1.What is John Deere Service ADVISOR(SA)?

1.1 John Deere Service Advisor 4.2 System requirements
1.2 John Deere Service Advisor 5.2 System requirements

2 What are John Deere (DTAC) solutions?
3 What is the difference between SA 4.2 and 5.2?
4 Available divisions of Service ADVISOR 4.2
5 Available divisions of Service ADVISOR 5.2
6 Where to buy John Deere Service ADVISOR Online?
7 How to install John Deere Service ADVISOR?
8 Shop John Deere Service ADVISOR

1.What is John Deere Service ADVISOR(SA)?

What is the first step in John Deere tractor repair and maintenance process? Of course, it’s dealer level repair and diagnostic software and hardware package  — John Deere Diagnostics Kit repair and diagnostic kit full version.  Good question: what is john deere service advisor? We got it covered!

JD Service ADVISOR — is windows desktop application and diagnostic adapter kit which allows you: to connect with the vehicle and get maximum possible analysis from the error log, change some factory parameters, connect with the tractor and get maximum reasonable analysis such as:

Read diagnostic trouble codes,
Shift some factory parameters,
Make tests and calibrations,
Program controllers.

From the other hand, JD Service Advisor is a database of repair, technical manuals, diagnosis and test manuals and dealer technician assistance center (DTAC) solutions – DTAC is the way frequently asked questions are answered, and those answers are shared with Deere dealerships. Information that does not get into the current version of a manual or solutions to problems with equipment that needs to be shared with all dealerships is added to DTAC, so technicians have access to the most current information to service Deere equipment.

The second important part of Service Advisor John Deere diagnostic kit is an edl v2 adapter and cables. So you’re able to connect your PC / laptop with installed Service Advisor application to the tractor engine.

2 What are John Deere (DTAC) solutions?

There are two versions of JD Service Advisor available at the moment: 4.2 release – full offline desktop application – support for this version was discontinued in January 2017. System requirements of that version were much lower than for SA 5.2. It comes as Agricultural, Construction & Forestry, Commercial & Consumer, and Power Systems Equipment divisions. Each Division consists of actual models from 2000 release year and historical data from the 1950’s till the 2000 year. John Deere Service Advisor v5.2 is the version that completely replaced SA v4.2 starting 2017 year. Entirely new interface design with bigger system requirements. Currently available in two editions: Agriculture and Turf equipment, Construction and Forestry.

3 What is the difference between SA 4.2 and 5.2?

The main difference is that now SA 5.2 using web browser Internet Explorer instead of application shell which is more convenient for the most users. JD SA 5.2 is fully compatible with Windows 10 including EDL v2 KIT. JD Service Advisor 5 no longer needs DATA DVDs with models data or Historical information. All the files are available on a USB Stick or HDD and can be easily accessed via SA web search. So you no longer need to play with dozen DVDs to be able to get a proper manual or DTAC solution. On that note, I’d like to introduce you JS Service Advisors system requirements.

4 Available divisions of Service ADVISOR 4.2

John Deere Service Advisor 4.2 System requirements:
– O.S.: Windows XP; Windows Vista; Windows 7; Windows 8
– CPU: Pentium/Athlon 1.8 GHz or higher
– RAM: 256 MB of system memory
– Hard Drive: 10 GB of available space
– DVD-ROM(optionally)

5 Available divisions of Service ADVISOR 5.2

John Deere Service Advisor 5.2 System requirements:
– O.S.: Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate; Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 10 Pro
– CPU: Any CPU for Windows platform
– RAM: 8 GB of system memory
– Hard Drive: 150 GB of available space

As you can see, the system requirements are significantly different. This information will help you choose in favor of 4.2 or 5.2 version.

Currently, there are four original versions of Heavy Duty Scanner John Deere Service ADVISOR 4.2 application:
John Deere Service Advisor 4 (4.2.005) Agricultural Equipment,
Construction & Forestry Equipment,
Commercial & Consumer Equipment,
Power Systems and OEM Engines

6 Where to buy John Deere Service ADVISOR Online?

The last update of these products was in June 2016.
Here are some screenshots showing what Service Advisor by John Deere diagnostic software looks like:
john deere service advisor 4 manuals engine section

The new version of Service Advisor comes in two editions:
John Deere Service Advisor 5.2 2017 Agriculture and Turf Equipment Division
John Deere Service Advisor 5.2 2017 Construction and Forestry Equipment.

Where to buy john deere service advisor Online?
All mentioned versions are listed below. You can purchase John Deere Service Advisor using our website. During the checkout process, you will be given a few delivery options and two most convenient payment methods – credit card using PayPal gateway and Bank transfer (please contact us if you need proforma invoice). We ship worldwide and accept PayPal so you can shop with confidence!

7 How to install john deere service advisor?

One of the common questions we receive from our clients is how to setup and activate john deere service advisor after purchase and download onto the PC/Laptop? The short answer – we set up and activate it remotely, using Teamviewer.Service ADVISOR is a vast and very complicated application. It’s enough to say that total file size of the Service Advisor is about 50 Gb for v4.2 and 110+ GB for v5.2. The SA supplied as a set of 10 Dual layer DVDs or ISO images in case of v4.2 and on USB HDD for v5.2.
In most of the cases, we re-install the servicer advisor all over again after our customer did to fix his mistakes. To avoid any inconvenience, we recommend using our free remote assistance service with the setup and activation.

8 Shop John Deere Service ADVISOR from OBD2TOOL

If you feel as computer expert or IT technician we can provide you with the step by step installation guide. It covers pre-setup instructions such as set compatibility settings for program components like MS SQL Server 2005, “.NetFramework” and Windows system settings. Also, there is some troubleshooting guide in case of numerous issues during the installation process.

Here is the John Deere Service Advisor Installation guide on Win7/Win10.The steps of installation on win7 is same as win7.I will show the John Deere Service Advisor installation on win7,you just need to check the method.And at end of article you would better watch the video guide.

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Note:Try on WIN7 32bit successfully, try Win10 64bit at your own luck.

Procedures of Heavy Duty Truck Scanner John Deere Service Advisor Installation:

Installation Method 1:

1.you must have enough disk space to download the full set of February 2016 data base (52Gb); it comes with seven iso images and the SA4.0 image and a February 2015 update which you don’t need and of course the activator.

2.use an iso mounter software to mount the SA4.0 image to a virtual drive.

3.browse to the setup file in your virtual drive and run it as administrator

follow the steps (it will prompt for a username and password use those of your windows user account if you’re under 7-8 or 10 windows version)

it will take a while! don’t turn off the computer and don’t worry about the incompatibility messages that windows will show you during the installation process specially for the SQL 2005 server installation.

4.after completing the installation of the SA4.0 reboot the computer and set back the system time to mars 2016.

5.mount the first iso image of the data discs to a virtual drive, browse the sauce folder and run setup file as administrator; wait for it to complete the installation it will launch the SA 4.2.005 at this step you may have a message that the SA 4.2.005 is not capable of launching the search engine don’t worry close it and go to task manager (ctr+alt+sup)

click on services and look for the LightweightIDOL service if it’s stopped than run it.

6.run the activator as administrator and activate the service advisor; don’t use the prolongation tool at this step!.

7.now go to the task manager again and look for the SAupdater service and disable it.

8.re-open the service advisor, click the accept button for the license agreement, and configure the path for the data access you can use the mapping for a virtual drive choice to map each data disc image to a virtual drive it will take more than an hour to load all the data disk.

it will ask you for scheduling the update choose the end of the week and create the task.

9.Now close the SA, use the activator again but this time just use the prolongation tool choose 9000 days or whatever you want.

10.Look for the task scheduler and run it, choose the SAupdate task and modify the time for the task to begin to 2030 or whatever you want.

11.reboot the computer and set back the time machine to the actual time, launch SA and everything must work ok.

if you have any trouble than you messed something just clean up and reinstall.

Installation Method 1:

Firstly,you need to download the files as below:

https://mega.nz/#!OocRBC5B!Mg6k1UzCVc168wr–BJ5xTsgGt7TOTsI-AhBNPjVNpk

John-Deere-Service-Advisor-Installation

– Be sure that you have JAVA and Acrobat reader installed on your PC (wich if you have a internet connection it will automaticly ask and find and load its self)
– Mount the CD JDSA4.0 and start the installation ..
– a user name and password will be reqired .. so better to use
User: Admin
Password: 123456

– after the Installation, dont run the program !

– restart your PC ,
– after the installation, use the keygen

– how to use the keygen

– you need to find the Host ID for the installation ..
– Run c:Program FilesECULPECULPINIConfig.exe
– Get HostID from Security tab
– open the keygen and put the Host ID , choose the expire date, select all in both fields and generate.
– you will get 3 files
– run dl.xml.reg file and confirm registry changes
– copy license file jdlm.lic into C:JDLM folder
– PS. DO NOT USE dl.xml.reg file or dl.xml files generated by keygen,( delete the two file made by kg)
– USE the files in the lic folder.

WIN XP:
C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersSApplication DataService ADVISOR
WIN 7:
C:ProgramDataService ADVISOR
– Go to patch1 folder and
– run Patch.bat

– Replace the Original ServiceADVISOR.exe with the Patched one from _patch floder !! in the Installation folder
C:Program FilesService ADVISOR .

– Mount the DVD1 (AG_EN_20xxxx_01) and start the installation from it
in otherwords what i do is copy and paste the data disk 1 in my documents folder. right click
and explore the folder, run the install from the SAUCE folder and then open the sa.ini folder
it will look something like this
[Volume]
Identity=AG_EN_201109_01
Produced=2011/07/15-22:48:58
[Trigger Dates]
Warning = 2011/10/28
Termination = 2011/11/01

– ***Replace the Original sa.ini with the patch we will create, in the DVD1 !!BEFORE YOU LOAD THE DATA!!!!! IN THE PROGRAM.
– To do this
– In the sa.ini folder change the dates to what ever you desire to mach the lic experation you made
so it will look something like this

[Volume]
Identity=AG_EN_201109_01
Produced=2011/07/15-22:48:58
[Trigger Dates]
Warning = 2020/06/01
Termination = 2020/07/01

– Exit the document and select save changes. ( I like to reopen the sa.ini after to insure changes.)
-then open service advisor. it will promp you to load data. change the path to load to the location
you saved data disk 1. let it load ……….and SUCCESS!!!!!

When I was doing experiments with my Nexiq clone (also called Xtruck) and John Deere Service Advisor(JDSA)…

Running the utility binload from the folder C:\Nexiq\Test.
Set checkbox – Enable automatic USB-Link firmware upgrade
and get firmware bin file.
Save original bin with other name (for recovery).

I copy the firmware bin from the program John Deere SA,
rename as original Nexiq bin name
and replace original – by that file.

Next, again start utility binload from the folder C:\Nexiq\Test
and have John Deere SA firmware in Nexiq.

I have test connection with 2CAN pin and read engine serial
but i don’t run program…
I could not do normal work program…

JDL adapter like Nexiq adapter…
In Nexiq new driver have new firmware version
I always update firmware and do not have problem…
Credits to Dmitry in the MH community

FYI, John Deere Service Advisor 90% works with Nexiq China clone.

Topic 1: John deere SA possible with NEXIQ USB Link?

It is possible to install Professional Diagnostic Tools John Deere Service Advisor on your laptop, though the installation is really complicated. If you have a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop, the easiest way is to restore the main partition from the image of my computers’ c: drive. And every time i change my laptop, i just restore it.

Win7 installed and fully updated. It takes hours.

The image will not work on XP, but SA works fine. My suggestion, buy used Lenovo T400 or T500. it’s more or less 250 EURO in Europe. Install windows 7 and then can put my image. Takes 10 minutes and u have SA working.

Topic 2: How to get Nexiq china worked?
I spent a month doing research on this and i managed my Heavy Duty Truck Scan Tool Nexiq to work 90%. The thing is that Nexiq has only 2 channels while EDL has 3. The 3rd one is Powertrain and it is used very seldom. E.g. I reprogrammed all the controllers on 6690 premium except two, but found a way around it opening the pld file with pld editor and changing Powertrain channel to Vehicle (channel 1). Lots of machines don’t even have a 3rd Powetrain channel. Like all 5R; 6115R, 6125R, 7280R….. From my experience only the older machines have it and still can be programmed most of the time. Programming controllers is easy, but diagnostics is a bit annoying. Every time you establish the connection u have to remove the USB plug and plug it again for the readings to appear. Connection establishment is taking a long long time and you never see the ECU. Only all the other controllers. So all the time something doesn’t work. If you are prepared for this here is what you have to do:

a) Rewire the the cables as shown in the picture in my post here:
I switched places channel 1 with channel 2 (see the pic) with my Chinese version and now it works fine, probably it was possible to do it adjusting the software settings as mentioned above, but i tried a lot, and nothing helped. Now i can connect, tried with 6125R and 5070M. Works fine!!! Except one very important thingy. After i establish the connection, all the reading give the same meaningless number. Then, I discovered accidentally, I pull out the USB cable, get the message “Connection interrupted” I put it back in, get the message “Connection resumed” and wuolla, all the readings show up immediately.

b) You don’t have to change the firmware. Both will work pretty much the same but with different issues.

P.S. For diagnostics only, there is a subprogram of SA that works without any cable rewiring, it doesn’t have a Program Controller option, and you still need to reinsert the usb after connection has been established. You just need to select the right port (which is usually 1939ImplementAutoboud or 1939AppAutoboud depending on the machine) and model. If you have SA, you will find the software at c:\Program Files\Service ADVISOR\xvds\XJDET.exe

Just to let you know, after a year working like that, i bought another EDL (recommended by a folk in the forum, much much much more than the old one)
So much relief

This is for anyone when he/she runs the John Deere Service Advisor heavy duty diagnostic software, the system appears error message that the search engine module can not be loaded and then the program ends.

NOTE THAT YOU ARE TRYING ANY TRICK ON YOUR OWN RISK.

Optional solutions:

Solution 1:

Run as system administrator, roll back pc date reactivate using activator Then roll date back to normal date if error still renew once again. Been working for me so far.

Note that, don’t know how long it stay working but works im sure someone will have solution for it soon.

Also advice if doing fresh install roll back the date on pc do the install after then install and activations have been done.
Go to task manager look for the service adviser on have it start its tasks in 2030 :save and then reset your pc date should be good for while

Solution 2:

if you set a date before the lightweightidol license expired, start the lightweightidol service, set the real date and start Advisor, it works.

Solution 3:

start advisor. when error comes with “search engine” Close John Deere SA. afterwards set your PC date to feburary 2015. start SA again (run as administrator). it now comes with error on licence. close SA Again. set pc date back to normal. run SA Again. now it Works.

Solution 4:

The search engine error can be solved.
Set back the date, before the expiry date found in Service ADVISOR\SUIR\license.log (august 14 in my case). Start LightweightIDOL service. Set the real date, and Advisor working again.
I made a batch file to simplify it. To make it work Control Panel/Regional/short date format have to be yyyy-mm-dd or you have to modify batch. Maybe you have to modify ServiceADVISOR.exe path too in the batch. Have to run as administrator.

Solution 5:

I have had the same error with ssearch engine connection in JD SA.
reinstalled it twice, changed system date back and forward, run activator. No result for me.

But actually I found the solution for this issue.

Solution 6:

back date to 08.10.16
install JD SA, restart, activate, mount latest disk you have (05.2016) and install update, for finish get license error, ignore and close, set actualy date, run JD SA -> works fine, install july update

testing today on 3 laptops (Windows 7 and 10)

On a side note: procedure about turning off the updates don’t know how long it stay working but works im sure someone will have solution for it soon.

Also advice if doing fresh install roll back the date on pc do the install after then install and activations have been done.
goto task manager look for the service adviser on have it start its tasks in 2030 :save and then reset your pc date should be good for while Smile (SO TURN IT OFF IN TASKMANAGER SO IT STARTS 20 30 YEARS FROM NOW!!)

Fresh new installations also work but can be much more complicated sure a patch would be much easier. But it can be done with out a patch so far

In taskmanager I don’t stop any service just put service advisor updater to 2030 to start

also makes sure eculp.ini configurator reads like this

A valid ECULP License has been found

Licenses for the following modes have been found:
TestCell Programming
FinalEOL Programming
Service Programming
ECUCPP Programming Tool

All JD Components were found and properly licensed

JDEcu : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
JDConfig : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
JDData : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
JDIntelHex : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
JDPayloadReader : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
JDPayloadProcessor : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULoaderProgram : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_TestCell : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_FinalEOL : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_Service : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_TestCell_OEM : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_FinalEOL_OEM : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_Service_OEM : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_ECUCPP : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_Direct_EOL_Output : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
ECULP_OEM_DISTRIBUTOR : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
Service_ADVISOR_Ag : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021
Service_ADVISOR_CF : Version 1.0 : 01-apr-2021