Hacking your Spotify Car Thing from ANY PLATFORM [Setup Step A]

[@GooeyThaGamer]

Awesome tutorial! These tutorials keep getting easier! I tried your first guide (difficult), then I followed your second one (successful), but was given a grey screen error whenever I plugged the device back in. Now, I followed this guide and it was super simple! Even uninstalling the old drivers from the previous attempts was intuitive and clearly defined in Terbium! Can't wait for the DeskThing app tutorial. Great Work!

[@bikinitony]

took me under 10 sec for the whole thing on macos. thanks riprod!!

[@caranlhach]

Excellent tutorial. I was just thinking, I wish there was some different software we could use to make this helpful little display work again, and came across your videos. Just got to put Deskthing on it now. Awesome work!

[@antoniestrada1972]

Doing great work

[@ronaldolara3621]

I did all the steps and when it boots up it shows the logo for thingslab but then goes to the normal carthing connecting screen

[@arkkaisen]

I did everything for MacOS. The bootup had ThingsLab, but when I scan the QR code to connect my phone it goes to the Spotify Car Thing Discountinued.

[@noahstanslaski2557]

Thank you for the awesome work! Any update on when part two is coming out for windows?

[@DeskThing]

Hopefully soon! Burnout and finals has hit hard but hopefully I’ll be able to get it out For now, you can follow the MacOS video (it works for windows) They’re mostly the same

[@noahstanslaski2557]

@DeskThing Sounds good! I totally understand, and good luck on your finals you got this

[@Rob-campbell99]

I got mine done from the last video was hoping this was the video you show how to install deskthing, im pretty sure your last video said next video then this video says next video lol, any kind of ETA on that video? also great work with saving e waste and having a use for something that was about to go to landfill

[@DeskThing]

Right! I totally did I didn't expect Terbium to release so quickly though! I have a video posting tomorrow for setting it up on MacOS and hopefully can carve time to make the Windows tutorial as well!

[@PeturBragi]

my one does not go into burn mode what should i do?

[@mirellamagallanes9971]

mine either did you figure it out??

[@NEWSALEEN]

I’ve reset mine a couple times and it still won’t go into burn mode either

[@DREADFATE]

any way to flash the device back to original to restart from scratch?

[@charlieduff81]

I did everything for windows correctly, even the flashing went fine but when I plug in the car thing the screen is black, keep me updated if anyone finds a fix

[@DianaMartinez-qf2ku]

What if on desk thing it says no device found and your car thing isn’t popping up

[@spookyec]

I did it, thanks man.

[@Sann.92]

Thank you so much!!!

[@saltysalt397]

I get an error saying "Failed to execute 'open' on 'USBDevice': Access denied." edit: just had to uninstall the drivers a bunch of times. Unplugging and plugging back in. A restarting my laptop and it finally worked.

[@imnotfinnn]

dam im stuck on this bit and nothing seems to be helping haha

[@crosswalkwizard1]

excellent video, does this mean i have to do all of this before carthing is shut down by spotify, or will this continue to work even after spotify shuts down the carthing? thank you

[@julianskowron7281]

I just went through the flashing process on a bricked car thing successfully, using the cable that came with the device

[@brandonkwan9953]

@@julianskowron7281van we use a different cable

[@meDragonFLY9]

Hi, after following the steps above and receiving the notification that the software was successfully installed, the car thing stopped working - the screen is still black, but the computer still detects it. Could you help me?

[@Parmeshxwn]

it gives me an error and says "bulkcmd failed"

[@gunforhire]

Didn't work for me. I got to the point where I have to select the unknown device in terbium and nothing comes up. The CarThing rebooted into usual operation

[@DeskThing]

Sounds like it may be a driver issue Can you try uninstalling all of your drivers and then reinstalling WinUSB?

[@luisluz-ochoa2992]

same thing happened to me, all you have to do is unplug it, plug it back in and then put in into the flash mode then plug it back in. After you do that just refresh the website just in case then press connect and it should work from there

[@imnotfinnn]

been trying to remove the original "worldcup" driver and replacing it with the new driver howver no matter how hard i try the driver keeps reverting back to world cup. any thoughts on this?

[@imnotfinnn]

edit ---- i had installed the world cup driver too many times in my amd efforts to flash it so i just had to delete until they were all gone lmao

[@DeskThing]

Huh that's weird We could get lucky here though. Make sure you're checking the "Uninstall driver from device" in the popup dialogue when you remove it. It's a pretty easy thing to miss and would be the reason why you cant remove it Alternatively, I'm pretty sure you can click 'Uninstall Device" on the first right click menu - but I dont know for certain if that will do it

[@DJKhalito]

everytime i get to the step where i have to uninstall the device then i have to go an plug back in, it doesnt show up in the universal bus driver it goes back to other devices. someone plz help. and libusb doesnt show up its under "other devices"

[@lukebischoff8522]

I have the same problem.

[@DeskThing]

Showing up under “Other Devices” should be fine It showed up under the universal bus because I had it connected to a Powered USB hub - so if your configuration is different, it’ll prolly be under a different tab

[@Awesomeperson4872]

When I try to plug in my car thing into my Mac it says " Use adapter, to power Car Thing, use the adapter provided with your device", how do I get rid of this message?

[@malibu597-7]

I can't get mine to get into burn mode, any ideas?

[@mahsclohe14]

is your car thing plugged into a computer when going into burn mode? Mine wouldn’t work either, so what i did was plug it into a wall outlet, press buttons 1 & 4, unplug while still holding them, then plug into my computer.

[@TonyBamanaboniYT]

had some trouble booting in to flashing mode used a type c to type c and the port on the back of my motherboard (gen 3.2 i think) red on inside and it worked

[@imthateddie]

I just jailbroke and added deskthing succesfully. I' guessing that it will only work on the machine that's running the server?

[@Arkensauce]

I was able to get the usb driver installed correctly. when i go to terbium i click done, GX Chip shows up and i click connect. But now im just stuck on "Booting the Car Thing into burn mode... with the loading animation for like an hour. i tried redoing everything and im still having the issue. I saw some other people stuck on booting into burn i think but no suggestions on how to fix.

[@DeskThing]

Oh very strange Is there any chance you could join the discord? I’d be interested as to what the logs say (open devtools and it should be in the console) In the meantime, try a new cable/port or a powered USB hub Also maybe try uninstalling all of the drivers again and then loading the winUSB one Finally, is the screen off? Other than that, there’s not much else I can proactively recommend until ik what’s happening

[@Petrified_rats]

i was having the same issue but I switched the cable I was using and it seems like that's what did the trick for me!

[@unimagin2ble]

a different cable worked for me

[@AtomicLava]

great video and also fire thumbnail.

[@DeskThing]

@TheBigLoud is to thank for those!

[@ryansutherlin5613]

im still confused on how to get desk thing to boot on my car thing. ThingLabs logo pops up when I plug it in, but then it boots straight into spotify, and I can't seem to figure out how to get Desk Thing to boot. Any tips or where I can find an already published tutorial would be so helpful. Thanks!

[@DeskThing]

You can follow the Step B video on the channel! I know it says for Mac but it works for windows too

[@ryansutherlin5613]

@ oh great! thank you so much!

[@mattrul97]

It just gets stuck on terbium for me. Recognizes the device but wont load anything past that. And then freezes my computer.

[@DeskThing]

Oh very weird. Any chance you could join the discord and open a support thread? This may be a bit much for just a youtube comment A few things to try in the meantime - New cables - Powered USB hub (especially if on AMD) - Uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers (make sure it gets to the point of "Unknown Device" before reinstalling drivers) - A different browser (i.e. try using just flat Google Chrome)

[@joelsimpsonfit]

MacOS tutorial @ 9:54

[@CollinRaves]

I just wanted to let you know: On behalf of everyone, we love you! ❤❤❤

[@苏苏杭-s5n]

Hello, how to control it with your mobile phone after successfully writing? It still prompts you to connect to spotify.😢

[@苏苏杭-s5n]

After connecting, it will still pop up the sentence Car Thing is discontinued and no longer operational.

[@vinny5007]

i am not able to get into burn mode for some reason. UPDATE: The OG cable didn't work, used another. also, NOT ALL BROWSERS WORK, i use arc normally and it wasn't working, so i downloaded chrome and it worked. Im on MAC

[@DeskThing]

Yes! We found that out after this video posted! So that’s my bad Arc, Firefox, and Safari all have security features that prevent this from working

[@fallen_blank_5804]

Awsome

[@RowanZhang-i6w]

i did everything right and it showed completed，but it was black and nothing existed on the screen，how can i fix it？

[@camscurrent]

Same exact behavior here, seems to install without issue but then is just a black screen.

[@alexfromhillview]

@@camscurrent same here, anyone got a fix?

[@AnandViswanathan1]

same behavior! Doesnt seem to work anymore. Tried posting on the discord too and was asked to try the 8.9.2 version but no dice

[@irekt5908]

There was apparently an issue with terbium that was keeping the car thing from exiting burn mode after restarting it. They just fixed it about 20 minutes ago so give it another try

[@irekt5908]

@@alexfromhillviewsee my reply ^

[@notbiondi4793]

im holding down the right buttons but it still boots up normally and not in burn mode

[@luisluz-ochoa2992]

make sure its plugged in first, hold the 1st and 4th button, while still holding them down unplug the car thing, still holding the buttons down plug it back in, wait a few seconds then you can let go

[@alexkeyser5034]

@@luisluz-ochoa2992 still isn't working for me, tried all combinations of buttons too and it just keeps booting like normal ):

[@mirellamagallanes9971]

@@luisluz-ochoa2992 tried that a bunch of times and nothing. Even held down the buttons longer :((

[@yarno777detrogh9]

How do I set it up?

[@DeskThing]

There should be a video regarding what to do next releasing here in the next couple of days

[@dylanunderwood6910]

this actually didn’t work from keeping the carthing from bricking

[@danielzhen1037]

I done it and it’s now says scan QR code and when I do it takes me to Spotify website and just says it’s discontinued etc 😢