On Friday, 28 February 2020, I reported a problem to my Toyota Dealer, that my Entune 3.0 System stopped recognizing my USB 2.0 32 GB Thumb Drive and Apple Ipod Devices I use to listen to my songs. It worked fine until last week and I believe an automatic update may have caused the problem since it was all working fine since July 2019. They scheduled an appointment for this Friday. I did mentioned this somewhere on this website and got someone excited since like me they rely on this same application most of the time when driving.
Well, it’s all working again. Apparently the Entune 3.0 Update did cause the USB Songs to be erased from the Entune 3.0 memory, but it did not damage my Thumb Drive that was in the USB Data Port at the time. Apparently, you cannot interrupt the USB when it is trying to load the USB Device from your device (thumb drive or Apple Ipod) during the full thumb drive download to the Entune System memory before it is accessible to use browsing and playing, or it will turn off the entertainment Functions (Radio and USB) and nothing will be loaded and have to start all over again. This interruption will require you to manually power the Entune System back on where you can only listen to the radio until the entire USB Drive is downloaded in its entirety to the Entune 3.0 memory. Anyway, I left it alone while driving for 20 minutes or so, and I am operational now, and know what to do next time this happens. It can take a long time when you have a lot of songs like I do, about 2000, where they all have to be loaded before you can start browsing and playing. I should have thought about this since it is a media device and like any PC operation, you cannot activate a disk when downloading is going on and it takes much longer transferring data to the Entune 3.0 System than it does from a CD to a PC. Not sure if a similar thing can happen with the Android Phones loading as well, but I did have a longer wait for that to happen as well during the same week.
Well, it’s all working again. Apparently the Entune 3.0 Update did cause the USB Songs to be erased from the Entune 3.0 memory, but it did not damage my Thumb Drive that was in the USB Data Port at the time. Apparently, you cannot interrupt the USB when it is trying to load the USB Device from your device (thumb drive or Apple Ipod) during the full thumb drive download to the Entune System memory before it is accessible to use browsing and playing, or it will turn off the entertainment Functions (Radio and USB) and nothing will be loaded and have to start all over again. This interruption will require you to manually power the Entune System back on where you can only listen to the radio until the entire USB Drive is downloaded in its entirety to the Entune 3.0 memory. Anyway, I left it alone while driving for 20 minutes or so, and I am operational now, and know what to do next time this happens. It can take a long time when you have a lot of songs like I do, about 2000, where they all have to be loaded before you can start browsing and playing. I should have thought about this since it is a media device and like any PC operation, you cannot activate a disk when downloading is going on and it takes much longer transferring data to the Entune 3.0 System than it does from a CD to a PC. Not sure if a similar thing can happen with the Android Phones loading as well, but I did have a longer wait for that to happen as well during the same week.