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Originally Posted by akyp
@ mad_sb Does this mean if I take my car to a tuner, who uses BRZEdit, to tune the car, I would not be able to read the tune and do my own fine tuning with a Tactrix cable, or even return to stock for a visit to the dealership? |
No, but it prevents you from flashing over the top of the tune unless you flash back to a stock tune first. Essentially, you get locked into using brzedit since that is all you can use to flash with once you no longer on the stock rom. Not sure if he is read locking as well as write locking, but he is for sure write locking.
This may not be an issue for most, but it is for me. I run e90 full time and there are only a handful of stations here in socal.... So, If i want to go on a trip or get stuck in traffic or just have a brain fart and get too far from a corn pump and need fuel.... I have to be able to flash back to a pump gas map. With BRZedit, I would have to carry a laptop and inverter in the car at all tines just in case I get stuck without corn juice. With the openflash tablet, I can keep my pump and E90 tunes on the tablet in the glove box and not have to worry. The tablet is powered by the OBD-II port so there are no batteries to worry about etc.
Never used EcuTek on this platform so not sure there, but I think you would still need a laptop to flash.
Now, you can open a standard, non encrypted rom with brzedit and flash it with brzedit, but then you must continue to use brzedit to work with that tune. Also, if you try to use one of the newer v2 off the shelf maps from Shiv, that will probably not be editable in brzedit because the V2 maps require a unique definition file for the rom.
Basically, now that open source is available, i have zero tolerance for read or write locking the ecu. Even if I never had to worry about switching back to pump gas, I would still be on romraider / openflash simply for the better logging you get from openport stand alone logging. Epifan never did fix the logging issues i had with ja00c roms.. logging was great right after a flash but within a day or so the sample rate would go to shit making the logs useless.