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Is your Android-based smartphone acting up on a Ford Sync hands-cost-free program? Then you might have to have this "workshop" in your vehicle to get the system operating greater.

A large number of Ford autos have the Microsoft Sync program installed for hands-free infotainment access. The system functions nicely with most phones. Even so, if some phones - particularly Android-based and Blackberry phones - are "paired" incorrectly, then they could possibly not work properly or they might not perform at all.

Android based cell phones call for a various "pairing process".

For those who have already paired your phone, then look at carrying out a "Clean pairing." This indicates going to the Phone Menu (displayed on the LED screen in the center console or on the Touch Screen navigation window). Pick Program Settings, Bluetooth Devices, Delete Device. Select your phone, and then push the OK button on steering wheel or dash to delete it. Then go to the phone, to its Settings folder, Bluetooth Settings, Connected Devices, and then "delete" the phone.

As an added measure, turn your vehicle off, and raise the hood. Then loosen and pull the black battery cable clamp assembly off the battery post for about a minute. Then replace it and retighten it. Close your hood and return to the automobile. Turn it on. Let it run for about five minutes. Then turn the vehicle off, and open the door to make confident every little thing is powered down. Then restart the car. This completes the initial element of the "Clean Pairing" approach.

Here are instructions to "Pair" a telephone for the very first time, or to continue the "Clean Pairing" approach. Turn on your vehicle. Turn on your radio. Be certain your telephone is turned on. Now go to the Phone Menu on your vehicle's center console. Pick Technique Settings, then Bluetooth Devices, then Add Bluetooth Device, then push OK to start pairing and the technique will come back with a 6-digit PIN. For those of you with the LED screen on your center console, turn the tuning knob until it says Particular PIN, hit OK, and it typically comes up with "0000" (or the alternate"1234"). Then go to your telephone, to the Settings, turn Bluetooth on. Set the telephone in Discovery Mode. Go to Add New Devices and push Add Device. When it recognizes the Sync method, it may perhaps initially say one thing like "Handsfree device." Wait till it shows "Sync." Then tap the Sync button on the telephone. Commonly, following a few seconds, it will come back and prompt you to enter the PIN number. Enter the "0000" (or the "1234" number) and then push Pair on the telephone. For those with the Touch Screen NAV system, you have to use the 6-digit PIN. Some Android smartphones assume the PIN is "0000" and enters those numbers automatically.

Be certain to watch, some Android phones come back with a sub-menu that asks you if you want to preserve the Bluetooth "Constantly On" -- tell it OK. The Sync system will then ask if you want to make this the Major Phone, push OK on the steering wheel or console. Tell it OK on the 911 Help. When it asks to Download Phonebook, now you can push OK, and OK again, and it will download the phone contacts.

The 6-digit PIN at times gets an Android phone confused so the Phonebook does not download absolutely, or at all. The 6-digit PIN works fine with the Apple iPhone. Employing the 4-digit PIN corrects that and it seems to hold the Bluetooth signals much better so it doesn't drop calls or shift back into Privacy Mode.

One other factor to do is to register an account on Ford's SyncMyRide website. This web-site is a resource for all Sync users and has a wealth of resource details and videos. Check to see if there is a software upgrade - you can download them from the web site. A widespread predicament with outdated Sync software is to have the method randomly switch to Privacy Mode. Or in some cases if it appears the vehicle's microphone cannot "hear you," then it is ordinarily due to old computer software that wants to be updated. Also, about once a week, be positive to energy down your telephone. Then restart it. Also, check to see if the firmware on your telephone is present.