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help! power outage during cobb flash...bricked?

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Old 07-25-2015, 07:23 PM
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total rookie mistake....but i have done this before and it went just fine....

my car is now sitting dead. cobb goes into restore mode and just hangs on initialization....

now WTF do i do?

i'm about to start breaking things !?!@!
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Old 07-31-2015, 10:07 PM
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car is back to normal and running !

turns out this is a nuance with the way the cobb works. you cant flash your car while it is being jumped from another car. you *have* to hook the battery to a charger in the case of a power outage or otherwise recharge your battery ....

the official response:

Jumping the car using another vehicle won't typically deliver the same steady power that a charger would, and that's why we'd want to use that. We need to increase the car battery's charge, not just start the car, and that's the entire difference.
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