2015 Ford Escape Sync 1 4.3 to 4.6 update

Kimberly E. · January 13

Does anyone have the Ford Sync update files/link for a 2015 Ford Escape as Gen 1 4.3 to 4.6 is not supported by Ford and it costs up to $250 at a dealership?

Thanks so much,

Kimberly

MadAnt250 · January 13

Edit:

My bad, I was thinking about flashing the modules in the car for most cases.

Sync updates can be downloaded directly from Ford and saved on a usb drive.

https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/sync/sync-updates/download-sync-with-myford-touch-software-updates-to-a-usb-drive/

Your best bet for finding more info on this is joining the Ford forums. The system may be tied to your vehicle's VIN, so I don't know if the update will work if you received the files from someone else, just keep that in mind.

E-waste · January 20

@MadAnt250

From your signature (the crt part got my attention) I can easily spot light flicker, to the point that even a dimmed incandescent or halogen bulb (entirely depends on the switching method) can show it, most LEDs have it at 240 Hz, and all magnetic ballasted fluorescent lights show it.

I can see 60 Hz flicker on CRT, and I don't know if it is because I can literally see the pulsing / refreshing of the screen, but it is very painful to view, as in physical eye pain / strain.

120 Hz is not good enough, it still refreshes to black and brighnens again. I'm not sure if it is the way in which it goes from top to bottom, where basically, at some point, most of the screen phosphor output has dimmed by the time the scanning gets to the bottom etc, but it is just not tolerable.

So with that background, would you please take a video of some kind with the refresh of the video set to various rates, like 120 240 and in between at non-even multiples of the monitor refresh, and compare various refresh rates, up to 175 Hz?

I didn't think crt monitors could go above 120 Hz, and 960x720 is just fine, probably easier to read with a smaller display.

What is the size of that display?

I'm thinking that if the phosphors are refreshed fast enough, the amount of time they have to dim will be reduced, and at some point, the pulsing brightness change of the screen will be reduced. I understand I could reduce the contrast output as much as possible to help with this as well.

Do you think the higher refresh would be more tolerable? I don't even like 120 Hz. It's miles, no, it's planets better than 60 Hz, but there is still visible flicker, tolerable, but I do not like it and it is still causes some eye fatigue.