Does anyone know what the maximum USB size is for Sync 3?
I have been using a 32gb USB stick for my music. I can’t get all my music on 32gb so today I bought a 64gb USB stick. I formatted it as exFat and put all my music on it.
When I put it in to the USB hub, I get a message saying ‘USB device not supported - please remove’.
The only reason I ask is because looking over various forums, I see people claiming to be using 64gb and even 128gb. They just say they have not done anything special to get it to work.
I even tried formatting mine as FAT32 just in case but got the same result.
This same error happened when i formatted my sandisk 32gb usb drive on a chromebook. I grabbed my usb c adapter for my tablet and formatted it to fat32, worked just fine.
Well that did the trick. No idea how these things are set from the factory, but I ran it through Diskpart, deleted it all, convert to MBR. Re-formatted, re-copied and now it all works.
Like mentioned it just needs to be Fat32 or ExFat not NTFS or HFS etc and most importantly needs to be Master Boot Record (MBR) not GUID Partition Table (GPT)
The USB stick now works and I am not having any playback issues.
I tend to leave the USB stick in all the time. I never remove it unless I am adding songs. Is it normal that everytime I start the car, it indexes again.
It seems whenever I start the car up, I cannot browse for about 5 minutes or so because it is indexing the USB stick. I would have thought it would only need to do it once unless you change it.
It’s a pain if you are just nipping to the shop because I cannot use it at all if it’s just a 5 minute journey each way.
I’ve seen that when it hasn’t indexed, the songs name default to the audio file name, but if it doesn’t bother you, go ahead. I also leave my music usb in there plugged in all the time. I think the delay is because it has to recognize the USB and then load up all the cache that it made to remember the songs (index).