So my car is currently still a brick, as I'm cautiously finding my way around SDD trying to figure out how each thing works and trying not to brick the car even further. Before anyone gives me the cautionary tales, yes I'm aware I can damage it, I'm aware it's as flakey as a Cadbury Chocolate Bar and yes, I'm aware I've admitted to not fully knowing what I'm doing... however, with that out of the way, I am a Software Developer and IT engineer, if I can't learn how to do this, no one can so, onwards, I guess.
The overarching problem... my car is currently suffering from the "Battery got disconnected before everything shut down" nonsense, where the CJB now has a corrupted VIN number in it and both the car and SDD are convinced the CJB was originally installed in another car... obviously this is not the case. This originally happened a couple of weeks ago when I foolishly thought it would be ok to change my own car battery, without first looking it up on the internet to figure out whether the car would be mad at me or not... this resulted in a £200 trip to a Jag Specialist (£120 towing fee) for them to plug it into SDD, reconfigure a few modules, then run immobilization and re-add my keys to the KVM. What they didn't tell me, was they left my negative cable loose and that if it came off, the car would brick itself again...
Since this trip to the Jag Specialist, my battery negative cable came loose, something I only found out the other morning when I jumped in the car to move it out of the way and everything went completely dead, no lights, no beeps, no nothing. Having reconnected the battery negative cable, I get the 'Smart Key Not Found' error again. No worries though I thought to myself, I have a Battery Support Unit from Sealey, specifically designed for extended diagnostic use and I have a copy of SDD and a Mongoose Cable (Both clones, sadly). I opted for the BritishDiagnostics cable and software, as a few seemed to recommend them over some of the other stuff and they offer a 1 year 'no quibble guarantee' on the cable. So far, it's been fairly good, I've been able to get into the cars computers and view the DTC's (Two specifically, to do with passive key entry and the CJB having a corrupted VIN).
Over the last week or so, I've been researching what it is I'll actually need to do with SDD in order to get my car running again. So I've got an XProg device ordered and winging its way to me from China (FFS...) so that I can eventually do what Onotole and MoJo and several others have done, which is download the flash memory and re-upload that to the EProm chip on the BCM, so that not only will my keys work again and the car should stop bricking itself, but also, my washer pump will work again... bonus.
On to the actual thing I need help with, now all the background information is out the way: One of the first things I need to do, is configure several modules as a new modules, this is because those modules have 'lost communication' and are obstructing communication between the other modules thanks to the wonders of OBD Three Kenobi and preventing me from ultimately configuring the KVM as a new module, re-adding my keys and finally running immobilization, to hopefully have the car working again (minus the washer pump...). Unfortunately, SDD isn't playing ball here, when I attempt to configure some of them as a new module, SDD wants to download new software for them, which obviously is something I can't do, not having an original copy of SDD and not having an internet connection on the VM running SDD... can anyone help? I've fired a question off to BritishDiagnostics themselves for advice, but I doubt they'll reply before next week and I'm quite keen to be able to move the car, as it's currently somewhat 'stuck where it is' as we can't push it any further on the driveway and it's in a very awkward place for removing the CJB when my XProg device turns up. I'm running their (British Diagnostics) little batch file on the VM to make sure the date on the VM is correct and I had previously thought this would take away any need to download new module software, but it doesn't seem to be working...
The overarching problem... my car is currently suffering from the "Battery got disconnected before everything shut down" nonsense, where the CJB now has a corrupted VIN number in it and both the car and SDD are convinced the CJB was originally installed in another car... obviously this is not the case. This originally happened a couple of weeks ago when I foolishly thought it would be ok to change my own car battery, without first looking it up on the internet to figure out whether the car would be mad at me or not... this resulted in a £200 trip to a Jag Specialist (£120 towing fee) for them to plug it into SDD, reconfigure a few modules, then run immobilization and re-add my keys to the KVM. What they didn't tell me, was they left my negative cable loose and that if it came off, the car would brick itself again...
Since this trip to the Jag Specialist, my battery negative cable came loose, something I only found out the other morning when I jumped in the car to move it out of the way and everything went completely dead, no lights, no beeps, no nothing. Having reconnected the battery negative cable, I get the 'Smart Key Not Found' error again. No worries though I thought to myself, I have a Battery Support Unit from Sealey, specifically designed for extended diagnostic use and I have a copy of SDD and a Mongoose Cable (Both clones, sadly). I opted for the BritishDiagnostics cable and software, as a few seemed to recommend them over some of the other stuff and they offer a 1 year 'no quibble guarantee' on the cable. So far, it's been fairly good, I've been able to get into the cars computers and view the DTC's (Two specifically, to do with passive key entry and the CJB having a corrupted VIN).
Over the last week or so, I've been researching what it is I'll actually need to do with SDD in order to get my car running again. So I've got an XProg device ordered and winging its way to me from China (FFS...) so that I can eventually do what Onotole and MoJo and several others have done, which is download the flash memory and re-upload that to the EProm chip on the BCM, so that not only will my keys work again and the car should stop bricking itself, but also, my washer pump will work again... bonus.
On to the actual thing I need help with, now all the background information is out the way: One of the first things I need to do, is configure several modules as a new modules, this is because those modules have 'lost communication' and are obstructing communication between the other modules thanks to the wonders of OBD Three Kenobi and preventing me from ultimately configuring the KVM as a new module, re-adding my keys and finally running immobilization, to hopefully have the car working again (minus the washer pump...). Unfortunately, SDD isn't playing ball here, when I attempt to configure some of them as a new module, SDD wants to download new software for them, which obviously is something I can't do, not having an original copy of SDD and not having an internet connection on the VM running SDD... can anyone help? I've fired a question off to BritishDiagnostics themselves for advice, but I doubt they'll reply before next week and I'm quite keen to be able to move the car, as it's currently somewhat 'stuck where it is' as we can't push it any further on the driveway and it's in a very awkward place for removing the CJB when my XProg device turns up. I'm running their (British Diagnostics) little batch file on the VM to make sure the date on the VM is correct and I had previously thought this would take away any need to download new module software, but it doesn't seem to be working...
