I have purchased a 8.4 Uconnect radio for my 2017 ram 1500 slt which came with the smaller screen 5” Uconnect and now I’ve just installed the 8.4 upgrade and my question is how do I do an update to my 8.4 radio ? I’ve gone to the Uconnect site and punched in the vin# and it says no updates required , I’m thinking it’s for the 5” Uconnect I had , now would I have to take it to the dealer and have them update it for me ? Is there any other way to do it on my own with no cost ?
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You can use the vin# of the truck it came out of if you have it. If you don't have it you can go on ebay and go to the 2017 Ram trucks for sale with the same radio and use that vin# to go to the Uconnect site to download it to a USB for free. Make sure you know what radio you have. The RA3 is not factory Nav but the Nav can be enabled and the RA4 is Nav from the factory so some people can get confused if they have an RA3 that's had the Nav activated. if it's an RA3 it will Not have HD radio. If it's an RA4 radio it will have AM/FM HD radio. There is also a thread on the forum posted by
@Mpgrimm2 that has links to previous firmware versions that you can download. I can't post links for whatever reason but it's called
(Info- 2013-2018 8.4A/AN FW notes) hopefully someone who can will post a link to the thread. I reccomend you read it. The latest Firmware for all the RA3/RA4 US radios is 18.45.01. This is the update that corrects the GPS issues after the satellite upgrade in November of 2019. You may need to update it in steps depending on what firmware version you are currently running. Some firmware versions won't update directly the 18.45.01. All the firmware updates are year and model specific until the latest 18.45.01 version which is compatible for all years. In other words if you have a 17 RA4 VP4 NA radio you will want to update with specific Firmware for that year and model number until you get to the 18.45.01. If your radio is currently running 17.xx.x Firmware you should be able to update directly to the 18.45.01. Remember this is for VP3 NA/VP4 NA (North America) radios only. If the part# on the label on the back of your ends with a CA (Canada) or MX Mexico they will need different firmware.
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