Pioneer’s flagship AVIC line of in-car multimedia systems is compatible with both Android Auto and Apple Car Play, and offers all manner of multimedia features to the driver of today. What’s more, these in-dash wonders have spawned their own community, dedicated to hacking the units. The ultimate infotainment hack is to.

What this means is that owners of Pioneer AVIC units will eventually be able to flash a custom ROM onto their in-car device, allowing it to operate more like any other generic Android tablet on the market. The potential is there for installing custom applications, extra hardware (such as OBD II readers), or pretty much anything else you can do with an Android device. Ess 1983 pci sound card driver windows 7.

The hack involves a whole lot of delicate steps, beginning with using a USB stick with a special image to boot the device into a test mode. This allows the internal SD card to be backed up, then overwritten with a new image itself. Mostly, the hack has been used to allow map files to be updated on the internal SD card — inability to update maps has been a long festering thorn in the side of in-dash navigation systems.

Users have been customizing this to suit their requirements, also adding speed camera locations and other features. But overall this hack is a great example of hacking something to get full control over the things you own. At the least, this will allow drivers to ditch the phones suction-cupped to the windshield and run common apps like Waze, Uber, and Lyft directly on the infotainment screen (assuming you can rig up an Internet connection).

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AVICs are after-market units. I’m not sure hacking a unit you can just remove from the dash and install your own hardware qualifies as “the ultimate infotainment hack”. Android/Google will be directly embedded in cars (officially) sitting in dealer show rooms in model year 18+ with the N.Car release. After working for the largest infotainment supplier for the auto industry for many years, there are significant vulnerabilities with OEM products as well. And they all start with the same root cause – poor hiring practices. This is a trend that will definitely continue.

This is possible with Renault dash Infotainment, we bought a 2015 ex hertz car with 10k on it and the factory reset had been hit deleting map data etc. Dealers wanted hundreds as we weren’t first registered owners so reflashed with menarus firmware, file browser, map updates with ease, the optional rearview can enabled and can hardware added and other cool stuff. Renault were talking about fitting all extras to all cars and licensing them via a app store. Bring it on, free hardware upgrades if you are prepared to risk bricking your infotainmentphi.

I just started to have this problem this week as well. I bought the unit at the end on May. After reinserting the dvd a good amount of times, it finally started to work again but it was temporary.

I now get excessive vibration in the connection status screen. Speed pulse works on an off. Everything in the 3D calibration screen is showing asterix(*) and my GPS is having a hard time getting a signal. Oh yeah, I forgot to add the my unit will reboot on it's own and it will remove my backgrounds for the AV and Nav screens. I don't know what the problem might but it seems other people are having similar problems. Has anyone figured out what is causing these problems?