2. Scroll repeatedly untilServicesappears in the display.
3. Press OK to confirm and enter the Services menu. The display will
indicate the system is connecting.
4. Press OK. SYNCwill initiate the call to the services portal.
5. Once connected, follow the voice prompts to request your desired
Service such as Traffic or Directions. You can also say, “What are my
choices?” to receive a complete list of available services from which to
choose.
6. To return to the services menu, say “Services” or for help, simply say,
“Help”.
To disconnect from SYNCServices (TDI) you can:
•Press and hold the phone button (
) on the steering wheel.
•Say “Goodbye” from the SYNC Services main menu.
Receiving Turn by Turn Directions:
1. When connected to the Services portal, say “Directions” or “Business
Search”.
2. Follow the voice prompts to select your Destination. Once your
destination is selected, your current vehicle location is uploaded and a
route based on current traffic conditions is calculated and sent back to
your vehicle . After the route download is complete, the phone call is
automatically ended. You will receive driving instructions via audible
prompts.
3. While on an active route, you can select or say ‘Route Summary or
‘Route Status’ to view the Route summary turn list or the Route Status
ETA. You can also turn voice guidance on or off, cancel the route or
update the route.
Personalizing Traffic, Directions and Information:Your Traffic,
Directions and Information Services can be personalized to provide
quicker access to your most used or favorite information. You can save
address points such as, ‘work’ or ‘home’. You can also save favorite
information like sports teams, such as ‘Detroit Lions’, or a news category.
To learn more, log onto www.SyncMyRide.com.
Push to interrupt:You can, at any time while you are connected to
SYNC TDI Services, press
to interrupt a voice prompt or an audio
clip (such as a sports report) and say your voice command.
Portable:Your SYNC TDI Services subscription is associated with your
Bluetoothenabled cellular phone number, not your VIN (Vehicle
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911 operators to provide the most appropriate emergency
services. If you do not want to disclose this information, do not
enable (set to ON) the feature.
Note:If 911 Assist™ is enabled/disabled by any user, the current setting
will apply for all paired phones. If the 911 Assist™ setting is disabled
(set to OFF), a voice message and/or display item will inform the vehicle
occupants when a previously paired phone connects to SYNCat vehicle
start up.
In the event of a crash involving the deployment of an airbag or the
activation of the fuel pump shut-off, in certain vehicles, SYNCis
designed to assist occupants in attempting to contact emergency services
by dialing 911 through the occupant’s paired and connectedBluetooth
enabled cellular phone. In the event that a connected cellular phone is
damaged or loses connection to SYNC, SYNCwill search for and
connect to any available, previously paired cell phone and attempt to
place the call to 911. Before initiating the call, SYNCprovides a short
window of time (approximately 10 seconds) that allows the driver or
passenger to decide whether to cancel the call by pressing and
holding
or PHONE on the steering wheel controls or on the audio
system. Before initiating the 911 call for the occupants, SYNCwill say
the following or a similar message:
“SYNCwill attempt to call 911. If you wish to cancel the call, press and
hold the phone button.”
If the call is not cancelled and a successful call is made, a pre-recorded
message will be played for the 911 operator and then the occupant(s) in
the vehicle will be able to communicate with the 911 operator.
Note:Failure to cancel the call as described above will result in SYNC
dialing 911.
Note:When you are connected to the 911 operator, be prepared to
provide your name, phone number and location immediately, because not
all 911 systems are capable of receiving this information electronically.
The following steps are required for the 911 Assist™ feature to perform
properly:
•SYNCis on and functioning properly at the time of the incident and
throughout feature activation and use.
•SYNC911 Assist™ feature is set to ON prior to the incident.
•ABluetoothenabled and compatible cellular phone is paired and
connected to SYNC.
•A connectedBluetoothenabled cellular phone that has the ability to
make and maintain an outgoing call at the time of the incident.
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•A connectedBluetoothenabled cellular phone that has adequate
network coverage, battery power and signal strength.
•The vehicle is located in the U.S. or Canada or in a territory in which
911 is the emergency number.
WARNING:Unless 911 Assist™ is previously configured to ON
prior to a crash, 911 Assist™ will not dial for help during an
emergency, which could delay response time, increasing the risk of
serious injury or death after a crash.
The 911 Assist™ feature is initially set to OFF. To access the setting:
1. Press
or PHONE to enter thePhone Menu.
2. Scroll repeatedly until911 Assistappears in the radio display.
3. Press OK to confirm and enter the911 Assistmenu.
4. Scroll to select between On and Off selections.
5. Press OK when the desired option appears in the radio display. Set On
or Set Off will appear in the display as confirmation.
Note:Off selections include: Off with reminder and Off without
reminder. Off with reminder provides a display and voice reminder at
phone connection at vehicle start. Off without reminder provides a
display reminder only without a voice reminder.
For more information, please visit www.SyncMyRide.com or
www.syncmaroute.ca.
Note: Before enabling (setting to ON), review the 911 Assist™
Privacy Notice.
Vehicle health report (if equipped, U.S. only)
WARNING:Always follow scheduled maintenance instructions,
regularly inspect your vehicle, and seek repair for any damage or
problem you suspect. Vehicle Health Reports supplements, but cannot
replace normal maintenance and vehicle inspection. Vehicle Health
Report only monitors certain systems that are electronically monitored
by the vehicle and will not monitor or report the status of any other
system, (i.e., brake lining wear). Failure to perform scheduled
maintenance and regularly inspect your vehicle may result in vehicle
damage and serious injury.
Note: Your Vehicle Health Report feature requires activation
prior to use. Visit www.SyncMyRide.com to register.There is no fee
or subscription associated with Vehicle Health Report, but youmust
register to use this feature.
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Note:You can only play genres of music which are present in the
GENRE metadata tags that you have on your digital media player.
Similar music:You can tell the system to play music ‘similar’ to what
you are currently playing from the USB port. SYNCwill use the
metadata information of each indexed song to compile a playlist for you.
Search/play artist/track/album:You can search for a specific
artist/track or album from the music SYNChas indexed through the
USB port.
Refine:This allows you to ‘refine’ your previous commands. For
example, if you told SYNCto search and play all music by a certain
artist, you could then tell SYNCto “refine album” and choose a specific
album from the list to view. If you then select ‘Play’, the system will only
play music from that specific album.
Press
and when prompted, say, “Bluetooth Audio”. You may then say
any of the following:
•Play•Connections
•Pause•Play next track
•Play previous track
Maneuvering the media menu
Below is a graphical representation of how the phone menu lays out in
your system. It will be explained in more detail in this chapter, but this
may help you to better visualize the menu structure.
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+ Denotes submenus with additional menu items
Scrolling through the menus:Press
/to scroll through the
menu options.
AUX MENU Media Menu
Play Menu OK
Select Source OK
Media Settings OK
Application
System Settings OK
Exit Media Menu Play All
Artists
Albums
Genres
Playlists
Tracks
Explore USB
Similar Music
Return
Bluetooth Devices +
Advanced +
Return Shuffle
Repeat
Autoplay
Return SYNC USB
Bluetooth Audio
SYNC Line In
Return
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Accessing the features of your media menu
SYNC’s media menu allows you to select which source you would like to
listen to, how you would like to play your music (by artist, genre, shuffle,
repeat, etc.), and also if you need to add, connect or delete devices.
To access your media menu:
1. Press AUX and then MENU to access theMedia Menu.
2. Scroll to cycle through the following features:
Play Menu: Allows you to play your music by artist, album, genre,
playlists, tracks, similar music or to simply, play all. You can also choose
to Explore USB to view the supported digital music files on your playing
device.
Refer toPlay Menulater in this section for more information.
Select Source: Allows you to select and play music from your USB port,
auxiliary input jack (line in) or stream music from yourBluetooth
enabled phone. Press OK to select and then scroll to choose from:
•*USB: Press OK to access music plugged into your USB port.
SYNC will also allow you to plug in devices to charge them (if
supported by your device).
•Bluetooth Audio:This is a phone dependent featurewhich
allows you to stream music playing on yourBluetoothenabled
phone. If supported by your device, you can press
SEEKto
access the previous/next track.
•Line in: Press OK to select and play music from your portable
music player over the vehicle’s speakers.Note:If you have already
connected a device to the USB port, you cannot access the line in
feature. Some digital media players require both USB and Line in
ports to stream data and music separately.
* Once connected, SYNC will index any readable media files. (The
time required to complete this depends on the size of the media
content being indexed.) IfAutoplayis on, you can access media
files randomly as they are indexed. If turned off, indexed media is
not available until the indexing process is complete. SYNC is
capable of indexing thousands of average size media and will notify
you if the maximum indexing file size is reached.
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Media Settings: Allows you to choose to shuffle or repeat your music in
addition to setting your Autoplay settings. Press OK to select and then
scroll to choose from:
•Shuffle: Press OK to shuffle available media files in the current
playlist.Note:To shuffle all media tracks, you must selectPlay All
in the Play Menu and then select Shuffle.
•Repeat: Press OK to repeat any song.
•Autoplay: Press OK to listen to music which has already been
randomly indexed during the indexing process.
Note:Once these selections are turned on, they will remain on
until turned off. Some digital media players require both USB and
Line in ports to stream data and music separately.
Applications (if available):You can download new software
applications (if available) and then load the desired applications onto
SYNC through your USB port. Please refer to www.SyncMyRide.com or
www.syncmaroute.ca for more information.
System Settings: Allows you to accessBluetoothDevice menu listings
(add, connect, set as primary, on/off, delete) as well as Advanced menu
listings (prompts, languages, defaults, master reset, install application
and system information).
•Please refer toSystem Settingsin this chapter for complete
information.
Exit Media Menu: Press OK when this appears to exit the media menu.
Accessing your play menu
The Play menu allows you to select and play your media by artist, album,
genre, playlist, track, similar music or even to explore what is on your
USB device.
To access:
1. Press AUX and then MENU to access theMedia Menu.
2. Scroll to select thePlay Menuand press OK.
3. If there are no media files to access, the display will indicate there is
no media. If there are media files, you will then have the following
options to scroll through and select from:
Play All: Allows you to play all indexed media (tracks) from your
playing device in flat file mode, one at a time in numerical order.
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Explore USB:Allows you to explore through all supported digital media
on your media device connected to the USB port.Note:When exploring,
you will only be able to view media content which is compatible with
SYNC. You may have other files saved with various extensions, but they
will not be visible.
•Press OK to select. Then scroll to explore indexed media on your
flash drive.
Similar Music:Allows you to play music similar to what is currently
playing from the USB port. The system uses the metadata information of
each song to compile a playlist for you.
•Press OK to select. The system will create a new list of similar
songs and begin playing.Note:Your metadata tags must be
populated in order for this feature to include each track.
Note:With certain playing devices, if your metadata tags are not
populated, the tracks won’t be available in voice recognition, play
menu or similar music. However, if you place these tracks onto
your playing device in “Mass Storage Device Mode”, they will be
available in voice recognition, play menu browsing and similar
music. “Unknown” will be placed into any unpopulated metadata
tag.
Return: Press OK to exit the current menu.
System settings
System settings provide access to yourBluetooth DevicesandAdvanced
menu features.
TheBluetooth Devicesmenu allows you to add, connect and delete a
device as turn theBluetoothfeature on and off.
YourAdvancedmenu allows you to access and set prompts, languages,
defaults and perform a master reset.
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