PATCHED Toyota Lexus Scion TECHSTREAM TIS 8.20.019 (7.2013)
Sandrine Willert
TPMS sensors aren't supposed to transmit unless they are moving, so as not to run down the batteries unnecessarily, and even when they are they only transmit periodically, not continuously, so the car has to wait for them to ping it before it can talk to them and do all the handshaking/setup.
It's good to know those can work tho' - The Toyota ones are extremely expensive for what is supposed to be a consumable part. I'm still unsure how cross-compatible TPMS sensors are and how to figure out which ones work on a given car!
quick question bud i have techstream but i have loaded it to a ssd i bought on eBay and when i need my software i just pull out my ssd in my laptop and put the other one i bought from eBay ssd into it and low and behold i have techstream but when buying mine the guy on eBay told me when putting on techstream send him a email with the code and he will email me the code that will work. i was wondering looking at yourd u have that ts loader i was wondering can i have it as if i loose my key i can put that in and it will make a code for me
@2009joeHello Bud, I'm attaching the Techstream Windows "patched" links only, which I'm using with my Techstream version (14.20.019). Not sure if it will work also with your Techstream on your PC, but this is what I got on the CD which came together with the VCI cable. Here is additionally the link which I got from the AliExpress seller from whom I bought the cable. Link is for newer Techstream version (16.30.013), which based on his message should also work (I didn't tested it yet):
thanks so much i bought techstream from eBay more or less the same as yours bud and i used it to turn off the annoying beeps . seatblet chimes completely and forget what else i used mainly the annoying beeps. on my last vw group car i had vcds which was great i turned down my egr values down to nothing but i didnt have a dpf on that car like my 2014 toyota avensis got a dpf other if it didnt have a dpf i would use techstream and turn down my egr values. if you want my techstream i will send the software i got if you like but with mine the guy had me send him the code for it so he sends me the password
i think those tschstream as i have found out it works better with windows 7 32 bit as that is why i bought a spare ssd from eBay and loaded windows 7 on to it didnt have to bother with connecting it to internet as we tbh as long has the drivers for the cable will work but noticed windows 7 32 bit the techstream worked better just encase anyone wants to know
thenically speaking you are most probably correct (I'm not the expert here) as I was reading on some forum threads, that with some cheap "chinese" cables bought from eBay / AliExpress and so on, the TPMS programming isn't working. But as it works with the Mini VCI J2534 cable which I mentioned above, I think it's let's say a "small win" that I didn't have to buy actually more expensive tools just for storing TPMS IDs. And I actually think that it might work also with the Viecar 1.5 bluetooth dongle which I mentioned above, if Avensis was supported by Carista or some other OBD app for Android (but I don't know any better than Carista...)
And regarding Techstream, Well I had to investigate regarding the installation also on my Win 7 PC - as it wasn't only just "install and go" but I had to somehow extract some installation files from the "exe" installation package contained on the CD if I remember correctly. Because if I wanted to install it only by just opening the "exe" installation package, there was thrown some error message, that it cannot be installed on my win version, or something like that... But maybe it's like this only with this "older" version (I think the lastest version now is 17.xxx) and newer version might actually install without problem - but I haven't tested it yet as I'm satisfied, that my Win7 Laptop with Techstream v14. actually works... (and again -> that I didn't have to buy some other more expensive specialized tools / software. And that was my, let's say, main motivation to open this thread ...)
Android software wise Car Scanner elm or Torque Pro, I have had TS from ver. 13.0 upwards on Windows 7, 10, and 11 - 32 and 64 bit yes it takes a bit of work to get it setup and "patched" you need to extract the drivers from the EXE using something like Universal Extractor
Ok I see, thanks for explanation and I know that you already wrote that previously above. But I guess then some of the "supposed to be" ELM adapters might support more of these protocols (not saying that it has to be k-line) because Original Carista bluetooth adapter + Carista app (and then maybe also the Viecar adapter which I mentioned above, as from my understanding it's some kind of "cheaper Carista clone") actually should work with TPMS ID writing for some cars, as there exists also YouTube videos for that:
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