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The following procedure can be only performed by our dealers. |
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UPDATE: As of around July 2020, Bosch and BMW have updated their ECU hardware to further increase security against any methods of unlocking or tuning. Current universal methods for OBD and bench flashing has been entirely blocked on this new hardware revision. We are not aware of any companies who have successfully unlocked and flashed these ECUs (as of April 2021). MG Flasher plans to tackle this global problem over the coming months. We have recently added detection to differentiate the newest ECU hardware and inform users in app when they have connected to a blocked ECU. |
The following new MG1 Aurix ECU bootloaders (BTLD) will be flash-able (depending if files are on our server, which is a quick fix for us) in MG Flasher; bootloaders with IDs 48DC, 4295 and 6198. You can determine the ID and version numbers in MG Flasher App (during first connect, or “Diagnostic Page” -> “Read ECU”) and through E-sys.
The following bootloader versions are supported (sorted with increasing BTLD version number):
BTLD-001.007.001 High Security (bench unlock required)
BTLD-001.009.003 Low Security (in App, OBD unlockable)
BTLD-001.011.001 Low Security (in App, OBD unlockable)
BTLD-001.011.002 High Security (bench unlock required)
BTLD-001.012.001 High Security (bench unlock required)
BTLD-001.014.001 High Security (bench unlock required)
BTLD-001.016.001 High Security (bench unlock required)
BTLD-001.020.001 Low Security (in App, OBD unlockable)
BTLD-001.020.002 High Security (bench unlock required)
The app provides many fail-safe methods during flashing, and one of them is to detect if the ECU is unlockable via OBD. If it must be unlocked on the bench, our unlock method must be used for MG Flasher to recognize the unlock. We will be adding more recognition later, but it will still be required to override 3rd party unlock methods using MG Flasher’s unlock. No one on the market provides similar features which benefits us from a marketing standpoint. Our unlock is unique and provides many additional options:
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FLEX, CMD Flash, AutoTuner and others may provide their own unlock methods. DO NOT USE THE UNLOCK PROVIDED BY YOUR BENCH TOOL WITH MG FLASHER! They are NOT guaranteed to work with our software. Instead, please follow these general instructions:
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