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[leszek]

Is there anyway to download the 2017 Firmware and flash a 2016?

Too many hardware changes. There is a reason why 2017 is Sync3 version 2.0 and 2016 is Sync3 version 1.0

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[HISSMAN]

Too many hardware changes. There is a reason why 2017 is Sync3 version 2.0 and 2016 is Sync3 version 1.0

Info on the hardware changes? Other than the USB port, which is plug and play.

 

[kz]

Too many hardware changes. There is a reason why 2017 is Sync3 version 2.0 and 2016 is Sync3 version 1.0

Which is extremely interesting if true - all "I am waiting for '16 because it has Sync 3 that we will be easily upgrading over wifi for next 50 years" crowd is sort of really screwed here...

 

[MaskedRacerX]

Too many hardware changes. There is a reason why 2017 is Sync3 version 2.0 and 2016 is Sync3 version 1.0

That's just a software version, and not any indicator there's some radical hardware differences.

Ford _just_ put Sync 3 into production last year, it doesn't make sense from a business perspective, let alone engineering justification. The initial Sync 3 hardware is very stout, there's at the very most some interface component that might need swapping out (and of course the flash to the newest software).

Just my $0.02 as a software dev/architect, hardware integration engineer (computer vision), etc ...

 

[kz]

That's just a software version, and not any indicator there's some radical hardware differences.

Ford _just_ put Sync 3 into production last year, it doesn't make sense from a business perspective, let alone engineering justification. The initial Sync 3 hardware is very stout, there's at the very most some interface component that might need swapping out (and of course the flash to the newest software).

Just my $0.02 as a software dev/architect, hardware integration engineer (computer vision), etc ...

To some extent it has to be true since '16 requires "hardware upgrade" for Apple Carplay.

 

[MaskedRacerX]

To some extent it has to be true since '16 requires "hardware upgrade" for Apple Carplay.

I just don't think there's "too many changes", I think it's a very minor difference, and I don't believe '16 Sync 3 systems won't upgrade to 2.0, I think that's just the current version with the correct [minor] hardware updates.

Too many changes would sort of imply core hardware differences, like CPU, RAM, display resolution differences.

My guess is there's a small, external bus interface, it'll be < $100 to buy, an hour or so to install, it'll report some component version that will allow the new software to be installed, and all "carplay compliant" Sync 3 systems will be versioned to 2.x

I think that component change is what's holding up the 2.0 even for Android play (that doesn't need it), they don't have separate branches for each, it's a single update to 2.0 that brings compatibility for both, so both have to be covered (and one does actually require the new hardware, i.e., Apple).

... and I'm wrong, I will cry and cry ... :lol:

 

[Fenix]

Ford should be able to nail down a better time frame than "by the end of the year" by now...

 

[TheDivaDanielle]

by MY2018.

 

[likeaboss]

To some extent it has to be true since '16 requires "hardware upgrade" for Apple Carplay.

From my understanding the only "upgrade" is the USB hub. The hardware powering Sync 3 (CPU, RAM, etc.) are the same.

 

[HizliBullet]

From my understanding the only "upgrade" is the USB hub. The hardware powering Sync 3 (CPU, RAM, etc.) are the same.

how do u upgrade a USB hub?:shrug:

 

[poorfortune]

With a new one I'd suspect.

 

[m.a.s.e]

With a new one I'd suspect.

LOL

 

[OEMRadio]

Yes.. with a new one.. only for car play

 

[HizliBullet]

no update yet..*sigh*

 

[HISSMAN]

What about Windows phone supports...? Ha ha ha ha !! I really couldn't type that with a straight face.

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