Sct help!!

[Black02GT]

The best advice with these dinosaurs (SCT3), is if it works don't **** with it. I would like to datalog, but that requires updating the firmware. I haven't updated the unit, ever, and won't! I've read to many horror stories about it bricking the ECU.

I've never seen one brick the ECU, just the handheld. You should be able datalog without updating the firmware, you just have to use the older livelink (unless 6.5 doesn't have your strategy code).

Livelink 6.5
http://www.brooksspeed.com/tag/sct-live-link/

I agree with not messing with it if it work though...

 

[Phantomhalo]

I agree with not messing with it if you don't have to. Since I thought my handheld was F'd anyway I figured why not and tried it to see if it would fix it. It didn't fix it, but it also didn't make it worse or break anything else. I pushed off updating it for over a year prior to this. Seems like every time you update something, more bugs pop up or mess something up. I have heard of the nonupdated tuners locking up the ECU's like mentioned above. So you really have to be careful about that. I've heard of it happening twice in fact.

 

[Black02GT]

Interesting, my experience is with the older ECUs. What years were they put of curiousity.

 

[ShelbyGT5HUN]

I've never seen one brick the ECU, just the handheld. You should be able datalog without updating the firmware, you just have to use the older livelink (unless 6.5 doesn't have your strategy code).

Livelink 6.5
http://www.brooksspeed.com/tag/sct-live-link/

I agree with not messing with it if it work though...

At least once a month some member posts about huge problems with their SCT3. In order to use their latest LiveLink (referencing that it was LAST Nov I tried this), they wanted a firmware update. Just not interested in creating a big headache. Waiting for some info on the new nGauge for the 2010s.

 

[Catmonkey]

If you're going to do a firmware update, do it when SCT is open and you can contact tech support. If you're still running an X3, upgrading to the X4 should probably be on your radar. More and more of these pop up in the classified sections.

 

[Phantomhalo]

Interesting, my experience is with the older ECUs. What years were they put of curiousity.

One was a 2006 GT here in Rapid City that one of the dyno tuners here had to go unlock and try to fix and the other was per a tuner on here that told me about the issue first. Don't know the year for that one though.

 

[stkjock]

SCT has not updated the firmware for X3s starting with serial number X3### since 2008 IIRC

 

[einehund]

I checked on SCT's website and there is an update for my X3. I see no reason to get an X4 when the only thing i use the tuner for is to update the tune when i get new goodies, and I don't feel like paying $400 just for a new fancy gizmo to upload a tune once a year.

 

[Phantomhalo]

I checked on SCT's website and there is an update for my X3. I see no reason to get an X4 when the only thing i use the tuner for is to update the tune when i get new goodies, and I don't feel like paying $400 just for a new fancy gizmo to upload a tune once a year.

+1 But I do have to admit I like new gizmos! Lol

 

[ShelbyGT5HUN]

I would like to datalog, but for now, that will wait. Either a deal on an X4, or wait for these nGauge things to work with a 2010.

 

[Black02GT]

I would like to datalog, but for now, that will wait. Either a deal on an X4, or wait for these nGauge things to work with a 2010.

So you can't datalog with Gen I (6.5) either? I haven't updated since 04 so it won't connect with Gen II, I just log Gen I and view with Gen II.

It's frustrating you have to update for livelink yet the Advantage tuning software works with all firmware. I like SCT but there software could be a little better. Livelink uses way more resources than necessary.

 

[stkjock]

U should be able to use 6.5, however if u have a Win 8 laptop, expect headaches with the drivers. Ask me how I know....... :fm:

 

[Phantomhalo]

Yeah I have Windows 8 as well, but the laptop is just a headache in general. I do wish you could run live link and the SCT updater at the same time but it doesn't let me. It's not horrible to go back and forth but just a few tweaks could make it a lot better.

 

[VNMOUS1]

I've run the second generation on both Win 8 and now 10

 

[stkjock]

I've run the second generation on both Win 8 and now 10

With an old X3? That's the issue with Gen II

 

[Phantomhalo]

The main problem I'm having is finding the proper format for the files to datalog or just to have what is being asked to datalog. The list I got to datalog has a bunch of stuff, but a few are either dmr or non existent. Don't know if that's the same for are versions or if I don't have the correct setup or what. I just blame it on Windows 8 and it being an X3 instead of X4...

 

[VNMOUS1]

With an old X3? That's the issue with Gen II

Yeah, with updated firmware. IMO, X3s are doorstops at this point.

 

[stkjock]

Yeah, with updated firmware. IMO, X3s are doorstops at this point.

From my experience and subsequent research, X3s, not XF3, are not compatible with GenII, the last firmware update for them goes back to 2008 IIRC

 

[ShelbyGT5HUN]

Yeah, with updated firmware. IMO, X3s are doorstops at this point.

I agree. I just pray that the SCT3 works once a year when I need to flash it back to stock. No updating firmware for this dinosaur, just not worth the risk!