Hymee Pro Tuner Discussion
07-27-2010, 05:48 PM
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well, with breasts like THOSE, no wonder you love flashing your car so much. 
on a serious note: that's a lot of tuning!
on a serious note: that's a lot of tuning!
07-27-2010, 07:17 PM
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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."
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."
07-27-2010, 07:52 PM
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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.
Honestly, if I got the source code, I'd love to work on it. Chances of that happening are slim though.
07-27-2010, 09:00 PM
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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!!!!!
Worst money I ever spent. Bad Guy status. Beware!!!!!
07-28-2010, 12:20 AM
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Honestly I just installed it but you can also run the program in compatibility mode (Windows 7 can run just about any software built for previous version of windows). I am also running Windows 7 ultimate. Once you install it just right click on the icon and run as administrator.
Haha, that would get expensive. But heck Walmart has nice little Acer laptop with a 250GB hard drive and 2GB of ram that runs Windows 7 for $298.00 right now as a back to school special.
Haha, that would get expensive. But heck Walmart has nice little Acer laptop with a 250GB hard drive and 2GB of ram that runs Windows 7 for $298.00 right now as a back to school special.
You do already have it, check your old mails
downfalls of the PT software in my opinion :
*Ease with which you can erase the brain on the ECU
*Lack of a way to recover the brain when that happens
*lots of bugs with the software around using the "brick"
*Can't use someone elses brick to even do a log - major PIA swapping the brick back and forth when trying to tune .
*Clumsiness of the whole getting started routine - it is not PNP
*Very hard to sell - because you need Mark to get involved in that process.
*Can't permanently delete cels
Get most of this resolved and it could be a great product .....
*Ease with which you can erase the brain on the ECU
*Lack of a way to recover the brain when that happens
*lots of bugs with the software around using the "brick"
*Can't use someone elses brick to even do a log - major PIA swapping the brick back and forth when trying to tune .
*Clumsiness of the whole getting started routine - it is not PNP
*Very hard to sell - because you need Mark to get involved in that process.
*Can't permanently delete cels
Get most of this resolved and it could be a great product .....
07-28-2010, 12:30 AM
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I would like to know more about the erasing the brain.
How to recover etc... I will probably erase it soon when playing around =(
07-28-2010, 02:12 AM
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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.
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.
07-28-2010, 02:23 AM
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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.
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.
07-28-2010, 04:30 AM
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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.
07-28-2010, 04:37 AM
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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".
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".
07-28-2010, 12:01 PM
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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!!!!!
Worst money I ever spent. Bad Guy status. Beware!!!!!
wasn't your car tuned by Cobb before using an AP?
sorry to hear about the loss of money, that really sucks.
