If your new installation of Volvo Vida (2012 up to 2014D) does not work – you cannot log in, after fresh and proper installation. Or your existing installation stopped working… well this is because patched license has expired recently (like in 1.1.2018).

Download “patch” (2014A+) that you usually have to apply after installation of Vida, and extract “exe” file to C:\ drive (or wherever is your Vida) – do not run it, just extract it (with WinRar, 7zip etc). This exe file is just self extracting archive with post extract script.

You should have those files, after extracting:

Archive: 2014A.exe
Details: RAR 4, SFX

Attributes Size Date Time Name
----------- --------- ---------- ----- ----
...D... 0 2011-11-05 19:47 VIDA
..A.... 444 2014-04-09 16:26 VIDA/patch/filldb.cmd
..A.... 6332 2013-04-02 05:43 VIDA/patch/filldb.sql
..A.... 14580 2012-12-07 01:11 VIDA/patch/license
...D... 0 2013-04-02 04:48 VIDA/patch
..A.... 4573 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/bl/logger/UsageLogger.class
..A.... 8789 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/bl/logger/UsageLogHelper.class
..A.... 32927 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/action/LoginAction.class
..A.... 9013 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/action/LoginForm.class
..A.... 2171 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/action/TabForm$pageURLs.class
..A.... 9593 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/action/TabForm.class
..A.... 6986 2014-04-09 15:47 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/taglib/CwlListSelectorTag.class
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/bl/logger
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/action
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web/taglib
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/bl
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida/web
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc/vida
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford/vcc
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ford
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes/com
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF/classes
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war/WEB-INF
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear/VidaWeb.war
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments/VidaEar.ear
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone/deployments
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss/standalone
...D... 0 2014-04-09 16:23 VIDA/jboss
----------- --------- ---------- ----- ----
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Now the “license” file is in C:\VIDA\patch\. Look inside of it for a string:

subscriptionExpireDate=”2017-12-31 23:59:59″

Looks suspicious in year 2018?

• just change the date in license file
• make sure VidaMonitor and all java instances are off (javaw etc),
• and execute filldb.cmd,
• reboot and you are good to go!

If this doesn’t work – you probably did not kill VidaMonitor or Jboss/Java.

Good luck and fruitful hacking! 🙂