Great guide! I will try this out later. FYI I believe you run cd tmp/mnt/sd?1 to cd to the correct drive without having to know if its the a or b slot.

Do you know if Touchscreen While Moving works with Android Auto?

Edit: Tried this out. Worked great!

 

Great guide! I will try this out later. FYI I believe you run cd tmp/mnt/sd?1 to cd to the correct drive without having to know if its the a or b slot.

Do you know if Touchscreen While Moving works with Android Auto?

I am not sure, i have just used Apple Carplay

 

@aeromiata : Thank you for this guide, it will make it much easier for many people.
@Albuyeh : No, it does not work. Unfortunately.

 

Recommentation:
In Step 2, Bullet 3, I would highly recommend to tick/check the box "Apps To Resources". This way the "main memory" will not be filled with AIO Tweaks and they will be saved elsewhere (in folder/partition "resources").

 

Do you need a specific usb keyboard or will any do? Especially those keyboards with RGB lighting and whatnot on them

 

Any keyboard should work. The easy way to test it is to plug it in and check if you can use the arrow keys to navigate in the normal menu.

 

Update. So far everything seems to be working fine. I changed up the command a bit just to speed things up

sh mnt/sdb1/run.sh

 

thanks for info

 

do we need serial connection for this to work?

 

No, you do not need a serial connection (like for ID7 or ID7v2) for this to work.

 

Have you all tested any of the other tweaks? Menu loop? Or a new background? My girlfriend would really like her custom backgrounds back.

Thanks!

 

I'm not actually a Mazda3 owner, I instead have an MX5-ND, but as it's the same infotainment and not many people are back to testing the AIO-Tweaks since the new v74 hack came around, I figured I'd join here and join the research.

Ok so, so far, all of the tweaks I've tested on v74 seem to work without issue ... except...

One of the tweaks makes it so that if you're on a menu page, and you scroll up and down by pushing forward/back on the dial (instead of rotating it) then it'll beep annoyingly at you. You can force it to happen just by holding up/down for a second or so. I narrowed it down a bit, and it seems to be either from the 'main menu loop' (not the 'list loop' one) or the 'shorter delay mod'. Not sure why, as neither of these are meant to effect going up and down in menus, but there we go.

However if I turn on the 'no more beeps' mod, then it stops the beep from happening, and you can scroll up and down no problem just by holding forwards/back. (or you can still rotate, which I should be doing, I just reflexively dont do that yet). Parking sensors etc beeps still work as they should, so I actually have no idea what beeps the 'no more beeps' was designed to stop, maybe someone here will know.

Every other mod I've tried seems to work without issue:

Remove reverse camera warning
main menu loop
shorter delay mod
order of audio sources
remove message reply
boot animation (I turn it off, but the 'matrix' one worked too so I assume they all work)
no more disclaimer
semi-transparent reversing icons
improved list loop
no more beeps
1 sec diag menu.
fuel consumption tweak


Next one I'm going to test is the Android Auto one. I have concerns, as it's going to be an old version compared to what the phone is expecting to see, but worth a stab.

 

Remove reverse camera warning
main menu loop
shorter delay mod
order of audio sources
remove message reply
boot animation (I turn it off, but the 'matrix' one worked too so I assume they all work)
no more disclaimer
semi-transparent reversing icons
improved list loop
no more beeps
1 sec diag menu.
fuel consumption tweak

Thanks for this! I look forward to hearing if the android auto tweak actually works.

 

Installed Use screen while moving Remove disclaimer Remove reverse messaging Install custom static background

 

Awesome, thanks! Glad the background worked. I'm going to install her backgrounds later this week. Follow up if you have any issues?

 

Android Auto tweak installed, but when I plug my phone in the headunit goes black (as if its trying to start up) and my phone goes into a loop of the AA icon appearing and disappearing. It then comes up with a 'connection unstable' error message.

I'm using the cable I used to use for android auto in a previous car (aftermarket headunit) so I assume it -should- be fine (though I'll try another cable).

Also tried having USB debugging turned on, but that didn't seem to help.

Will report back if I discover anything. I don't have the retrofitted mazda USB ports which allow for native AA which may be part of the issue, but of course if I had those I wouldn't need tweaked AA anyway...

 

Unfortunately I've had no luck getting the Tweak Android Auto to run. Keep getting that 'unstable connection' loop on my phone. Could be that my phone is just too new.

If anyone else has any luck though I'd be interested to hear how!

 

I might have found a better way.

Give this a try. I'll try it now too. The cmu version is 74.00.311.

 

I can tell you that the AA Tweak of AIO never worked at FW 70 or higher. With the as is version from AIO 2.8.6 you will not succeed.

Once there was a user who changed the code of it to work with FW 70 and higher, but it required a usb hub connected to the usb hub. And he and all his info got banned/deleted here, as he might have sold his solution or there were some copyright issues.

More stable was the official AA/CP with the 2 new cables and new usb hub.

 

Yea, I have a hub being delivered tomorrow. The only reason I updated to V74 is because of the hub and native Android Auto support. With that said, I really like the other customization and cleaning up of the interface, the "quality of life" mods.

 

Ahh that's unfortunate. I had been planning to do the hub retrofit on my ND but I'm yet to find a good guide / video to follow and I don't want to be ripping the dashboard apart blind if I can help it.

 

I used this guy:

 

After the tweak, will I still be able to use Android Auto or CarPlay?

I upgraded the CMU to support Android Auto, but do I actually need the upgraded CMU (or retrofit kit) if I have the tweaks? Will I be able to use the touchscreen with Android Auto after applying the tweaks? I would really appreciate any answers.

 

I am using apple carplay. Not sure about AA.

 

1. Yes, if you have official AA/CP already, you are able to use it afterwards.
2. No, touch for AA can not be enabled via AIO Tweaks or this ability here.
3. AIO Android Auto Tweak does not support FW 70 or 74. So, yes, if you want to use AA at FW 70 or 74, you have to use the the official version (new usb hub and 2 new cables).

 

Thank you so much @Tristan-cx5. You are really great helping the community. I would like to bother you with one more info

1. Can you please let me know if I can downgrade to any older firmware where AIO tweaks for AA works?
2. If yes. Do you have the older supported firmware or any link for that please?

 

1. It depends and as you do not write which version is installed currently, I can ony tell you in general, that a downgrade in general is possible. But there are Firmware versions like 59.00.502 and 74.00.311 (or .310) which mark a stop, from these you can not downgrade any further via the usual downgrade method. Examples:
a) 74.00.324 is installed. Downgrade only possible to 74.00.311 (or .310).
b) 70.00.367 installed. Downgrade possible as low as 59.00.502.
So in either way you have to enable the firmware to be able to install tweaks after a downgrade. You can not downgrade below 59.00.502, and ony below that the firmware allows the installation of tweaks via usb. For higher firmwares you have to do the ID7, ID7v2 or mp3 method to be able to install tweaks again.
2. No.

 

I am on 74.00.324. So there is way I can downgrade to 59.00.502 or something else to use aa from AIO tweaks?

 

There is no usual way. Technically there is a more complex way to downgrade anyway - see thread "Black Screen MZD" for details. But this requires additional hardware and is risky.

 

thanks for the great work.

 

Hi everyone,

I have an Abarth 124, and was wondering what is the process to installing our "Mazda to Abarth/Fiat" start up animation tweaks with V74 firmware?

The link to our script can be found here - http://www.mediafire.com/file/zj0cp690a7x5rq1/MazdaToFiatV70AIO.zip/file

I do have a few bench test CMUs to try out, with one currently on the V74.000.324 software but with Mazda logo. I have a TAU but currently it isn't connected to the bench unit as I need to work out the wiring. I discovered that a TAU is required to run the MP3 hack in order to run V74 tweaks.

I was able for many years run the bench unit without a TAU to do the software upgrades and tweaks using ID7 or Serial Method as it didn't require access to the entertainment menu (which requires a connected TAU).

Thank you!

 

It might be that a value change in the tweaks.sh file might be sufficient. At least that`s what I would try. But I am not a developer.
Search for:

  elif [ $_VER -eq 70 ]
  then
  if [ $_VER_EXT -le 100 ]

New values:

elif [ $_VER -eq 74]
then
if [ $_VER_EXT -le 999 ]

Please let me know, if the mp3 method works at your bench setup once the TAU is connected.

 

Thanks Tristan,

I will definitely try and sort out the TAU, it seems the connector plugs are extremely hard to find. Good thing is I will test your above code inside the car shortly and report back.

 

@Tristan-cx5 ,

I've been watching some videos, and it seems the Vietnamese have some sort of crazy box that they've made to push commands on the terminal screen.

Any idea what this box is doing? Or what the script is? Seems wild but at the same time pretty easy to do. I was considering visiting these guys in my holidays to see if they are willing to sell the box and take it apart for all.

 

That youtube video clip is mine! I recorded this video longtime ago when i created the toolbox for my testing purpose.
What do you think?

 

@UncleMurphy unfortunately adding a TAU on the bench setup won't enable access to the Entertainment Menu. I think you will need to add a PCM or better candidate, an Instrument cluster to complete the canbus network.

 

May be only need the resistor to closed the CAN network for it normal function... because with all apart of accessories in the car will make CAN network of car closed, just like closed circle!