Have to restart V2 frequently?

[Blacky]

What should be the resolution if you have to restart your V2 when switching from Tune to Scan or after any time in which you use it? I have to unplug and plug it back in to get it to register after each use.

I thought it might be because I don't have HAPI running but that program won't work for me. An error will pop up when running the program and it crashes. Error box clears itself before I can read it. I think it says something about not being able to access an *.ini file. I tried to enable admin rights when running the program to no avail!

Just checking some things here...

1. If you are using the V7 (or V7.5) scan and tune software EFILive_Hape.exe MUST NOT BE RUNNING. If it is you will not be able to connect to FlashScan. Disconnecting/reconnecting FlashScan will cause the running EFILive_Hapi.exe to reqlinquish control of FlashScan giving you the appearance of "solving the problem". In fact all you should be doing is terminating EFILive_Hapi - right click on it's icon in the system tray and select Exit.

2. EFILive_Hapi.exe will start up whenever you start up EFILive_Explorer.exe and it will terminate whenever you terminate EFILive_Explorer.exe. If you want to run EFILivE_Hapi.exe on its own, you can create shortcut to EFILive_Explorer.exe and add /1 as a command line parameter - see image. That will force EFILive_Hapi.exe to stay resident.

If EFILive_Hapi.exe is NOT running, do you still have to unplug/replug FlashScan when changing between EFILive_Scan.exe and EFILive_Tune.exe?

Be aware that anytime one program has a connection open to FlashScan, then ALL other programs cannot access FlashScan. Unplugging/replugging will drop the conenction so it will appear like that is the solution. Maybe you need to look for other applications that might be holding FlashScan open.

Note: EFILive_Hapi.exe is version 8's communication manager. All version 8 applications (scan, tune, explorer etc) will multiplex though EFILive_Hapi.exe and EFILive_Hapi.exe provides access to multiple hardware devices (FlashScan V2, AutoCal, FlashScan V3 etc) simultaneously. This new centralized communications will eliminate all the "problems" associated with multiple applications trying to connect to the same device at the same time.

The only problem right now is that the V7 and V7.5 software does not use EFILive_Hapi.exe. So until they are completely replaced by their V8 equivalents, the connection issue still needs to be managed by the end user.

Regards
Paul

[Blacky]

Please see this new thread as well.
http://forum.efilive.com/showthread....0970#post60970

Regards
Paul