rockfish
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I successfully updated my 2022 Powerboost over last weekend using FDRS 38.5.7 and a Mongoose cable. It had been left sitting for almost 4 months and the Ford dealer refused to update all of the modules. I can see why after spending probably 6-8 hours total over 2 days to get 11 modules updated.
I found logging in to be different than what I read in the posts and wanted to share that. I tried and tried the 3rd option, Motorcraft login, as the notes say and could not get that to work using my Motorcraft credentials. I did some digging on the Ford support site and it said to use option 2 which is Independent/non-dealer login. That brought up a browser window with the Motorcraft login page and once I put my creds in that worked for me.
It's cool that we get to use FDRS just like the dealerships, but I wasn't overly impressed with it from a software perspective. They have no idea how to use progress bars, they just fill up and then start over until things finally complete. The Sync updates took a really long time with almost no feedback at all. In fact FDRS asks you to answer if the update completed and then says only say No if you actually got a message saying it failed, answer Yes if you saw nothing at all. And all of the cycling of the ignition on and off was tedious. But at least it did work.
I'm sure they could improve on this since most or all of these updates can be done OTA and there is no one to cycle the ignition. So there must be a way. They should basically just push the update from the laptop to the truck and then let the OTA mechanism handle it. And it should be done over Wi-Fi without the tedious process of writing to a USB drive. They should be able to get it so a dealership could just select a batch of updates and they would get installed with no more input.
I found logging in to be different than what I read in the posts and wanted to share that. I tried and tried the 3rd option, Motorcraft login, as the notes say and could not get that to work using my Motorcraft credentials. I did some digging on the Ford support site and it said to use option 2 which is Independent/non-dealer login. That brought up a browser window with the Motorcraft login page and once I put my creds in that worked for me.
It's cool that we get to use FDRS just like the dealerships, but I wasn't overly impressed with it from a software perspective. They have no idea how to use progress bars, they just fill up and then start over until things finally complete. The Sync updates took a really long time with almost no feedback at all. In fact FDRS asks you to answer if the update completed and then says only say No if you actually got a message saying it failed, answer Yes if you saw nothing at all. And all of the cycling of the ignition on and off was tedious. But at least it did work.
I'm sure they could improve on this since most or all of these updates can be done OTA and there is no one to cycle the ignition. So there must be a way. They should basically just push the update from the laptop to the truck and then let the OTA mechanism handle it. And it should be done over Wi-Fi without the tedious process of writing to a USB drive. They should be able to get it so a dealership could just select a batch of updates and they would get installed with no more input.
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