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FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay

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So, I'll start by saying that I've found 2 ways to "Australian-ise" the CarPlay display on the 12" infotainment screen. Each has one issue I cannot work out and if @Livnitup and/or @Jesse-Infotainment could help, I'd be very grateful and it might serve for others in right-hand drive countries who have bought direct US or Canadian imports.

Using the standard theme I made the following APIM changes:
Using As-Built:
7D0-03-01 **xx xxxx xx-- First Letter of Country Code (FLCC)
7D0-03-01 xx** xxxx xx-- Second Letter of Country Code (SLCC)
Country code = AU = 4155
Using non-As-Built:
Vehicle Driver Location (VDL) = Right Hand Drive

The above changes resulted in the following photo:
Ford F-150 FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay IMG_2094

As you can see, the CarPlay icons are in their correct place for right-hand drive, but the left-most bottom buttons are being obscured by the cards. It would be nice for this theme to be able to move all the buttons to the right, so that the space vacated by the card buttons is utilised. Alternatively, to move the cards back to the right, leaving CarPlay as is, the icons still being in closer reach for the driver.

So then I thought I'd enable the Unreal theme and climate bar changes listed on the "Common" tab of the fantastic FORSCan spreadsheet. This would make the buttons issue above irrelevant🙂. Making those changes resulted in the following photos:
Ford F-150 FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay IMG_2098
Ford F-150 FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay IMG_2096

As you can see, there is a navigation card and navigation section on the Home Screen. Don't worry, I've already consulted Jesse about Nav and it definitely isn't available because of the TCU not able to reach the AT&T network in this country. The issue, though, is the garbled text on the Home Screen nav section and a blank nav card. So I thought I'd try to get rid of them and therefore I made the following non-As-Built changes:
- List Browser = Disabled
- Mobile Navigation = Disabled
- Ignition Off Draw (IOD) - Navigation = Disabled

This resulted in the removal of the Nav card, but no changes to the Nav section of the Home Screen. Is removing the Nav section on the Home Screen possible?

Any help to clean up either or both slightly messy results would be greatly appreciated 🙏
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I wouldn't waste your screen space with the climate. Unreal is certainly a must. As for your TCU -- you might be able to locate a sync4 vehicle sold in AU and check its part numbers.

Did you get fordpass working?
 
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Thank you for replying @HammaMan 🙂
I wouldn't waste your screen space with the climate.
Unfortunately, if I don't have the climate bar, I have the blocked buttons as if I didn't change to Unreal 🤷‍♂️ photo of Unreal without climate bar:
Ford F-150 FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay IMG_2095

Unreal is certainly a must. As for your TCU -- you might be able to locate a sync4 vehicle sold in AU and check its part numbers.
It's certainly an option once the AU spare parts are there, but as my dealer or I are doing all updates via FDRS, and I use Google maps in CarPlay, I'd rather not throw money at an "Australian-ised" set of modules 🙂
Did you get fordpass working?
No, no TCU connectivity, again a Ford Australia TCU would fix it by connecting to our local telcos, but in reality FordPass is pretty useless so I don't miss it 🤣
 
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If it helps you - this is the APIM for an Australian 2023 Ford imported lariat.

;Block 1
7D0G1G185410002BC5D
7D0G1G22300C62BB9A7
7D0G1G3504D21F53ECC
7D0G1G426E4DC206042
;Block 2
7D0G2G1C616420A0204
7D0G2G24200009000AD
7D0G2G3A80000008408
;Block 3
7D0G3G1415324030399
7D0G3G20B00140E010A
7D0G3G30000000000DD
;Block 4
7D0G4G1052400000005
;Block 5
7D0G5G1218204000084
7D0G5G2000300E5D89E
7D0G5G34BE700000011
;Block 6
7D0G6G11A681A68381A
7D0G6G2A483
;Block 7
7D0G7G1200033000032
7D0G7G2000000007555
7D0G7G3305656A30060
7D0G7G4C8AA
;Block 8
7D0G8G1C000000200A2
7D0G8G20000000000E1
;Block 9
7D0G9G16317C0A8FABD
7D0G9G2C06F57000D75
7D0G9G300400004072E
7D0G9G483400A50E0E1
7D0G9G50005000000EA
;Block 10
7D0GAG10000000000E8
7D0GAG20000000000E9
7D0GAG3000000100802
7D0GAG400000000412C
7D0GAG5234F604F606D
 
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Thank you very much Andy 🙂, I will investigate, decode and try anything that looks good... I'll report back 🙂
 
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@supercheap: Andy, thank you very much again for the APIM .abt 🙂. It enabled me to do a couple of things like removing Sirius XM from audio sources and setting the same country code of AS (American Samoa 🤣).

Unfortunately, the buttons in either theme did not shift to the right, so I re-enabled the Unreal theme climate bar to hide them. As can be seen from the following photo, the Home Screen at least shows correct information in the Nav section and I can live with that as it's almost always not sitting on the Home Screen.
Ford F-150 FORScan Country and RHD Mods to APIM for CarPlay IMG_2099

I believe that the Ford AU APIM is actually different hardware as well as software files. I say that because I also set the same configuration to enable DAB radio, and the multiple tuners needed for it to work. Pressing the DAB button in Sources does nothing but as I'm in regional Victoria I'm only 99% sure; I need to go to Melbourne to know for sure. Thanks again 🙂
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