Easy Sync 3.4 Update & Sync 3 Maps Update!

hey there everyone my name is brian lovelace i'm the founder of navi upgrade.com today i'm going to be showing you the easiest way that you can update your sync 3 system to have the latest maps and the latest sync 3 version version 3.4 all you'll need for the update is going to be a simple 32 gigabyte usb thumb drive along with a windows pc let's get right on into it all right so the first thing that we're going to want to do is we're going to want to go to cyanlabs.net ford i already have the page open here and what we're going to do is download the sign three updater here we just go to view application and then we just go down to here and we click download right here i'm gonna save this to my documents my downloads rather wait for it to download it's a very small download open it and you might get this error so we're going to go to more info run anyways yes next install and then we're going to go launch sign three updater so now it's going to say that there's a disclaimer click ok and then we click this check mark right here and now here is where we get to do all the setup for our usb update it's important to follow these directions to a t to make sure that you don't break your apim in the process all right so as you can see here we need to find the full sync version of our current unit and then set our sync region i'm in the united states so i'm going to pick north america and canada and this module does have navigation so i'm going to tick that to on now to find our current sync version all we need to do is we need to go to settings we need to go to general we need to scroll to the bottom oopsies went a little too far and we need to go to about sync as you can see our current version is sync 3 software version 3.0 build 17276 so that's what we're going to enter into this software as you can see our current maps version is north america 116. so that means these maps are from 2016 so those are going to get updated as well now that we're back in the sign 3 updater we're going to type in our full sync version so this is going to be 3 0 1 7 2 7 6. again we're north america and canada and our unit has navigation we're going to keep this as auto detect and we're going to say show all releases and we're going to keep it as that so what we do is we click apply settings perfect now we get to select a usb drive now i'm going to plug in my usb stick now i need to select the usb drive in the application as you can see it's showing up right here as vendor co 29.3 gigabytes perfect if yours isn't showing up after you plug it in please click this refresh button now we're going to select our version our region is going to be north america and canada our version is going to be let's look at the notes here as of december 2020 so this version seems like it has a lot of bug fixes so we'll be installing this one onto our usb drive we're going to select our maps package as 1.19 so 2019 maps north america perfect now we've got our grace notes package everything is selected there and our install mode is going to be reformat which is exactly what we need we just click start and then we say yes because our car is not manufactured in 2020. if your car is manufactured in 2020 this could break your sync system so please do not use this updating system again your car isn't made in 2020 yes yes it's going to ask about reformatting now it's going to download everything and put the packages onto the usb stick this can take quite some time up to an hour or more if you're on a slower internet connection so just be patient and it'll be done when it's done [Music] all right so as you can see here now it's asking if you want to upload a log we're going to say yes you don't need to do this but i figured i'd help the community out and it's going to open up this log and okay we're good here we can just close this and then it says would you like to update your current sync version in the app so it's correct for future use most people i'd say yes i'm going to say no because i update these units all the time and i need to be changing that profile all the time so i'm going to say no and it says ok now we can just remove our usb drive and now we can insert our usb into our sync 3 uh usb hub since i'm on a bench tester here i'm just going to be using this little cable and it's going to say it's going to restart the system it says installation complete now we're going to hit close it will reboot to a different screen where it will start re-partitioning the emmc and start installing the new sync 3 update this is going to take about 28 minutes on a navigation unit or about 12 minutes on a now navigation unit so i would recommend going for a drive or doing something like that while it finishes the update process [Music] all right so as you can see the update has successfully finished indicated by this green screen here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to reach in and i'm just going to pull the usb drive and as i pull the usb drive it'll know that i've pulled the drive and it will restart in just a second [Music] give it a second while it thinks about everything that has happened to it over the last 26 minutes all right so now that our sync 3 system is booted we can actually go into settings here we can go into general we can scroll down and go to about sync oopsies and we can see that our software version is uh 3.4 build 228.2 and then we can scroll down and check out our maps our maps package is na1 which means that it's the 2019 version of the maps which is the latest available sorry for the screen being a little finicky here when you're outside of the car on a bench tester there's no real ground to the screen so what i'm doing is i'm actually just touching the frame of the screen and using that as the grounding point which makes it a lot smoother so this won't be as finicky in your car it has nothing to do with the update it's just the fact that i'm on a bench tester so yeah that's all you need to do to update your sync 3 system to version 3.4 along with updating the maps to the latest version that's available hey thanks for watching my video on how to update the sync 3.4 please remember that if your unit is not equipped with maps from the factory that doing this method and checking that little navigation bar when you're creating your update usb isn't just going to give you navigation because unfortunately the non-navigation modules don't have enough memory to store the maps on them so if you'd like to add maps please head over to naviepgrad.com and purchase a navigation api module if you have any questions drop them below if you like this video please hit that thumbs up button and if you like this content that much i'd really appreciate you hitting that subscribe button for more videos like this coming up in the future and until next time take care

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Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2021