Palm Pre Tips and Tricks

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Run WebOSQuickInstall on Ubuntu Linux

1. Connect the Pre (in dev mode) to the usb port/cord

2. Change to the directory where novacom is installed
cd /opt/Palm/novacom

3. run the novacom daemon
sudo ./novacomd

4. Run WebOSQuickInstall.jar (right-click, 'Open with Sun Java 6 Runtime')

SSH Into the Pre

1. Get into Dev Mode:
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2. Get SSH access from the linux terminal:
novacom -t open tty://

Resource:
http://palmpre-hacks.com/palm-pre-hacks/palm-pre-hacks/how-to-hacktether...

Alter the Auto-Replace file the Pre uses to correct spelling errors

1. Get SSH access (see above)
2. Mount the filesystem as read-write
mount -o remount,rw /

3. Upload your modified version of 'text-edit-autoreplace' to an ftp server somewhere

From the Pre's SSH terminal:

4. Switch to the directory where 'text-edit-autoreplace' can be found
cd /etc/palm/autoreplace/en_us/

5. Protect the original version of 'text-edit-autoreplace' for use later
mv text-edit-autoreplace text-edit-autoreplace_original

6. Retrieve your customized autoreplace file to the pre
'wget ftp://user:pass@yourftpserver.com/path/to/text-edit-autoreplace'

7. Mount the filesystem as read-only again
mount -o remount,ro /

8. Quit SSH
exit

Resource:
http://palmpre-hacks.com/palm-pre-hacks/how-to-ssh-into-your-palm-pre/

Installing PreWare

From the Linux command prompt
cd /tmp
wget http://bit.ly/preware-bootstrap
sh preware-bootstrap

Resource:
http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware#Installing_Prewa...