The Complete DIY Guide to Updating Your Mach-E with FDRS

[waltermorel]

just wondering how you got the GVM update to the USB stick.
I checked my sync update page online and it says I am up to date.
Mike G mention there was a GVM update showing via FDRS.
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Yes, i can confirm that the last GWM, as mentioned by Mike, has been installed with FDRS and a USB stick.

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[Northofnine]

Yes, i can confirm that the last GWM, as mentioned by Mike, has been installed with FDRS and a USB stick.

Interesting.
If my dealer doesn’t install for me on March 1 appointment, I may just pay for the 2 day FDRS and update from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 myself.

 

[21st Century Pony]

I just saw the GWM update in FDRS yesterday... I updated my car aftereards. Like Scoopman, I had to use a USB stick and "walk away" for ten minutes towards the end.

This morning, the following new icon showed up on my SYNC screen.

Shots of the the new icon and what it expands into, are attached.

 

[kdonnel]

MyTrends is not new. It may have got turned on by default with the update, but is not new.

 

[Mike G]

Okay this may call for a bit of clarification.

I routinely do updates as they appear in FDRS, regardless of whether or not something might get borked. (I'm not risk adverse even after the GFM shenanigans, and the PCM dependency sorrow from last year).

So OTA 4.1.1 was a GWM update (rev. "-LAD"), that prepped the car for the OTA 4.1.2 update of the APIM (Sync 640) (on most cars with it that's rev. "-BB"), and then after that there was another GWM update that was OTA 4.1.3 (rev. "-LAE").

These are the revisions I saw while doing the updates in FDRS and observing others saying they got OTA something or other, and when I would check it ended up being the same software revisions I got using FDRS.

This latest GWM update....for me at least....is "post-Sync 640" (and would be post OTA 4.1.3 as well) and is an update to rev. "-LKA" on my car. As far as I'm aware there is no OTA published for this particular GWM update as of this date.

Now. For those who have not gotten OTA 4.1.1 yet.....the next GWM update you get may indeed be the "-LKA" update. That could happen instead of stepping incrementally through each update until you get there, they could just jump directly to the latest version. I don't know at this point if that will happen or not.

This was reported by an EU member earlier today. So he has updated his car to GWM rev. "-LKA" but still does not have the new Sync UI due to shenanigans on the other side of the Atlantic. So it is possible to get this latest GWM and not have the new Sync.

 

[21st Century Pony]

MyTrends is not new. It may have got turned on by default with the update, but is not new.

Previously I did have MyTrends pop up occasionally, but I never had this permanent icon up before.

 

[kdonnel]

Previously I did have MyTrends pop up occasionally, but I never had this permanent icon up before.

I’ve seen that icon before. It does not appear often but has appeared for me before.

It never going away would be different.

 

[21st Century Pony]

I’ve seen that icon before. It does not appear often but has appeared for me before.

It never going away would be different.

Thanks. This icon has never appeared for me before (27 thousand miles in this car) and that is the difference here. I correlate it because yesterday I installed the newest (for this car) GWM update.

I understand that correlation is not causation.

I drove 26, 900+ miles in this car since mid-May 2022. At no time has this icon ever appeared on my Sync screen until today. Yes, the MyTrends list did pop up, often when I'd be running errands in a local area without using the Navigation waypoints... then the MyTrends window (not this icon) would often pop up on the right half of the Sync screen, in a different format, in between errand stops. The MyTrends window has never ever popped up during my 11 multi-state trips, some quite long, nor has it ever appeared unbidden over the entire Sync screen.

The permanent icon is a new icon for my Mach E and therefore is different.

Mach Es seem to have subtle differences in how their software levels interact. I have shared the new icon's picture in this light, and accept that my car may have a slightly varied software from your car. Perhaps this new icon permanently showing up on the map area of the Sync (not an optimal location imho) will be of some use to others here.

 

[Mike G]

Thanks. This icon has never appeared for me before (27 thousand miles in this car) and that is the difference here. I correlate it because yesterday I installed the newest (for this car) GWM update.

I understand that correlation is not causation.

I drove 26, 900+ miles in this car since mid-May 2022. At no time has this icon ever appeared on my Sync screen until today. Yes, the MyTrends list did pop up, often when I'd be running errands in a local area without using the Navigation waypoints... then the MyTrends window (not this icon) would often pop up on the right half of the Sync screen, in a different format, in between errand stops. The MyTrends window has never ever popped up during my 11 multi-state trips, some quite long, nor has it ever appeared unbidden over the entire Sync screen.

The permanent icon is a new icon for my Mach E and therefore is different.

Mach Es seem to have subtle differences in how their software levels interact. I have shared the new icon's picture in this light, and accept that my car may have a slightly varied software from your car. Perhaps this new icon permanently showing up on the map area of the Sync (not an optimal location imho) will be of some use to others here.

I turned that MyTrends thing off in 2021. It's creepy. Like somebody keeping an eye on where you're going all the time, (think Tom Cruise in the shopping mall where the ads call him by his name) I share as little as possible with the cloud.

 

[21st Century Pony]

I turned that MyTrends thing off in 2021. It's creepy. Like somebody keeping an eye on where you're going all the time, (think Tom Cruise in the shopping mall where the ads call him by his name) I share as little as possible with the cloud.

Uuuuu... how can we do that? I'm not a fan either...

 

[kdonnel]

How long did that last GWM update take?

I’m coming up on 30 minutes of this screen.

I don’t remember prior GWM updates taking this long.

I guess I just keep waiting?

 

[markboris]

Didn't take that long. Maybe 5-7 minutes? I didn't babysit it but wasn't very long.

 

[kdonnel]

Didn't take that long. Maybe 5-7 minutes? I didn't babysit it but wasn't very long.

Hmmm.

It’s a USB drive I have successfully used many times.

While typing this the 30 minute off timer kicked in and shut off the car.

I ended up telling FDRS it finished and it of course failed the verify.

Options are to retry programming, retry part number validation, or exit.

I guess I will exit for now.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[scoopman]

Hmmm.

It’s a USB drive I have successfully used many times.

While typing this the 30 minute off timer kicked in and shut off the car.

I ended up telling FDRS it finished and it of course failed the verify.

Options are to retry programming, retry part number validation, or exit.

I guess I will exit for now.

Any ideas anyone?

Read / write performance of the USB matters a lot. Since you have to retry anyhow, I'd try using another USB, and reformat it to be exFAT before using.

 

[HuntingPudel]

My trusty Cyber Orange USB stick and I just did the GWM update without any drama.

My neighbor thought I was (more?) crazy for standing next to my car with the door open for 10 minutes, but I guess it's only a slight step up from connecting a cart with wires on it to random Mach-Es in my driveway.

Are you sure your neighbor didn’t think you were crazy just for having the orange USB device? ??

I resemble the random MME in your driveway thing. ??

Some of my neighbors used to think I was crazy when would trailer a certain car to my house then fire it up to pull it off the trailer and mess with it, only to put it back on the trailer and leave. Some used to call the cops. ??

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