jrmexplorer
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Unfortunately, I cannot recommend MFT version 2.11 :thumbdwn:
i'm disappointed in Ford. They waited so long to deliver this?
I've now had three black screen of death's in two days (the first two occurred when I had the audacity to connect an iPod that hadn't had it's software up to date). I also had to disconnect the battery today.
For the past two days, I've been trying various things to get my Droid X text messaging to work (others have gotten it to work). I even reset my phone to factory (deleting all settings in the process) and tried various paring/unpairing options (e.g. reverse pairing, etc...) and various third party text apps.
I managed to be able to download text messages by manually downloading any new messages (the system doesn't notify me) by pressing the download new button in the messages portion of MFT (and sync says "no new messages" but then pops up the messages) but the message shows up as from "unknown" - which is useless if you don't know who sent the message. Trying to send a message caused my third BSOD - the screen locked up - a windows prompt briefly came up and then the system reset.
Today, when trying to call home on my way to work, voice command refused to recognize contacts that it never had a problem recognizing before - "call home" produced a frustratingly bizarre exchange which resulted in it finally dialing my "#min" number which tells me how many minutes I've used.
I tried unpairing and repairing when I got in to go home from work to fix this, and it took 30 minutes to dowload my phone book (with about 40 contacts with 1-2 numbers each). Normally this takes 10 seconds or less.
Additionally, it took over 30 minutes for the GPS to acquire signal - probably related to the phonebook download.
While this was happening - various graphics abnormalities were observed with text overlaid in places it wasn't supposed to be at.
I pulled the battery and did a factory reset and that has fixed the issue so far. The phonebook synced perfectly and the voice command seems normal and so does the GPS. We will see if that holds.
Granted, It's probably my fault for trying to get a neat feature (and one prominently featured in sync ads) to work (when other's have reported it does with my phone) in the first place - but I should be able to pair/unpair my phone and download all kinds of texts without it going crazy like this.
This software is not good. I developed software professionally for 5 years at a major company and I would be fired for producing software this poor. It makes you wonder if they ever ran a code checker (flexilint or lint for example) on it. I bet the memory leaks found would be staggerring (the behavior I've observed seems consistent with poor memory management).
Oh and the Sirius channel browser still does not work.
I'm sure that it will work just fine as long as I don't try and mess with the text messaging, but seriously - this is a disappointment and I've been a Sync supporter on this site for some time now. I cannot say that these problems would not be in 2.8 as I never tried to push 2.8 this hard - (I only dabbled in text functionality and did not try my wife's video iPod before) but hey - this is supposed to be magic bullett to make everything work right?
Very few things seem to be actually fixed except that now when the system crashes it automatically reboots. I suppose Ford figures this will "make a lot of people happy" because comparatively its better than pulling the battery which many users report having to do regularly (I dont' have these issues but the forum is literally filled with stories of people having to do this). It doesn't make me happy - they need to fix this system.
<end rant>
-J
EDIT: I'm sorry Ford, but the facts are the facts - I love the car, and I love the system when it works, but it needs to be fixed.
i'm disappointed in Ford. They waited so long to deliver this?
I've now had three black screen of death's in two days (the first two occurred when I had the audacity to connect an iPod that hadn't had it's software up to date). I also had to disconnect the battery today.
For the past two days, I've been trying various things to get my Droid X text messaging to work (others have gotten it to work). I even reset my phone to factory (deleting all settings in the process) and tried various paring/unpairing options (e.g. reverse pairing, etc...) and various third party text apps.
I managed to be able to download text messages by manually downloading any new messages (the system doesn't notify me) by pressing the download new button in the messages portion of MFT (and sync says "no new messages" but then pops up the messages) but the message shows up as from "unknown" - which is useless if you don't know who sent the message. Trying to send a message caused my third BSOD - the screen locked up - a windows prompt briefly came up and then the system reset.
Today, when trying to call home on my way to work, voice command refused to recognize contacts that it never had a problem recognizing before - "call home" produced a frustratingly bizarre exchange which resulted in it finally dialing my "#min" number which tells me how many minutes I've used.
I tried unpairing and repairing when I got in to go home from work to fix this, and it took 30 minutes to dowload my phone book (with about 40 contacts with 1-2 numbers each). Normally this takes 10 seconds or less.
Additionally, it took over 30 minutes for the GPS to acquire signal - probably related to the phonebook download.
While this was happening - various graphics abnormalities were observed with text overlaid in places it wasn't supposed to be at.
I pulled the battery and did a factory reset and that has fixed the issue so far. The phonebook synced perfectly and the voice command seems normal and so does the GPS. We will see if that holds.
Granted, It's probably my fault for trying to get a neat feature (and one prominently featured in sync ads) to work (when other's have reported it does with my phone) in the first place - but I should be able to pair/unpair my phone and download all kinds of texts without it going crazy like this.
This software is not good. I developed software professionally for 5 years at a major company and I would be fired for producing software this poor. It makes you wonder if they ever ran a code checker (flexilint or lint for example) on it. I bet the memory leaks found would be staggerring (the behavior I've observed seems consistent with poor memory management).
Oh and the Sirius channel browser still does not work.
I'm sure that it will work just fine as long as I don't try and mess with the text messaging, but seriously - this is a disappointment and I've been a Sync supporter on this site for some time now. I cannot say that these problems would not be in 2.8 as I never tried to push 2.8 this hard - (I only dabbled in text functionality and did not try my wife's video iPod before) but hey - this is supposed to be magic bullett to make everything work right?
Very few things seem to be actually fixed except that now when the system crashes it automatically reboots. I suppose Ford figures this will "make a lot of people happy" because comparatively its better than pulling the battery which many users report having to do regularly (I dont' have these issues but the forum is literally filled with stories of people having to do this). It doesn't make me happy - they need to fix this system.
<end rant>
-J
EDIT: I'm sorry Ford, but the facts are the facts - I love the car, and I love the system when it works, but it needs to be fixed.