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    Tegra temps, hastening the life of the MCU in older Model S'

    Garaged vehicle. Ambient 65 F. Vehicle was sleeping until 09:33 when it woke to perform a regular 12 V maintenance cycle. 2015 MCU. All energy saving modes enabled/always connected off. 2017-11-03T06:25:58.287384-07:00 cid tempmon: tegra=47 board=38 2017-11-03T06:26:59.422149-07:00 cid...
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Blank screen

    probably not that easy. There very likely are boot rom level checks that occurs to verify the file system integrity. In order to root, those checks would need to be disabled. Simply swapping in a modified HDD would probably result in the system throwing an error at startup. @dtich - the kind...
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Blank screen

    hopefully some direct communication APIs will be exposed with fw 5.5 and WIFI. Not expecting full root access to come out of it, but at least some information regarding the internals could be gleaned.
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Blank screen

    Good explanation. Indeed, it seems this is probably not the way to root the OS. Other methods should have better success though. Just think of how much effort Apple has put into locking down iOS and yet the jailbreakers continuously find a way in. I doubt TM has put in anywhere near the...
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Blank screen

    Thank you. Didn't realize the text had gotten so garbled.I've done a bit more research on the topic and it seems that it is pulling up a separate console, but wihtout an x-window. Just to see if it is a console window without visual output, I typed reboot (via USB keyboard) and waited but...
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Blank screen

    I'm wondering if the more technologically inclined users here can help me out with this. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 brings up a blank screen on the touchscreen (a separate tty). Is there anyway to execute commands from this window or do something cool? A thread on a similar subject exists over...