Preware Hits Version 1.0 53
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the piece of software that has made it so very easy to access all of the great patches, themes, and programs that have been created by a virtual army of individual developers over the last year has finally hit version one-point-oh. Preware has gone from allowing us access to what was a handful of homebrew apps that were available in the early days of the platform, to being the gateway to some 4,000 unique packages, both in the official App Catalog and in various homebrew catalogs such as PreCentral's very own.
Major kudos and a big congratulations to the entire webOS-Internals team behind Preware and go ahead; if you've been a regular user, show 'em your thanks and become familiar with the organization's donate button as a part of the telethon.
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Thank you for your guys' contributions!!!
Right on time for a brand-spanking newly-doctored Pre. Good timing!
I can't believe how much faster preware loads the feeds now that it is 1.oh and using C instead of JAVA. SOOOO much faster! nice work!
I just installed and fired it up, and Preware flew open. I was impressed. Great job over at WebOSInternals!!
Jason I was wondering if auto correct dictionary will come to preware? Donated.
Unable to figure out how to use the Left avatar patch. Any help? Dont know where to store/place the picture, what format and pixels.
I've been a loyal Preware user since day one! I loaded 1.0 last night, and can also confirm that it appears to be much "peppier" than its predecessor!
Not to "rain on the parade" but...
Preware remains the ONLY app on my Pre that consistently forces an unintended Luna Restart after using (and closing it). I've read the root of the issue sits with WebOS. However, I truly wish there was a final fix out there for this.
I'm sure its not a widespread issue. You may want to doctor your phone.
This started happening to me after updating to 1.4.1.1. I've doctored my phone and it still happens from time to time although, thankfully, not as often.
Thanks, but... "been there, done that"! While I agree the issue is not at epidemic proportions, a forum search will reveal there are a fair number of users experiencing this issue. While I've learned to live with it by initiating a chosen Luna Restart, before exiting Preware, it would be nice to have a fix. Cheers!
It does the same thing on mine. Not always, but enough to be irritating. Sometimes after using Preware and a subsequent period of inactivity, the phone won't wake up. Then when it does, it reboots.
Happens to me almost once a day since 1.4.1.1
Jeffrey... That is the EXACT issue. All will seem fine as long as the screen is up and running, regardless of your activity. However, once the screen goes dark and the Pre "sleeps", it will NOT wake up when you attempt to, but rather a Luna Restart occurs. --- I think a number of users may not realize this traces back to Preware, because in many cases, they may have happily continued using their device for an hour or more after, closing Preware (and forgetting about it), only to have the restart occur "randomly" (so they think) after the phone goes to "sleep". --- Sorry to hear you're having the same issue. As the saying goes though... "Misery loves company"! Good Luck!
I'll pay more attention to it to see if it does indeed relate to Preware. Thanks.
It was happening to me multiple times a day. I went through and uninstalled/reinstalled my patches and now I don't get restarts hardly at all. Maybe once a week. I also did not reinstall a couple patches, so it may have more to do with specific patch compatibility. For example off the top of my head I know I did not reinstall "brightness unlinked restart" patch. I do think that was causing instability on my Pre. It would every now and again cause my phone to freeze up for a short time.
Congrats to the Preware team, and thanks to all who have made Preware possible. Absolutely one of the best apps on the webOS platform. I wouldn't enjoy my Pre half as much without it!
Is anyone else having problems accessing Themes from Preware?
I can bring up themes but I can't install them. It drives me crazy cause I love themes.
Unable to install the launcher 4x4 ver 3 w no arrows patch. Did install the 4x4 patch before that and add delete launcher patches, whichh I both deleted before installing the launcher ver3 w no arrows patch. Any help?
I love Preware.
Crazy I just updated before I saw this post
Most important App for the Pre - Thanks for the hard work!
Is there a patch that will silence all sounds except phone ringer while on Touchstone?
Major kudos for mentioning the grass-roots fundraising effort started by runukraine. Everything goes back in to resources to produce even more amazing stuff. More impressive every day!
Wouldn't it be cool if Palm would put the Preware App into their catalog?
will Preware ever be something a user can install without connecting to a PC? I think that would make is something even non-technical users would do, and open up a whole new world of webOS goodness to the masses.
Is it possible, or even a good idea?
If palm had any brains, they would legitimize preware, put it in the app store, and let webos internals and everyone else responsible take care of it from there. I guarantee it would be the #1 downloaded app, and offering users that kind of customizeability would be a huge benefit over any other os out right now.
Then Palm's support costs go up, because people load on software that has the ability to do bad things to their device. With power comes responsibility. Some users who access the App catalog will complain that an App hasn't worked for a month, when an update has been in the App Catalog for a month.
There is a reason homebrew is a little more exclusive and it should probably stay that way.
I would have to argue that the kinks could be worked out. I think it would be awesome for palm to do something bold, daring, and different. No other platform has anything quite like this (to my knowledge, ill admit I am not very familiar with symbian or maemo, and its possible they could have something like this). Either way, Palm now has the money to do this kind of thing, and I still am not convinced that it would cost too much. Like I said, palm could leave this aspect in the hands of the homebrew devs, who could either charge for their patches, or as we've seen in the forums, make a pretty decent amount off of donations for keeping things up to date.
Preware as an official app catalog for few dollar, would be amazing.
If you haven't donated to WebOS Internals or haven't in a while, do so. Also remember Jason R in your donations. He has written probably 1/4 of all patches available.
This is a situation where a dozen folks or so make WebOS life awesome for thousands.
i can confirm, much quicker load. Is that programming, or does preware now default to "off" certain feeds? I know it was mentioned on the chat side of a palmcast a couple weeks ago.
If you aren't a themer, and if you use Palm's official App catalog for official apps, then I *HIGHLY* recommend you go to manage feeds, disable themes and palm-catalog (leave palm-catalog-updates on, so you can still see if there are updates for official apps) and that also significantly decreases load time. Why load all those themes if you aren't looking for them anyway. Just add back themes later if you want.
I just have it set to manually update feeds if I feel the urge to browse through what's new.
Most of the time I just find stuff online and if I like it I'll do a quick search on Preware, if I don't find it then I hit UPDATE FEEDS.
I could do 1+
and repeat some of the great comments already here... so yea! Preware ROCKS! and I thank you for your excellent work and faithfulness. I too contribute and hope others do to.. as it is a well deserved reward for the Preware team..
my respects and appreciation to you all!
Thank you and keep up the good work. Now lets get ready for some PreWare on that HT Tablet!
I installed Preware 1.0 Via WebOs QuickInstall and im getting this error
mount: mounting/dev/mapper/store-root on/ failed: device or resources busy
Any help??
Congrats to the WEbOS Internals team. You guys continue yo amaze. Boy, this C-compiled 1.0 loads lightning fast!
Preware now has 0 available packages for me, and it has been that way since the update. Anyone else have that problem? Maybe others on o2 Germany?
You have to update it. Swipe down the top left corner and choose "Update Feeds"
All done!
Thank you!
This worked for me also. I'm on Sprint in US. Seems like if you have Preware only check for updates once a day it wont check after you upgrade to version 1.0.
Whoa this is fast fast! Great work guys! Seriously, if it weren't for the hard work of the webOS homebrewers out there, the Pre would have been dead and gone for many of us.
Thanks for being fucking awesome guys!
Excellent work guys!!
I have never used a system where it was so easy to install, remove and/or update patches to a device with such ease. Keep up the great work!
Excellent news !!!! webOS wouldn't be what it is without the webOS-Internals team !!!! And Preware is so much QUICKER now !!!
My Pre was going to go back to the Sprint on day 29, but I found Google Calendar Search through the Preware app.
The patches and apps I've installed from Preware have made my 'Good' Pre, Awesome.
Thanks to all envolved.
Thanks also to posters who explained my mysterious restarts.
Ironically, after updating to 1.0 I'm unable to remove themes with Preware. It just spins endlessly....
After installing 1.0.0, I cannot install any themes. I keep getting an "IPKG error". Could someone please help me?
I'm getting the same thing. I kinda give up till v 1.1 comes out. I guess. :(
i'm getting the same error. i removed my old theme, although that took some time because it just spinned and spinned like someone else said, i finally had to restart my phone completely then it worked to remove but i still can't install themes or anything else for that matter, i've tried random things and they all get the same ipkg error. please help.
found this...it worked for me! the diffstat package is under list of everything
OK, it looks like all the package index entries in the PreThemer feed are missing the following line:
Depends: org.webosinternals.patch, org.webosinternals.diffstat
I've alerted prethemer.com to the problem.
The work-around is to install the GNU Patch and Diffstat packages manually.
Once the missing lines are added to the Packages file on the prethemer.com server, it will all work again as it should.
-- Rod
I still haven't updated but....gracias, gracias, gracias, gracias, gracias from a Spain user.
I've only gotten one theme to install via Preware since the 1.4.1 update, the Original Blue theme. Everything else has given me the IPK error. I've also been 100% unsuccessful via quick install.
yeah pre themer is currently not working. Hope they fix it soon.
Thank you Preware, thank you webOS internal guys and all the homebrew developers for your continued contributions to making webOS the best OS on a phone!
Hey everyone. I have had my pre from day one. I have never had issues with Preware, but all of a sudden I am. I had to reset my phone and now I can't download Preware. Preware and the package manager are not showing up in WebOS Quick Install. Anyone know what's going on?