Detailed Sync 3.4 Deep Dive [What's New With 3.4] [Review]

hey what's up YouTube back let's focus st video and in this video I'm gonna go over at the sink three point four system I'm gonna give a deep dive into the system show you the ins and outs of the system and I'm gonna talk a little bit about my experience with using this entry point for system for the past week that I've had it on here I'll leave my last video putting it on here this is the unofficial version of the 63.4 update this is not well this is the version that you will get on 20/20 vehicles 3.4 but this is just an unofficial version I'm running this on a 2016 Ford Focus ST this is an ST - not a SD one over three so there's some features that um I don't have that I do think that will be available for people who have later model your vehicle vehicles or it could possibly be available for someone who has an ST three and not just an ST - if you want to learn how to actually install this update go watch my previous video the previous video will be in the I write their link in the description check out that video and I show you how to install SCIM 3.4 on 2016 and up but just to let you guys know full transparency I am coming from since 3.0 not 3.2 or 3.3 so there are a lot of things that I might say in this video having seen three point four that you may have with your 2019 vehicle and you're running like say sync 3.2 if you point 3 you may have already had some of these features so maybe this isn't new but this is all new to me I want to first talk about just the overall design of the sync 3 system seems to be point 4 to me has a beautiful design this is the night mode because I'm parked inside of the garage right now so it's sitting on its if it's dark outside so this is the night mode it is all blue it looks gorgeous same mode I will show you day mode really quickly just to get this you get a feel for what day mode looks like brightness on that brightness mode a day mode it looks incredibly awesome to me to it still keeps that nice blue navigation bar at the bottom but everything else is white at the top and I'll go over some of the aesthetics and a little bit as far as the backgrounds and stuff but this is what demos gonna look like for you and you first load up the system and that's what night mode for you is gonna look like when you first load up this system I think both modes look incredibly nice so just with this look as a whole it's completely different gone are the baby blues everything is a darker shade of blue I do like how when each icon is lit up you do see it is like a sheen it's like a shine it's like a dash between the top right part of the square all the way down to the bottom part there it's like a little line and then the top portion is a little bit lighter than the bottom portion you can see that better with the night mode I'll go ahead and put this back in the night mode well in Auto just gonna switch back to night mode the highlighted icons you can see it's audio you can actually see like I said before it's just like what the top part of it is a lighter shade than the bottom part and on night mode it has this really cool glow around it I really like that glow I think it sets it off nicely night mode looks so good to me that I almost want to drive around with night mode on all the time it's really nice so besides just the themes there are a little bit of this design elements that are different than sin 3.0 I'll switch to a radio station that actually is playing and I can actually pick up an HD radio right now we're in the garage it might work what might not work so one of the major things that I first noticed besides just the overall things being a lot nicer when it comes to gradients and when it comes to the overall color scheme of both day and night it's the fact that text is Center aligned so you can see we here we have the callsign for the radio station we have 107 point 7 that is the frequency you're gonna put it on to get the station but as you can see here at the bottom what it's actually playing on the radio station Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer unroot off one I don't know why this HD 2 station plates Christmas music year-round it's really weird to me it's it's it's Center aligned and sync 3.0 it was actually aligned to the left now having it being Center aligned is good and a bad thing I guess for me it's kind of good because I kind of like the way it looks in our line because you I don't know I guess I never really noticed many car systems things being Center aligned like that when it comes to audio just basic systems like this sound like a Tesla type system with a giant screen so it's kind of cool to see that that the text is Center aligned but it's bad in the sense that you do lose the amount of characters that can be shown on the screen because here you have a giant HD radio thing which takes away characters when this is gone you do have more characters and on the right side it's just you know it's nothing it stains all the way out here because it's Center aligned and that would look weird for it to extend so far out so when you could put it on a radio station so when you actually have music playing that actually is a long title you will get dots and even with Bluetooth this being here you know that's taken away from it but it's still that still remains with radio you will get dots when you come when it comes to the titles of songs and artists if it's long enough both on radio and on Bluetooth because everything is now Center aligned your album art is now on the left side it's showing a random photo it's not showing the actual album art because grace notes is being weird with this but that's what that's what it's doing right there so the design of the music screen is actually pretty different compared to scene 3.0 now I'm gonna go back to the radio portion I want to talk about there was a section right here that had presets it had three lines you would click it one two three and ever change between presets now that is no longer here with scene three point four to change presets you now see three dots at the bottom kind of like you do on your smartphone screen your iPhone whatever you're using you see little dots at the bottom to indicate how many home pages you have kind of similar similar to that just take your hand and you just swipe over enable go to precinct preach preset Bank two and preset Bank three and in doing so it's going to actually switch over to the last station that you were listening to on that preset Bank I'll show you serious accident I don't have Sirius XM but this is what the Sirius XM screen looks like but you see here this is what Sirius XM looks like now the bottom right here you do have your album art I mean you do have your your channel arts and here you have the Sirius XM logo and then your information right here in the center part so that's what's different here on the audio portion I'll show you the home screen portion I'm gonna blur out the left side of the screen because it has my location there this still looks exactly the same so let's go ahead and move over to climate and climate is the new thing that showed up in my sink three system I've seen three point four system this was never there for sink 3.0 for me I did go into force can't and force it one day and it did not work it did not function properly so it's really cool and I'm really excited to actually have climate here on my screen now I guess it's kind of redundant we really think about it because I do have climate buttons down here on my sensors stack but it doesn't really matter to me I like having it up here so it actually works so turning climb on turns it on and I'll try to move away so you don't get any uh any noise from the air but turning climate uncharted on you do have up and down here at the bottom I mean I'm sorry on the left side to control your temperature here is where you know you can control where you want the air to go so if you take it off whatever whatever it's on if you take it off it could actually go to auto and then if you want defrost you click defrost you have max defrost or just regular defrost and then you have bottom and then here you turn them all on if you want so you can have an ottoman if you want to work really nicely AC you click the AC button it brings up another screen that actually allows for max AC regular AC or the recirculating air now one thing I will say as far as a bug as far as this goes is that AC is reversed and on here for me on my 2016 focus as team right now AC is off and I will show you and I will actually prove this to you here with an actual video from our phone so AC is actually off on the screen as you can see there and when I click AC on on the screen it turns it off down here AC off on the screen it turns it on down there that's how it's supposed to work it's just a bug if not I assume so that's just how that is just a bug that I just have to kind of deal with it's not a big deal but one really helpful thing as far as having climate on the screen is that I'll show my phone again that single clip the auto button you have to actually hold down the auto button here on the left side to actually get dual to come on or off and that was one of the things that pissed me off about having this car I don't really have anybody in the car so I guess I shouldn't say piss me off but it was kind of stupid to me not to have a dual button when you have dual zone automatic we have dual zone climate control because holding down the auto button to turn dual on or off would actually turn Auto on and it just kinda made no sense but now here in the sync screen you can actually click the dual button here on or off and then the turn dual on or off you don't have to worry about holding down auto or anything like that so I really like having dual right there on the string so that's how climate works here on the scene 3.4 system on my Focus ST let's go ahead and move on to phone phone is another thing that had a new feature in it that I was really psyched about show you that right now so as you probably saw I guess what they did with it connecting it I don't know if my Cohen connected in the video I do use a Google pixel for excel so one of the things I really wished that this phone had that iPhones do have not mistaken iPhones had it here on the sync system for a very long time it was Siri hands-free and now I finally have access to the Google assistant so in the phone saying there's a new tile called phone voice assistant so clicking that actually makes the Google assistant come on and holding down on the say command button on the steering wheel actually does it too so when you hold down on the steering button it actually comes on so I really do like that I'm so happy that I actually have access to the Google assistant here on the phone because I mean here in the car so don't have to actually rely on Android auto because a lot of times and rato is cool but it's just buggy at times and I like to just go ahead and use the sync system so having full access to the Google assistant works very very well so one thing you do have to know about using the phone assistant here is that it will activate on radio but it isn't really talked to me on radio I wasn't doing it a second ago so but used most of the time I'm using Bluetooth anyway so on Bluetooth it actually works so what is Tesla stock at right now so let's go ahead and go back to phone here so top left you have your recent call list my recent call list isn't really working correctly I'll show it now that's just it's not working correctly that's just a random number I don't know who that is it's not working correctly because I am running Android 11 beta on my phone and Bluetooth acting really weird with it so I'm not really sure what's up with that my contact list is also not working when you click on the phone here you can actually have more settings so you can a few more devices you can manage your contacts you can set the phone ringtone for the car there's different phone ringtones in the car if you wanted to hear how those sound you really could just DM me on Instagram and I will send you a video of me showing off the phone ringtones Instagram will pop up right here in the video and in the link in the description I don't want to waste too much time going over that text messages here you can also set more phone ringtones for the text messages that pop up and look on the sync screen once again hit me up if you want to see that new audio in privacy so if you're in privacy mode on the phone privacy mode when you have a phone call show you in a second you have your phone when you have a phone call if you want to take that phone call and private without having it coming through the Bluetooth speakers in the car then you can take it in privacy mode and muting is that what that setting will mute the radio audio and it won't come through I have it off I'll give you a roaming warrant we're warning and a low battery notification I turn a little battery notification off because for me it doesn't really work so well because it actually like gives me a low battery warning it like 30% and I was like this is not what I want yeah do not disturb well it notifications will not show up on the same screen when you're driving your phone keypad I'll show you this phone keypad it does not listed the the letters well but you know there's a phone keypad so go back and then call pops up your text messages here I'll show you the text message really quickly you can click on one right here and then one will pop up and show you what it says what time we receive you can reply with these quick replies here there are a good amount of them just pause the video to see what they look like you can hear the message this is a while you can call it so let's go back from there when you're actually driving a notification will pop I will show you in a second I will just send a quick text message to myself well I'm usually RCS with this phone sending the message so it's not gonna pop up on the screen shoot so RCS messages do not pop up I'm gonna go ahead and send messages again as an SMS and that's what it looks like when you're driving reply is actually a view view is actually no reply reply is actually grayed out and not mistaken so that's what it looks like when you get a text message you can hear it reply different things like that so let's go ahead and move on from the phone because phone is very simple oh you know what I'll go ahead and call myself really quickly too so you can see what the call screen looks like it is much different than before incoming calls look like this except the call it will show you the number I'm pretty sure to actually show you the the name of the person but once again my contact list is not working correctly and then you have in call you phone keypad and privacy all right there at the top you do have your signal strength at the bottom and your message is not stuff at the bottom so yeah that's what the call screen looks like let's move on to navigation hey this is voiceover Lindy coming in after the fact in post-production I actually got clips of the navigation in action this is in daylight mode at the top you see here a six point three miles and you see the row that I'm on there's an X on the right that actually is letting you know the next row that I'm turning on and lets you know what way I'm going to be turning on to that road and how far away the road is and there's X the X on the right is actually how you get rid of the navigation guidance this that you're seeing on your screen now is actually screen view there are three different screen views we have full map which is what I just showed you originally you have highway exit info and that actually gives you the upcoming exits that are on the side of the road that you're passing by it lets you know what exit they are it lets you know if there's gas on that exit food on that exit it's a really cool feature and it's just for any passing by exit it's not even just the exit you're going to be turning on to then you have turn lists it gives you a listed view of all the turns you have left for your trip on the right of the screen so this is what it looks like when you're coming up on your turn maybe it be a left or right turn the right side of the screen will switch over to that and it gives you a little progress bar on the bottom left part of that right area letting you know how much distance is left before your turn let's go back to carlini's so he can finish his video let's click on apps this is sync app link sync app link has been a thing for a very long time I believe it's also available on sync two or MyFord Touch whatever they used to call the old system I think seek to was the small screen in my Ford touch was the big screen I'm not I can't really remember but anyways and since 3.0 it is also still here and it's still trash if you click find mobile apps I have three apps in this phone that are sync app link compatible and one of them just doesn't show up I can hardly ever get all three of them to pop up at the same time I really hope that this approach for sync app link is not what they rely on for the Mustang Mach II I'm really interested in the vehicle and if it don't have built-in app support I don't really know how I would feel about that because I'm not exactly sure how much I trust app link maybe on the sync for the sync for a system that's gonna be in the Monty is gonna be better but it's utter trash in in in the sink it's been that way since I've gotten this car i sync 2.63 version 1.0 it was just it was bad so I put Pandora on this phone because I wanted to see what it looked like for sync app link and it rarely shows up and when it does show up it is so bad it does not work at all the only I can ever get to work with some sync app link is our heart radio so let's go ahead and show you that app right here so this one thing I've noticed about our heart radio and sync app link in that the text is aligned to the left side so you still get all the information as far as the characters goes for your artists in title so this is what it looks like and this is radio watch decently I will give it that it works decently and it's gotten a little bit better but it's still not the greatest because when you click on menu and you click on you know any of these menu options it goes back to the home screen it just waits on the home screen so the longest time I thought I just didn't work then I had to realize that I had to sit here and actually just wait for it to pop up so there it is it actually pops up and now I have you know my presets with their all the icons so that's cool but the fact that it takes so long to pop up I don't like it now I guess you you watch this video you're like oh listen take that long but I'll block it does for me Sirius XM traveling you have fuel prices movie listings subscription info I thought my subscription was over with I thought it was over with disk in this car oh maybe it's over within this year but so that's how you get the steel prices and stuff like that you have a travel list sports info weather whether it looks really nice now I like the way the icons look click on an area and you can click on there used to be a map I don't think there's a map anymore there we go so there's a map right there storm radar chart so that's pretty cool karma the map counter goes in-depth it's kind of more than you would think it to be you have the legend that can pop up at the bottom so the design of weather is slightly different when it comes to the icons and all that it looks really nice so let's go ahead and go back to the beginning sports info I don't really mess with sports like that even have a Sirius XM's so I don't even know if it even work and plus everything is dead right now because the co vid so movie listings also dead now let's go ahead and go here to the settings menu go back over one screen you have sound sound looks the same you know speed dependent volume kind of thing your balance fade your clock you could actually get to the clock not just by going to settings clicking on clock but if you just click on the clock it would go to the clock to the genius I should work that way when we hit the back button in exit goes back to the previous menu you were on not back in the settings menu bluetooth here you can add a Bluetooth device or not and this one more thing to talk about with Bluetooth 2 to change phone was never an option on my student you point system I don't ever remember it being there you can change phone if you have multiple phones in the car that are that are compatible with the system or like I just haven't previously connected to the system just click on that and you can click on one of the one of the phones here and connect it so we'll go back here and then we click on foam and this is your phone settings the phone settings are the same phone settings that I showed you earlier in the video when I clicked on phone and went to the phone settings in there it's the same thing you click on navigation settings also the same navigation settings you can get to it from the navigation app or from there that's how systems are supposed to be built I do like that UX when I'm in a certain area of an app I like to be able to click on the settings in that app and go to the settings for that app I don't want to have to get out of the app and then click on settings and then go to the settings for that makes no sense so mobile apps is right here you can enable mobile app native mobile apps via USB this is also something that's new I don't ever remember this in soon 3.0 it is all apps and for pass in the heart radio these are all your app that you have on here clicking on this will actually give you permissions for each of these apps you can turn these permissions on or off and that's for all the apps and if I just go back and click on I Heart Radio it gives me there's no permissions for this app so there's no permissions for it the click on and off but if I click on forward pass it will give me permissions for that app so there I don't ever remember permissions being a thing in scene 3.0 that pops possibly were seen 3.3 or 3.2 and that you're coming from but not for me and sync 3.0 I'm gonna go back here and click on general general here is just general you have language you have temperature you have measuring units and miles or not touch screens beep on or off automatic system updates this is the unofficial version so from what I'm hearing you or not this car wasn't supposed to get stinky 0.04 in the first place so automatic system updates don't you don't really need to have it on or off because you're not gonna get the updates anyways sync analytics are Diagnostics this is something that's also new and Singh clear point for that I did not haven't seen 3.0 this will send four different I guess you can just say different things about what you do how you interact with the car and things that they can use on their in to make this sync system better I have them all on it's totally up to you have them on or on or off if you want to privacy or not I'll click on each individually so you can pause and read what they are here is seeing Diagnostics pause and read it if you want to and then audio listing analytics this popped up for me as a notification when I first turned the car on one day after using sync they think that the 3.4 update for a couple of days it just randomly pops up I have a picture of it I'll show you it allows me to turn it on or off in that pop up and you can actually find it here in the settings to if you want to do it that way and you can submit feedback I really like that about some any feedback so if you have a problem with the system hey this didn't work you know that click it complicated you submit the feedback you can't really give specifics but I like the fact that they're trying to incorporate a Tesla like experience here even for this car that's that's like that's like four five years old I got it in 2015 I still kind of have that little submit feedback thing even though so fiercely not supposed to be for this car it's just kind of cool that it just it's here in this sink three-point-four system so I'm gonna go all the way back here you have a master reset and then about sync I do have the latest maps and things like that so let's go back here to the settings automatic updates that's also there again connect to a Wi-Fi networks you can actually send those Diagnostics and those data analytics and things like that from that the car collects you send it to for it via the Wi-Fi or you know yeah is Wi-Fi would also be used for automatic updates but once again you're not gonna get it if you update it the way that I did if your vehicle was not actually supported 46.4 android auto settings are all right here vehicle settings here there's nothing about a camera in this car I'm sure it's different in your car but sc3 or a newer model may be displayed this is something that's also new instant 3.4 and I love it so you can have the display off but just you know that's always been there the background is what's new so I'll show you all four backgrounds in dark mode so in night mode this is the default background you do have a gray background you have this cool gradient background actually I guess all these are kind of gradients but here's what has a diamond look to it I really like that and this one has just a more rougher look too it's not necessarily diamond I'll show you I previewed a what I'll actually do instead of previewing day is just change it to day mode now we are here in Des Moines I will click on these these are your these are your backgrounds for day mode you have the regular one the default one that's slightly a blue a more blue hue to it when it's a little like turquoise I don't know what kind of car that is and this one's kind of similar color color just a different pattern and this pattern here is these two are the same patterns for both day and night they do have the same pattern from both day and night this is one of the things I notice about this in these fun and it's unofficial update the brightness really doesn't get all that bright so you have on and you have dim completely bright and in this version of it this is version 221 this version here it just doesn't really get all that bright for me so let's go back here and then you know that's basically it you have a valet mode this is another mode that I don't remember being in sync 3.0 but it could be valet mode you just turn on ice pin so I'll do pin 1 2 3 it done confirm the pin 1 2 3 and then it stays like this the car is actually in valet mode you can't do anything else with it except for to make the pin so if I actually turn the car off and back on the pin still there you still have to turn the pin on or off it does not go away if you turn this vehicle on or off so I do like that about valet mode done to Budds that I've seen squashed one of them is actually tracking forward in radio tracking forward sometimes in radio would actually go back so say I'm here on power 107 double tapping this will should go to 96 3 kiss FM double tapping it back will go back to power 107 in c 3.0 even after all the updates as I did in 3.0 double tapping it would just go back 1 station it was the most frustrating thing ever and it does not do that anymore thank goodness another bug that is also squashed now is actually picking up the phone and it nobody being able to hear anybody I couldn't hear the person on the other end they couldn't hear me it always happened I would be like driving in the car just for a little bit and then I pick up the phone and then nobody can hear anybody but I had to hang up the phone and call back and then it would work I don't know why that is and this is with any Android phone that I had in this car it was it was it was so frustrating but I have not had that happen to me yet that's the c3 system love it love having climate here didn't think I was gonna have it loved having the phone assist in love having the backgrounds love the design overall so if you want to see more hit up the comments section let me know what you want to see hit me up on Instagram if you just want to if you want to talk like one on one of em blah hey show me this I can show I'll show you it I'll make a video just for you and send it you on Instagram so that's just what I do and you guys for watching I will see you in the next video and go

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Length: 25min 10sec (1510 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020