CAS Interface Studio 3.3
Before you can start (re)programming your CAM you have to carefully prepare your programming setup. Most important of which is the proper insertion of the Jcard. Down here you see an illustrated guide on how to insert the Jcard properly.
Please get your CAM and have a look at the opening in the front where the Jcard is to be inserted. Notice that the opening is slightly bigger on the left? Well, that is why you should insert the card on the left side. And you will find that inserting goes best if you do it slightly angled. Try inserting it angled from right to left and the front pointing a little bit downward, as seen in picture 1.
Make sure the Jcard is inserted far enough so that the little pins on the card have completely passed the front, see picture 2.
Next you can move the Jcard forward and backward carefully until the card is positioned in line with the CAM, like in picture 3.
Now move the Jcard gently to the right while at the same time moving it forward and backward a little, so that the pins do not get damaged. Move the Jcard completely to the right as seen in picture 4.
In my case I had to pull the Jcard back only a fraction to let the pins make contact. It was about the thickness of a smartcard. No more. If you look closely, you can see it in picture 5.
One last tip: it seems that sometimes the Jcard doesn't make proper contact inside the CAM. A simple trick to solve that is either gently squeeze the CAM at the Jcard location, or even easier, insert a smartcard between the Jcard and the bottom side of the CAM (see picture 6 below), so that the Jcard is slightly lifted for best contact.
OK, now that the Jcard is inserted properly into the CAM, you can connect the flatcable to the programmer.
When the flatcable is inserted properly, both in the Jcard and in the programmer, you can insert the CAM into the programmer.
Watch carefully that you do not move the Jcard while inserting the CAM in the programmer. If the Jcard moves too much, you could create a short circuit.
If everything is in place properly, your setup should look like in the picture below. OK, maybe you have routed the cable over the top of the programmer, but I did it this way for purpose of this picture.
Now start the software and hit the Joker CAM button.
You should now see a screen like the one in the screenshot below.
Everything is connected as it should, so hit the Connect button.
If you see a message flashing by very quickly, followed by this message in the screen below, your Jcard is not inserted properly.
Don't do anything just yet, first read on.
The pins of the Jcard do not make contact with the contacts in the CAM. That is what the software was trying to tell you. But you would have to be the national speed reading champion to be able to read what is displayed in that quick flash. It took me a hell of a lot of retries before I was finally able to get the message captured (see screenshot below)
As the message says, move the card a fraction forward or backward and hit ESC (on your keyboard). Just retry until you have established a proper connection.
If all attempts seem to fail, you can try squeezing the CAM gently near the location where the Jcard pins should make contact with the CAM. It sometimes seems to happen that the pins don't make good contact, even though they are located at exactly the right spot.
When the Jcard is inserted properly and makes good contact, you will see a notification of that in the program window, but more noticable are the 2 extra buttons that will appear in the program window. Those buttons are:
- the Open File button
- the Write button
First you need to load a file that you can write.
So click the Open File button to select the firmware that you want to program (see below).
When the firmware is loaded, you hit the Write button and wait for the process to finish.
If at any given moment during writing, an error is returned by the software, there might be a loss of contact between the Jcard and the CAM.
To solve this problem, use the little trick described above: gently squeeze the CAM a little neard the Jcard contact pins and hold it during the entire programming process.
That is all.
If you used the right firmware, you should now have a working CAM.