VAG-COM/VCDS EVERYTHING

**badrax** · 31st January, 2021, 06:58 PM

This is how it looks like without the stm chip in case you ever wondered

Looks like they are using RTOS os this time. Also a small bootstrap code to copy and boot from ram so definitely a new firmware type.
Main firmware now at address 0x08020000 and is about 180k in size.
Will be fun to dig deeper.

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**digiservice** · 31st January, 2021, 08:11 PM

How can I change install directory of vcds? I want to run from an other place. When VII Plus installed first time it asked what directory I want to use...
Now i got "Software startup failure" message from loader.

thanx for reply

**crouchinggerbil** · 31st January, 2021, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by digiservice

How can I change install directory of vcds? I want to run from an other place. When VII Plus installed first time it asked what directory I want to use...
Now i got "Software startup failure" message from loader.

thanx for reply

You can choose folder when you do install.

Delete and start again.

**bendzji** · 31st January, 2021, 08:18 PM

Or drag vcds exe to vii loader window it should update path to exe

**digiservice** · 31st January, 2021, 08:18 PM

So, when I choose an other directory to install vcds, VII loader can not able to start the vcds. I wonder if how can I setup the working vcds directory in VII.
(drag and drop not works)

**crouchinggerbil** · 31st January, 2021, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by digiservice

So, when I choose an other directory to install vcds, VII loader can not able to start the vcds. I wonder if how can I setup the working vcds directory in VII.
(drag and drop not works)

Why dont you just leave in default directory..... Problem Solved........

**digiservice** · 31st January, 2021, 08:32 PM

Because the first install was in a different directory. Now i want to use the default... :-(

**miouser** · 31st January, 2021, 10:26 PM

@digiservice

delete UserData.db in C:\Users\PCUSER\Documents\VIIPlusloader\

**bendzji** · 31st January, 2021, 11:03 PM

you are right - with the drag and drop method you can start any vcds.exe but it doesn't save it as default path

**digiservice** · 31st January, 2021, 11:39 PM

miouser, it works!
Thank you mate!

**flyfvdi** · 1st February, 2021, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by digiservice

How can I change install directory of vcds? I want to run from an other place. When VII Plus installed first time it asked what directory I want to use...
Now i got "Software startup failure" message from loader.

thanx for reply

uninstall and reintall it

**liviudiaconu** · 1st February, 2021, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by flyfvdi

uninstall and reintall it

Can ask your programmer to delete UserData.db file when uninstall the loader? because uninstall and reinstall not work always to solve problemm.

**kaalis** · 1st February, 2021, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Tib82

VCDS 20.12.0 HGJ (20210129 DS322.1) released
SHA1: aa29301574b5b21f27e7c73ae9ea8940604a8c5f

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Recent releases of 20.12
MFT, ROJ, DRV, PCI, AIB, NEZ in late january.

**obeids** · 1st February, 2021, 07:13 PM

Hi there Guys.

Got VCDS china cable... The cheaper type and not the ARM MCU type.
It was V20.4.2
Was working fine until suddenly it shows LICENSE REVOKED. Obviously it's a clone but what solution to get it working again? DOes it need a reflash and which files? Or do we just need a loader or something?