Hacking the OEM Navi unit

by **philosophicaljt** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:49 am

I did a search, but nothing came up except car-computer stuff.

I know that if you hit the menu, then volume, and hit the upper left, then bottom left, then repeat, it pulls up a service menu that lets you over-ride the fact that you need to be stopped to input a destination.

What else is possible from that menu. I am too afraid to play with it.

Is there a way to hack this unit? I would love to just be able to change some of the graphics or some other simple things.

I would love to submit this to opensource and see if they could help, but I don't know if thats something they could do, or if I am tottally way off base there. lol

Thanks.

Note, it would be sweet to make a car-computer with the factory navi screen

Link to great carputer thread:
http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php?t=14210

by **Astro** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:57 am

I hear the guys on tundrasolutions.com have figured out quite a bit, search through their site.

by **philosophicaljt** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:43 am

^^thanks, that actually never even crossed my mind!

by **philosophicaljt** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:59 am

yeah, that site wasn't much help. they figured out how to have the bypass constantly on, but thats all i found.

by **crazygreek** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:35 am

what was the trick to bypassing it all the time?

by **NightRider** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:35 pm

damn this is news to me.... anything else?

by **campfire9** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:39 pm

Philosophicaljt-- I just put this site on for a different question about the Toyota nav system. I think it may more apply to your question.

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthr ... ost2141921

My son has an 07 ES 350 and the entire website is trying to override/bypass the system. Start with post # 122.

Hope this helps

by **philosophicaljt** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:27 am

^^you rock, thanks. I already bought a carputer the other day, and was trying to find a way to hook this up to the navi, but it is not working. (I am still reading manuals though)

by **masksav** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:48 am

campfire9 wrote:Philosophicaljt-- I just put this site on for a different question about the Toyota nav system. I think it may more apply to your question.

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthr ... ost2141921

My son has an 07 ES 350 and the entire website is trying to override/bypass the system. Start with post # 122.

Hope this helps

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