thanks everyone for the advise and help. Just for information sake, I managed to read the ecu but not write. I will try to bench flash it.

BTW not sure if this information is helpful.. I bought the kess v2 clone last month. I asked about the counter limit and this is their reply;

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Kess V2, the item can support more than 500 times before. but now i heard from manufacture that, the item do not have such problem, the item we sent you is new one.