[Neutrino45]

You can use INPA to read and clear error codes. I just learned how to do it recently. Below are the instructions for my 2008 E90.

Scan Your Whole Car
1-Start INPA
2-Press F9 to select E90
3-Click Functional Jobs
4-Press Enter
5-Press F4 to select E90
6-Press F4 to select Error Memory
7-Press F1 to Read Error Memory

Get Detail Info About The Error
Once you've figured out where your error is, you can go back and re-perform step 1 + 2. For step 3, instead of picking Functional Jobs on the right side, look on the left side and choose one of the items you're having the error in.

For example, if you have an error with Kombi (instrument panel), click KAROSSERIE > Instrument Panel > Error > READ Error Detail. You can clear your error there if you want.

Let us know if this works.

[discoboy1]

Originally Posted by vtnard

What did you change in the module

I changed the 3 Parameters in Kombi for the shift indicator in 6mt.
After the CEL light, I put everything back to original settings

Originally Posted by Neutrino45

You can use INPA to read and clear error codes. I just learned how to do it recently. Below are the instructions for my 2008 E90.

Scan Your Whole Car
1-Start INPA
2-Press F9 to select E90
3-Click Functional Jobs
4-Press Enter
5-Press F4 to select E90
6-Press F4 to select Error Memory
7-Press F1 to Read Error Memory

Once you've figured out where your error is, you can go back and re-perform step 1 + 2. For step 3, instead of picking Functional Jobs on the right side, look on the left side and choose one of the items you're having the error in.

For example, if you have an error with Kombi (instrument panel), click KAROSSERIE > Instrument Panel > Error > READ Error Detail. You can clear your error there if you want.

Let us know if this works.

If I get an error for the airbag check (at beginning of instructions) will I still be able to read the errors with INPA?

[Neutrino45]

yes, you can still detect clear codes even if you recieved the check airbag error. it works for me even though i had the airbag error.

[uno]

Great reference.
Can I code to unlock all 4 doors at one click on FOB? Thanks a lot.

[matrix76]

Originally Posted by uno

Great reference.
Can I code to unlock all 4 doors at one click on FOB? Thanks a lot.

You can set that in your OBC

[DESI4life10]

Originally Posted by matrix76

You can set that in your OBC

+1...setting under bc stalk menu

[jphughan]

Originally Posted by discoboy1

is there a line to disable the windows down feature with the key fob?

I believe it's KOMFORTOEFFNEN_FB_O_SHD, or KOMFORTOEFFNUNG_FB if you want to prevent the sunroof and convertible from opening as well if you have either. Or you could just not hold down your keyfob's unlock button.

[franzzz]

Hi
I need a working ebay link to buy a perfect cable for coding my 01/2007 E92
(alarm beep, sunroof etc etc) with NCS expert

tnx

[Toad335]

Originally Posted by franzzz

Hi
I need a working ebay link to buy a perfect cable for coding my 01/2007 E92
(alarm beep, sunroof etc etc) with NCS expert

tnx

Just search on eBay...K+DCAN

[zz6938]

Originally Posted by fpf

Registered here to clear up few things:


True

Partially true, I am German, but not from Munich

True, it's mainly about cost, most people would not be ready to pay 3-4 times the price just for the device being made in Europe or the US.
(IC's are mostly imported here, and often more expensive than outside of China, except you buy some 2nd hand stuff that got de-soldered and refurbished from old trashed equipment... But yes, all the stuff around, such as cables, connectors, casings, PCBs, labor costs are way lower than in Europe or the US, and there is a good infrastructure available here serving also small time manufacturing companies)

Quality of a product depends on the Material you purchase (You can't simply make gold out of wood), on the company that provides labor such as assembling, the mechanical as well as the electronic design and of course on a good QC.

Most electronic items that are available nowadays are made in china, all the apple products, 99,9% of the laptop, notebooks and netbooks available, TV's, DVD players. Those items are produced in high quantity and cost saving is also a big issue here, because the consumer is NOT willing to pay a high price for an item like this (take the dvd players for example.. PC motherboards, graphiccards...) Since those kind of items are produced in quantity for export and you purchase them locally - at the shop down your road.. you won't hear many complains about them.. most of those items are just fine. For niche business such as those cables - new, small companies see the demand and simply join by doing and selling such kind of equipment and they will do it "the cheapest route" because they don't actually know what they are selling and they actually don't care, they just try to keep the cost at a minimum to maximize their profits...

If you take the cheapest route in China, non electronically tested PCB's from a 2nd or 3rd grade factory, 2nd hand components (AKA refurbs), bad mechanical design and a non effective or non existent QC - and this is what many of those companies do (to save cost and maximize profits) of course the results are bad, and I am sure everyone here have seen at least one product like that, some a few more. China doesn't have the best name in those terms, and yes a lot of things like this are happening here, but they also happen with a reason, people expect to get everything for free, and even if a product is sold at a reasonable price there is competition going on and one company will look for ways and means to offer a cheaper price to the wholesalers and consumers. (this trend that is going on like forever already is mainly caused by consumers, because they want more and more for paying less, and companies have no choice but to follow this kind of trend because otherwise they aren't competitive)

A good friend of mine told me a long time ago, in china you can get anything - at/for any price, problem is that you will have to accept the quality. "You get what you pay for" - And this is more or less true, there will be always someone somewhere "trying to" do it for less, but there are thresholds and once you step under them, you will have to suffer from the results. There is a lot of demand for all kind of material and components in mainland china, and it really depends on in which kind of equipment they will be used, for certain things where there is a lot of competition going on you can expect the cheapest stuff, those are mainly high quantity junk products, such as toys, remote controls / receivers for them, cheap electronic gadgets and so on.

Anyway, enough about the "backgrounds" and back to what we sell:
- We only use new components, we do NOT use second hand stuff
- All the hardware design is done by myself, we spend money on hardware to achieve a mechanical stability where others only uses wires and glue.
- We know how our items work and we can make a proper QC (I use a special canbridge I built for the DCAN to check if the can part works fine, means data gets send an received over the can interfacing from and to the PC)
- We also do a optical inspection as well as a "power consumption" test on it to check for any irregularities.
- I do have tons of BMW ECU's and access to certain cars here.

The first DCAN cables we sold had dual K-Line (PIN7 and 8 joined, the time I made that it was fine to do that, since DCAN equipped cars did not use pin8 at all, and for many older Kline cars it was a must be to cover pin8 as well to be fully backward compatible, it turned out that BMW now "re-used" that pin8 for the latest cars that got ethernet available on the OBD2 connector, and pin8 is doing the activation for that ethernet interface.. since pin8 was covered by us with it's original use as a 2nd Kline there will be connection problems on those new cars. But the solution is simple, all you have to do is disconnect pin8 from the interface to work on those cars. Many of the other interfaces never had this "issue" because they never covered the 2nd kline (pin8).

We also do sell a OBD/ADS Interface, and till today it's still the only full working (industrially made) device on the market. (Not sure myself why others haven't copied it yet, maybe not interesting enough)


Exactly, shit happens, and it can happen to anyone with anything - anywhere.

To GenePoole:
The OBD2 Interface on the left is based on a board / circuit design I did many years ago, It's function is based on the appnote from BMW covering all functions incl. fast mode pullup switching, power & ignition feedback etc.
The whole circuit does not have much in common with their original one, it's by far superior, but many of the ic's I used that time are not available anymore and got replaced by newer (also cheaper) models.
However, we always used a PCB with pinheader to connect the OBD2 connector to the board - so this one is a "copy" of my old circuit / board design, they just copied it 1:1 incl. all prints on the board.

Middle is a DCAN as sold by ECUtool.com, right one is another DCAN from an unknown source, first time I see this board.

Thank you for reading

Phil

Phil,

What is the ebay link for the DCAN cable? Thanks

[Belarus]

Originally Posted by Cbaykal

Phil,

What is the ebay link for the DCAN cable? Thanks

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[bumere90]

Originally Posted by Cbaykal

Phil,

What is the ebay link for the DCAN cable? Thanks

I have a brand new cable for 85$ shipped. Comes with a dvd and driver.

[1QuikWS6]

As a place marker

For everyone needing link to the proper eBay cable:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BMW-I...item2eb448faae

Currently sold for Buy It Now @ $119 or 'Make Offer' - apparently he will accept $90

[zz6938]

Originally Posted by MIC328i

Has anyone been able to successfully disable the side amber lights on E92 when headlights are on?

go to page 16 post 314

search sidemarker

[malastic]

Is it possible with this cable and software to activate the voice control? My car had a professional navigator, I have the original bluetooth I have later, but does not the voice control.
Regards,

[Alex@Helix]

Originally Posted by bv1

Does anyone know if this applies to the JB4 (Map2) on a N54? This thread is too unwieldy to read the entire thing.

you need to be on map 0 to code with the JB4 in

[zz6938]

Originally Posted by xxxjecxxx

its a reason it took me so long to post.

thanks for everything you have done. great work.

[lionheart90k]

hey anyone got the codes for unlocking all the doors when key fob is ejected/when engine is switched off? it kinda disappeared from the spreadsheet

Andre

[matrix76]

Originally Posted by lionheart90k

hey anyone got the codes for unlocking all the doors when key fob is ejected/when engine is switched off? it kinda disappeared from the spreadsheet

Andre

Auto Unlock in CAS ER_KEYOUT_AUTOVR

[colorblue]

I just received the elm327 wireless cable today and trying to do the reset airbag trick which i couldn't do since the Bluetooth connection doesn't allow me to set e port to com1. But can it work with ncs expert? Can someone give me some instructio? Thanks!

[onebadmofo]

You can't do it with bluetooth adapter, you need a proper d+kan cable.

[franzzz]

Originally Posted by Toad335

Just search on eBay...K+DCAN

TNX

I try for this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BMW-I...motiveQ5fTools