Thraxbert
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Will try to keep this brief and bulletpointed to see if anyone can shed some light on what's going on. I am attempting to switch to Ecutek from BM3, and am trying to flash back to stock + relock the DME so I can sell my license and do the switch. When attempting to return the stock, the BM3 app tells me that my DME software is newer than the stock tune I am trying to flash.
I emailed ProTuningFreaks for help, but they said that my car has been updated, saying:
The timeline:
1. I have a June of 2019 DME. June of 2019, not 2020.
2. I was able to unlock this DME and flash Bootmod3 right over OBD. I never had to remove the ECU from the car.
3. I flashed Bootmod 3 for the first time in February of 2021 -- their Stage 2 OTS tune. The unlock occurred at the same time.
3a. When I flashed BM3 for the first time, these were the software versions present on the vehicle:
4. The next time I flashed any sort of software was their switch to Multi-Map in November of 2021. I've been running that map ever since.
4a. After updating to multi-map, sometime over the last year, my software versions are now this:
5. ProTuningFreaks says this software is so new they can't work with it. Of course that's impossible, because the car is tuned right now on Bootmod3. I unlocked and flashed it with their own software over a year ago!
5. How did my software versions change if I've never taken the car to Toyota, BMW, or any other service shop capable of updating the DME? ProTuningFreaks says their software can't change these versions, but that's literally the only software I've ever flashed to the car. Are there OTA updates for the Supra? I've never heard of it, but it's WWAN-connected so not impossible.
Wtf is going on?
There's no way this software was updated except through their OTS multi-map tunes. They claim the DME software isn't updated by the tunes, but BM3 is the only software I've ever flashed. I'm 100% positive that their software updated my DME, even if they say it "doesn't."
I emailed ProTuningFreaks for help, but they said that my car has been updated, saying:
There's just one problem with that statement: my vehicle has never been to a dealer since January of 2020, nor to any shop that is capable of updating the DME. The only software updates I've ever applied were Bootmod3 initial setup + new tunes. In fact, I unlocked my car right over OBD and flashed Bootmod3 in the same sitting! I've never had to do a bench unlock, and my car is currently tuned.You have a locked bootloader. Your vehicle has the latest BMW software update that has changed what was used to unlock the DME over the OBD port. This has locked out all flash tools out there regardless of brand and no one including us has a solution for it yet.
The timeline:
1. I have a June of 2019 DME. June of 2019, not 2020.
2. I was able to unlock this DME and flash Bootmod3 right over OBD. I never had to remove the ECU from the car.
3. I flashed Bootmod 3 for the first time in February of 2021 -- their Stage 2 OTS tune. The unlock occurred at the same time.
3a. When I flashed BM3 for the first time, these were the software versions present on the vehicle:
4. The next time I flashed any sort of software was their switch to Multi-Map in November of 2021. I've been running that map ever since.
4a. After updating to multi-map, sometime over the last year, my software versions are now this:
5. ProTuningFreaks says this software is so new they can't work with it. Of course that's impossible, because the car is tuned right now on Bootmod3. I unlocked and flashed it with their own software over a year ago!
5. How did my software versions change if I've never taken the car to Toyota, BMW, or any other service shop capable of updating the DME? ProTuningFreaks says their software can't change these versions, but that's literally the only software I've ever flashed to the car. Are there OTA updates for the Supra? I've never heard of it, but it's WWAN-connected so not impossible.
Wtf is going on?
There's no way this software was updated except through their OTS multi-map tunes. They claim the DME software isn't updated by the tunes, but BM3 is the only software I've ever flashed. I'm 100% positive that their software updated my DME, even if they say it "doesn't."
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