DON'T TRY AT HOME, attempt to use Arm64-based laptop for X5 diagnosis

[workingonit]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

Following progress.
Out of curiosity, I searched ebay. Interesting thing is now you can buy fully loaded SSD drives with software. All you do is insert them into a laptop. I may go that route instead of trying to solve driver and connection issues.

Originally Posted by nick325xit 5spd

You will almost certainly have to chase issues no matter what.

I've seen the loaded drives in my ebay searches; my ARM64-based laptop is sealed, so I'd have to get my wife's laptop to be able to use one.

And wow, you're so right about chasing issues; ever since I got the X5, I've been chasing issues (as expected, since it's 21 years-old), first on the BMW, and now trying to expand my data hunting quest (my self-inflicted problem), but I'm learning some as I go. That's probably a good thing, to keep my wits about me in retirement (no dementia yet, as far as I can tell...I haven't run for political office, so far...all politicos are crazy).

[nick325xit 5spd]

Originally Posted by workingonit

I've seen the loaded drives in my ebay searches; my ARM64-based laptop is sealed, so I'd have to get my wife's laptop to be able to use one.

And wow, you're so right about chasing issues; ever since I got the X5, I've been chasing issues (as expected, since it's 21 years-old), first on the BMW, and now trying to expand my data hunting quest (my self-inflicted problem), but I'm learning some as I go. That's probably a good thing, to keep my wits about me in retirement (no dementia yet, as far as I can tell...I haven't run for political office, so far...all politicos are crazy).

These drives wouldn't work in your ARM laptop anyway. I'd spend $100 on an extra laptop rather than $200 on these sketchy drives.

[c-bass]

Originally Posted by nick325xit 5spd

These drives wouldn't work in your ARM laptop anyway. I'd spend $100 on an extra laptop rather than $200 on these sketchy drives.

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Even if your laptop was intel based there's still no guarantee that everything would work properly as there is some configuration that is dependent on your laptop itself. Like the USB port assignments.

Just throwing this out there...there's no reason you can't have multiple laptops

Have an cheapy loaded with your BMW tools and then play around with your arm and hopefully have that going also.

Keep your experiments away from the wife's computer in case anything goes wrong. If something does go wrong then a quick reformat and reinstall will have you back in action vs having to panic that your last 15 years of photos are lost.

I have installed the software from the link I provided you dozens of times and it has never triggered any malware warnings for me so it might be your software being on the extra safe side. Anything coming from Mega will forever be flagged somewhere as long as Kim Dot Com is alive.

Trust "us" look around for a cheap laptop and get an easy win under your belt before curiosity gets the better of you and you start moving onto more challenging/fun stuff

[workingonit]

I've continued to search for backdoors, work-arounds, developer access, and attempts to thwart Microsoft roadblocks, as well as hunting for easier methods to get advanced BMW diagnostic software.

But, after having spent 13+ hours on the phone (not counting the 7 hours I spent on hold waiting for the "techies" to respond to my queries), just trying to switch phone carriers (to save money), I'm fed up with tech for the moment.

In all that time I only got hold of four knowledgeable people (1 each at AT&T and Samsung, and two at Boost Infinite), and that's from dealing with 6 from AT&T, and 4 from Boost. The Samsung rep was helpful, but couldn't provide info I needed (prohibited by Federal Regulations), the reps at Asurion Insurance (providers of our insured AT&T phone replacements) and Verizon (from whence both phones originated) were totally inept morons; therefore, it took me three days to simply get my service switched from AT&T ($150/month for 2 lines/3gb data-unlimited talk & text) to Boost Infinite ($50/month for 2 lines/unlimited everything/infinitely). I hope it will be worth my efforts.

AT&T was surprisingly inept, and the final tech agent finally solved the problem(s) (wrong info had been given to me and Boost, previously), though one other AT&T rep did add one correction (corrected our acct. number, after 20 years using the wrong one in billing, though it wouldn't have saved any money); Boost and I were held at bay until the veteran tech at each site saved the day.

So, I'm simply not in the mood to get all techie any time soon.