Steps to Update and Active AUTEK IKEY820 Key Programmer


Steps to Update and Active AUTEK IKEY820 Key Programmer
Steps to Update and Active AUTEK IKEY820 Key Programmer

1. What you need
1) AUTEK IKEY 820 key programmer
2) PC with Win10/Win8/Win7/XP
3) USB cable

2. Install update tool on your PC
1, Login the website link http://www.autektools.com/driverUIsetup.html

2, Select the item Autek Ikey 820 Update Tool V1.5 Setup from the list and install it to your PC. Double click the setup file to start installing the update tool

3. Click „Next‟ until the finish window, and click finish button to end the install program. There 
will be a shortcut icon on the desktop. AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool contains three parts
including UPDATE, ACTIVATE and MESSAGE from top to bottom.


3. Update
Take the following steps to update AUTEK IKEY 820 device:
1) Connect device to PC through USB cable;
2) Open AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool in your PC that needs to be on internet;
3) Select the device in list and input the SN (usually completed automatically);
4) Click UPDATE button to start updating, wait until the updating completed.
There is something you need to notice in each step.
1) The device should display “USB SD DISK MODE” when connected to PC through 
USB cable, if not, please unplug the USB cable and plug again. Do not unplug the 
USB cable or exit from USB SD DISK MODE.
2) If AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool is not installed, please install it first.
3) The DISK and SN should display automatically if the device is connected to PC. If 
the DISK has no device to select, please unplug the USB cable and plug again. If the 
DISK has been selected, but SN is empty, please unplug the USB cable and plug 
again. If it‟s still the same, please input SN yourself. The SN should start with “A-”.
4) It may take several minutes to update, it depends on the speed of your internet.
If there is any problem, it will display on message area, check according to the 
message and try again.
Here are the pages for updating. The SN is an example, you should use your own SN.


Check SN and DISK before update, Wait until update successfully

4. Activate
Activation means add tokens to your device. If your device runs out of tokens or you want to 
increase the number of tokens, you can use AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool to increase 
tokens.
Take the following steps to activate AUTEK IKEY 820 device:
1) Supply power to the AUTEK IKEY 820 device through USB/12V DC adapter/OBD.
2) Go to the ACTIVATE menu, you will see a page with steps to activate your device 
and the REQ CODE which is need in AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool to get the ANS 
CODE.
3) Open AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool in your PC.
4) Input the REQ CODE to the AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool and click ACTIVATE 
button, then you will get the ANS CODE
5) Press OK button on the device and there display the page to input ANS CODE.
6) Input the ANS CODE you get in the AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool. There are two 
different 
7) Press OK button and the page will show the result, SUCCESS or FAILED. 
8) You can check your tokens in the ABOUT menu if you activate your device 
successfully.
Here are the pictures to activate the device. All the SN、REQ CODE and ANS CODE are 
examples, just ignore them.

                                                        Select the ACTIVATE menu


Open AUTEK IKEY 820 Update Tool and input the REQ CODE Get the ANS CODE

                                                         Input the ANS CODE

                                        Confirm the ANS CODE you input

                                                 SUCCEED means activate successfully

                                                  Check the tokens in ABOUT page
5. Authorize
Authorize means you need to pay extra for the update for specific car makes including GM, Ford, Toyota, Grand Cherokee etc

Normally, we only provide customer the License number by email for the update in order to save the shipping cost for the real card.