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RE paper
BYD's SDK defines a vehicle position with a heading in it. The contract is readable on this car; the implementation is not in this app.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoStrong evidence
RE paper
Simple, Small and Full. One vendor display mode picks which the instrument shows, it lives in a system setting, and it outlives the app that set it.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmedmedium risk
RE paper
The cluster panel is 1920×720, but an app's surface lands in a 440-pixel band — full width in Full, a 640-pixel card in Small.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmed
RE paper
One system service, one AIDL and a Bundle command set reach the cluster — with no session token, no heartbeat and no client-liveness tracking.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmedmedium risk
RE paper
The ROUNDABOUT_EXIT_1..18 icon ids are not exit numbers. The unit picks them by exit angle, in eight 45-degree buckets.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoStrong evidence
RE paper
DataType 37 on msgType 3, subtype 20 feeds the cluster's native turn card. DataType 15 and 16 have no sender anywhere in the firmware.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmedmedium risk
RE paper
BYD's background killer spares any process owning a visible activity. The cluster is a public display, so an ordinary app can put one there.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmed
RE paper
No yaw rate, no steering angle, no compass anywhere in the 277-class BYD SDK. Heading is not published — it always has to be derived.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmed
RE paper
BYD's PerfMonitor SIGKILLs any backgrounded process whose PSS passes a per-process cap — 370 688 kB here — and a foreground service does not save it.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmed
RE paper
Twenty-two live signals — battery, charging, tyres, motor, gear — reachable from an ordinary sideloaded app, and the two interfaces that hand them over.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmed
App review
Our own navigation app for the Sealion 7: the country's roads now live on the car, the hills are in the plan, and the app speaks its turns.
BYD Sealion 7 · Morocco
Guide
Set up Android Debug Bridge on your computer — the prerequisite for every head-unit article on this site — and check that it runs.
BYD Sealion 7 · Morocco
Guide
Set up scrcpy, the tool that mirrors and controls an Android screen over adb, and check that it runs before pointing it at a head unit.
BYD Sealion 7 · Morocco
Guide
The hidden switch in the Sealion 7 head-unit settings that starts adb on port 5555, how to connect from a computer over Wi-Fi, and how to install an APK.
BYD Sealion 7 · MoroccoConfirmedmedium risk