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Save the webOS

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After the announcement by the HP CEO and all the fire-sales of TouchPad, its sales has broken the eCommerce record of the UK Market. People, use it and you will love it. Have a look at webOS. Give webOS a chance as it is only 1 year and 2 months under HP.

HP webOS Competition in New Zealand

Good one for the New Zealand market, should do this competition earlier, i.e. before TouchPad arrives. If you are interested and in the varsity, please visit Cyclone

Finally doctored my Pre 2

Since no one came to my help (unfortunately), I have doctored Pre 2 from 2.0.0. Why? 2.1.0 contains a bug whereby the HP Apps Catalog is not the entirely the correct version as after doctoring it, my Pre 2 is asked to download the HP Apps Catalog as it was using Palm logo. After thinking through, I put it back to 2.0.0. Created a new profile as my original (plus others created for this experiment) didn't work. Then sign-in with the new profile and it works. HP Apps Catalog is working once again. The only issue is my backup is not working. Anyway, will leave it for now until Pre 3 arrives in New Zealand.

webOS Profile Device Options

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Looks like my attempt to restore my Profile is not possible and will have to press on with the Device Options in webOS Profile. You will be able to see 2 options: - I lost my Phone - Remove from my account - Get webOS Doctor This is for "I lost my Phone": This is for "Remove from my account": I will proceed to try "Remove from my account" since it is what I want to achieve. Tried doing this couple of times but it came back. Tried doctoring the Pre 2 and still did not work! After all this failed attempt (not able to sign-on using my original profile), I switched off the phone as I have given up hope on it as I will never be able to use the Apps Catalog.

Doctor back to original Pre 2.0 ROM

Unfortunately, the doctoring of my Pre 2 didn't work as specified here. I have been using a non-activated Pre 2 for the last 1 week. This means that the Apps Catalog is beyond my reach. The adventure starts here, I went over to webOS Internal to grab the ROM which is officially from HP/Palm. I have downloaded the following ROM in case I need them: - webOS 2.0.0 - webOS 2.0.1 - webOS 2.1.0 What I am going to do next is to doctor it back to the original ROM which is webOS 2.0.0 first. Then will try to login once more using my webOS Profile. Hope this works and once logged in, I will then disable my Backup as I am not bother with that anymore as all my contacts and emails are already in Google Mail. As for the apps, I can always download them from HP Apps Catalog and since New Zealand is not part of the released country, I can only see free apps, so not a concern to me. The steps are exactly the same as my other blog. The Pre 2 reboot and asking for Sign-On. Unfortunately

TouchPad arriving in New Zealand

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

Continue to doctor my Pre 2

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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.