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Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering

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Post by librick »

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 into the headunit and encouraging discussion and community contribution

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Post by canbus »

expertentipp wrote: post #4
Dalewyn wrote: post #2

>2021 Honda Civic >2012 software and hardware Oy vey.

I wonder the year of its touchscreen. 5 years old car? Almost brand new. 5 years old touchscreen and software? It's going to be painful.

Probably a resistive type like on really old tablets running Android 4!

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Post by sphars »

expertentipp wrote: post #4
Dalewyn wrote: post #2

>2021 Honda Civic >2012 software and hardware Oy vey.

I wonder the year of its touchscreen. 5 years old car? Almost brand new. 5 years old touchscreen and software? It's going to be painful.

I have a 2017 Civic, and based on the info in the OP, it's the same as the 2021 models, and yes, it's severely dated.

Though it's Android 4.4, which gives me some nostalgia from my Nexus 4 and the Holo era of Android

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Post by expertentipp »

sphars wrote: post #6
expertentipp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder the year of its touchscreen. 5 years old car? Almost brand new. 5 years old touchscreen and software? It's going to be painful.

I have a 2017 Civic, and based on the info in the OP, it's the same as the 2021 models, and yes, it's severely dated. Though it's Android 4.4, which gives me some nostalgia from my Nexus 4 and the Holo era of Android

Awww nostalgia hits... some very very long time ago I was working on software tested on KitKat. It's better not to mention it during interviews otherwise will be dismissed as a dinosaur.

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Post by hparadiz »

expertentipp wrote: post #8
sphars wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a 2017 Civic, and based on the info in the OP, it's the same as the 2021 models, and yes, it's severely dated. Though it's Android 4.4, which gives me some nostalgia from my Nexus 4 and the Holo era of Android

Awww nostalgia hits... some very very long time ago I was working on software tested on KitKat. It's better not to mention it during interviews otherwise will be dismissed as a dinosaur.

I have it on my 2020 civic and at least it doesn't lag. Problem with newer builds is the inevitable creep of increased CPU and memory usage until eventually perfectly good hardware is no longer able to run anything.

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Post by dom96 »

hparadiz wrote: post #9
expertentipp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awww nostalgia hits... some very very long time ago I was working on software tested on KitKat. It's better not to mention it during interviews otherwise will be dismissed as a dinosaur.

I have it on my 2020 civic and at least it doesn't lag. Problem with newer builds is the inevitable creep of increased CPU and memory usage until eventually perfectly good hardware is no longer able to run anything.

yep, I also have a 2020 Civic and the software actually is alright, though perhaps my expectations were set really low by the amount of hate I read about the software online. But hey, it supports CarPlay just fine (although does have some weird graphical artifacts sometimes) and the screen is responsive enough which is all that I really want.
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