2016 Ford Explorer Platinum Sync 3 Upgrade

Upgrading my 2016 Ford Explorer Platinum Sync 2 to a Sync 3 system. Bought the screen and APIM from marketplace and I believe it came from a Ford Fusion. Made it fit in the car with the brackets. I bought the updated USB hub to work with Sync 3. Did a manual upgrade and I am currently sitting at version 3.0.20204. I am seeing a bunch of misellaneous bugs in the radio but was thinking a fresh upgrade would help out. I was wanting to use the CyanLabs updater as I used it for my 2016 Ford F150 and it worked flawless. Is there anyway I can use the cyanlabs updater to get to a newer version on my 2016 Ford Explorer Platinum with retrofitted sync 3 apim/screen and usb hub. I dont see an option in the cyanlab updater to choose my current version of 3.0.20204. Any help or info is greatly appreciated. One issue we are seeing is when plugged into an android phone it will randomly drop connection and we have tried various cables with same result.


SYNC Region: NA

Navigation Variant: Nav

Manufacturer Year: MY20

Install Type: OEM Replacement

Old SYNC Version: 2.0

New SYNC Version: 3.0.20204

Do you have a error message, if so what is it?
Various bugs

Update Method: CyanLabs Manual Method

You need to fix the AsBuilt config first, a Fusion is close to an Explorer but not exactly alike.

A fresh install of Sync3 is not going to fix problems that come from a bad AsBuilt config.

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