How to seriously improve your webOS legacy device [2.x+]

Posted by Jake on Jan 26, 2012 in Articles, Blog | 1 comment

So we all know that although you can doctor your legacy device(Pre-, Pre+) to webOS 2.1/2.2.4, it does not run that great…at all. There may be a few exceptions based on deviations in devices handling of certain kernels(SR71 at 1.2GHz can only be run by a few phones).

With the release of a few select patches, your device can be turned around once again! I actually switched to an HTC Arrive last summer because my Pre-’s software became unbearable and I did not want to switch back to 1.4.5. The hardware was also on it’s last ends but that’s another story.

Point is, I turned on my Pre- recently, ran Emergency Patch Recovery(EPR), uninstalled Uberkernel and re-patched my system. Here’s the list of things that really turned my phone around.

HP wants to Listen *and* Learn?

Posted by Patrick Campanale on Aug 26, 2011 in Articles, Blog, News, Open Discussion | 3 comments

With a recent post on the webOS Developer Forums (you can find that post here) we heard that HP wants to Listen and Learn. When I saw this, I was very happy. If you are thinking what I have been thinking over the past week, it has been something along the lines of “What are you thinking HP?! This is not what webOS needs!” and now HP wants to listen to what *we* think. And they will supposedly learn from what we say too. What more could you want?

I think we should all take a part in this, and tell HP how we feel about the recent news, and how we think they can fix it. They say, you don’t get what you don’t ask for.

So, I think we should all tell HP what we think about this past week here.

QuickOffice Editing coming this week?

Posted by Patrick Campanale on Aug 25, 2011 in Articles, Blog, News, Rumors | 0 comments

So, there has been news about Quickoffice document editing coming to the HP TouchPad for some time. Looking at the above screenshot (taken on my HP TouchPad), we see some exciting news! We should see an update to Quickoffice by the “end of the week.”

This update will include Document Editing (probably Word documents), and Spreadsheet editing (presumably Excel). It seems that PowerPoint wont be coming for a little while longer, but hey, you can only ask for so much at a time.

Check out Quickoffice’s official webOS page here

How to manage files on your phone from your computer [Tutorial]

Posted by Jake on Jun 5, 2011 in Articles, Blog | 9 comments

So you need to get that sweet new album on your phone that you totally just downloaded bought so you can listen to it in the car. Oh wait, you left your cable back at the office with your Touchstone. How are you going to get files to your phone?

Changing kernel voltages [Tutorial]

Posted by Jake on Apr 4, 2011 in Articles, Blog | 6 comments

I had a request to provide a tutorial on changing kernel voltages. Although in Govnah it’s pretty straight forward, there’s more to it than swapping some numbers. I have found that voltages are almost directly related to battery life and load average.

WebOS Kernels [F104 & AV8B]

Posted by Jake on Apr 4, 2011 in Articles, Blog | 2 comments

uNiXpSyChO has repackaged his F104 kernel for webOS 2.1, and all I can say is wow.