Petkatan Studio

The TouchPad has finally made its way to New Zealand. You can get it in your local store. This pricing is for the wifi version: 16GB - NZ$799 32GB - NZ$949

First of all, went over to HP Palm Profile and sign-in using my Profile. Upon signing-in, it will show me my Profile with my handset detail: I then moved on to select "Get webOS Doctor" which leads me to Get webOS Doctor . You will need to have Java 1.5 or later. Click on "Continue" to proceed with downloading of webOS wrapper (webosdoctorp103ueuna-wr.jnlp) which in turn will download webosdoctorp103ueuna-wr.jar. I have decided to download the ROM myself through webOS-Internal . Locate your own ROM as mine is an Unlocked Pre 2 for Europe network. Make sure you are downloading the latest version which is version 2.1.0. Once downloaded webosdoctorp103ueuna-wr.jar (Pre 2.1.0 ROM for Unlocked UMTS/GSM), you will need to remove the original battery from Pre 2. If you are using a non-original battery, unfortunately, you must change it back to the original battery . I suspect that this is a precaution from HP so that those dodgy battery will not damage your Pre 2.

After using my Pre 2 for 7 months, upgraded from 2.0 to 2.0.1 and finally to 2.1. Somehow my Pre 2 seems to be behaving weirdly, could be due to some patches. Therefore, it is time for me to do a fresh wipe to factory-mode except I will be using 2.1 ROM. Things to take note, if you are not using an original HP/Palm battery, you will not be able to go into webOS Doctor mode. I have spent 2 hours+ with HP/Palm Support Care. At the end of the 2.5 hours session, my Profile was not able to be restored as it requires a Specialist to do so. Looks like a callback is required to solve this issue.

After deliberating on the tools - Enyo/Eclipse, PhoneGap, NetBean, I have decided to move with Enyo/Eclipse. After downloading the following, I have installed all of these via GDebi Package Installer - Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.12 (since no report of issue on this version of VB) - Oracle Java Runtime Engine 6 - Novacom Then run palm-emulator at the command-prompt, a new Virtual environment is produced. Now I am a proud owner of a virtual TouchPad. TouchPad emulator running under VirtualBox 4.0.12 with scale mode set.

Pretty awesome, Where Am I has 1,258 downloads. How I wish this is a $1 for each download. It is time to do app that will earn some dollars. You can get Where Am I from HP App Catalog

Awesome, my webOS app (Where Am I) has reached a download of 321 (as of June 23, 2011). Throughout the development of this app, 1 thing comes to my mind - simplicity. You can get Where Am I from HP App Catalog

Finally, I have released Where Am I app and you can find it in HP App Catalog If you are living in a non-activated country, please do send me an email and I will give you the IPK file which you can use Internalz to install into your webOS 2.0 and above.