rbrunelle

That was my experience. I received the activation code for Porsche Connect by email for my 2018 Macan. When I went to load it, it told me I needed to be connected to do so. PCM 3.1 allows for activation without being connected but PCM 4 does not.

Jrama

Is it possible to back up the piwis 2 or 3? My concern is these are loaded on second hand laptops. What happens in the event the laptop fails?

rbrunelle

There are warnings on the clone sites not to clone the hard drive as they will not work. I would be less concerned about cloning a three over a two. Make sure you use something like Clonezilla to clone it bit by bit instead of file by file

FerdinandAG

the image cannot be removed from the Panasonic CF-54, since the BIOS and HDD are closed, the image can be removed from the clone via Acronis. It will only work on the same laptop without entering keys, since the program is linked by HW ID (VM Protect or Enigma) + activation key

bmw_e30

what's the cheapest place to get a piwis 3?

FerdinandAG

I bought only the program and the head, here
http://garageforum.org/Thread-Piwis-...-Vas6154-clone

Dom991.1

Then you loaded it on VMware/Hyper-V? No issues with getting it licensed? There was a trick to PIWIS 2 when you did that, have to imagine 3 is worse...

FerdinandAG

an Acronis image. installed on the SSD, activated the key, it is included

Dom991.1

Thank you!

Does anyone know if/where the coding would be for retaining the “auto hi beam” setting (the green A” you get by pushing the high beam stalk)? In my 2017-2019 911 I have to do it each time I get in car; in my our 2020 Cayenne it just remembers.

RomanJ

Hi all. Maybe someone can help.
I just received my new PIWIS 2. I connected to my 997.1 and all was fine. Than I switched to developer (E) mode which worked also well. After returning to standard (V) mode the diagnostic stays stuck on the "loading ODX data" page unable to close the page. After hard reset I tried to switch back to standard E mode but no change. After switching to P mode it sucked completely not able to determine user mode.... Anyone know how to reset the "factory setting"? Thank you in advance.

vkb123

I was told never to set my PIWIS 2 to Production “P” mode as this will brick the unit. The person who told me this learned by trial and error and needed to send his PIWIS back for repair (maybe replacement - I can’t recall).

stjoh

My PIWIS 2 started doing the same thing the other day (I did not change the mode or do anything else unusual, just started it up). Set up PIWIS as a VIrtual Machine on another computer using a different image and same thing!

stjoh

My issue turned out to be related to the date on the computer. Suggest you try setting it back a year or more and try again. If you're running a virtual machine there's another step you need to take too.

John Mclane

Same here. Changed to 1 year back, which feels like 15 years ago, it went back to work. Driver signature expiration?

RomanJ

Thanks for the hints. I tried to change the date backwards but it didn't help. Even after restart still the message "User mode could not be initialised. Contact the administrator". Interesting is that the diagnostic still works for the newer models like cayenne from MY 2011 etc. Those are obviously not covered by "other model lines" in the diagnostic configuration.
I contacted the e- shop already. They replied immediately that the engineer will check it on Monday. We'll see...
Thanks a lot.