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A few questions

 

How do you fast forward when using USB on this thing? I have some podcast that I want to jump ahead in and can only find play/pause, forward and back track.

 

Can you set the home screen to default to the wallpaper not the screen that shows a little of everything?

 

Can it be programmed to have the ac on inside circulation on start? I have to press the button every time I get in the car. (to prevent outside smells, etc, entering the vehicle)

 

Thanks

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A few questions

 

How do you fast forward when using USB on this thing? I have some podcast that I want to jump ahead in and can only find play/pause, forward and back track.

 

Can you set the home screen to default to the wallpaper not the screen that shows a little of everything?

 

Can it be programmed to have the ac on inside circulation on start? I have to press the button every time I get in the car. (to prevent outside smells, etc, entering the vehicle)

 

Thanks

 

I did not know the "press and hold" to FF/RW...that is cool info. :doh:

 

I don't think you can change the default home...it always picks the "middle" option. To see wallpapers, you need to press home, then "top" home option.

 

I think if you do not have "auto" selected when you turn the car off, it remembers the previous manful settings when you restart (I will confirm this).

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if you press and hold the forward or back button's it fast forwards or reverses just like it would on your ipod. the key is to keep holding - if you tap it will just advance. The rest I don't know yet.

 

This may be true for CDs (dunno, haven't played a CD in my Edge yet), but I've personally never been able to get FF to work when playing from a flash drive over USB. If one has to press and hold a while, it must need to be a loooong while...

 

I think this might be a bug, and would certainly like FF to work. Even better, if FF could be made to work by pressing on the progress bar, that would be way nice.

 

--Rick

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This may be true for CDs (dunno, haven't played a CD in my Edge yet), but I've personally never been able to get FF to work when playing from a flash drive over USB. If one has to press and hold a while, it must need to be a loooong while...

 

I think this might be a bug, and would certainly like FF to work. Even better, if FF could be made to work by pressing on the progress bar, that would be way nice.

 

--Rick

 

 

I have an old ipod nano plugged in over USB and I can FF by holding the button. Works just like it does trying ff on an ipod. Doesn't feel like a really long time to me.

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I have an old ipod nano plugged in over USB and I can FF by holding the button. Works just like it does trying ff on an ipod. Doesn't feel like a really long time to me.

 

Well, you are correct. It does FF with an iPod (I tried it with my iPod Touch). But it also takes quite a few seconds before doing much of anything. Would be much better if more responsive.

 

That said, it DOES NOT FF when playing mp3's off a flash drive. At least not for me...

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  • 3 weeks later...

How do you save songs? I read there is a 10GB hard drive that you can save songs to, I cannot find any where in owners manual? If you can do this HOW??

 

That was on the pre-2011s with Nav. The Nav had a 10 gb hard drive partition. You could only load it from an audio CD. With the 2011 you can only load songs to a mp3 player or a usb drive (from a computer - not from the vehicle).

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I would hardly call it fast forward. With the latest software update, Touch frequently loses place in a podcast and re-indexes. Then, it starts playing the first podcast in the index. When I migrate to the one I was listening to previously, the system will only slew forward at a snails pace, i.e. approx 10 seconds / second of holding the FF down. If you are an hour into a two hour podcast, believe me, it takes a long time to get to the left off spot. This software update IMHO was a step backward. And..... you can't return to a previous version. According to Ford costumer service, even the dealer can't return the system to a previous version.

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That was on the pre-2011s with Nav. The Nav had a 10 gb hard drive partition. You could only load it from an audio CD. With the 2011 you can only load songs to a mp3 player or a usb drive (from a computer - not from the vehicle).

I have one of the older units with a hard drive. Is it just songs or can one dvd's as well? Edited by enigma-2
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