I don't even bother trying to do OTA updates or down loading from the Ford website. Never seems to work and took forever. I do my updates using the CyanLabs Sync3Updater app. Input your information and it will format your USB drive and download the proper files. Then just plug it in to the truck and wait for it to tell you to pull it out. Now for how long. If you don't have NAV, it is fairly quick maybe 20 minutes or less. If you have NAV, which I don't, and are updating maps it can take quite a while maybe an hour and a half. You need to have the truck running or on a charger, to not run the battery down.
Lee, if you're doing the update (with Nav) while driving can you stop and start your truck and will the update continue where it left off? Or does it need to be done in one continuous update? I've tried doing this update over wifi and it'd never worked and have to get another USB drive which I keep forgetting to do.
Again, I don't have NAV, so my updates have been relatively short. I have just done them in the driveway with the truck idling and waited till they completed. I know the OTA updates would download the files in chunks when the truck had a WIFI signal. I think once the update starts it needs to run to completion or it starts over from the beginning.
IIRC on my '19 it took a couple of days to show the change.
If you updated via the Ford USB process, the last step is to upload the confirmation (xml) file created on your USB. That process (when it works) should update the site immediately. However, many users experience issues with the upload process ranging from not getting the xml file to the website not accepting it. Another way to try to get the site updated is to connect to wifi after the update is complete and running a new search for update from the Sync3 screen. Again, that does not always work either.
This is only required for the MAP update, not the SYNC update, but to answer the question - it varies greatly sometimes a couple of months or a few days.
Sorry, but this process applies to Sync updates, not the map updates. See the instructions attached. (Steps 4.1 & 4.2)
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As far as Ford knowing what level of SYNC my radio is on "I don't care". If they want to know, they can fix their update system so it works. Until then, my radio is working just fine, that is all I care about. ?
