The cable is about 4’ long, with translucent casing and “MINI-VCI J2534 Standard OBDII Communication Interface” sticker. This cable comes with a mini CD with drivers and Toyota Techstream software. A laptop running 64-bit version of Windows 7/8. Mine is actually Windows 7 x64, but for Windows 8 the configuration procedure should be.
Mini VCII purchased a Mini VCI cable to perform diagnostics on a Toyota from an online site and it arrived with a cd containing drivers, the Techstream software, and some PDF documents with instructions.The main files of interest on the cd were ‘MVCI Driver for TOYOTA’ and ‘Toyota Techstream 8.00.034’. Reading the instructions it required me to install the MVCI driver followed by the Techstream software.The MVCI driver repeatedly failed to install so after a quick search it appeared that other people also had this issue when using 64 bit versions of Windows 7, I was running 64 bit Windows 8.The solution was very simple are required manually extracting the MVCI driver, I used 7 zip which worked very well but the are many other applications that will extract this installer. The steps are as follows:. Create the folder C:Program Files (x86)XHorse ElectronicsMVCI Driver for Toyota TIS. Open the file MVCI Driver for TOYOTA.msi with 7zip and extract to the folder you created. Browse to the folder with Windows Explorer.
Right click on the file ftdiport.inf and select install. Right click on the file ftdibus.inf and select install.Connect the Mini VCI cable and run the application FirmwareUpdateTool and click the Device Info button. If your device is showing as connected then it is ready to be used with Techstream.
Hello I picked up a Mini-VCI J2534 cable off ebay and had a heck of a time geting the driver to install to work for Techstream 11 so I thought I would share.1). Plug in cable let windows 10 install the drivers for the FTD driver if it does not auto install open up the device manager and select the device and have windows search for the driver on the internet. It will download the Microsoft driver which seems to work under win10 the provided driver does not seem to work right.2).
Install Techstreem v11 if you have not already3). Using the command prompt unpack the MVCI Driver for TOYOTA.msi to a temp folder, dos command: 'msiexec /a 'C:tempMVCI Driver for TOYOTA.msi' /qb TARGETDIR=c:tempmvci'4). Now create the folder:'C:Program Files (x86)XHorse ElectronicsMVCI Driver for TOYOTA TIS'5). Copy all the files from c:tempmvci to the directory you just made above. (if your virus software flags the update tool that is OK let it quality/delete it6). Now the trick is to get techstream to let you select the MVCI cable you need to modify the registry to see the MVCI32.dll you copied to the directly in step 4.
See reg file to edit it.7). After this now you can launch Techstrem and under setup you can now select the MVCI interface.Hope that helps some folks out, if so please give thanks and rep.Attached Files. I have this MiniVCI J2534 with windows 10 x64 and Techstream 11.30.024 running and it can read my vehicle data via OBD2 port. However I want to verify the MiniVCI J2534 firmware by running 'Firmware Update Tool' under c:'C:Program Files (x86)XHorse ElectronicsMVCI Driver for TOYOTA TIS' I can see the process in Task Manager as MVCIConfigurationTool MFC Application (32bit) but there is no GUI screen showing up. The process itself consume 50% of my CPU cycle. Does anyone experience anything similar?Notes: I try this on 2 separate computers running windows 10 64bits and the result is exactly identical.