I decided to hack my VW Phatbox today. At some point I plan on upgrading past the 20GB drive I have, but not right now. I just wanted to hack the unit in the event that it decided to die on me soon.
I got the PhatHack DMS Tools v2.12 and ran the hack wizard. Everything worked fine through the point of taking it out to the car and installing the hack. In the car the unit rebooted several times (as I'd been warned it would), and then it announced that the hack was completed. Then it began playing music.
When I put the DMS back into the cradle to finish the wizard, it complained that the patch failed, and told me to post logfile.txt here. So I'm doing that.
I rooted through the logfiles on the DMS and found "Segmentation fault" in PHTSYS/log/patch.log. That doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
I searched around for someone having a similar problem, and didn't find one close enough to make me feel confident in just running away with my own fix.
Its a VW Phatbox. It was running the latest firmware (7.02 I think), and I had purchased the upgrade from PhatNoise that allowed me to play AAC files on the Phatbox.
So what do I need to do to make this work?
Thanks in advance!
If you got the message.... your box is hacked. I think there's a problem with the hack itself not writing the file that the Wizard then looks for....I'll badger sbingner about it when he returns from .DE
To Make AAC work, simply do a firmware update using the tools and choose the option 'Install AAC plugin'... this is a workaround from the original plugin. Anyone can use it....
Sweet!
Sorta. I fired up the DMS Hack tool and switched it to DMS Tools mode. I selected the VW Firmware that matched my car, and checked the install AAC plugin. It then downloaded some files and did its thing.
I put it in the car and got the "thank you for using the PhatHack tools" announcement. The Phatbox then said "corrupt track", then immediately started playing music.
Is it possible that the for-pay AAC plugin that I have installed is borking things up? Or could it be that since the wizard won't finish running, something is not cleaned up?
Should I be looking at wiping the Phatbox and starting from scratch just to make things easier?
Shane
The wizard just puts files on your DMS -- if it said complete the hack completed successfully and fully... what you do with your DMS afterwards is up to you, but if you made a new DMS it's completely irrelevant and you could just as well leave the hack code on it in case you want to hack another phatbox or something ;)
'Corrupt track' as I've been finding out a lot lately, is down to Tracks.db and TTS announcements not matching up correctly. Having the AAC plugin installed, and installing the new workaround... won't have any ill-effects... the PhatBox just won't use the paid for version (which is actually the same files).
If you don't want to keep the hack in place, then simply load up the DMS in PhatNoise MM and delete the first playlist.
This will put things back as they should be for music playback and should get rid of the 'corrupt track' warning.