DirtyMax03
July 26th, 2012, 01:13 AM
Well, I broke down and loaded the new update from EFI's website last night and sure enough it opened up a can of worms for new problems for me. Up til now, I have used the V7 Tune and V7 Scan Tools only and have not messed with this V8 front or black box logging.
So once I loaded the new software I thought I would load some PIDs so I could do Black Box Logging. This worked fine and I was able to read/log the data on the Flashscan box. More on this later.
I then made a change to my DSP5 tune for my LB7 and went to flash it in. I tried to full flash in the V7 tune tool as I have always done and it said something about firmware and bootlock. I checked these in the EFI Control Panel and both said that my versions from 2011 were "OK". I hit refresh and nothing changed.
So I went to the V8 Tune screen (first time I have done this) and tried to open the tune from there. Well, then I realized that the ctd file format that it wanted wasnt there, so I opened my .tun file and tried to flash it, didn't work. So then I saved it as a .ctd file and reopened, tried to reflash and again got "Full Flash not supported for E54 controller". At this point I am thinking WTF and glad this is happening on my own truck and not in front of a customer.
Then I tried a partial flash of the DSP5 tune which I know won't work on an LB7 and I got a "This ECM has a Lock Key" or something along those lines and I have never password locked my ECM.
Needless to say at this point I am hot (100 degrees out) and pissed, so I go back to the Black Box Logging. I was able to read/log the data on the box, but when I tried to use the V8 to "READ" the data from the box to the computer, it saved it to the computer as a .txt file which the V7 Scan tool is unable to open for viewing. I did not have an SD Card in the Flashscan box, just wanted to see if I could log it to the box and review it on my computer and I could not because I could not open the file.
I have used EFI Live for 3 years but with this new update and with the addition of this V8 stuff, I am back to square one where I can't do anything. GMPX, can you give me the step by step on how to load tunes these days and how to pull data from the BBx Logger and open it in the V7 Scan tool for review?
So once I loaded the new software I thought I would load some PIDs so I could do Black Box Logging. This worked fine and I was able to read/log the data on the Flashscan box. More on this later.
I then made a change to my DSP5 tune for my LB7 and went to flash it in. I tried to full flash in the V7 tune tool as I have always done and it said something about firmware and bootlock. I checked these in the EFI Control Panel and both said that my versions from 2011 were "OK". I hit refresh and nothing changed.
So I went to the V8 Tune screen (first time I have done this) and tried to open the tune from there. Well, then I realized that the ctd file format that it wanted wasnt there, so I opened my .tun file and tried to flash it, didn't work. So then I saved it as a .ctd file and reopened, tried to reflash and again got "Full Flash not supported for E54 controller". At this point I am thinking WTF and glad this is happening on my own truck and not in front of a customer.
Then I tried a partial flash of the DSP5 tune which I know won't work on an LB7 and I got a "This ECM has a Lock Key" or something along those lines and I have never password locked my ECM.
Needless to say at this point I am hot (100 degrees out) and pissed, so I go back to the Black Box Logging. I was able to read/log the data on the box, but when I tried to use the V8 to "READ" the data from the box to the computer, it saved it to the computer as a .txt file which the V7 Scan tool is unable to open for viewing. I did not have an SD Card in the Flashscan box, just wanted to see if I could log it to the box and review it on my computer and I could not because I could not open the file.
I have used EFI Live for 3 years but with this new update and with the addition of this V8 stuff, I am back to square one where I can't do anything. GMPX, can you give me the step by step on how to load tunes these days and how to pull data from the BBx Logger and open it in the V7 Scan tool for review?