BMW ICOM vs. SVDI, which one is suit for your car?

BMW  ICOM vs. SVDI, which one is suit for your car?

Referring to car diagnostic tool, we know BMW ICOM and SVDI. They are popular among engineers. SVDI VAG Commander is the newest car diagnostic adapter for VW/AUDI. It supports multi-languges. BMW ICOM is with latest Software, Adapter and WIFI . It is Second generation of BMW ISTA Diagnose and programming system.
How to choose a suitable car diagnostic tool for your car? Here is comparison between them below:

Item No.	TSS-0007	TSS-0114
Item Name	BMW ICOM A2+B+C	SVDI Diagnostic Interface
Software Version	V2015.3	VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat: V18 BMW: V9.6 TAG key tool: V5.8 SVDI Plugin Version: V2.3
Support Languages	English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Czech, Swedish, Dutch, Indian, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.	VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat Software Language Available: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Danish, Czech, Bulgarian TAG Key Tool Software Language Available: English
Support Car Model	BMW	VW,Audi,Skoda,Seat,BMW,TAG
Update	Dual-Core Processor, it is recommended that the I3 above.More than 4G of memory.Lenovo ThinkPad X200, X230, X230T, X61T, T410, X61,Dell D630, E49 etc	Send Software download link
Main Fuction	BMW testing and program, can not program key and ecu	VW,Audi,Skoda,Seat,BMW,TAG read error code,diagnose
Difference	BMW ICOM is original maintain programming diagnose tool,full functions, it can support part of SVDI function.

When you don't know how to choose the BMW ICOM and SVDI, you can visit this blog as your reference.

How to active SVDI BMW authorization?

How to active SVDI BMW authorization?

SVDI is the newest car diagnostic adapter for VW/AUDI. It has the same function as the original AVDI.It meets with great favor of engineers, so many customers want to know how to active SVDI BMW authorization.

I taught them to operate SVDI BMW authorization step by step below:

First, you should right click "SVDIUpdate v1.0.4"(the verison depends on the supplier's newest released version), and open it.

Second, you should click “Update" and please wait until it displays update success. 

Third, you should also click "Device Info", and the device info will display in the right list, including: Device SN, Firmware version and Authorizations on Server: TAG, VAG and BMW.

Fourth, you should click "ABRITES Quick Start" to open "ABRITES Quick Loader", click "BMW" logo and launch it. Then AVDILoader is loading, and followed by another window reading "Connecting to the interface, please wait..., then interface found, but vehicle body autodetection failed, now click "Manual selection vehicle body", in the drop list of body type select yours and click OK.

Fifth, you should again open Abrites Commander for BMW 9.6. 

SVDI BMW authorization operation ends.