The Complete DIY Guide to Updating Your Mach-E with FDRS (Alternative to Forscan)

[scoopman]

Just done GWM and TCU - Can't see any changes / UK

My 21 GTPE had the TCU update available which I did this morning. It did make a difference for me.

I will say that before this update, Mach N Cheese refused to connect over wifi to my cheapo car dedicated hotspot (there for my BlackVue cloud dashcam).

After the TCU update, I can now successfully connect my car to my Netgear hotspot, so I can watch the 24 hour Today Show channel while charging anywhere there's cell coverage (yay?).

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[JohnnyForensic]

Success!

(Success?)

I have updates! I have BlueCruise! And it works! Thank you sincerely to everyone here for your assistance and guidance.

All in all, updating everything came in just under 10 hours. I had a few scares with things that looked unsuccessful but in fact were successful after driving it around for a few minutes and trying again.

Questions:
- I do have the update with YouTube and all the other new entertainment things, but I don’t have Alexa or any nag icon for it. (I don’t want Alexa; I just want to be sure I’m as up to date as I can be before my two day pass expires.) Since I have no other software module updates awaiting me, I assume Alexa isn’t there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums?

- On my Access screen, I have the new layout, and pressing the Mach-E icon on the top left takes me right to the Access menu now, but I have no frunk control. I noticed other people with frunk controls there after updating to the YouTube level, but is that also not there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums (yet)?

Otherwise I think everything else looks good. No lurking DTCs, no more modules saying that they’re available for download. Is that it?

 

[ProximusAl]

Success!

(Success?)

I have updates! I have BlueCruise! And it works! Thank you sincerely to everyone here for your assistance and guidance.

All in all, updating everything came in just under 10 hours. I had a few scares with things that looked unsuccessful but in fact were successful after driving it around for a few minutes and trying again.

Questions:
- I do have the update with YouTube and all the other new entertainment things, but I don’t have Alexa or any nag icon for it. (I don’t want Alexa; I just want to be sure I’m as up to date as I can be before my two day pass expires.) Since I have no other software module updates awaiting me, I assume Alexa isn’t there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums?

- On my Access screen, I have the new layout, and pressing the Mach-E icon on the top left takes me right to the Access menu now, but I have no frunk control. I noticed other people with frunk controls there after updating to the YouTube level, but is that also not there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums (yet)?

Otherwise I think everything else looks good. No lurking DTCs, no more modules saying that they’re available for download. Is that it?

If you login to Ford Online, and choose Subscriptions (or Connected Services in US) do you see Alexa Activation Pending?

 

[generaltso]

Success!

(Success?)

I have updates! I have BlueCruise! And it works! Thank you sincerely to everyone here for your assistance and guidance.

All in all, updating everything came in just under 10 hours. I had a few scares with things that looked unsuccessful but in fact were successful after driving it around for a few minutes and trying again.

Questions:
- I do have the update with YouTube and all the other new entertainment things, but I don’t have Alexa or any nag icon for it. (I don’t want Alexa; I just want to be sure I’m as up to date as I can be before my two day pass expires.) Since I have no other software module updates awaiting me, I assume Alexa isn’t there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums?

- On my Access screen, I have the new layout, and pressing the Mach-E icon on the top left takes me right to the Access menu now, but I have no frunk control. I noticed other people with frunk controls there after updating to the YouTube level, but is that also not there for 2021 Job 1 Premiums (yet)?

Otherwise I think everything else looks good. No lurking DTCs, no more modules saying that they’re available for download. Is that it?

My Job 1 Premium had the Alexa icon right after the APIM update.

Does your frunk open with the door pillar code plus 8-9? If so, you can add the frunk button to the Sync screen with FORScan.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

If you login to Ford Online, and choose Subscriptions (or Connected Services in US) do you see Alexa Activation Pending?

It does, yes.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

My Job 1 Premium had the Alexa icon right after the APIM update.

Does your frunk open with the door pillar code plus 8-9? If so, you can add the frunk button to the Sync screen with FORScan.

Will check! Thanks!

 

[JohnnyForensic]

My Job 1 Premium had the Alexa icon right after the APIM update.

Does your frunk open with the door pillar code plus 8-9? If so, you can add the frunk button to the Sync screen with FORScan.

My door code plus 8-9 locks the doors the moment after entering the door code unlocked it.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

My door code plus 8-9 locks the doors the moment after entering the door code unlocked it.

Oh wait! 7-8 does it! Yes!

off to look for Forscan now.

 

[generaltso]

Oh wait! 7-8 does it! Yes!

off to look for Forscan now.

Oops. Yeah, sorry, it’s 7-8.

 

[ProximusAl]

It does, yes.

Mine too. Don’t know what needs to be done to move this on. I guess once active the icon will appear

 

[waltermorel]

Mine too. Don’t know what needs to be done to move this on. I guess once active the icon will appear

Had a ford email this morning. Alexa is now active and i can see it on the screen

 

[ProximusAl]

Had a ford email this morning. Alexa is now active and i can see it on the screen

When did you do the APIM?

 

[waltermorel]

When did you do the APIM?

1 week ago

 

[ProximusAl]

1 week ago

Wow. Ok. I only did mine on Friday so I guess I’ll be patient.

 

[methorian]

Successfully updated all of these on my '21 Job 1 today. Got the slew of 3.5.xxxxx OTA updates this past week before doing all this today. Went very smooth.

So after applying all of these updates I've noticed that I no longer have the white lines on my backup camera that move when you turn the steering wheel to give you an estimate of where the rear will be going. Is there a setting I've missed somewhere to turn this back on?