VAG-COM/VCDS EVERYTHING

**liviudiaconu** · 4th February, 2013, 08:59 AM

Attn: If you chose to make yourself a GAL programmer, when make tests for programming GAL/ATF, buy few chips for test, they are very sensitive and can damage very easy. After your tests are succesfuly for few chips, you can programm your GAL.
I tred make myself 2 or 3 programmers for GAL but..none with good results, so, i bought Genius 540.

**Carlos_** · 4th February, 2013, 01:52 PM

Thank you all for your suggestions. That sounds like a lot of trouble for just one cable.

I guess I'll just stick to the BL cable :P

**liviudiaconu** · 4th February, 2013, 03:16 PM

I don't tell you "don't make". If you want, can make programmer, but i told you what is possible to happen...

**Carlos_** · 5th February, 2013, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by liviudiaconu

I don't tell you "don't make". If you want, can make programmer, but i told you what is possible to happen...

I know, and I appreciate your advice, that's why I gave up. The effort plus the possibility of anything going wrong is too much versus the low benefit.

**mattydr67** · 5th February, 2013, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by Carlos_

I know, and I appreciate your advice, that's why I gave up. The effort plus the possibility of anything going wrong is too much versus the low benefit.

Carlos mate no offence but where that words:
"But in my case, this is an hobby for me, not a business. So I'd rather make an homemade cable to save money and to practice my soldering skills"
Where's the adventure, where is the pleasure to make something with your hands?
Or I don't get it well the simnification of word HOBBY?
When you talking about HOBBY there's no "too much", there's no effort" there's "no benefit" There's just Hobby, passion and proud that you do something by yourself. Noone need to kiss your ass, there's just proud for yourself
Good luck

P.S> take my frined liviu advise becasue a pro solution it is allways better then a home made one when a Genius G540 not cost a lot on ebay and it is doing it's job very well

**Carlos_** · 5th February, 2013, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by mattydr67

Carlos mate no offence but where that words:
"But in my case, this is an hobby for me, not a business. So I'd rather make an homemade cable to save money and to practice my soldering skills"
Where's the adventure, where is the pleasure to make something with your hands?
Or I don't get it well the simnification of word HOBBY?
When you talking about HOBBY there's no "too much", there's no effort" there's "no benefit" There's just Hobby, passion and proud that you do something by yourself. Noone need to kiss your ass, there's just proud for yourself
Good luck

P.S> take my frined liviu advise becasue a pro solution it is allways better then a home made one when a Genius G540 not cost a lot on ebay and it is doing it's job very well

Ok, I'll be honest with you. I'm ashamed to admit it but when I tried to follow those schematics of removing that chip and another components, something (not sure what) went wrong and I've killed the cable...

**emes125** · 5th February, 2013, 03:59 PM

I have got a small problem with VCDS beta 912. I had problem with this device - It has been recognised as USB<->serial. I have done some changes in driver (to have PID and VID exact same as in my recognised device). After that I started VCDS. It told me, my cable is crashed, so it can repair. I clicked on "OK". After repair, cable is visible for VCDS, but I have message "Interface status -2", when I try to connect. When I go to "about" in VCDS, I can see "unregistered/unauthorized". I am trying to flash it with mprog with dump from this thread:

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...3/#post1321492

But still "Unauthorized". Can you tell me how can I fix this interface ? Can I write any newer dump than 912 ?

**Carlos_** · 5th February, 2013, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by emes125

I have got a small problem with VCDS beta 912. I had problem with this device - It has been recognised as USB<->serial. I have done some changes in driver (to have PID and VID exact same as in my recognised device). After that I started VCDS. It told me, my cable is crashed, so it can repair. I clicked on "OK". After repair, cable is visible for VCDS, but I have message "Interface status -2", when I try to connect. When I go to "about" in VCDS, I can see "unregistered/unauthorized". I am trying to flash it with mprog with dump from this thread:

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...3/#post1321492

But still "Unauthorized". Can you tell me how can I fix this interface ? Can I write any newer dump than 912 ?

The mprog only reflashes the FTDI chip, wich is nothing more than a USB - Serial converter. Ant that's the first step.
Secondly, I'll need to reflash ATMEGA as well. If you use the latest dump available on this thread, you can "turn" your cable into an 11.11.0