Honda Accord 2018 Continue Play Music When Car Turn Off

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• #1

HI all,

So far I've been reading the threads here for the Civic and the Pilot for hacking the Honda head unit for installing Waze and Google Play Music, but nothing seems to work with the 2018 Accord, I may be missing something.. I don's seem to need anything else so far. Just getting tired of the slow charges, using my music just from my phone and having to turn on and off "Stay Awake" from the developers menu on my phone for Waze to get GPS signal. So I was thinking of just going back to Bluetooth Calls and using a 256GB drive in the USB with MP3 and FLAC files ad using Waze directly from the head unit. Will also like to install an app that will get rid of the 50hz bass roll-off from the head unit and a better EQ, 3 bands is not enough adjustment or I might just go and buy a DSR1 processor.

This is what I've done so far

1. Enable developers mode on the head unit.
2. Enable ADB
3. Go to the yellow diagnostics menu and check all settings, can't seem to find a wireless ADB setting or how to change from device/Host mode.
4. Extract the app info text from the app I want to install but cant find the White list file to update without going into device mode first to navigate the file structure.

My head unit is running Android 6 and all works fine, is just the small inconveniences. Thanks everyone for your help.

• #141

Does any USB A to A cable work? I have a couple at my job I can use.

• #142

They are individual com settings. I can check after work if you haven't found them.

Home>settings>system>detail information>app manager

Pick the apk > notifications > enable treat as priority, allow peaking and disable hide sensitive content. Some apps have a block all, disable that.

This should cause any notifications to show up.

I haven't tried setting up a laptop with adb to do this on my car, just looki g at what you guys have done and what I've found while digging through menus.

I work for Honda and there is a update for the accords that are being installed via usb not laptop/rewrite software. If someone wants to walk me through it I can try and see how they have the package on the usb and tell you all how we update the headunit

• #143

2018 Honda Accord Update USB

I work for Honda and there is a update for the accords that are being installed via usb not laptop/rewrite software. If someone wants to walk me through it I can try and see how they have the package on the usb and tell you all how we update the headunit

Any chance you can use ImageUSB to create an image and share a dropbox link?

• #144

I work for Honda and there is a update for the accords that are being installed via usb not laptop/rewrite software. If someone wants to walk me through it I can try and see how they have the package on the usb and tell you all how we update the headunit

We would need a copy of the usb with something like imgburn so we could analyze the packages.

• #145

We would need a copy of the usb with something like imgburn so we could analyze the packages.

Ok so I copied the files from the thumb drive, now how to get it to you all. And it's a pretty large file, 14.6 GB

• #146

I sent you my email. I'll have some follow up questions once I create the thumb drive.

Ok so I copied the files from the thumb drive, now how to get it to you all. And it's a pretty large file, 14.6 GB

• #147

This will take a while

Update on the software update data.

It uses a fat32 USB drive with several folders.

drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 07:59 CL-MH17N1AX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:00 CL-MH17N2AX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:00 CL-MH17N3AX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:01 CL-MH17N4AX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:01 CL-MH17N5AX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:02 CL-MH17NDAX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:02 CL-MH17NFAX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:03 CL-MH17NGAX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:03 CL-MH17NHAX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:04 CL-MH17NJAX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:04 CL-MHL8N1MX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Aug 27 08:05 CL-MHL8N4MX
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Jan 20 2017 LOST.DIR
drwxr-xr-x 2 dreadnaught dreadnaught 16384 Oct 17 10:56 'System Volume Information'

Each folder contains a force_loading.zip and a readme. All except the latest two are identical in size.

./CL-MH17N1AX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:19 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17N2AX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:19 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17N3AX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:19 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17N4AX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:39 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17N5AX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:39 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17NDAX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:59 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17NFAX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 13:59 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17NGAX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 14:20 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17NHAX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 14:21 force_loading.zip
./CL-MH17NJAX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025587070 Aug 9 14:21 force_loading.zip
./CL-MHL8N1MX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025579534 Aug 9 12:58 force_loading.zip
./CL-MHL8N4MX:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dreadnaught dreadnaught 1025579534 Aug 9 12:58 force_loading.zip

None of them are actual zip files. I haven't been able to identify the header signature to anything yet. After writing a quick script to rule out duplicate headers, we get only two unique file headers.

                              <pre>######./CL-MH17N1AX/force_loading.zip######## 00000000  53 45 43 5f 50 53 56 4c  60 37 21 3d 00 00 00 00  |SEC_PSVL`7!=....| 00000010  80 35 21 3d 00 00 00 00  00 01 01 00 61 6c 6c 2e  |.5!=........all.| 00000020  69 6d 67 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |img             | 00000030  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                | * 00000050  28 0c 5e f4 c3 6d 1b e8  a2 05 f1 85 85 a2 94 cc  |(.^..m..........| 00000060  36 f7 11 1e 39 53 83 2c  ea 9a a7 c4 d4 e0 46 a2  |6...9S.,......F.| 00000070  9c a0 b2 5b ad 55 0e d2  27 8b 1d d4 df e8 a9 97  |...[.U..&apos;.......| 00000080  0f e1 20 62 ae 43 fd 3e  e5 18 d5 88 bb b2 e7 e6  |.. b.C.>........| 00000090  98 8e fd c5 5a ab cc 58  6f 06 cc 78 b1 cc 75 5c  |....Z..Xo..x..u\| ######./CL-MHL8N1MX/force_loading.zip######## 00000000  53 45 43 5f 50 53 56 4c  f0 19 21 3d 00 00 00 00  |SEC_PSVL..!=....| 00000010  10 18 21 3d 00 00 00 00  00 01 01 00 61 6c 6c 2e  |..!=........all.| 00000020  69 6d 67 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |img             | 00000030  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                | * 00000050  36 22 5a a0 7d 9f c5 51  65 2a 0f 6e 60 b9 ed 12  |6"Z.}..Qe*.n`...| 00000060  31 dc cf 32 38 6b f5 37  a8 a9 de 11 1e 3f ce ac  |1..28k.7.....?..| 00000070  f3 cd 69 0a 41 1e 5a c2  61 8c b8 7f 08 89 87 c3  |..i.A.Z.a.......| 00000080  77 d6 40 78 ff de 44 5d  33 16 fd 4b 52 6c 75 48  |[email protected]]3..KRluH| 00000090  81 04 2c b8 f7 45 3b d6  a6 15 05 10 89 cc 5a 98  |..,..E;.......Z.| </pre>                            

Every readme indicates a v4p file inside of the corresponding zip.

                              <pre>######./CL-MH17N1AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N1AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_011D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N2AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N2AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_021D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N3AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N3AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_051D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N4AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N4AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_061D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N5AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N5AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_041D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NDAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NDAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_121D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NFAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NFAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_131D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NGAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NGAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_351D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NHAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NHAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_141D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NJAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NJAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_151D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MHL8N1MX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AE-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MHL8N1MX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_431D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MHL8N4MX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AE-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MHL8N4MX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_451D_30821301.v4p </pre>                            

And that's all the progress I've made so far.

• #148

SoC and SoC VP bring up UEFI bootloader insctructions for Intel Stratix 10 SoC. Possibly this is a UEFI update and not an OS update/patch?

Update on the software update data.

Every readme indicates a v4p file inside of the corresponding zip.

                                  <pre>######./CL-MH17N1AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N1AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_011D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N2AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N2AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_021D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N3AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N3AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_051D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N4AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N4AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_061D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17N5AX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17N5AX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_041D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NDAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NDAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_121D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NFAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NFAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_131D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NGAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NGAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_351D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NHAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NHAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_141D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MH17NJAX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AA-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MH17NJAX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_151D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MHL8N1MX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AE-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MHL8N1MX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_431D_30821301.v4p ######./CL-MHL8N4MX/readme.txt######## Contents of force_loading.zip   SoC    : 18AE-1945-001   SoC VP : CL-MHL8N4MX   VR-TTS : (not included)   .v4p   : SetID500_reflash_0404_451D_30821301.v4p </pre>                                

• #149

SoC and SoC VP bring up UEFI bootloader insctructions for Intel Stratix 10 SoC. Possibly this is a UEFI update and not an OS update/patch?

It's possible. It's data from a USB image that Honda is using to update cars currently. To my knowledge, the only update for the 2018 accord is the backup camera update they have been pushing out. I was just hoping that I could get something that would at least let me talk to the head unit. I also tried taking updated versions of preinstalled APKs and using the APP loader, no dice.

• #150

It's definitely an SW update. In the about section the Android kernal version as well as the build number all changed after the ota

Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

• #151

Any progress made so far?

• #152

Any progress made so far?

None. Not sure if anyone is working on this.
If only I had the knowledge for something like this....

• #153

2018 Honda Accord Touring T2.0, Apps Wont Install!!

So I'm really disappointed and I love my car BUT I'm having trouble installing apps, I already enabled developer mode and allowed unknown sources in the car settings. When I plug in my flash drive that has the APK format app on it the computer detects it when I go into app installer BUT when I hit the app to install the app it doesn't install, I keep clicking on it and hear beep beep beep as I keep hitting the screen and eventually the app installer says not responding and without a play store I can't install apps, anyone have any ideas, it won't let me hit install in the app installer that came with the car? here's the site I got the APKs from https://www.apkmirror.com/

Could use some help:crying:????

• #154

Ive been watching this thread for many months now, log in every few days to see if anybody has found anything. unfortunately it feels like everyone has given up. this is my only gripe with this car, I wish i knew that before I actually spent 35k on it. Apparently, honda has locked us out of the "install" button. I have sent them a support ticket. no response yet. my hope is that everyone who wants to be ably to take advantage of the head unit, also puts in a support ticket. make honda think about their decision. hopefully unlock it in an update. wishful thinking, i know. but whats the point of the wireless charging pocket, when you have to plug in your phone to use android auto.
also, whats the point of paying for internet for a car that cant even utilize it? sorry about the mini rant, just trying to keep this thread alive

• #155

Did u guys know that u can watch video in the head unit now?

• #156

So I'm really disappointed and I love my car BUT I'm having trouble installing apps, I already enabled developer mode and allowed unknown sources in the car settings. When I plug in my flash drive that has the APK format app on it the computer detects it when I go into app installer BUT when I hit the app to install the app it doesn't install, I keep clicking on it and hear beep beep beep as I keep hitting the screen and eventually the app installer says not responding and without a play store I can't install apps, anyone have any ideas, it won't let me hit install in the app installer that came with the car? here's the site I got the APKs from https://www.apkmirror.com/

Could use some help:crying:????

We've tried all of that and more. I've gone as far as writing custom APKs with a forged com signature matching ones that are already installed in the car. The unit should have seen the APK as a valid update and accepted it, but it won't. I still poke around the head unit from time to time when I come up with new ideas. I just haven't made any notable progress so I haven't posted anything. I couldn't decrypt the software update that I was given by another user.

Ive been watching this thread for many months now, log in every few days to see if anybody has found anything. unfortunately it feels like everyone has given up. this is my only gripe with this car, I wish i knew that before I actually spent 35k on it. Apparently, honda has locked us out of the "install" button. I have sent them a support ticket. no response yet. my hope is that everyone who wants to be ably to take advantage of the head unit, also puts in a support ticket. make honda think about their decision. hopefully unlock it in an update. wishful thinking, i know. but whats the point of the wireless charging pocket, when you have to plug in your phone to use android auto.
also, whats the point of paying for internet for a car that cant even utilize it? sorry about the mini rant, just trying to keep this thread alive

You're wasting your time. They will never unlock the head unit since it is connected to vital systems in the car. All it would take is for some person to mess up the collision avoidance system and get into a fatal wreck before there would be a major lawsuit. They claim that the unit doesn't interact with the rest of the car. Given how they push updates, and how you can toggle and adjust systems form the unit, that was a lie. So good luck, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Did u guys know that u can watch video in the head unit now?

How? I don't update my head unit, was it in a recent update or something?

• #157

Just plug ur USB Flash drive and choose it from the unit, than you'll see (Music, Videos) choose Vedios and you'll find all the vedios in ur flash drive.
I'm not if it was an update or I just didn't see that option before but it's there now

• #158

Have had the 2018 Accord Hybrid EX-L about 6 weeks now. Been watching this thread and similar, hoping for some joy. I can get as far as getting the device ID and "unauthorized" from adb, but I'm not getting any authorization pop-up on the head unit, not even for a fleeting fraction of a second. What HU screen are you folks on when you see the fleeting authorization pop-up? Thanks!

• #159

I have been checking the thread every few days hoping someone will finally be able to Crack it.
I don't know much about Android development or cracking these things.
I know the system runs on Android 6.0.1
So my question to experienced users is:
How do I find out bugs that were found after this version or patched after this version.
I know that lot of time security updates are there so the bugs that I find online that work for 6.0.1 might have been fixed through later updated.
For instance the page source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01 dot html mentions some bugs..(sorry can't post links)
I have no idea though if this will help someone.
If an experienced member can through some light i can at least try to look for possible bugs online

• #160

Bump.

Anymore progress on this?

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