/\ yes . Now that I know how to delete the brain I also know how NOT TO , so it has not been a problem for me .
I have done over 160 flashes .

 

well, with breasts like THOSE, no wonder you love flashing your car so much.






on a serious note: that's a lot of tuning!

 

/\ more like a lot of "playing and learning" but yeah .

 

You don't need to do anything wrong...it seems to have a mind of it's own

I have been down the "bricked" PCM road..and it's not nice

 

oh crap dann. what were you using when it bricked? AP? pt?
I had it happen 300 miles away from home last year when trying to load a new map from MM and it was a quite scary to see the AP tell me it's going into recovery mode or whatever it's called.
I remember thinking, "OH ****! This had better freaking work or towing my car home is going to suck."

 

not nice = bloody infuriating .

Can you pls describe how it happened with you ?

 

One point of note with windows 7, Hymee's last email to me regarding USB Live was that it will not work with 64 bit systems yet, no driver support.

Honestly, if I got the source code, I'd love to work on it. Chances of that happening are slim though.

 

Don't waste your money. Maybe only 30% as developed as the Cobb AP and currently you can expect zero support even if he would respond and sell it to you. I paid $1000 and never received a reply to my base tune requests. I would have been happy to sell it for half what I paid but the buyer backed out because his numerous email requests went unanswered. I know he's tied up in the SC situation but when you're in my shoes it's no consolation.

Worst money I ever spent. Bad Guy status. Beware!!!!!

 

really? i've been assuming it's being dumped... its been over 3 months since he's even been here, longer than that since any news of the SC

 

I have tested all I can think of, maybe you have a different version of the brick aswell.

You do already have it, check your old mails

Amen to that, I have some issues in PT also. Time outs when sending PTC files to the brick is so annoying. My version dont like the modifier either (multiplyer etc.) I have to copy cells to excel and do my mods there and type in every single cell in PT.

 

Thanks to Brettus im running PT aswell and quite happy with the results.

I would like to know more about the erasing the brain.

How to recover etc... I will probably erase it soon when playing around =(

 

don't even think it ----- lol

If it ever happens - get very friendly with your Mazda Dealer .

 

Oh ****, they are quite retarded.

After they mixed my spark cables, overfilled my oil and forgot a gasket in the exhaust I sort of told them to F*** O**

 

I have been flashing away with PT for a year now and luckily I haven't bricked the pcm.

still I can get distracted and do things to quickly, skip steps and so on.. and never had a problem.

I won't say it is without bugs. changing the brick between flash and log can be problematic. to avoid this I would invest in a second brick or pick-up a second-hand dude logger. then you have one for flashing and one for logging.

I'm fine with the actual software. I haven't noticed bugs apart from the logger to flashing selection.

hymee has also been very good with communication for me. not instant but very good. he also has made a real effort on a couple of occasions to solve my issues.



as far as i'm aware the base tune that hymee provides is the std mazda flash and may not be the most recent revision. after all he is selling a tuning solution not custom tunes. tuning is your responsibility.

 

If you are having issues with it timing out when loading the brick, try another cable.

 

Short answer - yes I have gotten all the PT and USB live functions to work...the live USB alone is worth it to me, I like it.

I also bricked my PCM without doing anything wrong, this was uncool...got Cobb to help me recover it and bought a Cobb AP after that. So these days I am on the Cobb for tuning. Bugs are bad, especially when they will fry an ECU that you cannot fix easily.

 

sweet, so we have a bunch of $1,000 data loggers out there. nice

 

Well it is possible to tune also.

 

something Cobb wouldn't let me do.

 

Which is a VERY valid point, the HYMEE will work on everything (just needs bug fixes) and I would say it is the next best thing to the Cobb for tuning the 8, and in some cases, the only solution out there.

 

exactly! if cobb had answered my questions accurately instead of the "don't hold you breath" for .au support (was release a month or two latter) and they would let me tune the thing. the I would probably be using cob right now.

 

same here, I was just about to order an AP when I discovered no Accesstuner Race for EUDM RX-8.

I'm feed up with "tuners" so I want to do it myself, Have gone down the road with piggybacks and didn't want to start over again with being in the hands and mercy of a "tuner".

 

Get back to me when you actually have a clue ...

 

Team, why'd you switch to the PT?
wasn't your car tuned by Cobb before using an AP?
sorry to hear about the loss of money, that really sucks.

 

Omg!!!!