Hello all,
I've looked through a lot of information online, and am not able to find anything.
Here's the situation, as many of you probably know, the headunit in the 2016 Honda Civic, for all markets - is Android-based.
Another fact that some of you may not know, is that the headunit is the same for both navigation-equiped models (aka Touring) and non-navi models; all of the head-units have a built in GPS, however Honda seems to have disabled the/or not installed the app for Navigation (Garmin-based).
When you fire up the headunit, you have an "Apps" section, which includes the standard stuff - Gallery, calculator, etc, however you also have an "App Installer" app, which looks for APKs.
You can throw an APK onto any USB drive and it will pick it up, however, it will not install - when you select the APK, the installer will be grayed out.
On previous models, (model year 2015), you could get around this by renaming the APK, however that trick does not work on the 2016 North-American trim.
Does anyone know if any progress has been made into this, or how the unit has a "Whitelist" app pool? Perhaps a "package name" approach - i.e. com.honda.navigation - that's contained in some sort of global whitelist?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
It really irks me when a manufacturer soft-locks features that are already built in, and doesn't even offer you the alternative to unlock them....
I've looked through a lot of information online, and am not able to find anything.
Here's the situation, as many of you probably know, the headunit in the 2016 Honda Civic, for all markets - is Android-based.
Another fact that some of you may not know, is that the headunit is the same for both navigation-equiped models (aka Touring) and non-navi models; all of the head-units have a built in GPS, however Honda seems to have disabled the/or not installed the app for Navigation (Garmin-based).
When you fire up the headunit, you have an "Apps" section, which includes the standard stuff - Gallery, calculator, etc, however you also have an "App Installer" app, which looks for APKs.
You can throw an APK onto any USB drive and it will pick it up, however, it will not install - when you select the APK, the installer will be grayed out.
On previous models, (model year 2015), you could get around this by renaming the APK, however that trick does not work on the 2016 North-American trim.
Does anyone know if any progress has been made into this, or how the unit has a "Whitelist" app pool? Perhaps a "package name" approach - i.e. com.honda.navigation - that's contained in some sort of global whitelist?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
It really irks me when a manufacturer soft-locks features that are already built in, and doesn't even offer you the alternative to unlock them....
