gmtech825 wrote:this timer was actually set to 10 minutes stock, so I gained 11 minutes. It's looking like the restart limit may be a function of the ECM as well, but that contradicts one document I've read that states the limit is set by the Platform and not the powertrain.
Do you have any advice on decompiling the E38 ECM with ghidra. I selected powper pc with VLE for the processor type, but a lot of the code is showing R13 + some other value.
Oh sorry, I was thinking of the recent late model BCMs, they came out with 15min timers after everyone complained about it being only 10min.
Quick way of identifying if theres an "overall" timer, is when you do a restart remote startup, does it go the full 21min again?
I think in my E38, the time was something like 45 or 50mins overall, meaning it would allow up to a total of 50mins remote start time. This meant that all remote starts total time together could be a maximum of 45-50mins (Cant remember which one). Ontop of that is the per remote start time (Which in your case is 21min), I believe in my E38, it was about 20min, so it could do 2 starts at extended time, then 1 shorter one.
Whats conflicting with this, is it appears some trucks overall timer 'restarts' on each remote start. This could be an ECU operating system thing, so have to keep that in mind.
I unfortunately don't have much more insight on the above, as I had to switch my ecu OS back to a Holden one so I could actually drive around, since the enable option didn't want to play nicely with the Holden OS
As for ghidra, the E38 processors do not use VLE so need to turn that option off
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