wintech
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- First Name
- Shawn
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- Apr 21, 2020
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- Washington State
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- 2019 Ranger Lariat, 2020 Passport
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I love just about everything about this truck but Apple Carplay with sync 3 is maddening. I have been using carplay since 2016 on our Honda vehicles and it has always worked pretty good. However with this Ranger it is almost useless. I have all my music in Amazon music and everything I listen to is downloaded to my phone. The main problem is that it does not show all the music I have on my phone. For example, if I go to artist and select say Megadeth it says there are six albums. But when I select that artist, most of the time only one album is listed. Same if I go to just a list of all the albums, only the one is shown. Sometimes they all show up, but randomly they disappear from the display in sync. This happens with all artists with more than a couple albums. I can always see them and play them directly from the app on the phone but that kind of defeats the purpose. Also, randomly the screen freaks out when trying to scroll through music. Sometimes it won't scroll, other times it just randomly changes the layout. Sometimes the music will stop playing and I will see something that says something like 'streaming detected'. No idea what that is about because all my music is downloaded. The last thing that happens is that when using carplay several times my phone has gotten so hot it shuts down. It is scorching to the touch. I googled that and it was suggested to turn off bluetooth, and I did which seems to have fixed that. However, that was never necessary in my Civic I had before this nor does it happen in our other vehicle, a 2019 CR-V. I don't always use carplay so when I don't and bluetooth is off and I forget to turn it back on, I don't get my hands free features. I should mention that these problems exist both with my personal phone (iPhone 11) and my work phone (iPhone 7) so it doesn't appear to be a specific phone issue. Has anyone experienced any of this and if so is there a solution? I have done a soft reboot but have not done a factory reset. I don't really want to try that if it won't solve the problem so I wanted to check here first. I have read the thread about updating to 3.4 with the cyan labs software but am hesitant. I am tech savvy as I repair computers and electronics for a living but the thought of screwing up sync in my truck makes me nervous.
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