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Post by carmano on Jan 11, 2024 0:47:22 GMT
Hello
I have a 2023 Cupra Formentor, and I made a full backup. In the history.txt file and in the application, I noticed that some control units have the long coding code, but other units, like unit 09 do not have the long coding ! I need to change some options in unit 09 with SFD, but if I want to go back to the original settings how can I compare if I don't have the original long coding ?
I also made a backup of module 09 only, but even though the backup was made, I don't have any long coding.
Thank you for your help.
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Post by whataboutthis on Jan 11, 2024 1:37:28 GMT
Control unit on your car should not have any long coding as VAG moved this setup to adaptations from memory
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Post by carmano on Jan 11, 2024 9:45:43 GMT
Thank you for your reply. So I'm trying to understand : How can I revert to original settings if I need ? In my text file there are several hundred or thousands of lines with the values of each adaptation, this can quickly become very tedious and take hours to compare each line ! Is there a faster way to compare the adaptations to restore the original parameters ?
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Post by dv52 (Australia) on Jan 11, 2024 21:55:53 GMT
carmano : Yes indeed- " In my [the] text file there are several hundred or thousands of lines with the values of each adaptation" !!! The Backup file for the central electrics module in your car will have upward of 1,500 entries - but OBD11's crazy format means that there will be many times this number of line entries in the file
The answer to your question is clearly that a manual one-by-one comparison of each entry in the Backup file is impractical for most sane OBD11 users. Obviously the better (only?) way to satisfactorily undertake this comparison is via a computerized process. I personally use this method!
So, my advice is to make a separate Backup file of the current settings in the module. Then use one of the many database tools like MS Excel, or MS Access to undertake the comparison. Unfortunately however, the OBD11 designers chose to make the Backup file look "pretty", rather than be practical. It's unfathomable to me why this decision was made - but as a result, the Backup file is full of useless sentence-structures like tabs and unnecessary line-feeds.
Yes, the file looks pretty - but the cost of this aesthetics from a practical perspective is that in its raw format, the OBD11 Backup file is utterly useless for computer based database tools. What needs to happen before applying computer-based data-tools is that users need to strip-out the "pretty" parts of the Backup file and convert the format to a "flat" structure. OBD11's competitor (VCDS) creates their equivalent to the Backup file as a flat-file from the get-go - much better solution!!
Anyway, you can use Thirsty 's handy- dandy, flat file converter for this process - see HERE
If you don't like using a database tool - you can try Notepad++ for the comparison process
Don
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