Torque (app )

[Jim Bell]

Is anyone using Torque on android to run live data from obd2? If so,can someone recommend a decent cheap sender?

 

Never used it and interested to give it a go.

[Eddie Honda]

No, but if you find a decent cheap sender, let me know too.

 

Last pile of junk I had doesn't comm with ISO9141 or whatever and is a pile of pap. Seems to be a total lottery.

[dome]

Seems to be a total lottery.

Aye, sounds about right. Mine is so so and it was a generic cheapy.

[Jim Bell]

I'll have a shat in the dark then, see how we go.

[michael1703]

I've got one of those elm 327 ones and it works on most cars

[SiC]

Don't get a bluetooth ELM327 v2.1 - they aren't actually ELM327 any more. The Chinese, to make the build cost cheaper, changed away from the chip that does the full ELM327, to a crap copy that pretends its a ELM327. However it doesn't support all the commands or features of a proper ELM327.

 

Unfortunately it's darn hard to find a bluetooth v1.4/v1.5 nowadays. Even the ones labeled as such aren't really, but actually are v2.1 miss-sold.

 

All rather annoying, as only the v1.4/v1.5 are actually good enough to work with my app - making an annoying support headache.

[SiC]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UR5BRZU

 

I've not got around to getting that one yet, but that appears to be an original v1.5 - according to the reviews. The seller seems to know this, as they charge double what the original v1.5 cost and the crap v2.1. Still not that expensive though.

[SiC]

BTW for general diagnostics, I find Piston to be a much more user friendly and better app than Torque.

[Pillock]

I paid a tenner for one that was supposedly better. Came in a box and everything. It does work, however it was one of the only ones that can power down when left plugged in (so I can leave it in 24/7) but it doesn't wake back up properly, so a bit of a waste of cash.

[michael1703]

This is the guy I bought mine from

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151783154490?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[Pillock]

This was mine. It's utterly reliable, seems to be the "proper" v1.5, and works with Torque.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Proscan-OBD2-ELM327-Bluetooth-google-Android-Car-Scanner-Torque-Auto-Scan-Tool-/301205091809?hash=item462138f5e1:g:uPgAAOxycSdR1UvN

 

However, the feature of "can be left plugged in" neglects to mention "but won't work again until you take it out and plug it back in so you might as well just take it out when you leave the car". There is a standby button, I thought it would be really useful for doing Torque things rather than diagnostics, but the standby button just makes my dashboard flash up a shitload of errors with PAS, ESP etc and then the steering stops working properly