New iodeOS user here - running v6.6 on a Brax3 phone. I successfully downloaded and installed the HondaLink app. After disabling iode blocking for the HondaLink app, and attempting to sign in to the app, I get a popup screen indicating “Error - An error has occurred. Please try again later.”
Has anyone been successful getting the HondaLink app to permit signing in?
Just to follow up - I re-enabled iode blocking for the HondaLink app last night, shut down the phone (powered off) and restarted it. Today, with the iode blocking turned on for the HondaLink app, I tried to use the app again and I was successful. So for those that are curious, it did allow me to sign-in to the HondaLink app … and then it took a couple of minutes to respond and bring up the Legal terms that I needed to accept to use the app. After accepting, it permitted me to scan the VIN on my Honda vehicle and proceed with using the app’s features normally.
The main reason that I was trying to use the HondaLink app on my new Brax3 phone was so that I could connect to my new 2025 Honda vehicle and TURN OFF DATA SHARING THAT THE VEHICLE HAS ENABLED BY DEFAULT. Once I linked my new (stock) Brax3 phone via Bluetooth to my vehicle, it permitted me to use the touch screen in the vehicle’s console to go into the “General” settings and disable vehicle data sharing. This was important to me because I did not want my new vehicle sharing driving speeds, acceleration and braking rates, geolocation information, etc. with data brokers or insurance companies - which they reserve the right to do in their 14-page privacy policy. It’s crazy that Honda makes you register on their HondaLink website, load their HondaLink app on your smart phone, and link your phone to your vehicle via Bluetooth before you are permitted to turn off vehicle data sharing. But they make it non-trivial on purpose, because in this age of surveillance capitalism, they can profit nicely from the sale of your data each month.
Of course, they try to get you to give the vehicle permission to upload your contacts and other data from your phone - which is all fair game to sell to their business partners and third parties under their privacy policy. Since my new Brax3 phone was “stock” (I had not loaded any info onto it yet, except for the HondaLink app itself) there is nothing for the vehicle to siphon off of the phone. (I had not even put a SIM card into it yet - I was just using my home’s VPN-protected WiFi network for connectivity.) Regardless, I refused all vehicle permissions to the data on my phone when I connected it, then I disabled the vehicle’s data sharing (which HAS to be done using the vehicle’s touch screen in the console/dashboard). I’ll rest easier knowing that my driving data isn’t being shared, giving me much better privacy. I hope these posts prove helpful to other Honda owners who are using their new Brax3 phones with iodeOS v6.6!