Copy and pasting this from another thread where I aired my grievances with trying to tune this turd:
so where are you at with the credits? fpcm? did you buy a credit for all of them or trying to just do ecm and tcm?
I just bought two credits almost a month ago since I knew that was all I needed. The TCM is built into the ECM in mine, so whatever it takes to tune the ECM (two credits) is what it takes to tune the TCM. Apparently, for mine, the FSCM is the only other module that can be tuned. I didn't know that when reading my current tune, I was supposed to uncheck the FSCM so it would be like that module doesn't exist and HPT wouldn't keep me from writing to the ECM without a credit for the FSCM. I don't need to modify anything with the FSCM. According to my account on HPT's site, I still have two credits, so maybe it didn't apply them. Last I recalled seeing, it looked to me like it applied the two credits to a vehicle that has an FSCM that the tuner wanted to tune in addition to the ECM. What I needed was to apply the credits to a vehicle that "didn't have" an FSCM.
I'll try reading my current tune again, but leaving the FSCM out of it, saving that as my "baseline", making those small changes I tried today then attempt again to write that tune. Hopefully, it'll go through and apply the two credits to that to finalize/lock/whatever itself to my Tahoe and I can move on to writing any time as normal. Crappy case- I'm forced to buy that extra credit for something I'll never mess with. Worst case, I have to purchase two more credits to "re-license" my Tahoe, but with the FSCM taken outta the mix.
Before I proceed with that, I'm trying to learn all the stuff I missed which put me here in the first place, now that I'm aware of the missed stuff. I'm trying to do so before bothering the people on the forums with all these noob questions that I know have been brought up a million times already. I started combing through the stickies but haven't found anything pertinent. Most everything is how to get started, which is pretty much just what's outlined step-by-step in the quick start guide that came in the box. I followed that to a "T" and had no problems. Any instructions I've found from there seem to skip straight to writing modified tunes after the vehicle has already been licensed and communicating, etc.
for the logs everytime you stop a log it should auto save to ...... HP tuners > VCM Scanner > Logs. if you open the hptuners> logs and tunes folder then there will only be the sample one in there
Sounds like my typical problem with computers- I never know where to find files once I save them. I'll follow your file path and see if I have the four logs I thought I made.
after you stop the log if you want it somewhere else do a save as on it.
**** no. I ain't changing anything from it's default setting unless I have to. If my logs did in fact auto-save to where you said, then that's where I'm leaving them and I'll go there to find them.
unless you are using the mpvi2 and running it with just the dongle plugged in and then transfering to computer - i dont know how it saves on the dongle . i still use a mpvi1
I'm not getting that fancy with it yet. No need. I wanted to see how it looked and worked on the screen first. You know- to see if I got something cool like a big flashing "DANGER TO MANIFOLD" message during a hit. No sense in having a 17" monitor if I'm not gonna look at it, right? I did connect it via Bluetooth to my laptop with no problem, but neither the Editor nor Scanner would find it. I'll mess with this later once I've established a functioning system through the USB cable.
