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I did a little research and it is a ELM327 I'll go out and buy a Bluetooth adapter for my laptop and test it out.

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Are you not liking your wired regular Elm327?

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I do I'm curious if the BT one is switched for HS and MS.

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If it doesnt say then it most likely isnt. It may not even be possible to do the mod on it. When my Ford VI comes in next week ill post some pics. I tried my MX many many times today and most of the time it flat out wouldnt connect. Basically tried every speed i could think of with boxxes checked and unchecked.

Im heading to the Dominican Republic next weekend so hopefully they get some bugs worked out before hand.

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If it doesnt say then it most likely isnt. It may not even be possible to do the mod on it. When my Ford VI comes in next week ill post some pics. I tried my MX many many times today and most of the time it flat out wouldnt connect. Basically tried every speed i could think of with boxxes checked and unchecked.

Im heading to the Dominican Republic next weekend so hopefully they get some bugs worked out before hand.

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I sometimes get init errors with mine

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I got could not init Elm a bunch today...never has happened before. Most that i see is checksum errors.. typically it means the checsum not matching the parameters it pulled. Usually as long as it can connect i will load my editted as built and write that to the bcm. Ive never had a write fail. Btw i turned my shift light back on... im a manual transmission noob and i find ill be doing 60 in 4th with the radio up qnd not notice my revs are real high...

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I got could not init Elm a bunch today...never has happened before. Most that i see is checksum errors.. typically it means the checsum not matching the parameters it pulled. Usually as long as it can connect i will load my editted as built and write that to the bcm. Ive never had a write fail. Btw i turned my shift light back on... im a manual transmission noob and i find ill be doing 60 in 4th with the radio up qnd not notice my revs are real high...

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Some of them is before I connect to FoCCCus sometimes if I leave auto on it will load.

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I have it but I dont know how it works. Off the top of my head vbf stands for volvo binary file.

If you want to read the vbf file you can use notepad or wordpad. Beyond a small ascii portion at the top of file explaining what it is the rest is encrypted. Last I checked you will need some type of volvo editor to read the rest. Ive checked many places and never found one.

Man, ive got so much stuff on my pc related to this car it is ridiculous. Ive got 3 different j2534 passthrough programs. ive read up on how the the passthrough protocol works, and come very very close to buying a drewtech mongoose pro ford passthrough device just sow I can do my own calibrations. But that piece is $500 and for that kind of cost id rather buy an Accesport first.

Ive downloaded tons and tons of sae documents and have probably 2000 pages related to obd2 that I havent read yet.

If you are tech geek then this car is a tech geeks wet dream.

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I have it but I dont know how it works. Off the top of my head vbf stands for volvo binary file.

If you want to read the vbf file you can use notepad or wordpad. Beyond a small ascii portion at the top of file explaining what it is the rest is encrypted. Last I checked you will need some type of volvo editor to read the rest. Ive checked many places and never found one.

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That seems to be the case for me too. I can read the top portion all the rest is jibberish.

I was hoping that maybe i could change a value in the vbf file and maybe disable the horn honks when exiting the car but doesn't look to be possible.

Though it looks like it might be very easy to load up the new VBF in FoCCCus and flash it via the Tools tab.
 
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That seems to be the case for me too. I can read the top portion all the rest is jibberish.

I was hoping that maybe i could change a value in the vbf file and maybe disable the horn honks when exiting the car but doesn't look to be possible.

Though it looks like it might be very easy to load up the new VBF in FoCCCus and flash it via the Tools tab.
I saw this too but without the ability to fix a failed flash such as with an IDS thst function will have to pushed to the back burner for me. I see youve visited the ffclub.ru recently haha. Google translate clearly needs an update to read that language.

I read somewhere that the chinese had cracked IDS and have released something called ADS.
just out of curiosity how many vbf's did you find? Ive got 19 specifically for my car.

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I saw this too but without the ability to fix a failed flash such as with an IDS thst function will have to pushed to the back burner for me. I see youve visited the ffclub.ru recently haha. Google translate clearly needs an update to read that language.

I read somewhere that the chinese had cracked IDS and have released something called ADS.
just out of curiosity how many vbf's did you find? Ive got 19 specifically for my car.

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I haven't searched for any on my car I just went and download the vbf file for the updated IPC.

As of right now I can only access HSCAN.

Not having access to a IDS is kind of sketchy for me too as this is my daily driver.

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I haven't searched for any on my car I just went and download the vbf file for the updated IPC.

As of right now I can only access HSCAN.

Not having access to a IDS is kind of sketchy for me too as this is my daily driver.

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Just fyi but i think there are 3 ipc files. I have 1 for highspeed, 1 for mscan, 1 secondary bootloader, and to top it all off i have the .prom file which is the actual file to be written i believe.

If you are interested ill hook you up with all the part numbers for everything ive foumd so far. Not everything i hqve will be compatible with your car though...when was it built?

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Just fyi but i think there are 3 ipc files. I have 1 for highspeed, 1 for mscan, 1 secondary bootloader, and to top it all off i have the .prom file which is the actual file to be written i believe.

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Hmm idk I may just end up calling the dealer and asking about it. Last time I went to one and asked they could not read my ecu. No tune was loaded either.

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Hmm idk I may just end up calling the dealer and asking about it. Last time I went to one and asked they could not read my ecu. No tune was loaded either.

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Lol..they just didnt want to do it... if they cant read your ecu then clearly you have a warranty repair item and they would have to do it.

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Lol..they just didnt want to do it... if they cant read your ecu then clearly you have a warranty repair item and they would have to do it.

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It was getting fairly close to closing time too. They failed another update locally. They went to my dealer and was successful I may try mine this time.

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OK, so I bought an ELM327 to USB cable on Amazon. All I needed was to access HS-CAN so that works for ~$8.

Plugged the cable into the obd port and then into my laptop and turned the car on. My laptop then failed to find the driver for the device so I just looked it up.

The CP210x USB to UART driver can be downloaded here: USB to UART Bridge VCP Drivers | Silicon Labs

That now allowed both ForScan and Focccus to read the cable I purchased.

Went to write to BCM with the car running and halfway I got a write to BCM fault. Tried again and got maybe 20% and same thing. So I shut the car off and tried and it was nearly instant that the write to BCM was complete and ready to go.

When I got the faults I had a couple weird dtcs pop up on the display saying service engine soon or something similar. But those were just momentary.

So in the end I added the global open and close and HIDs without resistors and no dipped beam fault. Very pleasantly surprised. (Also, if it matters I have a non-ST Focus).







 
OK, so I bought an ELM327 to USB cable on Amazon. All I needed was to access HS-CAN so that works for ~$8.

Plugged the cable into the obd port and then into my laptop and turned the car on. My laptop then failed to find the driver for the device so I just looked it up.

The CP210x USB to UART driver can be downloaded here: USB to UART Bridge VCP Drivers | Silicon Labs

That now allowed both ForScan and Focccus to read the cable I purchased.

Went to write to BCM with the car running and halfway I got a write to BCM fault. Tried again and got maybe 20% and same thing. So I shut the car off and tried and it was nearly instant that the write to BCM was complete and ready to go.

When I got the faults I had a couple weird dtcs pop up on the display saying service engine soon or something similar. But those were just momentary.

So in the end I added the global open and close and HIDs without resistors and no dipped beam fault. Very pleasantly surprised. (Also, if it matters I have a non-ST Focus).







Hope you are planning on upgrading to projectors

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Just finished the global lock/unlock. Works like a charm!

I used this adapter if anyone is looking for one:
Century Accessory ELM327 V1.5 OBDII OBD2 CAN-BUS Car Auto Diagnostic Interface USB Scanner Tool Cable

Put checks in auto speed, and maximize on FoCCCus instead of using a value in there. Failed once, but then tried to re-write immediately and no problem.

Got a little alarmed with all of the noises going on, chimes, alarms, hill assist fail. In the end, no CELs or anything else weird going on.

Of course, wife asked me why I was sitting in the car with my laptop at 7:30am, and she just rolled her eyes. Just a typical day in the household when I get all geeky and do weird stuff.
 
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