No one is interested in hacking the Nav?
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No one is interested in hacking the Nav?
I know we've talked about this some before, but I keep hoping someone with hacking experience (or connections) will take this and run with it. Someone who knows what he's doing should be able (for instance) to easily disable the in-motion lockout.
The first step would be to determine the operating system our Nav uses. Many of these systems use either Win CE or Win Mobile, but I don't know if Lexus used that or some other proprietary OS (which I doubt, since the Windows products are available off the shelf).
The next step would be to access the OS, probably through the port under the dash where updates are installed. I don't know if anyone has tried connecting a laptop or Win Mobile device to the port, but doing so might allow you to see the contents of the HDD as a drive, like any other USB device connected to your computer.
After that, it would be a matter of examining the code to see where the command is to disable Nav inputs when the car starts moving ... and disabling or overriding that command.
For someone like me with no computer language experience (and no developer tools), it's beyond my capability, but to hackers who live to break code, this should be a walk in the park. X-Box wasn't out a month before kids were rewriting it, and as we all know, just about every OS and piece of software has been hacked.
We have a lot of smart and creative people on this forum, and I'm sure someone has the skills or connections to get this done. And I suspect there would be some money in it for the guy who got it done ...
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The first step would be to determine the operating system our Nav uses. Many of these systems use either Win CE or Win Mobile, but I don't know if Lexus used that or some other proprietary OS (which I doubt, since the Windows products are available off the shelf).
The next step would be to access the OS, probably through the port under the dash where updates are installed. I don't know if anyone has tried connecting a laptop or Win Mobile device to the port, but doing so might allow you to see the contents of the HDD as a drive, like any other USB device connected to your computer.
After that, it would be a matter of examining the code to see where the command is to disable Nav inputs when the car starts moving ... and disabling or overriding that command.
For someone like me with no computer language experience (and no developer tools), it's beyond my capability, but to hackers who live to break code, this should be a walk in the park. X-Box wasn't out a month before kids were rewriting it, and as we all know, just about every OS and piece of software has been hacked.
We have a lot of smart and creative people on this forum, and I'm sure someone has the skills or connections to get this done. And I suspect there would be some money in it for the guy who got it done ...
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I also can't believe this has not been done already, I was checking over on the Acura forums and they have hacked those pretty good. Maybe you can recruit someone from over there? I was looking at one the other day where you can even change the startup screen image.
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As for the Acura hack, the guy who did that one got PO'ed at the forum because he wanted some payment for his work (which I thought was reasonable) and the Admin's banned him for not being an approved sponsor.
I hope I'm wrong, but I'm getting the idea LS owners are just lukewarm on the whole idea ... or are content to allow their Nav systems to be crippled by Lexus.
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well i finally got my lexus, but man it's complicated, I am planning on buying the nav hack, but the gps has a lot of options, right now i feel like i need to stop to get it to work.
maybe i should read the manual..
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maybe i should read the manual..
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