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#2 of 10 Sync. by mschmal Nov 12, 2007 (5:02 am)
I am the Sync specialist at my dealership. And the absolute fact is that no one can guarantee what phone will work with your Sync vehicle with what features.   There are only 2 ways to figure this out.   1. Go to www.syncmyride.com and you will see lists of phones.   2. Go to the dealer with your phone and make the sales person pair your phone to a car with Sync. If you sales person can't do this or get you a person at the dealership who can, do not buy a car there. If you do pair your phone to a car and you don't buy that car, make sure someone does a "master reset" on the Sync unit in that car.   If you are going to replace your phone after you buy the car, then buy a phone based on www.syncmyride.com OR take your car to the store and see if a demo phone is available in the model you are considering and Sync that to your car.   If you are having problems with your phone and you do not want to replace it, check with your carrier as the phone my have a firmware update available.   One other catch, the same model cell phone likely has different features from different carriers. ATT might order something different than t-mobile.   Mark
#3 of 10 ATT Moto Razr V3 by mschmal Nov 12, 2007 (5:10 am)
According to www.syncmyride, the Razr V3 will not download your phone's phone book.   This means you cannot use the command "phone home" etc.   You should still be able to use the command "dial" and then speak the digits of the number you want to dial.   This firmware is required FIRMWARE VERSION: R26111LD_U_96.71.95R   Mark
#4 of 10 What phone should I buy? by mschmal Nov 12, 2007 (5:11 am)
The phone that I personally saw worked best with Sync and the phone used by the Sync trainers is the:   Nokia 6133 from T-Mobile.   Mark
#5 of 10 Note to host. by mschmal Nov 12, 2007 (5:12 am)
Can we get a Sync forum under ford/mercury/lincoln treated as a car model? To make this easier to find.   Mark Replies to this message: steve_ (Nov 12, 2007 8:55 am)
#6 of 10 I just got a car with Sync, what should I do now? by mschmal Nov 12, 2007 (5:14 am)
Go to www.syncmyride.com and register. This way as Sync software updates come out, you will get notice.   You will be able to do these updates yourself with a flash drive   Mark.
#7 of 10 Re: Note to host. [mschmal] by steve_ HOST Nov 12, 2007 (8:55 am)
Replying to: mschmal (Nov 12, 2007 5:12 am) I don't think the software is intended to work that way due to the tie-in with the make/model stuff on the Edmunds side. People find the iPod discussions ok, so maybe we just need to do a better job of tweaking the discussion names? Seems like an idea worth kicking around though - maybe some sort of disambiguation page to go along with the search tools.   Sync seems to have momentum and when the exclusive deal between Ford and Microsoft expires in a year it may leave GM/Onstar scratching its head.
#8 of 10 I drove a car with SYNC and a Cingular RAZR V3 - worked fine by captain_archer Nov 27, 2007 (8:33 am)
I was able to switch on the bluetooth and it downloaded the phone book and the bluetooth would always connect to my phone as I entered the car. The iPod USB interface worked pretty well too.   The main complaint I had is that it took a lot of commands to dial a number ("phone" then "dial" then "XXX-XXX-XXXX" then "dial" again) when it should have been as simple as being able to dial from anywhere in the menu (and not needing to switch modes first), saying "dial XXX-XXX-XXXX" then responding yes/no if it got it right.   It was a rental, I probably should have deleted that data before returning it...
#9 of 10 "phone" by mschmal Dec 04, 2007 (10:53 am)
This command is only required with navigation.   Without Navigation, you can just say "dial"   Mark
#10 of 10 Press Request by KarenS HOST Jan 31, 2008 (12:57 pm)
A reporter seeks to interview buyers of models equipped with Ford Sync. Please respond to jfallonedmunds.com no later than Friday, February 1 with your daytime contact information and a sentence or two about why you purchased Sync.

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