You need to make sure your moving the correct DLL's for IDS to succesfully pick up another cable.abs351 wrote:Thanks mate, that's me in a nutshell..I go all in on everything and anything I do in life.
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So I attempted again to flash the PCM with IDS and openport as I have a work around to revive the unit.
Has anyone successfully got it to work and using the shim32.dll
Newer versions of IDS blacklist certain serial numbers (LIke clone VCM or MDI's). But after moving all required DLLs, IDS will recognise the cable and connect.
When a device is blacklisted, it will still display and connect to the scantool, but it wont actually communicate with the car. You can tell the difference since the J tool will actually 'click' as it engages relays to begin communicating with the vehicle on CANBus. Well.. this is based on if using a GM MDI, but on newer versions which have the serial blacklisted, it doesnt engage the relays to communicate with the car and thus simply says 'no communication with vehicle'.
Do note that the non-genuine VX nanos will have serious problems, and are not all made equally. Good nanos work fine. I develop with them and use them to flash vehicles with my own custom software all the time.