Techstream (TIS) Help For 1st Gen Taco / Your Experience With TIS

djdanmatthews · Mar 9, 2021

@tonered Suggested I post about the Techstream Thread here in 1st Gen as I have a Tacoma 2002 Prerunner and some TIS issues. Many of you have the experience with TIS and 1st Gen Taco that would be helpful.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/techstream-tips-and-tricks.597998/page-15#post-24310841

Thanks
@tonered for the V 14 link.

Anyone Who Can Help or Have Tome Thoughts on TIS Issues:
Installed on XP Pro Virtual machine With Mini VCI V2.0.4 Kline + Can bus Xhorse 32-bit drivers ( I have an older Tacoma 2002 pre-runner think that is only KLINE & tried it on a 2007 Highlander). Seller from Hong Kong Ebay Won't Respond To My Questions - should I turn it into Ebay/Paypal.

TIS seems to crash when it is doing a health check at 2-4 of 12. Tried now V10, V12, & V14 same crash. Sometimes the health check is missing (seems to be a registration and region thing).

How do I tell if it's my cable, the car's computer, or the tech team version causing the issue? Could it be a virtual machine VMware thing? Anywhere to get newer Xhorse Drivers for XP?

I got it to run once completely by installing Europe Region, Albania, and I forget was it an independent shop. Then re-installed to get USA With Car Models and years, Europe only has model codes and engine codes. Has anyone noticed this that Techstream turns tan for USA and Grey for Europe? Seems to run differently as well.

V15 Techstream Missing
Also, FYI Techstream V15 link posted above by @cameleon50 and @lapoltba is gone from Mega, it was deleted. Can't afford the MHH $25 subscription and then the posting member also charges a donation for the key.

Thanks!
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I am in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area Near Pleasanton FYI if anyone sees this.

I don't even know if my year 2002 supports tactrix. As the VCI Mini only can use Kline BUS not CAN I don't even know if the Nano Vxdiag works for that year.

I have Windows 10 and I researched for weeks on various forums before buying the cable and found out that many of the Mega software versions have viruses and spyware. They suggested using XP on VMware. I then spoke to the manufacturer in china of the cable who only sells to distributors. She said all Mini VCI only work on XP and Windows 7 properly. The Windows 10 she said has many bugs including hacking your registry, tricking it to use 32bit drivers etc. Heavily dissuaded me from Win 10. They were afraid of my older model 2002 that it would not work with V15 or be "pointless." I found the opposite. On V10 nothing seemed to work. OF course on Kline on 2002 you only get Engine and SRS Airbag. No auto vin input which is strange. I don't know if this is an error (hacked software or registration) or by design. The Highlander 2007 shows more systems but also uses Kline bus.

If the health check feature is not installed that means it's the lite version right and not fully registered with functionality. There has to be a trick to registration, user type, and location haven't figured it out yet other than tan for USA and grey EU.

It does get frustrating it crashing (TIS) when it does health check. V10 V12 V14. Various configs of location registration.

See Sometimes it does not show the Firmware in the Check Diag

Here is the cable showing Data in Firmware check - might be their provided drivers?

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Having trouble finding drivers. That is my guess. I can give you the creation date and version if you need (Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:42:54 PM) Driver says 32-bit provided with V12. Tried a driver from that obdii blog website as well and one above. Perhaps the com port is timing out with the Kline Bus. HAHA it's not like we can send the error log to anyone ;-P Thanks for your help.
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IS there a way I can find what TIS version would be best for 2002 taco prerunner? Seems sellers point you to V10, but that could also be laziness - not wanting to provide more hacked software. They all see to be using MHH for their software files even VXdiag.

Thanks again for your help, we all are helping each other. Not much data on older Toyotas and TIS. It's weird my cheap OBD shows more error codes than TIS was trying to see more Toyota specific data. Must be an issue of my installing or version stuff.

Want to pick your brain and anyone else reading this about registering Europe, North America, ... tan vs grey. User Type. There has to be something to that where health check is only available to certain users and sometimes you get lite with no health check.
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tonered · Oct 6, 2020

djdanmatthews[OP] initial post: ↑

@tonered Suggested I post about the Techstream Thread here in 1st Gen as I have a Tacoma 2002 Prerunner and some TIS issues. Many of you have the experience with TIS and 1st Gen Taco that would be helpful.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/techstream-tips-and-tricks.597998/page-15#post-24310841
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I'm certain the folks here will be able to help you.

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