That's your problem.....
It's just something about the POD function.
I've tried it on the Jr's and the full Smarty and it won't do either with POD.
Man im SO glad you posted about this, I was gonna try and read a freind of mine's 06 to see if it would read it but now I know it wont work on his either cause he has the Smarty JR with the POD!
06 3500
EFI by Rob @ ATP
Both of the trucks I've tuned had smartys with POD, and I was able to read both. One an 07 and the other an 06?
I wonder if those 2 smarty's had the latest SW loaded into them? If not that may have something to do with why you were able to read them.
06 3500
EFI by Rob @ ATP
I've had no problem reading STOCK files and flashing truck(s) that have had Smarty Jr. POD, Smarty Sr. TNT POD, Smarty SSR. Now, I never did try to read Smarty itself though. Really, honestly..what would be the point anyway.…
Go figure. There's always somebody to contradict the norm.
06 5.9L, EFILive / Silver Bullet Tuning
06 LBZ, EFILive
Flashing them isn't the problem. You can flash over it with no problem, except that you'll likely render that tuner useless.
If you've re-flashed it with a stock file, it reads fine.
If you try to read the tune you have on the truck, that's where you get the error.
As for the why....when you've spent dozens of hours and made hundreds of dyno pulls to get things dialed in, you want to maintain that tune and fix what you know is wrong with it.
Mine did the exact same thing and guess what...smarty ssr was on for about 2 weeks prior. However, had a friend with ssr smarty who went back to the tnt smarty beforehand and it read just fine the first time. Might be something to try. also I should add that the tnt smarty he used was NOT a pod.
06 Dodge RCLB 2500 5.9L Hamilton, Maxxspool, Wicked Diesels, Bullseye Power, Industrial Injection, South Bend Clutch, Amsoil, K&N, ARP,EFILive, T&C Diesel, ATS, GDP...
the 06 had tnt r with pod, the 07 was regular smarty with POD and i returned both to stock and read them, as well as read the smarty tune they had been running on! that was build 165 and 155 haven't tried it on the newest release