I bought my 06 2500 with a smarty touch already installed on it, the canned tunes are fine but id like to start messing around with some of my own. Heres my problem, when I return the truck to stock through the smarty touch hp tuners is unable to read my ecm ( some block that smarty puts on their files). I contacted the guys at smarty and they sent me a stock recovery file, with the recovery file flashed in I am able to read the ecm and edit the file like normal, but when I try to flash the file back into the truck it never completes the write. The loading bar will go to 100% then clear and it will say validating, if I unplug the mpvi2 and shut down hp tuners the truck will crank but no start and the fuel pump just pulses. When the truck is in this state I hooked the smarty up to read the dtc's and I got a u1601 code, researching this code brings up a TSB from dodge on new ecm firmware having a locked bootloader. Also in this state if I try to use the gather info option in the vcm editor it tells me "Unable to detect the vehicles diagnostics protocol" in the bottom where it should read out the vehicle info.
Is there a way to change the vin of a stock tune off the tune repository so I can try to flash it into the truck and rule out wether or not this is an issue with a bad ecm or the file sent from smarty is the updated ecm firmware from dodge that contains the locked bootloader ( im afraid if have the dealers flash the truck it will be the same file and i'll still be locked out).