How To Update Sync 3 to Sync 3.4 | Beginner's Tutorial - EASY!

hey guys welcome to red50 thank you for tuning into another video if you're new to the channel thank you for stopping by make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss out on future videos so in today's video i want to go over how to install sync 3.4 system for your ford vehicle so we're going to be going from this to that now you may be wondering why do you need this thing 3.4 system well it's always good to get the latest version out there for your car phone laptop whatever have you so why not do it for the car what's going to benefit you from this there might be some new feature that get introduced over time or you might be able to if you're experiencing some bugs or anything like that it's worth a while to upgrade to the latest system to fix those bugs so my car has the sync 3.3 system so we're going to be upgrading 3.4 i do have a 2019 mustang gt but the process is going to be same for all your ford vehicle there's equipped with at least sync 3.0 system so whether it's a ford f-150 for transit man for fusion you name it it should be the same process now there are three main ways you can upgrade to the new and ladies sync software you can do the wi-fi installation taken to your dealer or do the usb installation wi-fi installation can be a little bit choppy depending how strong your network is where your car is parked and you don't want to mess it up because the installation can take a little bit time so you don't want the power to cut off or the wi-fi to kind of go off i don't really recommend that you could definitely take into your dealer but it's a process who wants to call into the dealer go into the dealership and get scheduled out it's like a couple hours of your day gone with this process it's going to be taking you 30 minutes or so to do it so we're going to be focusing on the usb version on how to install it so we're going to be covering the usb version that saves us a trip to the dealership so with that being said let's get right into it now keep in mind that even with the usb version there are a couple key areas that you don't want to be overlooking so make sure you pay close attention to this tutorial all right so we're going to start off by going on owners.ford.com i'll link this up in the description but once you're on this website you are going to either create an account or log into your own account if you haven't already done so so once you're logged in you're gonna see your car on the top right corner and you're gonna click on support tab right over there once you are in the support tab you should see all these links once you see all these links you're going to go into the quick links and you'll see sync software updates once you got the software updates you're going to go over to check vin for the latest software update so in this so by this time you're going to go ahead mind the vin number for your car you can find on the dashboard or in the door jam so let's go ahead and find the vin and enter it here now for me i've already entered my vin number and you can see if you scroll down a little bit click on usb you see the sync 3.4 system is available to download for my specific car so i'm going to go ahead and click the download button and see how long to stay it's about 1.8 gigabytes so it's going to take a few minutes i'll be back when it's done downloading now once it's downloaded you want to go ahead and find it where it's downloaded and extract out the file so you're going to unzip the file and find a usb so ford recommends finding at least eight gigabytes of space in your usb for me i've got this 32 gigabytes more doesn't really hurt so we're going to go ahead with this 32 gigabyte usb drive now it's important that you format the usb and this is where the key point is and how to format it so you don't screw up anything because if you have a different formatting system it's not going to read it properly and it could mess up your sync system so make sure you kind of follow these steps to make sure you're properly formatting your usb drive before you put the files over into the usb and obviously when you format it you also delete everything in the usb so just less risk for some other files to kind of interrupt installation so i'm using my mac but if your windows should be similar process but for mac you're going to go into the disk utility and on this menu on the left side you see the usb plugged in so i'm going to click on that i'm going to select the usb and click erase right here now this is where it's asking you what type of format i want to format it to so please please please make sure it's selected to exfat or x fat exfat so make sure it's selected to that formula because that's the version or that's the formatting that your thing 3 system is able to read so once you click on that click on erase and format the usb and you should be good to go now that the formatting is done i would just please go ahead and verify that it's x5 because like i said if it's not in the same format it could screw it up so we're going to go ahead click on the disk itself or the micro uh the usb itself and just verify it's there so as you can see it is exfat so i'm good to go so what i'm going to do is go ahead and drag all the files we've downloaded into this new usb let's go and now for the easy part we're going to take that usb and bring it over to your car so i've got my usb right here we're gonna go ahead and use this usb plug into my car it should auto detect but if not we can always go through settings so let's go ahead i'm gonna plug it in and i'll show you how to do that so i'm going to be going ahead and using this usb port on my center console and it's going to be hard to do with one hand so i'll plug it in i'll show it to you alright so i've got the usb installer as you can see right here and let's go ahead and start the car as you can see here that has started updating the system software i've got my usb here um this could take 20 30 minutes so i am going to come back when it's done doing it make sure your car is on don't leave it on accessory mode um as you can see my car is currently on this way the car doesn't shut off in the middle of the update which could cause some serious corruption issues in the file alright so i'll be back when it's done now i do want to point out that if you do have a mac and you did the extraction with the mag instead of a pc it may give you a system error while you're trying to do it because the way sometimes mag extracts the files doesn't work out too well unless you're using a third-party software or something so if you're having issues you kind of follow my steps with the mag and you're having issues just try using a pc for me it worked with the mac but i know some users have reported when they try it with a mac it doesn't always work out so if you have a pc handy definitely try that out so it's as you can see it's rebooting now i've got the logo back up give it a little bit time and voila it's updated as you can see this is completely new and all right so you will get the message that installation is complete and we can remove our usb now so take this out all right so that's done now we'll close this out and obviously you want to verify in this case we know because they're the new design interface but you want to verify that click on automatic updates view current software version and you can see this one got sling 3.4 as mentioned earlier so there it is the update is complete and the car is running fine there's no issues all right guys so that was pretty easy as you saw nothing really complicated to install it once you kind of follow these basic steps it kind of works out and i plan on just kind of playing around with this thing 3.4 system i do plan on making a review on the sync 3.4 and all the changes that kind of carry or there are new changes from sync 3.3 to the string 3.4 system so make sure you guys are subscribed so you don't miss out on that video if you do enjoy tutorials like that for your fourth vehicle i've got a couple of them with the ford pass and the sync 3 phone connectivity that you can check them out here as always i hope you enjoyed this video make sure you smash that like button and subscribe to red50 for more videos

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 09 2021