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Looks like the Lynx is now called the Atlantic British iLAND, as discovered here:

Just received Steve's Lynx. Interestingly, when scanning the QR code for the app that's on the package, it downloads the app for the Atlantic British iLAND: https://www.roverparts.com/diagnostics/comprehensive-diagnostic-systems/ILANDV2/ Which appears to be the Lynx rebadged. Haven't tried hooking it up to the car yet, but will soon. And will probably open up the APK and have a peek at how it works...

Not in, but rather close yes I'm in Boutersem, @Escape is in Holsbeek, both about 30-45 minutes away not far from the Liège-Brussels E40 highway.

Yikes. That'll buy you a few VFDs. You'd think in this age of electric cars it would be easier to bring in 3-phase, as all proper chargers need it.

Have you checked how hopeless it is to bring 3-phase in from the street?

I just don't see that MPG as shocking though? It's a big brick, it getting anything above 30 is a modern miracle.

Flywheel teeth indeed, with stock VR sensor. No EDIS, DCD with the stock coil packs. The missing tooth is in the wrong spot for EDIS, the last car we tried this on drove us mad and never ran (then was lost in the workshop fire), so went for DCD this time. Swapping the pins on the VR seems like a good first call then.

That is my feeling as well. Sadly no scope of any kind to hand, no, but should be able to borrow one at some point. I guess easy thing to try next (after putting the wheel decoder settings back to no return position) is swapping the pins in the VR connector. And/or try to figure out what is going on with the VR signal. Maybe pop it off and double check it hasn't been hitting the flywheel prongs?

Slow, but sometimes occurring Yesterday we spent a bit more time fighting the Megasquirt. Once again trying to map out what the ignition is doing. There was a small build error in the ECU (coils B & C were swapped), that's been rectified in the wiring. But there is more going on Test procedure (ideally for a better test procedure we'd just hook a 4-channel oscilloscope to the coil outputs (and maybe a 5th channel to the VR), but we don't have one of those kicking around at the moment, sadly): Marked TDC on the block Marked TDC on the crank pulley One by one, plug in a spark plug connected to a jump lead for ground With the strobe, check which quadrant that plug is firing in The test procedure works fine, but we're seeing weird results still. For example #5 firing in multiple quadrants. In TunerStudioMS we did some logging of the tooth signal, initially this was very inconsistent, and then we found a misconfiguration in the wheel decoder settings, where the B & C trigger points were swapped (probably from experiments a few months ago trying to fix the build error in the software). No bueno because these need to be in order. Rectified this, and got a cleaner signal, but still inconsistent firing. When exporting the log to CSV, it seems to show (usually) 34 teeth between the missing tooth, which is one too few for 36-1?! And can also only get 2-3 revolutions of a clean 0-34 run, otherwise there's a lot of missing teeth detected and such. Maybe @Escape can attach the CSV logs we took, I don't have them with me. We also tried modifying the wheel decoder settings to be exactly like the calculator. After fixing the misconfiguration we had these settings: We then tried also filling in the return positions, but that seemed worse, barely picking up any teeth at all... so I'm guessing these should just be set to 0? Not sure where to go from here yet. The VR sensor used is the stock GEMS one. We could try swapping the wires around, but not sure if that would cause this issue? Help please

Back to basics for a second You have a ticking noise, and are overheating for no apparent reason. How sure are you of the timing and fuelling? Detonation and/or running lean can cause overheating, and will sound like a ticking noise, especially under load. And will make a 3.5 feel especially gutless.

Add some 74weld portals and sploosh.

You can always make some feet:

They can't plug in the diagnostics, so of course they can't figure out what's wrong

Did someone try to jump start it with the leads backwards? Logical first step would be to get the multimeter out and start checking where you have power.

Not impossible, the update system can also update system apps.

Every OEM has their own build of Android, with anything from very few to many, many changes. Samsung does quite a lot of changes. Honestly I haven't even ever heard of Doogee, and I suspect customer support heard a model with "S" in the name and thought it was some sort of Samsung phone. I've found this, worth a try? https://apn-uk.gishan.net/en/apn/tesco/doogee-s96-gt

Try to wrangle out of them *why* you need an update. Maybe the network uses some new protocol/encryption/god knows that your old phone doesn't support without an update?

That's neat. Very useful for repairs somewhere high up in the factory or something, I imagine.

If you want to get rid of it, I'd be happy to buy it from you When I'm at home I can use @Escape's, I was mainly looking for a solution while travelling. I'll shoot you a PM.

Spent a fair bit of time on this, and thought I was making good progress... but alas Looks like all of the actual vehicle communication logic is on the Lynx/Omitec VCI itself, not in the application, it's just a thin front-end on top of some very generic communication where it gets a list of vehicles, a list of functions that vehicle supports, etc. That also explains the very generic (and bad) interface in the application, as it's built around the VCI communication. Oh well.

I remember once, many moons ago at @Escape's workshop, a D2 came in where the brake lights didn't work. Spent hours going over the brake switch, wiring, everything... turned out all the bulbs just went out at approximately the same time

You obviously haven't listened to mine yet

Does the app have a "I'm going to send all your data to the PRC" feel to it, or is it decent? I've considered something like this for using in the Merc, so I could just use my phone as a switch panel and wouldn't have to modift the interior at all.

That looks great!

Yeah, that'll do it.