ADC (Aiways Drivers Community software) replaces and extends parts of the head unit's software: Bluetooth, CarPlay and the connection menus run on our own code instead of the vendor's. It is installed from a USB stick and can be removed again.

Status: alpha. Version 0.13.4 (8 October 2026) has been installed and tested on one bench head unit (firmware 0051, app build 052). It has not yet run in many cars — use it at your own risk, see the disclaimer.

• Wireless CarPlay — without the vendor's CarPlay software, over the car's own 5 GHz hotspot. The CarPlay tile on the home screen shows which phone is connected.
• Wired CarPlay — included, but not yet tested in a car (experimental).
• Bluetooth — pairing, music with track info and controls, hands-free calls with call audio, phonebook.
• Settings › Connect — pages for CarPlay, Android Auto (in development), SSH and Ethernet (USB adapter), plus ADB over Wi-Fi.
• Home screen — the CarPlay tile with the connected phone, an Android Auto tile (in development) and the network status (hotspot, mobile data, Ethernet).
• USB sticks — plug one in and the Connect app shows what it carries, with the right action for each: install an ADC update, copy the 3D parts catalogue, or go back to the stock firmware.
• Self-test — after every start a short report is written to /sdcard/OpenAiways/selftest.txt.

• Your head unit must run firmware MX64_V2.01.0051.05-9-R-210326 (shown under Settings › About). The installer checks this itself and refuses any other firmware without changing anything.
• The changed Settings and home screen are built for the app builds 052, 060 and 104. Other builds get the core (Bluetooth, CarPlay, the Connect app) and keep their own Settings and home screen. 060 and 104 have not been tested in a car yet.
• Installing on a car without ADC needs a factory reset: paired phones, Wi-Fi networks and settings are erased. ADC itself survives later factory resets.
• A USB stick formatted as FAT32 (MS-DOS FAT). The head unit does not read exFAT sticks.

Unzip the download and copy its four files — update.zip, update_os.zip, ota_update.ini and OpenAiwaysConnect.apk — to the top level of the stick, not into a folder. Put nothing else on that stick, above all no stock-firmware files (imx6.ini, imx6.bin, imx6ap.bin): one stick, one job.

1. Switch the car on and plug the stick into the front USB port — the one official Aiways update sticks use.
2. Open Settings › About › Factory Reset and confirm.
3. The car restarts, erases its data and installs ADC: first a factory-reset message, then about 25 seconds of black screen, then the install progress. All in all about 2–3 minutes.
4. When the home screen is back, pull the stick — left in, it would install again at the next restart.

1. Plug the stick in. The Connect app opens a box with a row for ADC 0.13.4 — press Install.
2. It copies the update into the car and then asks you to pull the stick. As soon as the stick is out, the car restarts and installs. Paired phones and settings stay.

• Back to the stock firmware (everything as delivered, all data erased): see Stock firmware 0051. On a car with ADC, the Connect app offers Revert as soon as the stock-firmware stick is plugged in.
• Remove only ADC: the rollback stick puts every file ADC replaced back from the backup the installer made during the first install. Prepare it like the install stick, plug it into the front USB port and run Settings › About › Factory Reset. ⚠️ The rollback has been tested on a computer only, not yet in a car — if in doubt, use the stock-firmware route.

• Every install writes a log to /cache/oa-install.log; the backup of every replaced file goes to /sdcard/OpenAiways/backup/.
• ADC lives on the system and vendor partitions, so it survives restarts and factory resets; a factory reset only resets its settings.
• Android Auto is in development.