Secret menu Mk2 - Pin

[hmadsen]

In the menu where you can see the what version the infotainment is running, if you press the version string 5 times, it pops up a dialog, asking for a pincode.

I wonder what's behind that pincode. The secret menu perhaps

Must enter 6 digits before the "OK" button becomes active so quite a lot of possibilities

 

[Alb]

Random guesses probably not a good idea

 

[hmadsen]

Random guesses probably not a good idea

No i guess trying out 1 million combinations is going to take a while.

We could divide the pool into smaller parts, but since most in here does not seem to have gotten their car, it will probably take some time.

I guess the code will be guessed or leaked at some point.

Statistically you should be able to get the code in about 50% tries, so statistically you only need 500.000 different tries.

If 1000 owners got together and tried 500 each, (Someone should arrange who tried what ranges) it would be possible.

But on the other hand, it would be kind of a bummer if there is nothing interesting in there or MG pushed an OTA that also changed that code. (But still, maybe hacking this code, is the only way to force them to actually make an OTA update )

I guess, if they make an update, that can also be applied via USB and people can download that, it might be possible to reverse engineer the firmware and retrieve the code this way

 

[iMacThere4iAm]

That sounds like the Android "developer options" menu. There's no knowing what might be hidden there on a car but on a phone there's various settings that may be of interest to a hacker, such as enabling USB debugging, bootloader unlocking and other stuff.
On a phone, to access it you would enter the phone's normal user unlock pin. But the MG embedded version of Android obviously does not use a user pin.

 

[sgt4hed]

did you try the usual 000000 and 123456

 

[N2STY]

did you try the usual 000000 and 123456

Come on its China it will be 888888 remember to use the upside down ones and before any one says it 8 not 1

 

[Bryan Flanagan]

Also have a look at the vehicle VIN number, perhaps first 6, last 6, or the 6 following a letter in the VIN.

 

[sgt4hed]

Also have a look at the vehicle VIN number, perhaps first 6, last 6, or the 6 following a letter in the VIN.

I highly doubt it will be that specific, that would be a monumental task to hard code that pin code individually into each individual car... it is 100% going to be a generic code that is hard coded into each vehicle

 

[hmadsen]

I highly doubt it will be that specific, that would be a monumental task to hard code that pin code individually into each individual car... it is 100% going to be a generic code that is hard coded into each vehicle

Yeah, and i found out that you can press "accept" after entering 6 digits, but you can also enter more than 6 digits, so maybe the code is 8 digits.

 

[Harry]

In the menu where you can see the what version the infotainment is running, if you press the version string 5 times, it pops up a dialog, asking for a pincode.

I wonder what's behind that pincode. The secret menu perhaps

Must enter 6 digits before the "OK" button becomes active so quite a lot of possibilities

000000

 

[hmadsen]

000000

Sadly no, i tried that one

 

[N2STY]

Sadly no, i tried that one

Did u try me 8's
If not 6 then definitely 8 8's

 

[hmadsen]

Did u try me 8's
If not 6 then definitely 8 8's

There seems to be no option for a upside down 8, if there were, it would definitively be that

 

[JordiFer]

just today I checked the same thing, we have to find that numbering..

 

[sgt4hed]

just today I checked the same thing, we have to find that numbering..

Anybody friendly with an MG technician?

 

[Haraldur]

Oh fudge me SIDEWAYS!! This is so frustrating!! I want that code so bad

 

[fatboyfat1981]

58008618?

 

[Haraldur]

Feel like i've just finished searching the entire Interwebs... All i have is that this model is called ZS11E EU...

 

[N2STY]

Feel like i've just finished searching the entire Interwebs... All i have is that this model is called ZS11E EU...

I think that's just the model number For the car

 

[Haraldur]

58008618?

Nope...