As I promised before, here is a patch against HMIManager.exe that makes your info menu look like this:

1. Trip Computer
2. Voice command help
3. Calendar
4. Calculator
5. A/C Controls
6. Diag Menu

It is designed for the TL navi ver 3.50 (Orange disk, bnhh401a.bin) Sorry, folks, but I am not going to adapt it to any other vehicles/versions.

The patch is very well written and does not break any functionality. The only thing you're going to notice is that Calendar/Calculator menu items are enabled when you hit "Info" button before accepting legal disclaimer. They should actually be disabled at that time. This is a limitation in navi code for info menu, only menu items at the end of the menu can be disabled. Selecting Calculator/Calendar before accepting nag screen won't give you anything because PIM thread is not active at that time.

I'll take care of removing the nag screen later.
You people owe me a truckload of beer.

The patch (though most of you want to get the precompiled version below)
Same patch, compiled as windows executable using some badass old school tools.

All you need to do is extract HMIManager.exe, run the patch, point it to HMIManager.exe (actually, to HMIMAN~1.exe, because that badass crack compiler came from 1990-s), pack HMIManager.exe back to BIN file and load that file to your navi.

Enjoy!

/AngryDad

 

Thanks for figuring out how to do this!! What's next on your list of things to enable/hack?
Any thoughts on how to take advantage of the pc card slot?

 

nag screen and i will bow the fuck down!

 

is at hand! Nice work. If you crack the nag screen, you might just become immortal here...

 

thanks man, but one question, can we just rename the file that is patched to the file the navi uses for diffrent versions?

 

Anyone do this yet? How does the AC controls work? Are there any downsides to it? I.E. When looking at the original Trip computer post people who played with the AC ran into problem of it displaying wrong.

Also, does it still lock up on the diag screens and never compleate and does F CAN still say ok with errors?

Thanks, if no one has this thats ok, at some point I will try it than, but if people have I rather not spend the time on it.

Thanks!

 

Can you tell us what is changed in HMIManager? I am not running the same version and software as you, so the patch won't work. Can these changes be made with a hex editor?

Thanks!

 

I'm interested in hearing the answer to this question as well.

 

this sems great, now is there a DIY w detailed instructions . or, better yet anybody in the Philly area willing to helpme out????

 

I extracted bnhh401a.bin and tried to patch the HMIManager.exe and I got "CRC check failed. Ignore?"

I click on "yes" and it came up with "Data mismatch. Ignore?"

I stopped here...

I do have the 3.5 disk (orange)

Thanks for doing this!

 

Interesting... On my disk (came with 06 TL) the BNHH401A.bin file looks like this:

07/13/2005 11:16 PM 13,661,551 BNHH401A.bin
MD5SUM: 5a9dfa7336fa61171fdac9d153a2038e

If I extract it using dumpnavi, I get HMIManager.exe that looks like this:

09/09/2006 01:12 PM 1,407,488 HMIManager.exe
MD5SUM: 315b903d2a5e5562af65d225cb572e16

I can patch it with no problems using the above referenced patch.

/AngryDad

 

There are quite a few changes in the file, so porting the patch to other versions is not that easy. If you can find the copy of HMIManager.exe from the orange disk, you may try to pack it into your bin. HMIManager.exe seems to be very similar for different versons of navi software.

/AngryDad

 

I just checked and I have 3.40C...

Damn!! Can anyone else post a patch/unpatched HMIManager.exe from v3.50??

 

So this won't work on the 05 TL?

 

2 ways to do this if you have the 3.40c disk

1. get the updated NAV disk (3.50)
2. get a patched HMIManager.exe from a 3.50 and put that back to the bin file (UNCONFIRMED)

Would someone please post the exe file so I can try this?

 

I have an 04 with an orange navi disc, but it's version 3.30.

I looked at HMIManager with a hex editor and I can see the menus and such. Looking at the offsets in the patch, it seems it may be pretty close, assuming some of the changes were in the neighborhood of the menu text.

 

AngryDad has one.

 

yeah... thanks for the info sir!

 

I patched HMIManager.exe from 3.50 but the file was too big to be fitted back into the bin file.

Updating HMIManager.exe ...
The size of the updated file must be less-then or equal to the size of the old file.
This feature might be introduced in a newer version.
Updated file (COMPRESSED): 868391 bytes Old file (COMPRESSED): 868376 bytes

So unless there is some way we can shrink the compressed file by 15 bytes I'd say 3.40c is dead in the water.

15 bytes.... so close yet so far away...

 

Maybe someone can send AngryDad their unpatchable HMIManager and he can fix the patch to be compatible with other versions?

 

I don't think that's going to happen...

 

hot.... I'm doing this soon.

 

This is very easy to fix. Find useless strings in HMIManager.exe, like debug info, source file names (*.cpp), etc. and replace some of them with zeroes using your favorite hex editor. dumpnavi them will be able to better compress the file.

/Angrydad

 

Thanks goes out to AngryDad and datmrman. I edited out some stuff out of the HMIManager.exe from the v3.50 and was finally small enough to fit in the v3.40c bin!

Here are some pictures of the new screens...






I am currently working on finding a place to host the patched HMIManager.exe file. It should be up shortly.

Thanks again! Keep up the great work!

 

Woo! There's hope for those of us not running 3.50!

 

i'll host it

 

Here you go guys...

http://home.usadatanet.net/bclaps/MPG.rar

download the file
extract the file "MPG.exe" with the password "kennyc"
rename "MPG.exe" to "HMIManager.exe" (it's case-sensitive)
You can now pack the file back into the BNHH401A.BIN using dumpnavi.exe
the command for that is "dumpnavi BNHH401A.BIN update HMIManager.exe"

Voila, burn all 9 files on a cd/dvd and upload into the navi.

These are under the "info" menu....

Thanks again Brandon!

 

Very cool, thanks, guys!

My system is using BN2HH12C.BIN. Do you think it would work to drop your patched HMIManager into this bin, even though it's not BNHH401A.BIN?

 

I'm not getting any files in the .rar that I download.....

 

It didn't work for me on my PC either, but I was able to extract it on my Mac and then copy it up to my PC.

 

SWEET!! I will get this loaded on my TL tomorrow. Thank goodness I have the 3.5 version. Has anyone tried using the CEBin program from the other thread to load the HMIManager.exe file? That one does not complain about size issues compared to dumpnavi. This just saves time from editing hex files.

 

anyone in Northern NJ willing to do this for me?
this is something I definitely Cannot do, but something that I really want.
I have a 2004 TL. Don't know which version of the navi I have.

Whoever comes through on this, I can guarantee $$$$ to you.

John

 

^-- same here, i have an o5 tl

 

whats dumpnavi?

 

nerver mind, i found it, but is says stat cannont be update, i have a 3.30g cd. If someone can help plese do ($$$ involved)

 

any specific errors at all?

 

i found the problem, the directory was wrong, but the file is too big by 531 bytes. I sent a pm to brandonclaps to see if he could help. If anyone can help please do.

 

Same here. The .rar shows a filesize of 547kb, but my decoder shows nothing inside.

Is it corrupted?
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Try this link if the file on Brandon's link does not work.

http://www.savefile.com/files/56150

"kennyc" is the password for the zipfile.

Kenny

 

Many thanks, Kenny. But I notice it is named "3.40" and I have the v.3.50 disc ('06).

I think you grafted the 3.50 .bin file to the 3.40 HMIManager, didn't you(?), but I don't want to introduce an earlier version of anything into my sys. So is there any difference between the modded 3.40 HMIManager and a modded 3.50 HMIManager?
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