F150 Lightning FORScan thread - Version 2

[bc1]

I ordered from forscan for windows that bmwhitetx has listed in post #2 of this thread by clicking on that website. Security software is the standard microsoft security that comes with windows 10 and I probably have it set for medium or so security level. So it would be the Microsoft virus software.

I am looking to buy a new laptop with windows 11 sometime this month as a Christmas present for myself since microsoft is discontinuing updates for windows 10 this month. Don't know if that will have an affect on anything with the new computer or the odblink EX adapter I ordered that is coming in on Tuesday.

edit. I googled it and it is some type of adware and change browser settings and add start up files and slows the system. It could be a legitimate part of forscan but I went ahead and had it removed. Will see if Forscan still works.

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[bmwhitetx]

I ordered from forscan for windows that bmwhitetx has listed in post #2 of this thread by clicking on that website. Security software is the standard microsoft security that comes with windows 10 and I probably have it set for medium or so security level. So it would be the Microsoft virus software.

I am looking to buy a new laptop with windows 11 sometime this month as a Christmas present for myself since microsoft is discontinuing updates for windows 10 this month. Don't know if that will have an affect on anything with the new computer or the odblink EX adapter I ordered that is coming in on Tuesday.

edit. I googled it and it is some type of adware and change browser settings and add start up files and slows the system. It could be a legitimate part of forscan but I went ahead and had it removed. Will see if Forscan still works.

Weird. I went to VirusTotal.com and gave it the link (https://forscan.org/download/FORScanSetup2.3.68.release.exe) and it said it was clean and and last analyzed by them 24 days ago. I requested a re-analysis and still clean.

Next I downloaded it to my PC and then ran a VirusTotal scan on the file now on my PC (which uploads to VirusTotal) and it gave a couple of warnings. So I ran Win11 Microsoft Defender on it and it was clean.

So I downloaded an older release 2.3.65 from Feb '25 and it was clean both online and downloaded. I searched briefly on the FORScan forums and found this about 2.3.68.

All of this was done on my desktop Win11 machine.

I have Win11 on a 4-year old Dell laptop and FORScan runs fine with both my OBDLink EX wired adapter and OBDLink MX BT dongle. But I am running a much older release (2.3.64). You can download older releases here if you are concerned about this one. Note since you have a 2025, at some point the older releases did not support 2025's yet. Somewhere there is a discussion about which release started to support the 2025 Lightnings.

 

[chriserx]

Based on the simplicity of the forscan site I'm gonna go ahead and assume they aren't using FB's React which currently holds a perfect 10/10 CVSS, next thing I'd check is your DNS server just to be safe, but it's likely a false alarm.

 

[TrojanThor]

My recent mods on 25 Flash Job 1:
Glare Free headlights - working, required AB mode
Disabled door ajar chime- working
Disabled Vehicle Power Down Timer reset-working
Disabled startup 3 chimes - working
Set seat belt chime to European style
Enabled BeoSonic - working
Disabled Full View message in Drive at speed
Enabled more camera views - working
Enabled Off-Road mode
Enabled Off-Road cameras at speed
Enabled Silent Mode - working
Enabled reversing turns down mirrors - couldn't get this work in Easy Mode, removed setting
Enabled Auto Air Refresh
Enabled 50/50 view at speed
Enabled PIP views at speed
Enabled Cross Traffic Alert - testing with trailer brake connector light later
Enabled Bambi mode - just to see the setting. Reset AB. No fog lights yet.
Enabled Perimeter alarm with Reduced Guard Control Function - selections don't save
Enabled reverse brake assist
Sped up power frunk and tailgate one notch - working
Enabled Windows remote close
Enabled Global Windows close - not working
Getting a couple DTC's that won't clear

I used Easy mode and AB mode for different things like AB Mode the only way I could get Glare Free icon to appear.

I have not tested all of these in usage like Off-Road, etc but super happy with the changes I have. Super easy if you follow the posted tutorials.

Thanks to this thread and all those who contributed!

Only issues so far is when I click Off-Road setting button here the screen freezes in camera views.
Sync reset to get back to normal

Update: plugged in led brake light from Amazon to trailer pin to see if I could activate Cross Traffic Alert. Setting now selectable but reverts after a few seconds. Menu prompts that it recognizes trailer connected (led brake light), I set to No trailer it setting and no more notifications (trailer connected) after I disabled them in Forscan.

Enabled Exit Warning setting - now selectable but reverts back after a few seconds
Enabled Rear Traffic Assist. Haven't tested it.

 

[bc1]

Thank you. Now I have a list to work from when my dongle gets here on Tuesday.

Is there a way I can make the backup chime louder? With the animals we have running around here and sometimes underneath, guess I'd save a lot of grief and vet bills with a louder chime and I know someone will say to wake up the neighbors by honking the horn but not always an option. Guess the louder chime may help for somebody or kid approaching behind or a vehicle parked behind in the walmart parking lot before I get my alarm since I park up by the front door in the handicapped parking.

 

[hb.sagen]

Enabled more camera views
Enabled Off-Road mode
Enabled Off-Road cameras
Enabled reversing turns down mirrors
Enabled Auto Air Refresh
Enabled Perimeter alarm with Reduced Guard
Control Function
Sped up power frunk and tailgate one notch

Could we add these to the first post?

I would like to apply them as well.

 

[bc1]

I would like to know if there is a way we can add a hack to record the camera views such as adding a memory device in somewhere, etc.? I know they have a way of saving some of it like the last 60 seconds in case of an accident using blue cruise. They can save the eyesight camera during an accident with blue cruise as well so they can see what the driver was doing.

 

[CRAIGC540]

Enabled reversing turns down mirrors

Where can i find this mod?

 

[TrojanThor]

Enabled and selectable but no change in mirror :-( ...

 

[TrojanThor]

Removed Full View message from rear camera while in Drive. Changed 4th digit in 7DO-02-02 first box to one number lower.
Mine was FE33 for the first box.

 

[bmwhitetx]

Could we add these to the first post?

I would like to apply them as well.

He stated he hasn't tested all of these. For example I thought Mirrors down on reverse wasn't working.

More camera views is already there in post 1 (trailer side view, etc.)

@TrojanThor - it looks like from one of your pics you were using Easy mode for some of the mods. Note, just because it is listed there doesn't mean it is implemented or works on Lightnings. EDIT- I see you discovered mirrors down doesn't work as I suspected.

Would be nice if you could test the list @hb.sagen posted and tell us what you changed. Thanks!

 

[Firn]

Weird. I went to VirusTotal.com and gave it the link (https://forscan.org/download/FORScanSetup2.3.68.release.exe) and it said it was clean and and last analyzed by them 24 days ago. I requested a re-analysis and still clean.

Next I downloaded it to my PC and then ran a VirusTotal scan on the file now on my PC (which uploads to VirusTotal) and it gave a couple of warnings. So I ran Win11 Microsoft Defender on it and it was clean.

So I downloaded an older release 2.3.65 from Feb '25 and it was clean both online and downloaded. I searched briefly on the FORScan forums and found this about 2.3.68.

All of this was done on my desktop Win11 machine.

I have Win11 on a 4-year old Dell laptop and FORScan runs fine with both my OBDLink EX wired adapter and OBDLink MX BT dongle. But I am running a much older release (2.3.64). You can download older releases here if you are concerned about this one. Note since you have a 2025, at some point the older releases did not support 2025's yet. Somewhere there is a discussion about which release started to support the 2025 Lightnings.

Did you look at the individual results on virus total? How many flagged it as malware?

 

[bmwhitetx]

Did you look at the individual results on virus total? How many flagged it as malware?

It said 6/61 but only three were listed

 

[PJnc284]

Messed around with the mirror tilt function and think you're better off just using the 3rd memory setting if you're not using it or adjust it manually when needed.. There's a long drawn out programming procedure that a video that someone made for the mach e but it doesn't seem to work or at least not on my 23 Lariat. The mirror tilts but never stops and keeps trying to tilt during the "programming process" and still does the same thing after. My default value was A so I changed it to E but it also should be in Easy Mode for anyone that wants to pull their hair out.

 

[21st Century Truck]

Messed around with the mirror tilt function and think you're better off just using the 3rd memory setting if you're not using it or adjust it manually when needed.. There's a long drawn out programming procedure that a video that someone made for the mach e but it doesn't seem to work or at least not on my 23 Lariat. The mirror tilts but never stops and keeps trying to tilt during the "programming process" and still does the same thing after. My default value was A so I changed it to E but it also should be in Easy Mode for anyone that wants to pull their hair out.

Ha ha ha - I and Connor (Connoisseurr) made that procedure together. I had brought some knowledge, FORScan and otherwise, from my Ford Fusion Energi days and over from the 2gfusions.net blog. We messed around and codified the steps, and Conor, now long-gone from the Mach E blog and enjoying his Rivian, posted it on the Mach E blog.

As far as I remember the details, several things must be present... and perhaps this translates over to the Lightning as well (don't know because I'm missing one of these things on my XLT):

1. motors in mirror housings
2. selective seat position memory in the in-the-door modules (DDM and PDM).
3. memory selector buttons on the door panel for different mirror positions for different drivers (I'm missing this and do not feel like replacing my entire inner door panel just to put that mirror memory switch in).

So, based on my old Fusion Energi and on our work with the two Mach Es, this tilt-in-reverse function is certainly unavailable / unreachable on those Lightnings which do not have mirror memory selector buttons, and might not be available at all if the DDM and PDM modules weren't built the same way the Fusion and Mach E door modules were built.

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