OpenFlash Tablet

[steve99]

Originally Posted by phrosty

Keep your original ROM backed up. If OFT dies I'm sure there's a way to "initialize" one from a ROM rather than the car.

Originally Posted by zinzan

What is the warranty on the tablet itself? I plan to keep my BRZ for many years, but what happens a few years from now if I'm on a non-stock flash and the tablet is dead or stolen? Am I just stuck on whatever ECU setting I have at that time, or can my original ECU setting be restored?

I did a search on this, but when I search for openflash tablet warranty, I just get stuff on how this would affect our warranties with the car.
@shiv@vishnu?

-Z

Yes you can just pull a ROM from an equivalent car and flash it to yours.

Their are also other devices to read/flash a ROM to a BRZ/86

I am sure the Vishnu dudes could pre-load an "original" ROM for your car in the OFT if you gave them the ROM type and your VIN number.

[toysub]

Wondering if anyone else is having trouble downloading v1.58?
The size of the file is 60.3MB

[DC2R]

Downloaded fine for me

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[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by toysub

Wondering if anyone else is having trouble downloading v1.58?
The size of the file is 60.3MB

Originally Posted by DC2R

Downloaded fine for me

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No issues here either

[mid_life_crisis]

@shiv@vishnu
I'm sure this was covered somewhere in the literally hundreds of pages of OFT posts on this forum, but which drop in filter do you recommend for use with your tune on an otherwise stock vehicle, or is it even worth swapping out at this point?

[regal]

Originally Posted by shiv@vishnu

Sorry... didn't see your question until. Officially, there is a 1 year warranty on the OFT. But realistically just as long as you don't drop kick it across a foot field field in the rain, it should easily outlive your car. Modern electronics are great that way.

Last year I bought the top of the line Asus tablet, the screen lasted 4 months before it cracked. A lot of people got burned, ebay was littered with cracked screened asus TF700T's.


Main reason I went with tatrix over the OFT. They used something called gorilla glass and it was 11". I just want factory updates at this point anyway. Just saying not all modern tablets are well built.

[Luckrider]

Originally Posted by regal

Last year I bought the top of the line Asus tablet, the screen lasted 4 months before it cracked. A lot of people got burned, ebay was littered with cracked screened asus TF700T's.


Main reason I went with tatrix over the OFT. They used something called gorilla glass and it was 11". I just want factory updates at this point anyway. Just saying not all modern tablets are well built.

The OFT doesn't use a glass screen. It uses a much older touch screen technology (no multitouch input) that also happens to be much more durable.

[regal]

Originally Posted by Luckrider

The OFT doesn't use a glass screen. It uses a much older touch screen technology (no multitouch input) that also happens to be much more durable.

Ah, I should have dug deeper. We use such screens on our robot pendants at work and they do take a ton of abuse.


Thanks.

[Luckrider]

Originally Posted by regal

Ah, I should have dug deeper. We use such screens on our robot pendants at work and they do take a ton of abuse.


Thanks.

Yeah, there is a reason why they have been the control screen of choice for manufacturing facilities for many years now.

[DC2R]

Originally Posted by Luckrider

Yeah, there is a reason why they have been the control screen of choice for manufacturing facilities for many years now.

Asus should really up their screen game. My nexus 7 screen broke while in closed case in my GF purse under a table when I kicked it.

Unrelated: anyone dyno stock vs open flash stage one 1.5x with drop-in? Been researching for months but don't recall if I've seen this.southern dyno would be best

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[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by DC2R

Asus should really up their screen game. My nexus 7 screen broke while in closed case in my GF purse under a table when I kicked it.

Unrelated: anyone dyno stock vs open flash stage one 1.5x with drop-in? Been researching for months but don't recall if I've seen this.southern dyno would be best

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I can post a plot of a car I did a custom tune on when I get home. There was an overlay of the same car on 1.55 vs stock vs custom. Gains on 1.55 were as expected. This was on a maha dyno though not a dynojet so you would want to mainly be looking at % gains.

[mid_life_crisis]

Originally Posted by regal

Main reason I went with tatrix over the OFT. They used something called gorilla glass and it was 11". I just want factory updates at this point anyway. Just saying not all modern tablets are well built.

Gorilla glass is a misleading name. I know from personal experience that it is extremely scratch resistant, but also cracks if you look at it funny.
I had the Dell Streak phone. I can only imagine a bigger sheet would be even more fragile.

[Luckrider]

Originally Posted by mid_life_crisis

Gorilla glass is a misleading name. I know from personal experience that it is extremely scratch resistant, but also cracks if you look at it funny.
I had the Dell Streak phone. I can only imagine a bigger sheet would be even more fragile.

Gorilla Glass is super strong relative to its thickness (watch their break test videos compared to glass). The problem is, it is super thin and because it is so hard (due to its strength) it is very brittle.

[jamesm]

things which are scratch resistant must be hard. things which are hard are inherently brittle. life is full of trade-offs lol.