RamDiver
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- Marlborough, Ontario Canada
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- 2021
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- Hemi 5.7
I never said nobody has had issues updating. But all your examples are several years old, except one that appears to be user error. And my answer would have maybe been different a few years ago. When I first joined the forum back in 2020, the forums were full of complaints of problem systems and updates gone wrong. When I ordered my 22, I was very worried about the 12" U5 system it came with. But about the time I received that truck (2 years ago this month), Stellantis finally seemed to get on top of uConnect. The complaints dropped off to next to nothing since then, at least for the newer systems. This forum is almost dead compared to what it was 2+ years ago. It was one of the consistently busiest forum back then.
Don't do the updates, do the updates, doesn't matter to me. Just saying I've had good luck with all the updates to my uConnect systems.
I admit to being biased against large companies and do not trust microsoft, google, or any group caught red-handed exploiting our personal data.
Uconnect or stellantis falls into that same category for me. Their maintenance upgrades are less related to improving the end user's experience but more to their own needs.
Stellantis has been caught selling our driving habits to insurance companies, that is evil, AFAIC.
Now that they're in a financial pickle, I would expect that process to grow because it's easy cash for them.
I was once an upgrade proponent, back in the days of windows 3.1 and windows 95. Then I found the reason that hard drives always contained more data than the file manager displayed.
Microsoft was stock-piling our personal data on every site you visited and every action performed with the PC, and filing this information in hidden drive locations.
I know that stellantis is not the same as microsoft but the concept that the Uconnect radio contains a wireless card capable of reporting your location and driving habits is highly suspicious and sounds very much like the old microsoft data stock-piling days.
I understand that some upgrades can be useful but I have my eyes wide open and am not interested in gambling on the basic operations of my vehicle with the Uconnect 4C radio.
Perhaps the U5 and later versions have improved. I honestly wish you good fortune and hope you never experience the grief of your radio causing your truck to become a nightmare.
Thanks for contributing your positive experience.
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