Any one know of a cheep adapter that works well with torq app?
Anyother good apps for android based diag?
Thanks

 

Check amazon they have a lot of them. I got one with wi fi and Bluetooth The $5 torque app works great with a tablet;

 

I recently bought this one to use with Torque Pro.....It has worked great on every vehicle I tried it on. Ford 6.0, 6.4, toyota, honda, bla bla)

 

cheezit: there are a ton of these out there -- I bought mine off ebay and have a couple of pieces of advice: You are looking for an ELM327 Bluetooth connector at V1.5 (I don't think they go any higher).

I'd limit to buying only from a US seller and one that has excellent feedback (I had to get a second one, the seller didn't even question or ask for the 1st one back). Here is one similar to mine from the same seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/V1-5-ELM327-Mini-OBD2-Bluetooth-Interface-Auto-Car-Scanner-Diagnostic-Tool-/400521026773?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d40e9dcd5
I really like Curt's05 advice of getting one for wifi as some of the cheaper droid tablets will do wifi but not bluetooth. On the Bafx unit mentioned, a couple of things to point out: they have a bunch of blinking lights that flash when it's plugged in, I personally found that annoying. Also on the units Bafx I tried they did not report vehicle info - not that much of a biggee.

Whatever you do, don't install any software that comes with any of these -- too many reports of malware on the discs. You're gonna' like Torque I think!

 

So I want to order a blue tooth adapter for obd ll.What is the most popular one being used with the 6 liter?
Thanks Mike

 

What kind of work environment you work in is the biggest factor whether bluetooth or even wifi will even work for you. If you have too much Scrap Iron around fergit it. Even if your right by the truck you may not get a reliable signal.

Granted my work environment is not typical a 500'X190" metal building with a dozen or more pieces of equipment at any given time there is just too much iron to absorb or deflect signal. Rule of thumb if your more than 20' away your wasteing your time.

Just my 2 cents. A small shop enjoy

 

Good point,my shop is 32 by 48 and covered in metal.Cell phone works good out there,guess I should drag laptop out there and try it.

 

You are talking about a signal as in Internet connectivity, am I correct? The bluetooth adapter plugs into your ODBII port in your truck and talks to your Droid device a few inches to a few feet away, all surrounded by the chunk of metal we call a SuperDuty and with all the electronic noise (EMI/RFI) that goes with that equipment, no need for Internet once you've loaded Torque on your Droid...

My 1st adapter works great, I had a problem getting it to connect to my laptop so I thought it was bad -- I contacted the eBay seller and they sent a 2nd one. Turns out my laptop didn't have the right driver installed to run bluetooth -- oh well, I did find a good ebay seller in the meantime...

 

Dan I run windows 7 on my laptop,so what driver is needed to run Bluetooth?
Would like that option.Should have been born 30 years ago instead of __ years ago.Gas,juice and air and you were good to go.

 

My older laptop didn't have bluetooth, bought a $15 usb to bluetooth adapter to use with my elm odb2 adaptor. Also used torque-lite a few times just for kicks.

Santa is getting me a windows tablet pro and i'll be trying that out in a couple of weeks.. yippie

Gonna try forscan too... Before i take the ae plunge..

Sent from my Sprint PC36100 using IB AutoGroup

 

GOOD to see you checking up on us Cheezit

You must be Busy as a Cat Covering up $h^t

I been thinking about getting one these units too

 

I bought a used HP laptop that had bluetooth onboard (had the chip/card). I tried downloading several drivers from HP and then read that the unit came with a number of hardware bluetooth devices and I read up on how to dig in and see the actual BT unit. From there it was easy to find the right driver (a driver is just a software interface for a certain piece of hardware to communicate).

You can also go Misky's route and just get a USB bluetooth adapter for your PC. Bottom line tho is Torque runs on the Android Operating System and not Windows. I have a Droid phone so I run my Torque that way. My eyes are old, so I'd like to move to a larger screen, so the WiFi option or a hardwired ODBII to USB connector would allow me to use a cheap larger screen Droid device -- might be my next step...

 

Looks like most users use the ELM 327 with an andoid device. I have an Iphone. What software are iphone users seeing the best results?

 

DashBoss.

They even have add ons for EGT and Fuel pressure. $150 to start I think.

 

Been working alot, but ive been lurking too