bm3 flash help

MIM5 · 03-10-2023, 07:38 PM

Hi everyone. I just received my dme back from femto and tried to flash for the first time today. Tried the csl map since I haven’t installed my downpipes yet. The write got to 100% but then I started getting malfunctions on the dash. Tried to reflash my stock map, but now it won’t even write. Just keeps failing. I’m getting this on the screen now. I’ve tried to reflash with my laptop and my iPhone. Same message for both. Please help if anyone has ran into this.

TopJimmy · 03-10-2023, 07:42 PM

Did you try Force Flash?

If that doesn’t help you have to email Dzeno at PTF support…

MIM5 · 03-10-2023, 07:44 PM

I did try to force flash. Also emailed them, but no answer yet.

ZheroG80 · 03-11-2023, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

I did try to force flash. Also emailed them, but no answer yet.

Did you have Femto install the customrom and make sure bm3 was paired to your car before you sent it in? ( just trying to troubleshoot).

AZ-MCRacer · 03-11-2023, 02:02 PM

Make sure you have the car on a battery charger when flashing. After it finished it should have told you to shut everything off, wait 30 seconds, then turn the car back on. Usually once it comes back up the errors will be gone.

MIM5 · 03-11-2023, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ZheroG80

Did you have Femto install the customrom and make sure bm3 was paired to your car before you sent it in? ( just trying to troubleshoot).

Yes. Custom rom and bm3 was paired before I sent it to them.

hellcat2m4 · 03-11-2023, 02:15 PM

Thats odd for sure, keep us posted on the resolution.

rmeitz167 · 03-11-2023, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

Hi everyone. I just received my dme back from femto and tried to flash for the first time today. Tried the csl map since I haven’t installed my downpipes yet. The write got to 100% but then I started getting malfunctions on the dash. Tried to reflash my stock map, but now it won’t even write. Just keeps failing. I’m getting this on the screen now. I’ve tried to reflash with my laptop and my iPhone. Same message for both. Please help if anyone has ran into this.

Reflashing back to stock relocks the dme. Or atleast it previously did on g8x. Your best best is to wait on support from ptf. They will likely remote in or at the very least guide you through how to resolve this.

Higgs Boson · 03-11-2023, 06:56 PM

I always triple tap the start button to make sure it's in diagnostic mode so it doesn't turn off before the flash finishes.

hellcat2m4 · 03-17-2023, 05:31 PM

What was the result I ran into the same thing?

MIM5 · 03-24-2023, 03:01 PM

Hi guys, sorry about the late reply. I just wanted to get everything resolved before I post. So basically what happened was, I purchased bm3 license and registered my car to it about two months ago. During the time I was waiting to do the femto unlock I received an ota update. Basically when bm3 registers your car it takes a snap shot of the “ID” of your dme. When the ota update happened the “ID” changed. So when femto received the dme, they unlocked it with the current “ID” from the ota update I had. When my dme came back and I downloaded a map, it was building the stage 2 map based on what was on record from BM3, which was the old “ID”. So when I flashed it there was a mismatch, which caused the dme to brick. My solution was to have the dme relocked and flashed to stock. And then I had to send it back off to Femto.

I received my dme back yesterday and protuning freaks made sure everything matches before I flashed. So everything is great now.

Big thanks to Serge and the guys at femto. They were awesome to work with. Serge followed up with every step and even contacted Femto regarding the situation. Femto themselves were able to do the second lock quickly and send it back quickly as well. Kudos to both companies for awesome customer service!!

M2GUY · 03-24-2023, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

Hi guys, sorry about the late reply. I just wanted to get everything resolved before I post. So basically what happened was, I purchased bm3 license and registered my car to it about two months ago. During the time I was waiting to do the femto unlock I received an ota update. Basically when bm3 registers your car it takes a snap shot of the “ID” of your dme. When the ota update happened the “ID” changed. So when femto received the dme, they unlocked it with the current “ID” from the ota update I had. When my dme came back and I downloaded a map, it was building the stage 2 map based on what was on record from BM3, which was the old “ID”. So when I flashed it there was a mismatch, which caused the dme to brick. My solution was to have the dme relocked and flashed to stock. And then I had to send it back off to Femto.

I received my dme back yesterday and protuning freaks made sure everything matches before I flashed. So everything is great now.

Big thanks to Serge and the guys at femto. They were awesome to work with. Serge followed up with every step and even contacted Femto regarding the situation. Femto themselves were able to do the second lock quickly and send it back quickly as well. Kudos to both companies for awesome customer service!!

Glad to hear it all came together in the end!

2Times · 03-24-2023, 04:37 PM

That's wild... Thank you for the update. I have a feeling you aren't he only one this is going to happen to. Good to know there's a resolution, even if it is a pain in the butt... couldn't imagine the initial headache.

MIM5 · 03-24-2023, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by 2Times

That's wild... Thank you for the update. I have a feeling you aren't he only one this is going to happen to. Good to know there's a resolution, even if it is a pain in the butt... couldn't imagine the initial headache.

Yeah, I’m not the only one. I know of one other person this has happened to. I just wanted to put it on the forums to help who ever sees this.

2Times · 03-24-2023, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

Yeah, I’m not the only one. I know of one other person this has happened to. I just wanted to put it on the forums to help who ever sees this.

I registered my BM3 license a while ago and just had the ECU sent out. A little nervous now lol.

LeRoy · 03-24-2023, 07:14 PM

So I guess that means OTA updates really will screw the whole platform up? that sucks.

MIM5 · 03-24-2023, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by LeRoy

So I guess that means OTA updates really will screw the whole platform up? that sucks.

U can turn off ota updates. I just didn’t know that it would effect the tune and unlock if I did the update before sending it off for the unlock.

LeRoy · 03-24-2023, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

U can turn off ota updates. I just didn’t know that it would effect the tune and unlock if I did the update before sending it off for the unlock.

right, knew that. What I mean is, sucks you can't do updates anymore once you have a tune. We all know with ID8 and all the other tech this car runs on, they get bugs.

Sorry you had to go through all that man

Jon H · 03-24-2023, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 2Times

I registered my BM3 license a while ago and just had the ECU sent out. A little nervous now lol.

Contact FEMTO and see if there's anything they can do prior to them flashing on it. Maybe you can check on the BMW app? Not sure if it'll come up on the idrive with no DME.

MIM5 · 03-24-2023, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 2Times

I registered my BM3 license a while ago and just had the ECU sent out. A little nervous now lol.

The only way to know is to plug into your obd port and open up bm3. Once you do that, you click on your vin in blue. The next screen will show your “registered vehicle software details” on top, and “current software ID Details” on the bottom. 4 lines of ID that must match. Then before you flash you click on the map your about to flash and there should be 3 lines of ID that should match ur first 3 lines of the previous 4.

2Times · 03-25-2023, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by MIM5

The only way to know is to plug into your obd port and open up bm3. Once you do that, you click on your vin in blue. The next screen will show your “registered vehicle software details” on top, and “current software ID Details” on the bottom. 4 lines of ID that must match. Then before you flash you click on the map your about to flash and there should be 3 lines of ID that should match ur first 3 lines of the previous 4.

That’s super good to know, thank you. ECU gets back Tuesday so I’ll check this.
I registered BM3 to my car as soon as they announced multimap and said it had to be registered to vin before sending to Femto… but then I did the break-in service and I think service did the software update.

2Times · 03-26-2023, 12:05 PM

I see what you mean… I’ll make sure they match. Visual for others

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MIM5 Lieutenant 220 Rep 401 Posts Drives: E92 335i Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Michigan iTrader: (0) Garage List [0.00]	Hi guys, sorry about the late reply. I just wanted to get everything resolved before I post. So basically what happened was, I purchased bm3 license and registered my car to it about two months ago. During the time I was waiting to do the femto unlock I received an ota update. Basically when bm3 registers your car it takes a snap shot of the “ID” of your dme. When the ota update happened the “ID” changed. So when femto received the dme, they unlocked it with the current “ID” from the ota update I had. When my dme came back and I downloaded a map, it was building the stage 2 map based on what was on record from BM3, which was the old “ID”. So when I flashed it there was a mismatch, which caused the dme to brick. My solution was to have the dme relocked and flashed to stock. And then I had to send it back off to Femto. I received my dme back yesterday and protuning freaks made sure everything matches before I flashed. So everything is great now. Big thanks to Serge and the guys at femto. They were awesome to work with. Serge followed up with every step and even contacted Femto regarding the situation. Femto themselves were able to do the second lock quickly and send it back quickly as well. Kudos to both companies for awesome customer service!!
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