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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
What year? The sync2 radios (MFT) are APIMS + ACMs but most all programming is in the APIM. The older fords like 09 had ACM only. Get me some details on the car radio you have and ill see what I can dig up.

I know the ACM clarion can be both odd and even.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
its 2014, Sync 2 MFT.

The APIM setting that changes the radio display either adds the RDS option (but doesnt allow me to turn it on) or removes it , and removes HD Radio along with it. But instead I see Radio text and some other option, non of which actually activates RDS. So it seems to be the ACM controlling this.

Thanks for your help ! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
I think to make this work you need to set the APIM to 0.

0 – Non RDS Market (NA)

1 – RDS Market (Europe, APA, SA)

1 will give you evens and 0 will give you odds but 0 also is na. The ACM holds the Key for you if its possible. In the older radios by clarion you set the fist byte to 0 in AS3. This does give the clarion both odds and evens.

here is an example of 727 AS data.

727-01-01	10A0	D000	8030

727-01-02	0000	31

727-02-01	5B8C

727-03-01	1446

727-04-01	0001	0155	53DD

The bold is what you set I think. This is untested. The ACM may have changed in sync2. I think the DD at the end is the checksum and I know the 55 53 in this case is char for US. You may also have to set that to another region.

Omar suggest this.

727-04-01 is 0103 0239

that is a 1 RDS on I guess but I think he missed a bit at the end. 39 char is 9, not sure I understand that.

this makes more sense to me

727-04-01 0103 0254 43D0 this is TC(54 43) not sure what region that is though (Transport Canada?).

I believe I have access to the ACM data sheets also, ill see about getting that as that option is of use to me as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] omar302:
[MENTION=5614687]ulao2[/MENTION] , [MENTION=1700836]Weees[/MENTION] ,

For your information, my car is North American 2011 Lincoln MKX (similar to the Ford Edge) made for Export to GCC. It has Sync2 (MyLincoln/MyFord Touch). I always had the RDS button available but RDS could not be turned on. It also had all frequencies enabled, odd & even numbers. I remember when the car was new & I complained to the dealer they couldn't get RDS to work & gave up. In the diagnostics menu, there was a configuration screen were it showed something like "Non-RDS Market" which was changed to "RDS Market" later after some MFT update by the dealer, but RDS never worked.

Now, after trying Forscan, ACM bas built data shows for 727-04-01 the values: "0103 0239" only. Changing "0103" to "0003" first gives an error due to checksum, but after writing the data anyway, RDS is enabled & works but I lose the odd even number frequencies.

So I hope there is some other setting that can be changed to enable all frequencies while still having RDS on. Note that I only changed 1 block in the ACM to make the above change.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wystewart:
Could someone recommend software (preferably free) to be able to send specific can bus messages to the APIM & ACM? I have a bench setup of an APIM and ACM that I want to test and configure before retrofitting into the car. I'm using an ELS27 adapter which theoretically is ELM327 compatible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
Yes, you are right, I had the same results. We need to get the ACM As built data for a ford in Europe that has RDS running. That would allow us to compare and find out which bit is missing.

As for the checksum error you got, just use the AsBuiltExplorer and the calculator in there will give you the checksum value to use.

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Hi ,

the second and third blocks in my ABD are already set to the setting you recommended ! (54 43) ! :| So thats not affecting the frequency list it seems.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
I think this is the 4th data set bits in the ACM.

39-32	[0x00;StartByte:1] NA

39-32	[0x01;StartByte:1] GCC

39-32	[0x02;StartByte:1] JAPAN

39-32	[0x03;StartByte:1] EUROPE

39-32	[0x04;StartByte:1] Asia Pacific

31-24	[0x00;StartByte:2] Unconfigured

31-24	[0x01;StartByte:2] United States

31-24	[0x02;StartByte:2] Canada

31-24	[0x03;StartByte:2] No Content

23-16	[0x00;StartByte:3] Unconfigured

23-16	[0x01;StartByte:3] Data Services

23-16	[0x02;StartByte:3] No Data Services

15-8	[0x00;StartByte:4] ASCII

7-0	[0x00;StartByte:5] ASCII

RDS is enabled/disable is in APIM as a mentioned before, so if you are not flipping that bit it won't enable.

727-04-01 is 0103 0239 < means GCC / No content/ no data services/ first letter = 9 /second is missing

727-04-01 is 0001 0135 < means NA/US/data services / first letter = 5 /second is missing

unless this ABD is incomplete I can not really explain why the region is messed up. This data I have is for sync2/sync3 modules.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
Thanks, but can you elaborate a little bit more ? Which data block is affected by this (Im assuming 2nd block?) Also Which number should be changed from that block (just so we are clear ?)

As for the APIM, controlling the RDS, I disagree :) The APIM only control whether or not to show you the RDS selection option. But even when its displayed, it cannot be turned on unless the ACM has it available.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
Right I guess my point was to make sure both APIM and ACM are set right.

I mentioned that the info was for the 4th data block

so

727-01-01 10A0 D000 8030 [1 of 1]

727-01-02 0000 31 [2 of 1]

727-02-01 5B8C [1 of 2]

727-03-01 1446 [1 of 3]

727-04-01 0001 0155 53DD [ 1 of 4]< -that one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
Thanks [MENTION=5614687]ulao2[/MENTION] , so if I understand you correctly, then the following should enable RDS with Europe region radio frequencies ?

727-04-01 0003 0254 43D0
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
I'm not saying that. My entire involvement is to help trying to figure it out.

At a guess I would think yes, but there can always be more to it. Like in the APIM you also set the region, maybe they must match? What I would do is gather more info from people like Omar and try to puzzle all this together. As I pointed out his data look to be incomplete to me. So I'd like to see more then "0103 0239" as he said. Now he did give us his car and using the FORD site I get this.

using vin 2LMDJ8JK8BBJ00975

APIM 7D0-01-01	2021	9100	620D

APIM 7D0-01-02	8001	0000	025D

APIM 7D0-02-01	5553	0104	0087	<-- maybe this must match, just a guess.

APIM 7D0-02-02	0000	0000	00DB

APIM 7D0-02-03	0000	DC

APIM 7D0-03-01	0000	0000	00DB

APIM 7D0-04-01	0103	0200	00E2

APIM 7D0-04-02	0001	DE

ACM 727-01-01	1A5B	C808	0075

ACM 727-01-02	0536

ACM 727-02-01	5B8C

ACM 727-03-01	1446

ACM 727-04-01	0001	0236 <-- still trying to understand why this data is cut short. Maybe there is something to that on an 2011. Ill keep looking in to this and maybe find more accurate data. If your car matches this, the the ACM data I have is not for sync2.

so what is the exact year make you have (sorry if this was mentioned).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] omar302:
Thanks for all the help. Attached is the ABD for the ACM for my car & a US version which I compared it to (mine on the left). As noted earlier, only the 727-04-01 affected the RDS & frequencies. Hope this helps somehow. Note: When first tried it, I matched all ABD of the US car, then I tried one by one until I found out which one it was.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
Ah very helpful. Looks like I do indeed have 2008 ACM data, ill see if I can get my hands on 2011.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SchimiEX:
on my US explorer 2013 Sport i had this

727-04-01 0001 0255 53DE

i had RDS and it works. (i life in Germany)... on presets it save the MHz data (106.7Mhz not 1Live).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
Mine is a 2014 model. I have the full line (with the complete 3 Data sets) . So im not sure why his line is cut.

As for the suggested change earlier (727-04-01 0003 0254 43D0), it didnt work. It still enabled the RDS with US frequency list :(

Thanks for trying to help anyway !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
SchimiEX, what did you have before you changed it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ten3or:
My ACM config

727-04-01 0103 0252 53DE

52 53 - Russia (Explorer).

A month ago I have tried to change the configuration of this address. I tried a lot of options for the first two bytes (from 0000 to 0909). It turns out only two modes: rds + us freq or no rds + eu freq (odd + even).

Also I tried to change the reference to the region (change 5253 for ACM and APIM), but it also did not give a positive result.

On the US Fusion config with RDS 727-04-01 0301 (was 0001) does not allow to manually enter the eu freq, but you can easily add them to a memory via the auto-scan.

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Ahahah ))) 5253 = RS = RU + US. For cars assembled in Russia - 5255 = RU
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
yup works here too. I set the US car to UK and set the first byte to 01..

so

727-04-01 is now set to 010101554b

works

break down

01 GCC tuner region vale.

01 SDARS region US

01 SDARS DATA Service Set to on

554b = uk

FYI I also set APIM to uk,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SchimiEX:
It's my standard setup... i not change anything ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
hold on, I'm confused......:) so did you manage to get RDS to work on non US frequency ?

if yes....which values exactly did you use for UK frequencies ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fblasot:
[MENTION=5614687]ulao2[/MENTION]:

Why screenshot of sync3 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] voidzwarranty:
Can anyone confirm the bits to flip to enable the AWD display on a 2013 Fusion?

I changed:

720-01-02 from 4E1F 10A7 to 7E1F 10xx but don't see any change.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
It's in 720-01-01
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] COMpulse:
On my 2013 Taurus, it was 720-01-02. I was wondering if it was the same on the Fusion. Sounds like it's different for the Fusion. Otherwise, I would have expected the above change to work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] voidzwarranty:
Thanks. Do you remember which bit?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] voidzwarranty:
Never mind. I found it. For those of you with an AWD Fusion I changed:

720-01-01 = CC27 1064 7000

to

720-01-01 = CC27 1264 7002
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] voidzwarranty:
I can also confirm that the following change disables "in-motion" protection. Features such as address entry on navigation and wallpaper changes are available at all times with no noticeable side-effects.

7D0-02-01 = 5553 0001 8003

to

7D0-02-01 = 5552 0001 8002
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
5753 works too I believe.

Not sure if there is any difference.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
fblasot, sorry. I'm able to change on sync 3 not sync 2. They share there same ACM but only sync2 works. I'm able to put a sync3 in a sync2 car with a lot of work but it seems only the syn3 system take the odds and evens. So far everything I try for the sync2 fails.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TScott69:
This may be a silly idea but I would like to know if it's possible to enable/disable audio sources from the selection list? Is there a set of bits that define this? I would love to delete the steaming turd that is SiriusXM and AM radio so I have quicker access to the sources I do listen to. It is frustrating that I have to pass through that crap to get to my USB and Bluetooth. Forget trying to use Sync voice commands, that just makes me want to punch a hole in my headliner, as it rarely works as it should.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
I think that is a reasonable question but in looking at all ACM and APIM options, I do not see anything that would do that. Am presets I see but nothing to turn it off or leave out of the source list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
There is as option to show and hide Sirius in the APIM. I forget what bit it is.... I don't recall their being one for AM radio.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TScott69:
That would be a start. If you happen to come across it shoot me a PM. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
If so FORD does not call it sirius, any other name for it?

I tried

Sirius, Satellite, Radio, XM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ulao2:
I can also confirm this but only works with MFT the sync3's remain locked.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jdolotina:
I can confirm that 5553 to 5552 does not work with a 2016 fusion. I tried the 5753 and it worked out. If I changed the 5553 to a 5552 I would get an error and it would set a DTC for invalid option.

Thanks everybody for cracking these options. It is nice to have this level of configuration control on these vehicles.

Josh D.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tehrules:
Anyone here know much about AppLink on Sync 2? I believe you US folk have had this on your systems for years, however here in the UK/Europe we don't have AppLink on Sync 2 and I'm pretty annoyed about that. I'd like to see that feature enabled as I'd like to seamlessly use TuneIn Radio with my car as I know that was a supported app at one point.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Sync 2 has no Applink here either in USA. Only old basic sync not MyFord Touch and new sync 3 have it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tehrules:
Really? I've seen various Ford documentation/video that shows Sync 2 with AppLink... Strange.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrDoom:
Unfortunately it's a feature they never actually finished nor released.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tonesto7:
Is there a way to enable the audio visualizer?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
I have enabled the seat cooling/heating on the screen, but I dont think the seats are actually responding (not surprised). So I was wondering if anyone knows what it would take to get seat ventilation to work (beyond showing the controls on the MFT - Sync 2) ? I do have the highest trim option (Ford Edge) available from my dealer (which includes powered leather seats).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
No replies in 3 days.....everyone must be on vacation ! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TScott69:
You need the cooling fans that are mounted under the seat. They don't install these on every car. You only have them IF you order that feature from the factory.

Lot's of problems with these not working. Have a look: http://www.fordedgeforum.com/topic/18790-cooled-seats/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Weees:
Thanks abunch for the reply ! Appreciate it :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SchimiEX:
someone find out how to aktivate the active guidelines?

i read that they only are available with the "active park assist" but i think it only use the steering eagle sensor... and the sensor is used for ESP, too... so every car had it :)

and the second:

is there a "mirror down if reverse gear" available? it would be great, too

the third :)

i found out how to disable the fog lamp indicator light in the instrument cluster...

so if you use the fog lamps as DRL you can change this (i show you, couldn't explain it right :)

720-01-02

My Original:

F42C 0862 984C

0862 = 00001000 01100010

changed to:

xxxx 0062 xxxx

00000000 01100010
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al_belov:
Hi, guys! I just ordered Ford Sync G3 and I'm interested in activating it too. Now it has US navigation, but I need EU. I've tried sync g2 method, but it does not work. If you've by any chance some idea how to do this, I will be glad to try this out. I've a friend with an access to etis portal, so probably I can provide you some info/logs, please guide me. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MarcinXDA:
in sync3 it is not posible to activate navigation - hardware differences
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al_belov:
I know about this. I have hardware with navigation, but only US. I need to download image to flash with Europe navi, languages and voices.

Does anybody know something about configuring SYNC 3?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmbach:
With modding a 2015 Mustang for navigation, certain flipped bits give me a non-displayed DTC configuration error. Here are my findings:

For navigation:

7D0-01-02 changed 0008 0000 8062 to 0408 0000 8064 - no DTC errors

727-04-01 changed 0001 0255 53DE to 0001 0355 53DF - ACM DTC configuration error

For disabling in-motion:

7D0-02-01 changed 5553 0602 C04A to 5552 0602 C049 - APIM DTC configuration error

I did not detect any issues with those bit changes despite the configuration error.

However, since I do not like having errors flagged I reverted those changes back to stock. For those interested, SiriusXM travel and traffic link needs only navigation enabled in the APIM to function.

Addendum:

Found my mistakes

The ACM navigation change. 727-04-01 0001 0255 53DE should be changed to 0001 0155 53DD. This resulted in no ACM DTC configuration errors.

In-motion disable change for the APIM 7D0-02-01 5553 0602 C04A should be changed to 5753 0602 C04C. This resulted in no APIM DTC configuration errors but loss of SiriusXM travel and traffic link.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Try 5753 instead of 5553
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmbach:
Yup, found my errors. One after looking through the threads a little more I found your recommendations.

7D0-02-01 changing 5553 0602 C04A to 5753 0602 C04C results in no APIM DTC errors but did have loss of SiriusXM travel and traffic link. Changing it to 5653 resulted in APIM DTC configuration not supported error with loss of SiriusXM traffic and travel link.

I used COMPulse's AsBuiltExplorer (Which is a great utility. Kudos and thanks to COMPulse.) to confirm the bit changes for the 2015 mustang in the ACM and APIM. What I did not do is compare the physical asbuilt data and thus my second mistake. AsBuiltExplorer found the Perfect Bits: 727-04-01 bit 23 val 1 and 7D0-01-02 bit 5 val 1. What I was not aware of until I inspected the asbuilt data for 727-04-01 was that bit 22 had val 0. So the resultant modification should have been to 727-04-01 changing 0001 0255 53DE to 0001 0155 53DD and not 0001 0355 53DF. This modification resulted in no DTC configuration errors.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Shouldn't need to touch the ACM. That's only going to contain Sirius Traffic and HD Radio if supported. Probably why you got those errors.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmbach:
Hmm. Well I'll see what happens. When using AsBuiltExplorer the ACM bit looks to be ubiquitous with the Mustangs that have navigation.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Probably travel link
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmbach:
I am not so sure. I had travel and traffic link without that bit set. Will see if there is any difference with travel and traffic link with those bits changed. I did have SiriusXM enable both on my radio after some convincing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] COMpulse:
I don't know what that ACM bit is all about.

Maybe how the different radios handle the turn-by-turn announcements.

The bit isn't required to get Nav. Enabling it on my Taurus added nothing, and did set a DTC in the ACM for invalid configuration.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmbach:
The same thing happened to my ACM. I looked at all the models I downloaded the asbuilt data that had Navigation and found that the ACM byte went from 0x02 to 0x01 and not to 0x03 which is what I did first. When I changed the byte to 0x01, I did not get any DTC configuration errors flagged in the ACM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bin4ry:
As this is the hack-thread i wanted to share with you an apk file to create the keyfile which is used on original SD-Cards. With this you are able to create your own navigation SD ;)

Download see here:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69066376&postcount=567

Howto:

1.) Buy a 64GB SDCard (µSD with SD Adapter is just fine, make sure you have an Android >= 5.0 device which can read this card size!!!)

2.) Format the SDCard with FAT32 (use the fat32formatter.exe in the Tools directory, make sure all Windows Explorers are closed or the program will exit with an error)

3.) Install FordActivator.apk on your Android phone and put SD-Card into the Android device!

4.) Run FordActivator on the Android Phone (>= Android 5.0)

5.) Put SD-Card into PC and first remove all Android Files and Folders! (DO NOT REMOVE SdCard.key!!!!) Just remove everything except the SdCard.key!

6.) Copy all Contents of the original SD to your own created SDCard (DO NOT OVERWRITE SdCard.key!!!!!)

7.) Have fun!

Best Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Revolter:
SD backup

how about link to A7 sd ? only crap coming up when searching or I am too old and getting lost :)

my original A7 was chewed up by a dog, can't use it any
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rioachim:
How about... not. Please read the title of the thread and see if “illegally downloading copyrighted content“ is part of it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AngelDeath:
Greets guys,

I have a 2016 Mustang GT Premium, One of the features it has I hate and was wondering if anyone might know how to stop it. On the 15-16 Stangs, there is a feature that at night if you have the fog lights on signal to make a turn, that side fog light shuts off. I know its in the BCM and I think its in the 726-26-01 to 726-29-01 location. I already found the location to have the fog lights on with high beams, and how to shut off the double honk when you leave the car running and take the fob with you, but I would like to find how to keep the fog lights on with the turn signals. I plan to move the turn signals to the LED light location, and use the original turn signals as DRL's. So any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Might be able to be done by buying a new map pack from navigation.com, however sync 3 was not released in Europe yet. So I am willing to bet it won't give you the option. Also before checking I would update the region code in the as built from the USA 5553 to whatever it should be where you are from. Check your Sync 2 as built.

Even trying to refresh the firmware in oasis won't work as your VINs won't show the same sync hardware numbers supported.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bin4ry:
Sorry i will not do that. The Map is protected by copyright and so i will not upload it.

Best Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kthanassis:
Is anyone knows how these changes can be done by using VCM II with IDS software? or if Forscan can work with VCM II interface?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DanMc85:
Both. IDS would be a pain as it doesn't let you do one line at a time. FORScan supports the VCM II in J2534 mode.