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To update 10th-gen Honda Civics, Honda ships updates on specially-formatted USB drives. They're essentially Android 4.2.2rc1-era recovery packages with some Honda-added version che…

Previously: Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052753 - May 2023 (43 comments)

*Jankiness, not jerkiness. I could have clarified that better; what I mean is that it was strange to me that the backup camera had two stages. The camera video feed comes up first,…

TLDR; Kia rant: Yea it's bizarre to me how recalls aren't more widespread. The fiasco with Kia cars getting broken into is my favorite recent example. Teenagers break into random s…

I can't speak to CarPlay but yea I'll say the headunit software is certainly usable. One of the reasons I started this project was because I admire the engineering involved. I wish…

Yea I tend to have pretty high memory usage, including when I was running close to stock (i.e., before installing a bunch of third-party apps). My model didn't come with a built-in…

Addressing "(It doesn't have a cellular data connection so it's not a security risk)" - I wouldn't say it's not a security risk. Check out the Bluetooth docs in the repo for exampl…

Yea if I get more into the hardware hacking side of things, it'd be great if I could add a wire harness to be able to connect external power to the headunit/disconnect it from the …

Thanks :) My friends and I have made a few jokes about hacking my literal "daily driver". TLDR; didn't excise, mostly sat in my car. I originally rooted the car using Honda Hack vi…

The apparent jankiness of the rear camera was one of the first reasons I started hacking on the car tbh. It was weird to me that the yellow guidelines/overlay don't appear on the c…

As far as I currently understand it, most of the code on my headunit is probably 99% identical to the code on 2021 Accord units. Same goes for Acura cars; I can't publish the APK f…

I own a 2021 Honda Civic and have been annoyed by the lack of public documentation/hacking tools for the Android-based headunit. I hope to address this by publishing my research in…