How to update BMW ICOM A2 or ICOM NEXT Firmware

When using the latest ISTA D software to do BMW diagnosis, icom hareware can be detected, but the device doesn’t communicate with the vehicle, can’t enter modules reading page, like below picture:

What’s the solution?

The firmware doesn’t match with the latest ISTA sofware, firmware need to be updated.

ICOM firmware update steps:

1. Need the latest updated file for ICOM firmware:

2.Charge ICOM hardware, connect the vehicle, use ISTA engineering sofware IToolRadar to detect the IP address of ICOM hardware, see below picture, the IP address can be found as 169.254.92.38

3. Open Internet Explorer

Input the IP address which is deteced above to the address bar: like http://169.254.92.38:60080

username: root

password: NZY11502

4. Click “update firmware” after login

5. Follow below steps:

6. Need to wait seconds, and click “yes” when below page show up:

7. During ICOM firmware update, four light on ICOM are all read, need to wait 3~5 minutes, when update finish, it will prompt reboot or not,

click reboot icom , finish the first update package.

8. Update the second package by follow same steps:

9. Open ISTA D to check the ICOM Status, is it shows “FREE”, firmware update succeed.

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