For some reason, Android versions greater than 2.3 no longer come with the Google CarHome app. This is an app that gives your phone a simplified interface for easier use in-car.

To install on a rooted device, download CarHomeGoogle.apk

Copy it to /system/app, set permissions to -rw-r–r– (644) and user/group owner to root.

2 Responses to “Google Car Home for rooted Android devices”

1. joeld says:

   2012-12-06 at 00:37

   Chromium 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04 x64
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11

   that trick didn’t work for me, not sure how you use to launch it. What did work for me was installing the two binaries found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408023

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2. Andre the Android Guy says:

   2013-04-05 at 12:52

   Google Chrome 26.0.1410.43 Windows 7 x64 Edition
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

   The trick worked fine for me, did you get the latest software patch on that app? I had to update mine before it worked, but it launches fine.

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