of course, 98.2% safe!!
most people flash LT1s in-car. just make sure headlights are off, stereo off, heater off, connection stable, etc.
eehack tries to help by testing for connection stability before beginning the flash routine
you aren't the first person to misunderstand what eehack's 'patches' are, or how they work.If I understood correctly a patched BIN should not be read and tuned again. You can't patch it first then start tuning? What would be the best way to do with patches?
i'm sorry i didn't document it better, i can't figure out how to explain it more clearly.
eehack's patches are inserted passively during flash specifically so you DONT have to worry about them.
it's done this way for a few reasons:
- nothing is ever written to disk, your tune on disk is not altered. you don't have to think about how you will 'un-patch' or save backed up 'un-patched' copies of bins. what a total waste of time. eehack does not edit bins.
- if the patches affect your car, just flash again with the checkbox unchecked.
- i wont have to distribute updated special XDF files with patches in them.
- tunercat users can use my software
you don't have to do anything. nothing will break. just leave the patch button checked. tune as normal. it's designed specifically so you dont' have to worry about it or do anything. just tune as normal and enjoy a few small enhancements to datalogging.
right before it flashes, it just flips a few bytes around. that's all.
there's one downside:
if you read that bin later, it's not exactly the same bin that you wrote. it's been altered.
right now that doesn't matter, but what if i have to patch a table relocation to enable some new feature in the future?
in short, just keep copies of the bins you're tuning on disk if you're going to leave patching enabled, dont use the ecm's eeprom as a backup for your virgin bin files. if you're planning to read your bin file back from the ecm every time you tune it, seriously, reconsider how you tune.
i think calling them 'patches' keep convincing everyone that i'm somehow messing with their tune?
if any of this bothers you, uncheck the patch box.
cool! it's working very well right now, but hang tight 'cause the next beta will need some testing, im working on increasing the write block size.I am going to repair a couple of corrupted PCMs in a week or so (socketing and flashing). I have a bench setup, if you need to test any flash routines I can do it.
other people have suggested that too. you know, for the life of me, i can't seem to navigate around paypal's site and get a donate button working... maybe i'll try again.Thanks for the hard work. You should set up a paypal donate button in the program, lots of effort in this tool.
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