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There’s a Patch For That! (Part 3)

milominderbinder — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:28:18 +0000

Welcome to the third and last installment of "There's a Patch for That!" Part 1 and Part 2 have already shown 28 of the top patches. Today we'll be exploring more of these user patches (tweaks), including Calendar, Camera, Clock, and Email patches.

Patches are modifications that add key features to existing Palm webOS applications. Maybe you wish you could change sounds or add a feature. Fortunately many of our Pre users are also talented developers who didn't just wish for these fixes. They made them! Note that the Homebrew Apps are separate programs, not patches.

Again, patches can be installed using webOS Quick Install or Preware using these instructions.As always, the usual warnings apply. You're patching system webOS files, so stuff can break here. Plus the patching system is constantly evolving. For many Pre users, though, the risk is well worth the reward. (See: How to Revive a Pre.)

To remove a patch, click on the same patch again. You can even remove all patches at once before an upgrade or any time you like. Using WebOS Quick Install, click Tools, Tweaks, "Online Repository" tab, and then install the Emergency Patch Recovery (EPR). In Preware, install the Emergency Patch Recovery patch and restart your Pre to remove all patches. For much more see Patches.

And now for today's patches...

There’s a Patch For That! (Part 2)

milominderbinder — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:06:45 +0000

Welcome to the second installment of "There's a Patch for That." Patches are modifications (tweaks) that add key features to existing Palm applications. For instance, have you wished for message forwarding or landscape mode for messaging, email, or PDF's? Do you wish the Palm Pre webOS had other key features? Pre users have developed over 60 patches to make these and other wishes a reality!

In There's a Patch for That (Part 1) we saw 14 of our favorite patches including the On Screen Keyboard, LED Notification, Launcher, and Email patches. Today we will explore patches that customize alerts and notifications, as well as the Messaging, Calendar, Contacts, and Phone Apps. Note that the 250 Homebrew Apps are separate programs, not patches.

Again, patches can be installed using webOS Quick Install (or Preware using these instructions). As always, the usual warnings apply. You're patching system webOS files, so stuff can break here. Plus the patching system is constantly evolving. For many Pre users, though, the risk is well worth the reward. (See: How to Revive a Pre.)

Here are more of our favorite patches...

There’s a Patch For That! (Part 1)

milominderbinder — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:01:53 +0000

webOS Quick Install 2.7 Main Tweaks Screen

The Palm Pre webOS 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 updates brought users 125 new features and improvements (and some issues). Now it is the Pre user community's turn to give back. Users have developed dozens of patches (tweaks) including the On Screen Keyboard, landscape modes for Email and Messaging, plus upgrades for the Launcher, Sounds, Calendar, Contacts, and Phone. Patches are modifications that add key features to existing Palm webOS applications. Homebrew Apps are new programs.

The PreCentral forums are abuzz with brainstorming and testing while the patch source code and development are at webOS-internals.org. Patches can be installed using webOS Quick Install or Preware using these instructions. As always, we need to throw the usual warning and provisos up there: you're patching system webOS files, so stuff can break here. For many Pre users, though, the risk is well worth the reward. (See: How to Revive a Pre.)

To remove a patch, click on the same patch again. You can remove all patches before an upgrade or any time you like. Using WebOS Quick Install, click Tools, Tweaks, "Online Repository" tab, and then install the Emergency Patch Recovery (EPR). In Preware, install the Emergency Patch Recovery patch and restart your Pre to remove all patches.

Here are some of our favorite patches so far.

VIDEO: OMG! Original Doom game running near perfectly on Palm Pre

Palm Pre Phone — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:21:52 +0000

Well, that didn’t take long at all. First, forum members over at PreCentral dissected a backup webOS image and second, now one of the modders managed to get original Doom to run on his Pre! Head over to PreCentral for details on modding and Sargun’s blog for the information on the actual Doom hack.