To get started, download the software update to a usb drive. How to use gracenote to provide cover artwork for your media. Each approach is designed to provide you the best cover art matches for the songs you are playing. Myford touch is a computerlike system, based on microsofts proprietary sync, which is used to control most secondary vehicle systems and connectivity functions in current ford cars. The gracenote music database works with sync with myford touch equipped vehicles to improve voice recognition for music searches and let drivers pinpoint bands, artists, and albums with hard to pronounce names, nicknames, and irregular spellings. View and download ford myford touch supplement manual online. How to install sync with myford touch updates in your vehicle. The technology was factory installed with ford product offerings and was based on the microsoft auto 4. Consumer reports updated its lincoln mkx to see what has changed. The myford touch infotainment system has been a mixed blessing for ford. Anyway, eugenephd said all you have to do is turn gracenote management off in the options. Pioneer ford shows you how to use your settings to customize your car equipped with sync with myford touch. Five things that would make sync with myford touch better by stephen edelstein august 11, 20 ford is updating its sync voice recognition and.
Four versions of sync are available, including sync with myford touch, depending on your vehicles model and year. Myford touch wallpapers he also has a tutorial for anyone that might not know how to do it its pretty simple btw. Focus st mytouch wallpaper name focus st backgroundjpg 800x384. Chrysler dodge jeep ram uconnect software firmware. The system should start the download process within a few seconds with the myford touch system, now let your vehicle run and the entire download process takes about 25 minutes. Syncs entertainment features sync with myford touch. Ford is making waves at the consumer electronics show with myford touch, a reenvisioned dashboard for multimedia, navigation and connections to the internet. Owners sue ford over myford touch infotainment flaws. Ford sync 3 drops microsoft, puts myford touch out to. Select ford owners, who have sync with myford touch, can now update their system just by going to simply download the update to a thumbdrive, plug it into your fords usb port, and prestoyour myford touch system updates. Gracenote improves myford touch voice recognition for. Mft wallpapers ford f150 forum community of ford truck fans 800x384. Ford sync 3 drops microsoft, puts myford touch out to pasture. Simply say the name of any person in your phone book or say the number.
Exploring this issue led me to gracenote, the sonyowned california company that keeps the big internetaccessible database on compact disc music. Ford offers two options for adding navigation to sync with myford touch. Waze is a gps navigation app that gives you a route in real time to help avoid traffic, thanks to help from over 115 million fellow drivers who use it. He said that if you upgrade it yourself the vins wont match and it will prevent you from installing any future updates. Fords raj nair, group vice president of global product development speaks with auto geeks at ces 2014 about applink and why it is not yet applink supported. We will preprogram the kit to your exact vehicle so it can be installed within 20 minutes. Ford improves their myford touch and mylincoln touch screen controls. The ford sync system, a comprehensive handsfree infotainment system, prepares for its eighth model year release and the system seems vastly improved overall. The ford motor company revolutionized incar technology with the introduction of ford sync and myford touch. On the one hand, its become hugely popular with consumers. It puts you in control of what you want when you want it through voice, touch or a mix of both. Hackingupdating sync 2 to mirror phone and use decent nav. In fact, roughly 80 percent of newcar shoppers shell out for it. View and download ford myford touch user manual online.
The system consists of applications and user interfaces developed by ford and other thirdparty developers. Beginning with the 2014 model year, ford will offer a complete version of sync with myford touch in the fiesta, displayed on a 6. Ford is working on applink support for myford touch, the companys highend touch screen infotainment system. The most promising unit i found however appears to be this one in which a piggyback system augments the stock ford sync 2 module with an android os and enables several additional inputs av, usb etc. Five things that would make sync with myford touch better. Myford touch gets overhauled for 20, existing models. Once downloaded, take your laptop or mobile device to your vehicle and follow the steps below. Myford touch car navigation system pdf manual download. The abd tells the car which features were purchased and which to be enabled. The ford team turned to gracenote to improve how drivers access and manage their music through voice commands, music metadata and album cover art. Enable myfordtouch navigation via software update latest. As always, feel free to call pioneer ford with any questions.
Alternatively, you can have sync check the gracenote database first and your device second. Ford sync stylized ford sync is a factoryinstalled, integrated invehicle communications and entertainment system that allows users to make handsfree telephone calls, control music and perform other functions with the use of voice commands. While the process is going on, remove the sync system from your phone or device. The focus implementation of sync with myford touch includes basic voiceactivated music search, radio tuning, bluetooth audio streaming, and usb device connectivity via a media hub in the center. We are here to help answer any questions you may have. Comparing the abd of cars with nav vs cars without nav. Fords sync incar infotainment is about to turn eight, making it one of the most wellestablished on the market. There are also settings and controls you can personalize to suit your interests and the level of engagement you desire. The upgrade is available via a memory stick which customers can download themselves in about 45 minutes or have their ford or lincoln dealer do it for free. Allow customers with myford touch to upgrade to sync 3.
Using simple voice commands and the touch of a button, you can make a call or send a text message. We periodically release software updates to deliver the most advanced technology. Gracenote s mediavocs technology, featured in the myford touch system, offers improved voice recognition capabilities for music search and playback, and lets drivers access bands and artists with alternative names, names from different parts of the world and irregular spellings with speed and accuracy. There are also settings and controls you can personalize. Myford touch car stereo system pdf manual download. Sync with myford touch update available from a browser. Ford should offer the sync 3 system as an upgrade to users of myford touch.
To do the update, after you download the file, be sure to place the 2 or 3 main files after opening with winzip or winrar into the root of the thumb drive not the downloaded file itself. Current owners can update their system software at home. Whether youre team iphone or team android, apple carplay or android auto will overlay. User data shows things like traffic jams and road closures with alternate routes to avoid them. In some states it is illegal to have a video viewable by the driver while the vehicle is in motion. Rather than myford touchs microsoftsourced system, sync 3 uses the blackberryowned qnx, according to automotive news. Open main navigation menu close main navigation menu. Myford touch archives ford tech laneford tech lane. Some vehicles are equipped with an automatic engine shutdown option and due to the length of time for the update process this feature should be disabled. Myford touchs user interface consists of an 8inch touch screen lcd panel mounted in the center stack and supplemented by two 4. Myford touch wallpapers right here ford focus st forum. The escape can unzip some of the files itself, just not the original download file. Key features vary by sync version, these may include.
Gracenote also provides album cover art to make it easier to navigate music collections. You can find this feature on the left hand cluster display use left hand switch control settings vehicle and uncheck the box next to auto engine shutdown. It seems as though all mft cars get the same apim and what differentiates the features is the abd. Myford touch puts access to key information in four quadrants of an 8inch touchscreen. After looking all over the internet and dealing with a bunch of stupid how to use myford touch videos on youtube, i finally found a solution on a sync forum or at least thats what it looks like. You can also control what music you want to hear with simple voice commands. Sync is the ford motor companys invehicle entertainment system. For more details, refer to your owners manual starting and stopping the. And as the name hints, its most notable feature is a touchscreen, which replaces the. Our ford focus example includes an sd card loaded up with maps, while larger. Ford raptor view single post official mft backgrounds thread 800x384. Myford touch is the second generation of fords sync platform. Myford touch, external drives, and lossless audio ford.
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