Torque for Android Devices

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czonin
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Found a cool app for Android that works with a OBD2 Bluetooth adapter. Looks pretty cool, just wanted to share it with everyone. Here's the description:

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Market Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.prowl.torque

Measure your Torque and BHP,
Find and clear faults,
View data in Google Earth!
See what your car is doing in realtime, get fault codes, sensor data and more!

Torque is a vehicle / car performance / diagnostics tool that uses an OBD II Bluetooth adapter to connect to your OBD2 engine management / ECU.

It can use the GPS to provide tracker logs with engine logging so you can see what you were doing at any point in time

It can also show and reset a DTC / fault code like a scantool.

It also has:
* Dyno / Dynomometer and Horsepower/HP
* 0-60 timings - more accurate than just using plain old GPS - see how fast your car is (or truck :))
* Massive fault code database for allowing lookup of fault codes from many different manufacturers
* Send logging information to web or email CSV/KML for analysis via excel / openoffice
* Heads up display / HUD
* GPS Speedo/Tracking and realtime web upload capability - see what you were doing and your engine, at a point in time
* Turbo boost feature for vehicles that support MAP sensors
* Alarms (for example if your coolant temperature goes over 120C!)

Works on any vehicle that supports the OBD 2 standard (most vehicles built after 2000, but can work for vehicles as far back as 1996) - if in doubt check with your manufacturer first or look for 'OBD2' on written on a big white label in your engine bay

Works on vehicles made by Ford, GM/Vauxhall/Opel, Chrysler, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, Jaguar, Citroen, Peugoet, Skoda, Kia, Mazda, Lexus, Daewoo, Renault, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, Toyota, Seat, Dodge, Jeep and many more vehicle makes, European, US, Far East, etc. Some vehicle ECUs may support more/less features than others.

The app needs a Bluetooth OBD2 adapter to work. The adapter is small and plugs into the diagnostics socket on the car which gives your phone access. You can find a list of adapters on: http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Bluetooth_Adapters (Garmin EcoRoute HD adapters not supported).
If you buy one of the cheap china OBD2 bluetooth adapters from ebay/amazon, then make sure you have a good returns policy with the seller as quite a few of the cheap units are defective and 'stop working'/etc. If you have a Ford, avoid the cheap ebay adapters as a considerable number of the clone ELM327 adapters have broken J1850-PWM (Ford protocol) support.

Some of the best reliable OBD2 adapters are the Scantool.net adapter, the OBDKey adapter, and PLX Devices Kiwi Bluetooth, ELM327 and other ELM adapters are supported - search on google for where to get them!

More features added every release - there are forums at http://torque-bhp.com/forums/ - if you want something added then let me know and I'll try to add it if it is possible! Vehicle ECUs vary in the amount of sensors supported


csmith5888
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Car: 11 Altima Coupe 3.5 SR
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Thats really cool....but if you dont have an iphone...you dont have an iphone ;)

Seriously tho...they have this app for iphones??

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Jman0711
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Car: 2008 Altima Coupe 3.5SE
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This is pretty cool, if you have an iPhone then you can download REV, except i think it uses wireless not bluetooth not sure they may have changed it since last i saw it.

http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/

wade001
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Last I heard these apps were glitchy and not as accurate as advertised. These things are NOT nearly as good as a true scan tool.


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