Official Ford Sync3 3.4 Release

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Here you go. This is relative to v3.3, and mainly hits the more "visible" items if you know they're there...

General
- "Please say a command." prompt is now removed. Quicker to speak, but still wait for the beep after the chime as the mic isn't hot until after it plays.
- Error messages have been cut down, drastically so for the primary ones. You get a mulligan first time of "Please try again", then it'll prompt with more real work examples.
- The prompt drop outs from v3.3 are almost totally eliminated. They can still happen in specific scenarios but it's night and day difference.

Audio
- When games (NCAA, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) are broadcasting on SXM, and SYNC is notified, users can now say "Turn on the Detroit Lions Game" to switch to the broadcast channel. If you're sourced to SXM, a sample command will display on screen when the game broadcast data has started to roll in.
- USB media can now be browsed at any time, so long as a Bluetooth device isn't the active source. If you do try to with Bluetooth, you should now get an error prompt telling you that it won't work for Bluetooth devices.
- USB media browsing can now be generic requests, e.g. "Browse The Eagles" vs "Browse Artist <X>".
- Numerous added commands phrases for all sources, e.g. "Listen to 88.7", "Switch to The Highway", "Change the Radio to SXM 2", "Source USB", "Show Music by The Beatles", "Turn on some Rock Music", etc.

Phone
- You can now reply to a specific message number, "Reply to Message <#>", or using the name of the contact (only for the more recent message), "Reply to Tom".

Navigation
- Response to "Find a Place/POI" is now faster after the initial search in a particular city. You should notice faster response to the command in all subsequent searches for that city.
- "Find the nearest <Brand Name>" auto selects the nearest one. Categories still provide a list as they can be more generic requests.
- When searching for a POI, if the user says "Change Search Area", you can now say a city and state like "Detroit, Michigan". In English this covers US and Canadian cities. Requires 19Q1 nav voice data.
- Added ability to search for a POI or address in any city from the main menu. "Find a Place/an Address in Detroit, Michigan". Not required to stay the state/province, but it'll pull the result that's in state if there is one. Same as above, in English it covers US and Canadian cities.

Climate
- Temperature commands now will not prompt yes/no to confirm if the system has high confidence in what was said.
- You can just say the temp now, "74 Degrees", for examples.

Analytics / Diagnostics
- Now that v3.4 has this capability, you can have it submit mis-recognitions (the "Please try again" type error prompts) automatically to Ford. You need to enable the Diagnostics option, along with Send failed voice commands option to enable the recordings to go in. I use those to add command variants, etc. as needed.
That is an awesome list! Would you be able to make a list of all the items outside of the voice commands?
 

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Is everyone else still getting the opps something went wrong message? When trying to download this update.
 

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Yeah... That didn't work :(
Got the same exact thing. Put in my VIN, says an update to 3.4 is ready, then it asks how I wanna download it, then I select USB and when clicking on "prepare my download," it says the "OOPS" message. :(

2019 Bullitt for me.
 

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I guess mine maxes at 3.0 since it’s a 2017 or am I missing something?
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2019 GT Premium with Nav, says will update to SYNC3 v3.4.43

But fails to download to USB :(
 

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2019 GT Premium with Nav, says will update to SYNC3 v3.4.43

But fails to download to USB :(
Says the same thing for me, that it's ready for 3.4, but doesn't download. I'm guessing that's the same issue just about everyone is having, server could be down if ton of people are trying to download?
 

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2019 GT Premium with Nav, says will update to SYNC3 v3.4.43

But fails to download to USB :(
Just reread your post. Are you having an issue getting the new files to download from Ford, like everyone else right now?

Or do you already have the DL from Ford?
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Nathan, just to be clear, nothing get directly downloaded to the USB. The download from Ford goes to your computer. You then unzip the file, again onto your computer. Once down you just copy and past the required files from your computer onto your USB. Is this what you have done?
 
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v3.0 is the latest for you unless you update via Cyanlabs.
Got it. Haven't even thought to look for updates until this thread popped up in my email!
 

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Yes, site is still down. Check back tomorrow.
That is an awesome list! Would you be able to make a list of all the items outside of the voice commands?
See prior post, but super short answer is no. :)
 
 
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