P.J

Okay, 45 minutes later and I'm all done trying.

Why in the world does this have to be SO difficult?

Can anyone steer me in the right direction to updating this thing?

I downloaded winzip.

Bob Wagner

Hello , To be able to update your smarty ecm tuner. Please follow these guidelines.

Start by right clicking on your desktop to create a new folder. Rename the new folder smarty.

You will need to download the driver to the smarty folder. Save the driver to the smarty folder http://www.madselectronics.com/downl...DM_2.00.00.zip

You will need the smarty usb.exe This program allows you to update the smarty. Save this to the smart folder http://www.madselectronics.com/downl.../SmartyUSB.exe




The driver and the software programs need to be extracted into the smarty folder using THIS extraction tool. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...2.exe?download


Here are the directions for installing the driver http://www.madselectronics.com/downl...stallation.pdf


Once you have the driver installed you can use the smarty usb.exe program to update the smarty software. Click on the smarty icon. Press run. You will now see a seen button. Before you hit the send button you need to load a program into the smarty usb.exe. Click on file. Open , look in the smarty folder to find the smte file to load into your smarty.

Load the file and press run. It will take about 40 minutes to update your smarty.

Thanks
Bob

P.J

Standardized response Bob? I guess I'm not the only one who finds this to be confusing.

Thing is, once I have the little smarty usb icon on my desktop, why can't it be more user friendly from that point? It's like 3 more steps than it seems like it should be??

P.J

Clicking on that first link in your message brings up my Winzip.

Then what.

Bob Wagner

you cant use winzip. you must use the 7zip extraction tool.

I do have a toll free number

P.J

Ahh.

See, I was reading an old thread in which someone had a page full of instructions that mentioned Winzip.

I'll give it a try with the 7zip. Thanks

Rob C

You can also use winrar to extract the files, it will handle the .7z extensions.

P.J

I have the version I want, I can see it in the USB area, then it says "FTD2XX.DLL not found"

P.J

Alrighty, it says "Erasing Memory"

I think I'm on the right track now!

Thanks Bob.

Bob Wagner

erasing memory = new software congrat PJ you are now elected the new software installation expert Thank you


Really . Thanks for the update