01-15-2020, 03:45 PM | #1 |
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How to get E-Sys Launcher Pro?
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https://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=983244 Made the $50 donation per tokenmaster's instructions. In order to obtain Launcher PRO 3.x, you MUST contact the Developer, TokenMaster at *************************. Launcher PRO 3.x is “Donationware”. That is to say that in exchange for your verified charitable donation (to a legitimate Charity; not the Developer) you can receive Launcher PRO 3.x. Per TokenMaster: “If you want to use Launcher PRO, I accept a donation of US$50 or more as a primary form of payment for 2.5 years validity. You can donate to your local Children's Hospital or Breast Cancer institute and send me the receipt (email confirmation, no edited/redacted screenshots, absolutely no manual/scanned receipts please). If you don't have any of these, then to your charity of choice. If you think it's an inconvenience, then you can also PayPal (discrete, absolutely NO notes or comments or donation/payment indicator, US$ currency if possible) it to me at est4bmw@gmail.com and I will add it to my donation to St Jude Children's Hospital (http://www.stjude.org) and Breast Cancer Research Foundation (https://give.bcrfcure.org/checkout/d...8223&amount=50). 100% of the proceeds goes to these two foundations on 60/40 split. You can also donate to the above foundations yourself. If you choose to use PayPal, select "Payment for service" and do not add any notes or comments other than your email address, if different from your PayPal ID. Never add the words "Donation" or "Payment". PayPal will block the transaction if there is a note and you will have to deal with them yourself. Make a difference and help make this world a little better place to live in. I made the Paypal donation on December 22nd, 2019. I have emailed tokenmaster at the above address and have not received any response. Is this still a valid software solution or has tokenmaster's email address changed? Any suggestions? Thanks |
01-15-2020, 03:53 PM | #2 |
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Hi Bigtop,
I have been trying to contact token Master over last two months to get the license sent him the donation list but no response. Finally gave up and bought eSysX. That was pretty instant got my license in less than 24 hours. I am not promoting eSysX but I have been in the same boat waited for 2 months and still no response. |
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01-15-2020, 05:08 PM | #3 |
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I tried a year ago, after 2+ months of no response gave up also and filed a claim and got my money back from paypal. EsysX is the quicker easier way to go if a bit more money, TokenMaster routinely for years has been very unreliable at times, sometimes for like 6 months.
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I am in the same boat. Sent the donation to TM a month ago...nothing. I've since downloaded BimmerCode,which has allowed me to code a few basic things, but I miss the full functionality of E-Sys. Looking into EsysX as well.
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01-16-2020, 02:34 PM | #6 |
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TokenMaster's unreliability is BS — while Launcher Pro is a very serious favour to the community, its value is drastically undermined by lack of delivery reliability. I suspect his patience has been tested over the years by "customers" that don't do their homework (let us here be and do better than average), but putting that frustration back on everyone else by being unreliable and uncommunicative is not constructive for anyone.
So, I have both ESysX and Launcher Pro. While both work and ESysX access is orders of magnitude more predictable than Launcher Pro, I am noticing some differences as I learn more and get deeper into coding. So far, my bias on functionality is towards Launcher Pro a bit. Specifically, LP handles cheat files in a slightly more usable way and I noticed that synthetic coding files creation from FA (in particularly SVT) seems to work for me under LP and not ESysX. On the other hand, I am sure that @ifr has/can/will point out other things that are more usable in ESysX. Point of this note is just to highlight that they are not quite completely interchangeable for all purposes, but are equivalent for most rudimentary coding tasks.
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LP mappings were well out of date for a long period meaning lots of trimmed codes, but TM addressed this with v3.6 and later. An advantage of LP is Activation Conditions, which for those who perform code discovery and understand the boolean, is incredibly useful. TBH I've been disappointed at how few people (anybody?) are posting codes for the G05/G07 models recently. Maybe everything has already been discovered and is already out there in the public domain...... |
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I didn't realize the Activation Conditions are LP only. Been ramping up on trying to read those with your pointers, it's not exactly clean structured code. And I did notice the auto FWL creation weirdness between the two, but didn't associate that to ESysX as being the better one, will pay more attention since it is now clear there are and will be differences between the two.
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Way quicker and simpler in esysx. It wouldn't have been possible to discover codes for ADV, aSLA, Auto Lane Change, auto seat/steering heat activation etc without access to the boolean via the Activation Conditions. I discussed coding changes to esysx to support AC, but as it stands only LP supports it so big thanks to TM on that one. Without that option in LP it's unlikely that any of those coded features would be available. |
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Launcher Premium does not work, it does not map the latest psdzdata files to find the areas you want to change. Example, you cannot find the ASS at all.
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I really don't understand why these are needed TBH. Seems they are just a small hack that ougth to be duplicatable and open sourced and be done with it, instead of 1990 grade of 'shareware' or 'commercial' stuff where they actually don't /write/ the software, just an enabler for it.
As far as TM needing 'patience' that's rubbish. He take money from people, and his job is to deal with ANY kind of user at that point. If it was free, he could get away with not providing support, but it's not free, so, it's his problem. I wrote commercial, free, open source and a lots of shareware in the last 35 years, and sure, people who bother you for a piece of software you did/made/gave away are annoying, but people who paid my shareware (even the $10) deserve time and respect. If TM can't be bothered, just open source the thing and ask people to make donations anyway; SOME people just might.
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Issue is Bmw realised it was easy for consumers to code cars so 'locked' the coding options by trimming the psdzdata. So from x I-step release, codes were no longer viewable. TM addressed this by mapping the codes for psdzdata releases and coding was possible again. Unfortunately, every new i-step release that introduces new and/or changed codes, requires mapping again. Very labour intensive and the mappings are not open source- they are controlled by BMW. There's also a certificate that needs to be generated to support esys. Agree he needs to automate a system to take payment and generate a code. Esysx is a better commercial model and more reliable. |
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Most of this info is up to date and worked for me - cannot be on a VM unless you want to do the more expensive dongle version (and wait for a dongle to ship) https://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=983244 Follow the install instructions for esys, use version 3.27.1 the newer version not needed and are not as functional. Basically download and install, then download the psdzdata files latest from the link and extract and follow the instructions to copy into the esys folder. Once that is all setup, you will need an OBD ethernet cable and then you can actually test and connect to the car and make sure you can read the car. As for EsysX, pretty easy just go to their website and but it for 120 Euro https://esysx.com/product/esysx-32-64-bit/ They will email you a link to download and extract and then you install and run their app (they provide instructions) to register to your computer and then you can run esys and have the ability to code. This is a pretty good how to use Esys skip to page 4 skip the esys launcher stuff as you will be using the esysx launcher. https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/at...1&d=1502316308
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