The local pawn shop had a 3 year old laptop for $60, bingo! Not to sound like a Mac snob, but HFS I hate Windows! I haven't used it in 20 years but nothing has really changed. I tried it, hit some road blocks, and decided that buying a cheap laptop would be easier and cheaper than buying a copy of Windows. This stumped me for a couple of days, and I googled workarounds that involved coding with Terminal.
INSTALLING BMW ISTA INSTALL
I tried to install Bootcamp, but when OSX asked me to install Windows it required a disc to be inserted in a DVD drive. If you just want to change minor settings check out Bimmercode. Not sure what that program does, but it seems very close to what the iphone app does that requires zero coding or risk. I hope I dont brick my car this weekend, my wife will be pissedĮDIT: I just clicked on your links and those are not related to ISTA. The program seems to work, though its titled "ISTAGUI".Īny instructions to do the battery from here? I'll go back and read the instruction links posted. Installed easily, should have started here. Oh well.įound a 4.10 version of ISTA+ which has battery init. I paid $8 for an ebay download since it was a single click, self automated installation process only to find out its the latest version of ISTA+ which doesn't have battery initialization. Not bad I thought, though its a tad slow with a single core.
I bought a '17 Gateway with a 2.2ghz single core Pentium, 4gb ram, 500gb hard drive for $60. My last job is to get the maps NAVI to work here - none of the experts on the other forums have been able to state exactly what is required (other than blindly add money) This is where the generic cheat sheets are hopeless on the i3 The amount of settings available for lighting - DRL and halo lights - is too much for me to follow it goes for 4 pages I think you can setup the battery in E-Sys I have nervously done the radio coding to enable AM, turned off the seat belt warnings The VM is to do with keeping the date from expiring when you start a new session as the token was set that way there is a lot of BS about this I got an ethernet to OBD2 cable from Ebay and ran E-sys with tokenmaster within a VMware VM on a Dell 780 PC
INSTALLING BMW ISTA SOFTWARE
The general BMW sites dont seem to be helpful but software for F30 seems close enough to work with i3įrom what I read you wont need ICOM for ISTA You might want to start with E-sys - instructions here. I had the same sort of trouble getting accurate and useful to BMWi info