All solus scan tools will fail. They are designed that way.

[12007Sack]

So as far as I can tell all solus san tools have a coin cell battery on the circuit board. This battery must keep date information stored in flash memory. Once the battery dies the system date reverts to 1970 and your software becomes unregistered. If your tool is supported great a new battery and date flash by snap-on fixes the issue. But once the tool is unsupported (solus-solus ultra) snap on will no longer help you. You can change the battery yourself but snap-on still won't flash the date. So you end up with a high tech paper weight. Just another way to fore you to buy a new scan tool I guess. But bad business practices.

[GypsyR]

I had my old Verdict scare me by doing the same thing after it sat too long and the battery died. Luckily it's a Windows tablet and I have the bios password. I reset the time in bios and heaved a huge sigh of relief when it claimed to be properly licensed again. For a bit I really thought it was going down the dead battery Solus hole.

[12007Sack]

Unfortunately information on the solus ultra is no where to be found. Im not sure if the embedded smx operating system has a traditional bios. Some GEP program loads before the main software so I'm guessing that is like the bios. But It has limited options and no where to set the date. I have been researching all the chips data sheets and trying to learn something. I have also discovered when using the GEP program to setup a micro SD cad for recovery, it sets up the file system and loads 3 files that have to do with licensing. So the scanner stores these files in the "bios" or on one of the flash chips. So to unlock upgrades one would probably need to be able access that area. Much of this is just playing around and guessing. I would likely need someone more knowledgeable with SXM, hardware hacking, and software reverse engineering to get much further. If anyone knows more let's hear it. I bet there is enough disgruntled owners to start a snap on hacking community. Only for the unsupported stuff though.

[12007Sack]

This issue can be fixed. I sent my solus to an electronics guy and he was able to reset the date and get my tool working again. If you have this issue try an electronics repair shop or email the guy who fixed mine at

[900seturbo]

This issue can be fixed. I sent my solus to an electronics guy and he was able to reset the date and get my tool working again. If you have this issue try an electronics repair shop or email the guy who fixed mine at

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[12007Sack]

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