Guide: Mazda Firmware Update Information
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Thank you so much Candurin! It worked perfectly - a very easy process.
Does anyone have the 58.00.250 NA N by fail safe by chance?
I'll DM you with 59.00.540A. That's as close as I can get.
Thanks for alll the info provided. I’m just a little confused. The original post said an any version on or above 55.00.650A can update to 74.00.324A directly, and I did see multiple reports online that they directly updated from something like 55.00.753 to 74.00.324A. But now this post says anything below 59 needs to go to 70.x first. So which one is correct?
A little feedback from my update process :
Finally got around to doing the update since getting the file last september. Battery voltage was too low at the time, changed it and with the cold, even the new battery showed 12.4V or lower... Didn't tempt the devil on that one, so waited until it was hot outside (+27C right now, feels like +33C)
Overall took around 45 minutes from start to finish on my CX3 2021.
It didn't recognize my new 32GB sandisk USB3 flash drive, but it did recognize an old kingston 8GB from 2010. It was a bit slow copying/processing before the update.
I stayed in the car the entire duration, except for the bits when the instructions said to leave for 3mins cmu sleep (left for closer to 5mins). Pressed the brake a few times during the update process while watching youtube.
Battery (new from january) went from 12.8V to 12.5V. Everything was off. No AC, no fan, nothing. I used the second ACC mode (press start twice without brake pedal), so the dash was illuminated.
For some weird reason, when the update was done and I went to shut down the vehicle... It acted like it was still on. I opened my door and it started beeping at me and the screen was still on. So I pressed Start again thinking I had not powered it off... but that only booted ACC again. OOF. Alright. So I shut it down a second time and this time it worked. Hoping that didn't screw anything up.
Waited the 5minutes away from the locked car and came back. Started in ACC again, waited a minute before touching buttons, then I checked if everything worked.
Version is indeed 324A now (from 74.00.210). Checked other functionality such as bluetooth, radio and what not. Everything still works.
Thanks @Candurin !
Finally got around to doing the update since getting the file last september. Battery voltage was too low at the time, changed it and with the cold, even the new battery showed 12.4V or lower... Didn't tempt the devil on that one, so waited until it was hot outside (+27C right now, feels like +33C)
Overall took around 45 minutes from start to finish on my CX3 2021.
It didn't recognize my new 32GB sandisk USB3 flash drive, but it did recognize an old kingston 8GB from 2010. It was a bit slow copying/processing before the update.
I stayed in the car the entire duration, except for the bits when the instructions said to leave for 3mins cmu sleep (left for closer to 5mins). Pressed the brake a few times during the update process while watching youtube.
Battery (new from january) went from 12.8V to 12.5V. Everything was off. No AC, no fan, nothing. I used the second ACC mode (press start twice without brake pedal), so the dash was illuminated.
For some weird reason, when the update was done and I went to shut down the vehicle... It acted like it was still on. I opened my door and it started beeping at me and the screen was still on. So I pressed Start again thinking I had not powered it off... but that only booted ACC again. OOF. Alright. So I shut it down a second time and this time it worked. Hoping that didn't screw anything up.
Waited the 5minutes away from the locked car and came back. Started in ACC again, waited a minute before touching buttons, then I checked if everything worked.
Version is indeed 324A now (from 74.00.210). Checked other functionality such as bluetooth, radio and what not. Everything still works.
Thanks @Candurin !
Thank you @Candurin and people in this thread for all the help with the updates and giving me the files that I needed! Everything went just like in the guides from start to finish. 
I was on version 56, so I had to update twice, first to 70, and then to 74. They took around 40min per update in my 2016 Mazda 2. My car's battery is quite old, but was still holding charge well, so I connected a charger to it while doing the updates just in case, and I think it was definitely needed for the time this all needed to finish!
The updates were really easy to install in the end with the guides, and the only things to remember were to press the brake pedal a couple of times to keep the car on during the update, and to actually walk away from the car with the key for 3 minutes during the setup to let the CMU go to sleep before starting the update (this seemed to be quite common mistake that some people did with their updates so I wanted to mention it!).
And I think the hardest part on my end was to find a USB stick that was small enough to support the FAT32 formatting!
After the updates I just installed the new USB hub thingy, and everything is working flawlessly with the Android Auto now!
I was on version 56, so I had to update twice, first to 70, and then to 74. They took around 40min per update in my 2016 Mazda 2. My car's battery is quite old, but was still holding charge well, so I connected a charger to it while doing the updates just in case, and I think it was definitely needed for the time this all needed to finish!
The updates were really easy to install in the end with the guides, and the only things to remember were to press the brake pedal a couple of times to keep the car on during the update, and to actually walk away from the car with the key for 3 minutes during the setup to let the CMU go to sleep before starting the update (this seemed to be quite common mistake that some people did with their updates so I wanted to mention it!).
And I think the hardest part on my end was to find a USB stick that was small enough to support the FAT32 formatting!
After the updates I just installed the new USB hub thingy, and everything is working flawlessly with the Android Auto now!
Just completed my firmware update very straight forward thanks to @Candurin and @sm1ke for this post
@Candurin sent me the file download the file transferred it over to my usb and followed the instructions how to install. The process took about 40min.
I went from 59.00.446 NA straight to 74x NA without any problem, now I can finally install my Apple CarPlay.
And this was the OLD firmware
