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Originally Posted by kennyc
If you think I would have bought it just cause of you, I got news.  |
The phone clinched the deal but I steered you in the right direction
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Originally Posted by kennyc
What's OBDII car-diagnostic? Is there a plug to connect to your car?
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Bingo. Those handheld scanners Autozone uses to find the trouble codes for your Check Engine light? You can do all that on an Android phone with Bluetooth.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics...one/e661/#tabs
This is the one I got; word on the forums is that it works the best and is most compatible with the most Android phones. There are cheaper ones like this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/elm327-...r-dongle-16921
but there have been reports of them failing, not being true ELM327 protocol, etc. There are others as well but once I got out my plastic the PLX piece made the most sense. The devs at Torque say it's most compatible and that's the app I'm using (well one of them anyway). Then you get the soft out of the Market; alOBD Scanner, OBDroid, and Torque are the ones I remember off the top of my head, there are others. There's even an OBDII terminal app where you can send commands to the car's computer, but you have to know specific codes for specific manufacturers.
The whole thing is OBDII so only cars from '96 and up. I get the Bluetooth dongle today so I'll let you know what's up.