Hope someone knows how the USB works in this crazy vehicle

[gwbmcse]

I started driving my wife's 2011 Edge. She never used the USB but I listen to MP3 Audiobooks exclusively. This car is driving me nuts. For one, it's super slow reading any drive over 16GB but I can deal with slow. Listed below are some of the quirky crazy things that have happened:

 

1. Started out with a 256GB flash drive formatted NTFS. This drive has all my books on it. The funny thing is, the car would read the back half of the drive.

2. Thinking it was either flash drive size or formatting, I put a single audiobook on a 64GB flash drive formatted NTFS and it played fine.

3. I tried a 32GB flash drive with 5 audiobooks on it formatted FAT32 and while it worked fine, the thing started back at book 1 chapter 1 every time I turned the car off and back on. WTH?

4. Thinking maybe something with the formatting, I used a 16GB drive with 4 audiobooks formatted NTFS just for the car to tell me it cant read the drive. I assume due to the NTFS formatting??? makes no sense.

 

As you can see, I went from 256 to 64 to 32 to 16GB drives to increase the read speeds and that does help but I have no idea why this car can read a flash drive and pick up where is left off consistently. I also have instances where the audiobook sounds like a computer voice is reading them. You switch over to radio and give it a few minutes and that stops.????

 

I am hoping all this thing needs is a firmware update or a master reset I've read about.

Edited July 19, 2017 by gwbmcse

[akirby]

You must use FAT32 - don't think NTFS is supported. If it starts over then it probably thinks you put in a new usb drive for some reason. You may have a usb hardware issue. If you have 2 ports try the other one. Also try pulling the fuse to reset power to the entire system and if that doesn't work try a master reset.