VagCom For Android Users (looking for feedback) ??

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Hi guys

In thinking about making a vagcom type of app that would run on your android phone or tablet and connect to the car by using one of those cheap bluetooth obd adapters.

Before looking into this and spending a load of time making it, i thought i would ask on here and see how popular you think it would be.

There are already a few android apps for fault...etc but none of them are specific for vag cars.

So what do you think??

Also ive just made this app on google play store that you may find useful :

http://goo.gl/VrU4s0
 
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Would be very good. The closest I have found to VAG-COM in an app is Carista. Allows you to check for fault codes across all the modules in the car not just the ECU.
Also allows you to make changes to the car that you would normally only be able to do with VAG-COM.
I have tried mine on several cars an A1, a couple of A4's and A5's and found it to be good, picking up faults and enabling features that would normally need VAG-COM.
Doesn't do measuring blocks but they do seem to keep adding functionality.

http://www.caristaapp.com/
 
If you can get it working and an affordable price for everyone not just dealers and professional mechanics

I reckon it would be a massive hit.
 
I would imagine this would have to comms via a bluetooth dongle much like Torque... bare in mind there is a degree of lag here and Ross Techs solution still uses a cable so comms is going to be faster in relative terms...

Torque works pretty well... its problem for me is its generic and as is the case of all things generic its a ballache to find the exact code as P codes are too ambiguous

If it turns out to be a VAG version of Torque then that would be damn cool though :)

...needs to do EGT's too... Torque doesn't do this as yet from what I can see (have tried the custom PIDs to no avail)

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Thanks for all the feedback guys ;)

Ill defiantly look into it more now but i think it will take a bit of time to develop as its not just a simple generic obd scanner I'm wanting to make.

I made this thread because I'm a computer tech and used a few tech forums in the passed. When i would see the same problem keep coming up (usually when a new operating system would come out) i would offer to make a simple bit of software to fix the problem for members that wasn't confidant trying to to do all the steps the techs were telling them to do, and i would get a load of hassle from them (maybe the techs wanted to boost their post count) so i wouldn't bother.

That's why i was thinking that this sort of app would be a bit hit or miss...lol

If anyone tries out my other app I've just put on play store:

http://goo.gl/VrU4s0


Then please sent me a pm with anything you think could be added to make it better ;)


Thanks again
 
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