So I am out cruising around on a beautiful sunny Seattle day and sync stops working. I stopped to grab lunch and upon returning to my car and turning on the stereo, Sync won't work. I cycle through every setting I can and can get the word Sync to display for all of about two seconds and then it switches to broadcast FM. I have powered down the stereo, my iPod, the entire car, and nothing seems to work. The iPod is a current generation nano if that helps.

My car is two weeks old with 600 miles on it. The dealer is an hour away and I don't really want to miss half a day of work trying to take care of this. Naturally the Sync manual doesn't have a section on troubleshooting so I have no way of determining how to re-boot the system.

Any ideas?

Greg

 

There is no dealer closer than that to you?

Any dealer can perform warranty work, doesn't have to be the dealer where you bought it.

 

I think the only way of rebooting is either pulling the fuse for it, or disconnecting the battery.

 

I just disconnected the battery for 20 minutes and that worked.

I hope I don't have to do that again.

Greg

 

You might have to. I upgraded from the Iphone 3 to the 4, and I had to turn the phone off and restart it to get the cell service to work. I didn't even think to do that since I always leave my phone on!

 

I upgraded by i-phone from OS 4.0 to 4.01 and it killed the USB port. I had to pull the fuse to get everything to work again properly. Seems like SYNC doesnlt like i-phone OS upgrades.

 

If you tried the fuse and that din't fix it, maybe you have a bad button. I have had buttons fail on me before.

 

I'm running OS 4.01 on my Iphone 4 and it didn't have any effect on the USB. But I did that before I got the car.

 

Go figure, a Microsoft product not liking an Apple product. Conspiracy theorists may think this is on purpose.

 

LOL! Yeah, a Microsoft system that needs to be rebooted every other week, gee, where have I experienced that before?? LOL!

 

But so far, we don't have to cover the corner of the Mustang with duct tape.


Unless we really want to. . .

 

I've experienced similar issues, but it usually starts working properly after a minute or two. Once it seemed to fix it when, instead of cycling through the inputs with the button (which wasn't working), I instead used Sync voice command and told it "USB".