texasranger

Hey Siri works when you are not in the car and plugged into an AC power jack? (My way of making sure you have the "hey siri" function turned on, on the phone. I have a Jetta and the Maestro would not work with the premium audio system becasue it could not send the Canbus signal to power the amp on. So I have something else but I will try this feature after I resolve my mic issue.

Yeah, please let us know what they say. I can foward you the email I received from them where they confirmed the 90 days would start at release if that helps.

Funny they called it a "map upgrade". That is something different.

Stupid question, but is the phone plugged in and appear "charging"? I know that feature only works when the phone has power.

Mine is acting up, I cannot talk to Siri or make phone calls. But on a side-note, I had the unit out the other day so I need to verify the microphone cable didn’t become disconnected. Doing that today...

With the latest firmware that was just released, it allows the Synctool inside the GPS to install and initialize. I tried it out, it wrote some information to my drive then I plugged into my laptop and opened Naviextras toolbox. It detected the system was an AVIC-8000 and that the maps were out of date. The latest maps available are still a year old, 2013Q4. The maps preinstalled were 2013Q2. Something else I noted, it says my update subscription only lasts until October 27th, 2014. This is odd because we are supposed to get 90 days as part of the latest map guarantee program. Initially

I had a little trouble getting the update to recognize my USB drive. Turns out is has to be FAT or FAT32. eFAT and NTFS will not work. Ta-da....

We have two things to look for next week. Apple is expected to give the go-ahead to manufacturing to release their latest firmware for individual units. This firmware will contain AppleCar play support but if we look at the latest update in the EU markets, there is another note in the firmware release notes that say this version is required for the use of the naviextras site. The site works but currently we cannot initialize the USB/SD card in the navigation menus and synctool. I would bet that the mention of supporting naviextras directly enables the sync tool to work.