xk bypass kit platform reprogram?

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Topic: xk bypass kit platform reprogram?

Posted By: akwormy
Subject: xk bypass kit platform reprogram?
Date Posted: August 01, 2008 at 8:50 PM

ready to install tonight (even have a garage borrowed)

so I'm trying to flash my new XK532 and it says "platform 3" (06 chrysler town and country = CHDL6+ 3.0)

when I try to flash it says "platform error - firmware requires platform 532 connected

can I fix this? (please say yes and tell me how!!!)

Replies:

Posted By: twistedp
Date Posted: August 01, 2008 at 9:39 PM

are you sure you're downloading this file CHDL6+_3_00.enc

this is the firmware you need. a different firmware will reject the 532

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Twisted Performance

Posted By: akwormy
Date Posted: August 02, 2008 at 1:23 AM

thanks for the help, I really appreciate it -

Yes that's what I've downloaded (it says .txt after that - so it's CHDL6+_3_00.enc.txt)

but I've got a confusing observation -

using the vehicle wizard in the VIP software (had to use 06 caravan since town & country says nothing found) I can select firmware for that vehicle for 5 different modules - XK01, XK03, XK510, XK530, and 532.

the XK03, XK530 and XK532 all have firmware CHDL6+ v3.00 available for download and flash

but if I pick the 532 I get the platform error

I'm a rookie with these things, but it seems to me that my 532 thinks that it's an 03 (which if I read it right doesn't do transponder bypass)

thanks again

Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 20, 2008 at 3:29 PM

i grabbed an XK532 from stock and uploaded the CHDL6+ V3.0 with no problems..... you may have a bum unit?? or a 531 labelled as a 532??

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

Posted By: akwormy
Date Posted: August 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM

yep that's what I concluded - too bad since I ordered it in and had the car all apart!

thanks for checking it

Posted By: enice
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 12:17 AM

thats odd because i had the same problem today with the same exact error on a 532

Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM

i just grabbed a second one and it flashed this firmware fine... maybe you have an old bootloader file? or old stock on the modules? i had an issue a year or so ago where every XK01 i tried to flash crashed on me and needed to be replaced... some wierd incompatibility between the modules i had and the new bootloader version....

that's why it doesnt pay to hold stock for a long time... even with XK modules!

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

Posted By: akwormy
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM

no it will flash...but it won't flash to xk532 firmware - the loader software says it's an xk03 even though the label says 532...I think it's got a split personality (someone mislabled it)

Posted By: akwormy
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM

flashes succesfully if I download xk03 firmware!

Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 5:49 PM

mine here flash to XK532 fine... maybe you have an old bootloader.... tough to say..... works fine for me..... you'll know for sure if it's an XK532 as the 53 series are about 2 - 2 1/2 times the physical size of an XK03 module...

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

Posted By: akwormy
Date Posted: August 21, 2008 at 6:14 PM

Nobody is saying yours doesn't flash fine. I'm saying mine didn't flash fine.

I really don't know more than it was sold and labeled as a 532 but the xkloader said it was a 503 and it would only flash with the 503 software. Like I said I'm sure it was a defective unit...

I had just bought the XKloader and downloaded the latest loader software so all should be the latest and greatest. I've since returned it all since something was defective and gone with a pku ch2x (I think that's what I used) it is working great