebooted this morning, while i was driving
mikekoz replied to R3dRyd3r's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Mine did that last weekend, but I am having other problems with the computerized systems in my C-max anyway. -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
I guess putting in those lines does not help my situation. My intention was not to bash the Ford Sync system, but I ended up doing that anyway out of frustration. I am also mad at myself for not doing my homework before we bought the vehicle. I read reviews about the C-max, but not the Sync system which I was not familiar with until we bought it. Now I am reading about problems with it going back a few years ago on other vehicles. I used the reference to the Honda only because it was the only other system like this I have used, and it does a lot of things Sync does. Keep in mind also that all these things worked great the first week and a half I had the C-max. Up until the last week and a half, I would have been singing its praises! For some unknown reason, it just stopped working. Apparently Ford is working on an update to Sync, but it will not be available to hybrid owners until first quarter 2013. I am hoping Ford will fix this before then. Sorry for coming across a bit abrasive! -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Then laugh. Good for you if you have an iPod that has always worked. My comment was pretty much tougue and cheek humor, possibly made a bit bitter by being disappointed by a function of my C-max. I actually would not have bought a Prius anyway as I wanted an American made vehicle. I am also aware that people that own the Prius have problems. Toyota vehicles have had issues the last few years that you would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of them. So do other vehicles of all other makes and models. Nothing is perfect. So please keep your comments like this to yourself as they do not help. -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Yes we have the CEL and I have tried 3 cables when trying to get the Apple devices to work, and about the same amount of cables with the USB hard drives. I have done the master reset. We paid a lot of money for this vehicle to have an odd thing like this go wrong with it. We traded in a Honda Pilot and everything worked that I plugged into that audio system. It had its bugs and flaws, but it was far superior to this system in the C-max. -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
It is 3.1.3 which supposingly is the most up to date version. I downloaded the upgrade tool and put it on a USB drive, then connected it to the car's USB port. Went to "install apps" which seemed to complete, then put the USB drive back in the computer to verify. The version number did not change, however, after the online utility verified the install as successful. Maybe we should have bought a Prius! -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
After some more testing with various devices this morning, I am convinced the problem is with the Sync system in my C-max. I tried using 4 different external hard drives, all formatted as Fat32, and none worked, with one exception. I have a Toshiba 320GB drive that I put my entire music collection on, and when I first connected it, it did not work. After a second attempt, it worked and the Sync system indexed it, and all was golden. I then turned off the car, turned it back on, then reconnected the drive, and got the "Device is not supported" error like all the other times. I also see that people using this Sync system have been having lots of problems with it. I wish I would have read about this before I bought the car. I would not have purchased the car if I had known about these issues in advance. I have found no information online that is any help either, so I guess my only option is too bring it back to the dealer. -
Playing an iPod using one the USB ports
mikekoz replied to mikekoz's topic in Audio, MyFord, Navigation & SYNC
Thanks, but I tried that the first time it happened. I should have mentioned that. I thought for sure that would resolve the problem, but the issue is apparently with the hardware or software in the vehicle as I have three Apple devices that do the same thing. The odd thing is that I tried two external hard drives today and they seemed to work fine, at least a few times. I may have to use one all week to see if it works. If it does, that will work fine for me until I can get this resolved. -
We have had a C-max now for about 3 weeks with the Sony Audio system. For the first week or so, my iPod played fine. However, during the last few weeks, I can hardly get the system to recognize it. It is a 160GB iPod Classic and it is about 2 years old. I also have an iPhone 3GS and have tried an 8GB iPod my wife has, and both do not work. I am going to call the dealer next week and ask my salesperson, but I am not sure if he will know the answer. The display on the iPod seems to know it is connected to a Ford Sync system, but the system rarely recognizes it. I have tried a master reset and have also used a USB drive to try to upgrade Sync, but both did nothing. It has Sync version 3.14 which seems to be the latest as the upgrade did not change it. Has anybody else experienced this and is there a fix?