USB Port in new Ford Mondeo
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USB Port in new Ford Mondeo
I recently bought a brand new Ford Mondeo and selected the Sony in car entertainment system (not DAB) as it had the USB port to play one's music from a USB stick.
Brilliant facility..... in theory!
I bought a 16Gb USB stick and proceded to put the majority of my music collection on it.
Plugged it in and it worked fine - for about two hours!
The, when selecting USB it would display the alternating statements "Initialising" and "Track" repeatedly, and never completing the process. At the same time this killed the bluetooth phone connection as well as the voice instruction function.
I took it back to the garage and they arranged for a firmware upgrade.
In the meantime I read somewhere that it is best not to have more than 5,000 files on the stick, so I deleted a couple of albums to bring the file count below 5,000.
After firmware upgrade the garage told me that they had heard somewhere that you shouldn't use a stick larger that 6Gb.
I put the 16Gb back in and it worked fine for two days, then same old problem. So I went to the other extreme and loaded a few albums onto a 1Gb stick. It worked for one evening, then the next morning same problem.
I had copied my albums to mp3 format using Media Player in Windows 7.
Anyone got any ideas as this is really peeing me off! Lot of money for something that doesn't work!
Brilliant facility..... in theory!
I bought a 16Gb USB stick and proceded to put the majority of my music collection on it.
Plugged it in and it worked fine - for about two hours!
The, when selecting USB it would display the alternating statements "Initialising" and "Track" repeatedly, and never completing the process. At the same time this killed the bluetooth phone connection as well as the voice instruction function.
I took it back to the garage and they arranged for a firmware upgrade.
In the meantime I read somewhere that it is best not to have more than 5,000 files on the stick, so I deleted a couple of albums to bring the file count below 5,000.
After firmware upgrade the garage told me that they had heard somewhere that you shouldn't use a stick larger that 6Gb.
I put the 16Gb back in and it worked fine for two days, then same old problem. So I went to the other extreme and loaded a few albums onto a 1Gb stick. It worked for one evening, then the next morning same problem.
I had copied my albums to mp3 format using Media Player in Windows 7.
Anyone got any ideas as this is really peeing me off! Lot of money for something that doesn't work!
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From: Tracey Island
I can't think of an answer to your problem at the moment but will think about it. However, I do think that the DAB would have been a better choice. I'm sure you would have had a connection for an MP3/iPod in there.......
I don't think the Sony system you have was actually made by Sony. Just Sony badged by Ford. Weird world eh??
I don't think the Sony system you have was actually made by Sony. Just Sony badged by Ford. Weird world eh??
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
You bought a
with a Ford Mondeo attatched?
We used to want to know how many valves the engine had.
Sony in car entertainment system
Weird world eh??
We used to want to know how many valves the engine had.
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From: Witnesham, Suffolk
I have a very similar Mondeo (had lots of them). I have my iPod permanently in the glovebox. I find it's cold-sensitive - on a chilly day, it isn't happy about being woken up.
If I take the iPod indoors at night, it's fine in the morning.
Might be an idea to warm up or cool down the chip.
If I take the iPod indoors at night, it's fine in the morning.
Might be an idea to warm up or cool down the chip.
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From: Bracknell, Berks, UK
It could possibly be the WAV format on the stick?
Have a look at this thread from a BMW forum which touches on similar sorts of issues and mentions some things to check for them in the way you burn the WAVs.
Question about MP3 Artist/Song title data/display - BMW 3-Series (E90 E92) Forum - E90Post.com
Have a look at this thread from a BMW forum which touches on similar sorts of issues and mentions some things to check for them in the way you burn the WAVs.
Question about MP3 Artist/Song title data/display - BMW 3-Series (E90 E92) Forum - E90Post.com
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I have a Sony disk player fitted to my car that plays MP3 songs.
After I had it installed, I burned some CDs which contained a large number of tracks on each of them. Playing them I noticed that it wouldn’t play all of the tracks. Found that when it got to a point on the disk it would restart from the beginning thereby missing out a lot of tracks
Went through the manual and found out that you could only put 200 tracks onto the CD. Once I changed all the disks to that format, never had a problem again
Maybe it’s something similar?
After I had it installed, I burned some CDs which contained a large number of tracks on each of them. Playing them I noticed that it wouldn’t play all of the tracks. Found that when it got to a point on the disk it would restart from the beginning thereby missing out a lot of tracks
Went through the manual and found out that you could only put 200 tracks onto the CD. Once I changed all the disks to that format, never had a problem again
Maybe it’s something similar?
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From: Civ/HAL/SHY/FYY/PWK/AAS/WAD/AVI/GPT/BZN/BSN/WAD/BAS/FLK/WIT/MND/WAD/WIT/WAD/Civ
It could be that your USB stick shares its guts with a SD card.
Anything 2gb and under is fine, but over 2GB is actually SDHC which is a different format.
I have lots of SD cards, and only the 2GB and smaller work on everything.
All by 4GB+ cards will only work by using another device (camera etc) masquerading as an external HDD.
I have the same problem with Memorystick Pro cards which I have you use inside my PSP.
Anything 2gb and under is fine, but over 2GB is actually SDHC which is a different format.
I have lots of SD cards, and only the 2GB and smaller work on everything.
All by 4GB+ cards will only work by using another device (camera etc) masquerading as an external HDD.
I have the same problem with Memorystick Pro cards which I have you use inside my PSP.
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From: Lemonia. Best Greek in the world
The usb reader in my JVC will play all the sticks that I've tried, but will not play aac code music from itunes. Hence I need to convert stuff to mp3 before trying to play tunes.
I should have read the small print...................
I should have read the small print...................
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From: Madrid
Ford and USB audio
Hi all,
So yes... I recently bought a Ford Mondeo and the USB keeps on hanging on me. Even tried different ones!!!
In anycase... I have a solution that works!!! Thank goodness!!! You simply need a 2nd USB with different mp3 songs in it. This will "dehang" it. Of course...it's not a great solution... but it's better than having no solutions!!
Hope it helps!!!!
All the best,
JR
So yes... I recently bought a Ford Mondeo and the USB keeps on hanging on me. Even tried different ones!!!
In anycase... I have a solution that works!!! Thank goodness!!! You simply need a 2nd USB with different mp3 songs in it. This will "dehang" it. Of course...it's not a great solution... but it's better than having no solutions!!
Hope it helps!!!!
All the best,
JR
