You modifiied the truck so yeah you'd get some weird issues.. why i leave my truck alone at stock. Good luck with the Fusion! I had 2010 sport v6 3.5L - that thing was a blast to drive - i sold it to a friend and it's still running strong at 150k miles.
OK I did a lot of testing.
USB stick formatted as NTFS is only thing that is working fine - always resumed every time i start the truck. It even starts playing resuming while FORD Logo is showing - doesn't happen all the time though..
If i format it as FAT32 or exFAT, it has issues resuming...
Well,
Formatted as exFAT and it's having issues again. Just like FAT32. I will reformat as NTFS and try again soon. Meanwhile I think I will just use my phone to play music as it's perfect and it mutes my music if i need to text someone with speech to text.
Ok... Here's my result:
Since I converted to NTFS - it's been auto playing from USB nearly every time.... when I say nearly , it reverted to FM radio twice since then..... not 100% fix but its like 95%....
Yeah well I am expecting it to happen once in a while because, i still see some delays. I thought once it will fail. But it caught the USB. Sometimes it just caught it right away right at the Ford loading logo screen.
So.........
I am surprised and you will be also, @VAMike. NTFS formatted USB stick actually .... WORKS. Yes, you read that right. I mean wow. I would never think it would. I mean I agreed what @VAMike posted about NTFS and FAT32...
It's been a couple days now. And every time I started the...
Well still doing the same thing with the changes. It's now out of my truck and will attempt this later when it's warmer out. It's back to bluetooth streaming from my phone and it's resuming from that every time I start the truck like it should.
Imagine that, only issue I'm having on my truck...