Is the end that goes into the stereo just the standard male USB connector? Gonna do this tomorrow if I have the right connecter at the house or even goto best buy and get what I need before I go on vacation July 4th weekend.

Thanks.

 

No. Here's what you need. I ordered mine from Monoprice.com

Part #5448, USB 2.0 A Male to Mini-B 5pin Male 28/24AWG Cable w/ Ferrite Core - (Gold Plated) - 6ft

Part #362, USB A Female to A Female Coupler Adapter

 

Thank ya sir for the clarification. Will look around town then if I cant find it Ill get it ordered.

 

This is great, but I have an issue. The day I picked my truck up the USB1 recognized my iPod and life was good. Starting Day #2, SYNC decided that it wants nothing to do with my iPod. I reset the iPod a couple of times to no avail. WTF? Anyone else have that issue?

 

Pull the fuse in the passenger kick panel. I had the same issue a while back. Reset Sync and IPod. Neither helped. Finally pulled fuse and everything works fine now. Its fuse 13, 5A. Good luck.

 

I'll give that a whirl and see what happens. Thanks.

 

ya hope everything works oout on that one...i order some speaker wire for my onkyo 7.1 head unit and polk surrounds that i put in my house from monoprice...then guess what...someone hacked their credit card data base and stole like 1 million credit card numbers. what a PITA !

hahah i'm def. doing this mod, i hate having my ipod / wires all messy out in the open

 

just did this last night...nice write up

took all of 10 minutes. i just got a female to female usb so i can plug in flash drives and my ipod cable and leave it in the glovebox.

thx again

 

Great info on this forum. I found a USB 5 pin Mini Male to Mini Male 3' cable at my local electronics house. $3.13 + tax. Philmore LKG Industries # 70-8055. It works great and no adapter. The fewer connections the better. Hard drive rests in the glove box. Sync gal knows USB2

 

First, I want to thank all that helped spread the info about this mod! This was quick & easy to do. I'm adding a few photos that other might find useful.

I had a USB/USB bulkhead jack laying around, worked fine.



My truck has the Sony factory stereo system with a speaker in the center of the dash. Removal is no different than the other setup, but be careful of the wires going to the speaker.



Here's the proper orientation of the plug while facing the dash.



I used a tie wrap to prevent a rattle, and from the connector potentially pulling loose.



The iPod showed the Ford icon, so I know it's talking to the stereo system.



I couldn't find USB2 in the menu, so finally used vocal commands to the Sync system. "USB TWO", and it immediately found the iPod.



Very cool! Thanks again!

 

Just did this... no kidding 3 min in and out. Love IT. I hate Cables!

 

Wow, very cool! Thank you all for sharing the USB 2 mod info. I pick up my special order 2010 SUPCAB FX2 tomorrow and this'll be one of the first of many mods I do to my new tool.

I've got a question:

if you're jammin to your tunes off the USB 2 HD and your Iphone is plugged into USB 1, when you get a call does the SYNC system shut the music down and allow you to take the call...then automatically start playin the music again when you hang up??

Thanks in advance.

 

Yes.

 

Also you don't need to plug in the phone, you can connect via bluetooth.

 

While I had my stereo out of mine this past weekend, I wrote down the part number of the wire running to my usb port. If I just buy one of those, will it fit in this second plug in the sync module under the dash?
Is the connection in the module, a USB-B, or a mini USB?
I want to go from there to a USB female so I can plug in my ipod, and leave it in the g-box.
Thanks for the tip. Nice write up.