Car won’t recognise pendrives

[Mark03]

Hello everybody,

I have a 2011 mk3 ford focus titanium. I never really used bluetooth in my car to stream music, because I get these really nasty popping and cracking sounds while doing so. I tried to update via the usb slot in the glove compartment, but no matter what kind of pendrive I use, the car displays that the device is not supported. I tried both usb 2.0 and 3.0 drives with all kinds of formats but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

[unofix]

SanDisk, USB2.0 FAT32, maximum size 16GB.

Some have reported that the 32GB size also works, but it seems not on every car.

[VFR800]

Check the format of the drives, think it needs to be FAT32.

 

[59bhp]

Needs to be less than 32gb size stick and music files need to be stored in root folder music. 

[JW1982]

I never had any problems with larger or NTFS formatted USB drives on both the old bluetooth Voicecontrol system or the SYNC 1.0 / 1.1. system. 

I even had a 256 GB SSD drive working without any problems.