Why are TuneECU maps country specific?

In theory yes, in reality, who knows... maybe?! Physically the control scheme should work fine between the two, but it may be locked out at the firmware level.

Some US bikes have EVAP/SAI, some don't. It's 50 state vs 49 state legal, CA being the outlier.

On some models, the bike will not work with miss-matched maps, no idea on the R3 if that's the case.

For example, the Roadster had zero changes to hardware from early 2012 to late 2012 and later, but you cannot use a late 2012 tune in an early 2012 or earlier bike. Triumph don't document this publicly very well, only way to find out is try and if it doesn't work, revert to the working map.

My Daytona 955i won't start with a miss-matched SAI tune in a non-SAI bike (doesn't matter if you remove it, only matters if it had the system from factory).

You can simply copy all the tables from the US tune file into the EU tune file and load that and it will work just fine.
I suppose my reluctance to start copying files from one map to another is simply about making mistakes. Mapping is not as much of a black art as it used to be and nowadays just about every biker that wants to get the most performance out of his steed has probably at least considered it, but with my sausage fingers on my Android phone it is far too easy to copy & paste the wrong parts of a table, or simply select the wrong file etc. If a US map is likely to work in my UK bike I think I will give it a try so wish me luck. 😲
 
Edit on PC, copy and paste the whole table at once. Email to yourself and load it from your phone.
I would love to do that but apparently TuneECU and Windows 11 don't get along too well - if I try to open a map file I just get an error message saying that the file is corrupt - Android likes it though :rolleyes:
 
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I would love to do that but apparently TuneECU and Windows 11 don't get along too well - if I try to open a map file I just get an error message saying that the file is corrupt - Android likes it though :rolleyes:
Windows 11 can run a virtual machine for any Operating system, fairly easy to setup and works as it should.
 
As I mentioned before, TuneECU does not like Windows 11 very much so my only option is to install it on a virtual machine inside Win 11 .... which brings its own heap of problems :rolleyes: I am reasonably computer savvy so installing the Android shell is straightforward enough but as TuneECU is not available on the Amazon store I need to sideload it which requires ADB and Fastboot to be installed ........ but ADB refuses to play nicely for me and I am back at square one. 🥺
 
Update: I found a bug in Win11 which prevented adb from installing but I managed to get around that and successfully install TuneECU in the Android shell - hoorah! .... well sort of. I can now load the standard maps published on the website, but I cannot seem to access any other sources (my hard drive for example) so editing, saving, copying, emailing is not possible
Ah well, when one door opens, another one closes :rolleyes:
 
Update: I found a bug in Win11 which prevented adb from installing but I managed to get around that and successfully install TuneECU in the Android shell - hoorah! .... well sort of. I can now load the standard maps published on the website, but I cannot seem to access any other sources (my hard drive for example) so editing, saving, copying, emailing is not possible
Ah well, when one door opens, another one closes :rolleyes:
because android shell does not work that way.
 
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