Wake up GEM on 2005 Ford Focus?

you guys are all doing it the hard way. Here is what i've always done. Actualy i can't remember exactly what i do i have the paper in my toolbox i'll get it tomarrow. Just shut it off. You can do this by putting the key in the ignition and hitting lock and unlock a certain number of on the door. And it works like a charm.  Like i said i can't remember but i'll get it tomarrow and post it unless someone else knows how to do this. It's the easiest way.

Fastlearner wrote: you guys are all doing it the hard way. Here is what i've always done. Actualy i can't remember exactly what i do i have the paper in my toolbox i'll get it tomarrow. Just shut it off. You can do this by putting the key in the ignition and hitting lock and unlock a certain number of on the door. And it works like a charm.  Like i said i can't remember but i'll get it tomarrow and post it unless someone else knows how to do this. It's the easiest way.

Fastlearner, look at my first post on this, the number 2 try TURNING OFF THE AUTOLOCK, then look at his reply, IT DIDN'T WORK FOR HIM! Is he doing it wrong? Possible, cause I know I do the same thing on other Fords and it works. But we already went thru this. 

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cntrylvr79 wrote: I think you've been lucky.  If you lock the door with the driver switch with the door open, and then shut the door the gem will fall asleep.  I don't remember what I did to wake up the gem at the moment.  I have a focus coming in later this week for a r/s keyless so I'll let ya know then.

Yes, you are bang on the money!!  I neglected to add to my post that you should never use the Ford remote OR the button on the door again.  Just did some some testing on my 05.  It has had RS/Alarm for 2 1/2 months with GEM staying awake no problem.  Tell your customers this.  It works.  As for using the button on the door, it does nothing for you anyway since it does not arm the alarm.

Keith

ruse wrote: Fastlearner wrote: you guys are all doing it the hard way. Here is what i've always done. Actualy i can't remember exactly what i do i have the paper in my toolbox i'll get it tomarrow. Just shut it off. You can do this by putting the key in the ignition and hitting lock and unlock a certain number of on the door. And it works like a charm.  Like i said i can't remember but i'll get it tomarrow and post it unless someone else knows how to do this. It's the easiest way. Fastlearner, look at my first post on this, the number 2 try TURNING OFF THE AUTOLOCK, then look at his reply, IT DIDN'T WORK FOR HIM! Is he doing it wrong? Possible, cause I know I do the same thing on other Fords and it works. But we already went thru this.

I just went to my 2005 Focus, removed fuse to my Magicar alarm, turning it off because the Magicar locks and unlocks the doors when ignition turned on and off. Knowing my Magicar is off and does not impact the door lock/unlock via ignition, I verified that I did in fact disable the factory AUTOLOCK because the doors do not lock once I start car, press brake, put in drive, release brake, move car above 4 mph. Also, the doors do not unlock when I turn the key off. I then stop car, turn it off, open driver door, press driver door lock button which locks the doors, close the door, wait 2 minutes, press unlock (or lock) button on either door and nothing happens (the GEM is asleep!). I put the fuse back in my Magicar and it locks doors when ignition on for 5 seconds and unlocks when ignition turned off.

Thanks again for input. I just wanted to verify turning AUTOLOCK off on my 2005 Focus doesn't help. The GEM still goes to sleep if I use the driver door lock button.

I have not tried the "driver door only, BLACK/ green wire idea" yet, may look for that today. Also, the issue I have with "monetarily pulse ignition on" solution (which will work) is pulsing ignition on also starts up my Garmin C340 GPS unit, then gps goes straight to battery backup, not shutting down automatically because it did not detect "power on" long enough.

Thanks again and keep the tips coming.

redroc wrote: If you find the BLACK/ green in the kick panel this will unlock the drivers door only(rest will still be in bcm shut down mode).Pulse this wire the door pin wire and the unlock wire all at the same time and the system will wake up.You will have to set it for double pulse unlock,and diode isolate everything!

redroc, you the man! (or woman if the case may be...)

The BLACK/ green wire does the trick! All is well in the world once again! I did exactly as you stated above and it works great! I did not even "double pulse unlock", because the first press of alarm remote unlock button and the driver door unlocks (not impacted by GEM asleep issue), then press remote unlock button again after about 1 second, the GEM wakes up if asleep, and all doors unlock. I'm going to use it this way so it works more like factory keyless remote where one press unlocks driver door only, press a second time and all doors open. (I'm sure double pulse will unlock all doors with one button press). A side note (no issue): the "lights on chime" now does 2 little chimes as the parking lights flash twice at unlock (the car thinks the lights are on while the door is open due to "door pin pulse").

Note: This install method unlocks in the same sequence, whether the GEM was asleep or not. As long as I don't open driver door, press driver door lock button, then close door, the GEM never goes to sleep. If I forget and press the door lock button, no problem now, my alarm remote unlock button will still unlock driver door first and all doors if press remote button again. (But as noted by kohara73, if I press the driver door lock button only, it locks the car, but does NOT arm the alarm. Of course I could program my alarm to automatically arm after all doors closed and still use the driver door lock button to immediately lock doors as I leave the car, with alarm auto-arm 30 seconds later).

I going to put together details on my Magicar FAI-300 alarm install in my 2005 Ford Focus and post here later.

Thanks again to all for input and ideas. It is greatly appreciated.

Louie