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Running Service Manual from Nexus 7

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Vladimer

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Hi everyone,

I've been googling this with no success. The most I've been able to locate is hints of this working from posts dating back to 2011 and 2012 but a lot changes each year so figured it would be worth a thread.

I have a Nexus 7 mounted in the vehicle for GPS nav and to stream vehicle info when out in the back country. Occasionally we get break downs and have to fix them to get back out. I have an ISO of the vehicle's service manual but that is not the big trouble...

In a windows environment (PC), the service manual requires IE7 and a SVG viewer to be installed.

Having this available in the vehicle would be beyond fantastic. I can't seem to get it to work though. There is no IE7 available for androids and the only SVG viewer app I find simply opens up to a blank screen.

Any ideas how I might be able to tweak what I have to make this work?
 
So you're essentially wanting to run a Windows application on Android?

Sorry, that's not going to work.
 
Unforgiven said:
What about an Android SVG Viewer?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.codefuture.svgviewer&hl=en
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That should work for the SVG files, but if the service manual is similar to what I had for my SAABs the component files aren't organized in any manner that makes sense. They just get called up by the Windows application depending on what section of the manual the user is viewing.

A better option might be finding a complete PDF version of the manual.
 
Is this GM SPO or something similar? It's hard enough to get that working on a proper Windows box, I don't see it working on a platform it isn't designed for. The files are accessed through a localhost on the PC, it needs Java to work. Not gonna happen on Android.
 
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