OBDEleven grants credits, one per day, as far as I can tell. It also only records the most recent date which it granted a credit on.

 

Therefore if the date on your phone gets advanced one day at a time, whilst the app is active, the app clocks up another credit for you. You can't advance it 7 days and get 7 credits - got to be one day at a time. If happen to be at work, I suspect you could crank on hundreds of credits during a typical dump, hampered only by your boredom.

 

Probably....

Edited 10 April, 20179 yr by Mindbomb
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I've seen this obdeleven thing but couldn't get my head round the credit side of things 

 

Am i right in thinking you buy the dongle them have to pay to unlock things on your car ?? 

1 hour ago, malcster said:

I've seen this obdeleven thing but couldn't get my head round the credit side of things 

 

Am i right in thinking you buy the dongle them have to pay to unlock things on your car ?? 

 As I understand it (and I've not bought the dongle or the pro version yet - just installed the freebie version), you gain a credit every day by opening the app and you can view a video (an ad, I guess) each day for 5 credits.

 

If you want to perform long coding by flipping bits on in the status registers then you can do this manually without spending credits. However, I believe there are pre-built packages (say, enable traffic sign monitoring) which perform all of the programming in a little bundle. If you want to use one of these, you can pay for it using bought credits or using the "one per day and five for watching an advert" credits. Convenience factor really, and no risk of ballsing it up. However, to do this you'd still need to buy the dongle and register the pro version of the application, which is still going to cost you a couple of quid but nothing like the cost of VCDS.

 

I was curious about the application myself, so I downloaded it to have a bit of a poke around in it, and found it doesn't really guard against someone gaming the OS and knocking in hundreds of credits just by changing the date.

 

I wrote a little application at work yesterday which increases the date on my phone by one day every two seconds... left it running whilst I was in a few hour-long meetings yesterday afternoon.

 

S.

@ Mindbomb

 

I figured out that its quite easy to gain some extra credits by changing the date, but it's still a lot of work.

Any chance you can share your application/apk for harvesting some credits?:D

Normally, I'd say "absolutely" but it would most likely not work for you. In order to change the date programatically on Android you need to run with operating system level privileges. This is not normally possible to do unless you're running a modified version of the Android kernel, which I am.

 

So, unless you are in the same boat as me and running a non-stock, flashed, unlocked and are happy for normal applications to run with root level access, you'd just get an error from it.

 

I develop Android code at work, so I'm forever messing around with this kind of thing, hence the somewhat frigged around with OS I'm running.

Thanks for the reply,

 

Actually i'm on Lineage OS with Root acces on ADB and Apps using TWRP recovery mod aswell.

So i think i should be able to install the package using the TWRP? Or am i missing something?

 

Pretty awesome you can develop android code btw, i tried it but it's still a time consuming work for me haha!

 

Regards,

Nick

I've never tried Lineage (that's the "new" Cyanogenmod isn't it?) but so long as you can run a normal process with elevated privs then it should work fine. It's the stock roms which will prevent you apps from dicking with the settings and config of the phone, so anything which is opened up and relaxed should be ok.

 

You sound like you're quite confident with tinkering with your phone - are you ok to compile it yourself, in which case I'll send you the source or would you prefer a binary? I'd recommend taking the source so you can have a look through it to ensure that I've not stuck anything malicious in there before compiling it yourself. Taking binaries from strangers on the net, sticking them on your phone with system privs and blindly running them is not recommended!

 

Yeah that's right! Basically it's just the continuation of cyanogen but with half of the development team. Runs perfectly though...

 

Thanks for the heads up and warning! I know I can install every source/package but the phone I'm using is a backup phone and only contains ODBeleven and the Mosconi DSP app. So I'm safe haha, and by giving me this advice I trust your package will be safe as well!

 

But off course I'm also with compiling it myself! Just let me know what I need to do!:-)

 

Thanks for everything so far!

To correct myself :-)

 

- I know I can install every source/package and all the risks that come along with it, but the phone I'm using is just a backup phone without personal items on it.
- But off course I'm also Happy with compiling it myself! Just let me know what I need to do!:-) But the Binairy is fine aswell!

Apologies for the necro here but another user who is quite happy to take the risk on a dedicated device for coding the car. It's rooted running resurrection remix and If you are happy to send me the apk or binary I would be interested. 

Thanks