evonut270

not sue if its been brought up before but iv heard of a few X ecus that have been locked.can these be unlocked opensource or is it mitsi only?

kirradude1025

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I am pretty sure that is what happened to mine after I unmarried my AP and tried to do an open source tune.

I was unable to reflash with anything other than a stock tune.

Golden

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If it is locked you can bench it to get it back to normal.

kirradude1025

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My tuner and I built the bench harness, and we tried to flash it back 5 times. It would take the stock tune, just not a modified file.

Golden

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Once it has a stock tune, you should be able to flash it normally.

If you can't flash it normally after it took the stock tune... then it didn't take the stock tune, as a stock tune is flashable.

evonut270

i assume there is no unlock programme like unlocker for the X?

fostytou

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I guess its possible that there is something in the part of the rom that ECUFlash does not write, but I wouldn't actually *know*.

I'm under the impression that alternative flash mode can write the whole rom and doesn't skip anything, but I'm not 100% sure so don't take it as fact.

In any case, I think you can flash anything when in bench mode, so maybe you can flash your tune in that mode? The only other possible things I can think:
-Maybe you copied your original rom that has the leftovers from AP / locking and keep flashing that same blocking data back
-you are just doing a regular flash and not benching correctly
-you aren't flashing the factory rom because it "looks' factory already to the checksums, so since nothing is different it doesn't write (this would be obvious in the log)

Golden

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There is a chunk at the beginning of the ROM that is not written for safety reasons when you flash normally.

When you bench, the whole flash is erased and the entire thing is written.

8000rpm

Moer info please

fostytou

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Look up how to bench an ECU