[Moaning teen]

hi everone and first i would like to say we dont have an A5 but A1 so im sorry if this isnt the place to ask but i am at a loss and any advice help would be greatly appreciated!?, my son came across this webpage AudiEnthusiasts Master and it started the ball rolling so i emiled them asking for advice but still waiting for a reply but now i realise they are in the usa, so this is the email i sent them.......
"i hope you receive this and could possibly point me/us in the right direction if you would be so kind, so the reason I'm contacting you is I brought my son his first car which is a 2011 A1, the dealer who sold us the car said that the satnav would never work here in the uk because the car came from Japan so my son has lived with it for just over a year now and wasn't bothered by it until recently when he stumbled across your webpage (audi enthusiasts) explaining how to get it to work by changing the firmware ?, so I took your instructions/car to my local garage who do all the repairs and asked them to do it for us but they didn't want to just in case it goes wrong so they activated the green menu for us and said try it yourselves, we had a go and managed to get to step No.8 in your instructions but we are now stuck on what firmware and where to buy it ? if you could please advise ?,"

Can anyone on here help in any way with whether this willl even work or am i wasting my time?... If i am please advise so i can tell my teen its not possible as he is driving me mad now!

thankyou in advance for any replies

 

[JohnS4]

Ive moved your post to a new thread so we keep existing threads on topic.

 

[Moaning teen]

Ok thanks

 

[DrGER]

@Moaning teen : Your A1 could be fitted with MMI 3G+ for Japan (PR-8DZ) or RMC (PR-8AL), though obviously MMI since you state the system has navigation (and the GEM). Post a picture of the "Version information" screen (from MENU > MMI Setup). Region change is relatively simple. Changing regional language support from English, not so simple. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

wow thanks for the reply and i'm starting to think this could be beyond me 😂😂😂, my local garage who switched on the menu thing on for us said we might need this infomation and took these pictures for us... if it helps ?, thanks B.

 

[Moaning teen]

sorry forgot to say every other thing in the car is in english ie... stereo (receives all uk stations), dashboard english etc if that means anything ?.

 

[DrGER]

Given the "Media version" info, the EU firmware for your A1 MMI 3G+ system is HERE. The first screen looks to be from the ODBeleven app and shows information about the radio module, which is separate from the MMI main unit in the dash. I don't recognize the format of the "Nav. database version" (even with japanese characters). The Green Engineering Menu may offer more accurate information if you can navigate to the /nav menu. Alas, the MMI 3G+ system used in the A1 is not the same as in A4/A6+ models of that generation. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

thanks for help , when my son gets home from work he can read this and have ago , if he figures it out then whats the next step please ? and are we doing the right thing following the audienthusiasts instructions ?.

 

[DrGER]

The Audi Enthusiasts guide is useful insofar as it describes the MMI 3G+ system (firmware starts with "HN+"). Not many of us in NA will have direct experience with the MMI fitted in the A1, as the A1 wasn't available here. I'd say start with the Green Engineering Menu (GEM):
/nav > databaseupdate
/nav > diagvalues
/nav > engineering
in addition to the /system > internal screen from Audi Enthusiasts. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

i knew it wouldn't be as easy as the instrutions say , so i changed the green menu as per instructions and inserted the sd card in slot 1 and it then started reading and then stopped and now seems it be stuck ?, Help !!

 

[DrGER]

Check the SD card: the smaller, the better (say, 2 GB rather than 32 GB); name brand (Samsung, Sandisk) vs generic/off-brand; NO micro SD cards in an adapter; formatted as FAT32; extract directly to the SD card so that the release "metainfo2.txt" file is in the top/root directory/folder of the card; and avoid doing this on a Mac, since the Mac OS Finder creates hidden folders that cause MMI scripts & updates to fail. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

ok thanks for the info... the first card was an 8GB Sd but now I’m just re-doing it onto a 2GB SanDisk on a normail windows 10 pc, please can i just clarify something...in your earlier post i didn't really understand when you mention this...
/nav > databaseupdate
/nav > diagvalues
/nav > engineering
in addition to the /system > internal screen...
Is this something else i should be doing ???

 

[DrGER]

@Moaning teen : You're changing the system region from JP to EU, to you should likely look at the settings on the GEM screens noted above, and probably the /swdl screen (so the firmware update doesn't fail on the region change). Since there's not a whole lot of information on the interwebz about successful JP to EU A1 MMI region changes, you would do the community a benefit by documented as much of this as you can. Just my 2p. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

Just tried it again with the smaller SanDisk sd card (formatted fat32) and double checked the all the instructions from the AudiEnthusiasts Master and also made sure the "metainfo2.txt" file was present and done the same again ???

 

[Moaning teen]

just a thought ?, do i need to delete anything first from the original firmware/memory ?

 

[Moaning teen]

how about emergency update like this ??

How to Perform Audi MMI Emergency Update and Region ChangeAuto Repair Technician Home

Emergency update is useful if you have an activator installed (like Carson’s patch) and you want to update your firmware or install another patch without problems. We recommend: Do the emergency update with the same firmware that are currently installed. Info: “Emergency Update” is not available...

www.car-auto-repair.com

 

[DrGER]

ok thanks for the info... the first card was an 8GB Sd but now I’m just re-doing it onto a 2GB SanDisk on a normail windows 10 pc, please can i just clarify something...in your earlier post i didn't really understand when you mention this...
/nav > databaseupdate
/nav > diagvalues
/nav > engineering
in addition to the /system > internal screen...
Is this something else i should be doing ???

Can you start the Green Engineering Menu (GEM) ?
If you can get into the GEM, does your MMI have the screens I mention above ?
If yes to both, post them here for further discussion. --g

 

[Moaning teen]

ok i will do it tomorrow and post pic's and thanks for all your input

 

[JulianHicks]

Just tried it again with the smaller SanDisk sd card (formatted fat32) and double checked the all the instructions from the AudiEnthusiasts Master and also made sure the "metainfo2.txt" file was present and done the same again ???

You ARE running this from the menu you get with CAR and MENU aren't you; the update you get off the standard Car Systems doesn't work!

 

[Moaning teen]

yes i was following the AudiEnthusiasts Master instruction to the letter!, this turned into abit of a personal challange 😧, But now i think i may have made a bit of a breakthrough after countless google hours sufing the net, apparently the Japanese mmi are manufactured by a different company even though they look identical , they will not do the same thing as the european and American ones... so if it was an american unit it would work as per the instructions But no one seems to know how to do the Japanese spec one! As apparently they have different firmware and software so im told so that does make a bit of sense?!
So i need to try find someone ( maybe on this forum) who has actaully done a jap spec one?