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I did about 8 cars yesterday at Cars and Coffee. Some got the shift light indicator removed. The weird thing was, when I did theres, none of the cars I did it on generated any check engine light. When I did it my light came on, the only I can think of is I did it when my car was on, not in accessory mode like i did with them. I didn't check to see if they had any codes, as their light didn't show pop.
Most of them won't throw a cel but it does generate dtcs
 
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So I looked into the APIM today, this one is fairly tricky as it can only be written if the ESN is mismatched.... More work to do!


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Braden, only an assumption here, but if you are working this process as well, might we see these features incorporated into the AP sometime in the future? Would be awesome if you do.
 
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Have global open/close, and that annoying shift light gone!! We need a thread that lists only successful modifications.
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As we figure out what setting changes work they will be added to post#1 of this thread. I rewrote a lot of it last night for better clarity, but the shear number of different flash devices and issues people are having is to hard to track. Elm327 is not a brand name it is simply the chip inside the box you bought. If the 8 year old who built your device did a crappy job you may have problems. If you guys reread all 16 pages you will see many people DID NOT need to do it like you did to get things working.
 
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Sigh... Why do people take videos in portrait?
LOL...I reposted his video in post#1 last night. I told him it was bound to happen that someone would complain.
 
My only concern with people flashing other's cars...are you keeping backups of their original files?
Yup, I make a backup of each car and I am going to email it to them.
The cars I do I keep a backup of the stock file and then a backup of the modded file.

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how to video for global open and close enjoy!
This video was PERFECT! I was pretty apprehensive to try it, until you posted this video. I JUST got done with it and it works flawlessly. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
 
As we figure out what setting changes work they will be added to post#1 of this thread. I rewrote a lot of it last night for better clarity, but the shear number of different flash devices and issues people are having is to hard to track. Elm327 is not a brand name it is simply the chip inside the box you bought. If the 8 year old who built your device did a crappy job you may have problems. If you guys reread all 16 pages you will see many people DID NOT need to do it like you did to get things working.
What do you mean by the last sentence? I have a OBDLINK MX, I think you pasted the wrong post.


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What do you mean by the last sentence? I have a OBDLINK MX, I think you pasted the wrong post.


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maybe I should have split the post into 2 but clearly the first sentance up to the word "clarity," was directed towards you. It wasnt to slight you in any way. I was just saying that this thread has grown quite large and inorder to let people know what works and doesnt work I will frequently update there.

The whole rest of the post was just me addressing anyone else who has issues with the clarity of the directions in post#1. I apologize if it confused you.

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can i just use this app and a ford vcm?
Not sure the vcm interfaces in the same manner.

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Not sure who it may help but I have aquired an SAE document that seems very detailed about how to develop a J2534api which could be then made opensource. If this was opensource tech some extremely cheap reprogramming for ALL on board devices could he made. Its seems obdlink mx is fully capable of doing all the necessary commands to make this acheivable.

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with a vcm i can input as built data, but no definition of what in as built data is.
I know what a vcm is and how it works but I just wasnt sure if it was capable of reading the car config center tab and changing parameters that are not normally toggleable.

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