Custom message center???
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From: clovis ca
Custom message center???
I got admit I saw this on another thread. Is there a way to customize the messages displayed in the DIC mesage center? Something like, GO FASTER! HOLD ON! GET IN HOLD ON SHUT UP! TOP SPEED! That would be kinda fun. Anybody know.
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You can customize the DIC greeting on a C6, but not on a C5. Instead - you can read error codes, relearn your fobs and tire pressure monitors without a special tool like you need for a C6.
I'd rather have the capabilities of the C5 than be able to personalize the greeting.....call me crazy.
I'd rather have the capabilities of the C5 than be able to personalize the greeting.....call me crazy.
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No way to do it on the C5 - you can customize the DIC on the C6.
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As a C6 driver I get more "play" from the womenz out of a personalized message.
As a former C5 driver I only re-learned the sensors once and never diagnosed any codes myself.
Any issues I took the C5 to my mechanic.
Just a thought of how that message is useful.
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Being in the IT field, I KNOW their is a way to customize the message on the DIC assuming it's not coded into firmware (even then it's possible but highly risky and troublesome). I've not looked into this at all, but depending on where that information is stored their should be a way. Our hackers can figure out the algorithms to some of the most complicated software, changing a welcome screen shouldn't be a problem. 
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Being in the IT field, I KNOW their is a way to customize the message on the DIC assuming it's not coded into firmware (even then it's possible but highly risky and troublesome). I've not looked into this at all, but depending on where that information is stored their should be a way. Our hackers can figure out the algorithms to some of the most complicated software, changing a welcome screen shouldn't be a problem.
Umm is that an offer or just throwing your talents in our faces
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That said...simply directing him to the search function probably would have been a better solution than the "fear, ridicule and sarcasm" method
It was a funny video though
