Parametrization with CarScanner

Requirements

• iOS/Android phone.
• CarScanner app (iOS, Android) with PRO features enabled,
• Quality ELM327 adapter (for example Carista),
• Notepad or any other simple text editor,
• Dataset to upload.

Preparing dataset

1. Go to MIB Vault and find XML file that you want to use. For example let's get /MQB_SOLUTION/Datasets/MQB/5F/#5F_ICC__ONLY.xml.

2. Download the file, open it and find line with <PARAMETER_DATA DIAGNOSTIC_ADDRESS="0x005F" START_ADDRESS="0x007000"…>…</PARAMETER_DATA>.

   You can see here that this data is designed for unit 5F and for address 0x7000.

   You can also see the data 0x01,0xA0,0x51,0x41,0x43,0x46,0x01,0x00….

3. Copy dataset into new textfile.

4. Remove unnecessary characters like , and 0x. When you are done you should have something like this: 01A0514143460100….

5. Save this data as txt file that you can access from your phone (via GoogleDocs, Dropbox or whatever…). Name it for example 5F_0x7000_dataset.txt.

Preparing CarScanner

1. Open CarScanner app
2. Go to Settings, My cars, +, fill in data.
3. Back in My cars make sure the the car is highlighted and press Select car.
4. Go to Settings, Adapter, and configure connection details.

Uploading dataset

1. Open CarScanner app.
2. Press Connect and wait for the connection to be established.
3. Go to Coding & Service, Dataset dump.
4. Select Dataset 5F 0x7000 (because in this example we are uploading ICC dataset).
5. Press Read and wait.
6. Press Export to backup original data. Save the file on the phone. For example as 5F_0x7000_dump.txt.

7. Press Import and point to previously prepared 5F_0x7000_dataset.txt file with dataset.
8. Press Write and wait. It will take around 1 minute, during which main unit will reboot.
9. When it's done, you can use Read option again to confirm that the data was stored correctly.

Converting Carscanner dataset output to ODIS format

As discussed above, when reading and writing data using Carscanner, it does not register data in the same format, it ignores 0x,. To convert it to an ODIS friendly format, the 0x, must be added back in. The following guide can be used to convert between applications succesfully: format converter.