Latest Preware Service Is Fair Dinkum, Mate

Posted By: Tim Carroll Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:34:23 AM

Palm Pre Review Look, if you own a Pre and you don't have Preware installed by now, you are positively insane. Aside from allowing direct OTA access from your device to hundreds of free homebrew applications, patches and themes, the underlying Package Manager technology has just added two sexy new features to its repertoire: complete integration of the Fair Dinkum app limit breaker, and automatic loading of the correct patches feed for whichever version of webOS you have installed.

This means that owners of the slightly-backward webOS 1.1.3-toting GSM Pre - such as your correspondent - can now safely install patches from Preware, knowing they're going to work seamlessly. And everyone will be able to enjoy the benefits of a slightly-less-ridiculous 100MB free space (in the /var partition) limit, rather than the palty 64mb-total Palm saw fit to grant us. Download the stand-alone installer now!

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DarthRepublican @ 11/4/2009 9:30:26 AM # Q
Preware is great and not only because it breaks the app limit on webOS. It also supports themes and OS patches which really allow you to customize your phone in a way that apps in the normal App Catalog cannot.
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Want to Homebrew but can't...!

calvinuk @ 11/4/2009 12:17:09 PM # Q
Want to homebrew but can't...! I'm running Windows7 and the installer doesn't appear to install any suggestions?
RE: Want to Homebrew but can't...!
DarthRepublican @ 11/4/2009 4:18:34 PM # Q
You might want to try Jason Robitaille's WebOS Quick Install and go through Precentral's check list for getting your Homebrew on:

http://www.precentral.net/how-to-install-homebrew-apps
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Screw convergence
Palm III->Visor Deluxe->Visor Platinum->Visor Prism->Tungsten E->Palm LifeDrive->Palm TX->Palm Pre
Visor Pro+VisorPhone->Treo 180g->Treo 270->Treo 600->Treo 680->T-Mobile G1->Palm Pre
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RE: Want to Homebrew but can't...!
calvinuk @ 11/5/2009 2:58:38 AM # Q
Thanks I will give it a try and let you know how I got on

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Can't Install it...

RobertoV6 @ 11/4/2009 5:05:31 PM # Q
I'm not familiar with Linux.
I'm running Vista 32bit and.
I run the .exe file and after the program opens I click install.
I get this message:
The Palm Novacom service was not found on this computer.

*** Please install the Novacom drivers and try again ***

If you continue to recieve errors post %temp%\Installer.log to forums.precentral.net...

Please Help...

RE: Can't Install it...
Tim Carroll @ 11/4/2009 8:51:41 PM # Q
As DarthRepublican noted above, if the stand-alone doesn't work, then you should give webOS Quick Install a whirl instead - you can install Preware from that. It also automatically installs the Novacom drivers which may fix your issues.

http://forums.precentral.net/canuck-software/206905-webos-quick-install-v2-7-beyond.html
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