2024 Kia EV6, stock head unit.
Edit with some quick notes because I didn’t realize this blew up:
This is NOT yet usable as a replacement to stock. Working:
- Boots! (32 bit only because stock is 32bit, so no AAOS)
- Display
- Touch
- WiFi
- Maybe BT
- Maybe Modem (not gonna test that)
- GPS (uses translation daemon)
- Climate/controls/sensors/some energy stats - as much as MICOM provides anyway (uses translation daemon)
- GPU
- VPU (really need to test more)
Not working yet:
- Audio/amp control
- Power sequencing like when to turn off display, wake/sleep etc
- Any kind of head unit experience (this will come later, I’ll try AGL first, and if I can get 64 bit then I’ll try AAOS)
Use NEMESIS to get root on Android: https://github.com/xwtk/hmg_nemesis
Blog post that has a small section on this: https://w-floyd.com/2026/10/notes-on-llms-part-01/#2024-kia-ev6-head-unit I’ll post more there as I find the time. I am using LLMs for a lot of the heavy lifting as I try things out (never to write my blog). I link to my GitHub repos there, where this work is being actively pushed.
I only bought this car a week ago.
Don’t be an idiot and actually reflash your unit if you try this - I am using kexec to boot from an image from the USB, so this is completely nondestructive (NEMESIS is what actually is installed to the system).
Some more photos!
It isn’t like it makes me cool. I was talking about how I enjoy making shit.
And I don’t fucking care about downvotes. I can’t cash in internet points. God, the voting system which Reddit and Digg used was supposed to be for relevancy, not about if you agreed or not.
I don’t know you, and outside of the respect of general life, I don’t give a fuck what some random person on the internet thinks of me. In fact, I don’t want you to know me.
However, if you met me, you would get a solid realization that text is a terrible form of communication.
You cannot see the tone of my voice. You cannot hear the look on my face. You cannot feel my energy without a handshake.
I don’t like toxicity over the fact that all I said was it isn’t practical to install Doom on your car.
But you can hate me all you want. Don’t know why you specifically just want to rage on the internet as if this means a single thing to your life.
The newspaper will come out after I am dead and I will not be mentioned.
We have 8 billion people on this planet who want to judge me, so I won’t bother with doing your “job”.
But I think if you did know me, you might be kinder and recognize I am not an asshole.
I am a prick, and that is fair. Assholes get fucked. So… get fucked. I have to go to work.
And an mp3 player, where you start with a personally designed pcb, solder on the components, design the core logic, write the code, attach an LCD, and print an enclosure. Meh? You build one.
You’re so meh, I bet you think this comment is about you. You’re so meh! Don’t you, don’t you, dooon’t you!