Items tagged with: hack
HP Veer can be bricked; gets disassembled
One of the webOS community's mantras has always been "You can't brick a Pre." "Bricking" is essentially rending a device un-usable via software hacks. With previous webOS devices, unless you software hacks
webOS 3.0 hacked to boot on Chinese desktop [video]
While it seems that HP’s current plans for webOS are to have it run in a window on a PC, that hasn’t stopped some industrious Chinese computer guru from getting what we assume is a copy of the webOS 3
Fake webOS port to HTC Hero makes us want it all the more
If you were paying close attention to webOS land over the weekend, you may have noticed some drama - namely that a user at xda-developers claimed to have gotten webOS up and running on a Sprint HTC
Security exploit uncovered in webOS 1.4.X, fixed in 2.0
Two researchers with SecTheory have announced that they have uncovered flaws in older versions of webOS that would allow for remote command and control of the devices. These exploits were discovered in
Palm Pre 2 hacked onto Sprint
See that above? That's a Pre 2 with a EVDO connection running on Sprint.What now?! See, there was a serious Oprah moment here at Palm developer day - everybody at DevDay got a unlocked Palm Pre 2 in the
Touchstone coil hacked into HTC HD2, toasters next up for inductive charging [video]
It’s not the most elegant of mods ever, but you can chalk that up to the electromagnetic-blocking nature of the metal battery cover used on the HTC HD2. That said, this mod does show how to get a Touchstone
webOS 1.2 woes: corrupted installs, broken hacks, and restoration
In all the years I’ve been watching technology, I have never seen a system update go off without a single hitch. There’s always something that goes wrong, and yesterday’s webOS update to 1.2.0 was no exception
How is webOS 1.1 Treating You?
Here at PreCentral.net we all cheered for the much-improved Exchange support and revived iTunes syncing baked into webOS 1.1.0 for the Palm Pre, but as it turns out the extra baking burned the OS in a
So Close and Yet So Far: the Webshell On-Screen Keyboard
One thing people continually want for the WebOS is an on-screen keyboard. And why not? Sometimes you only need to write a quick message and don't want to pull down the keyboard. Other times, you
Pre hackery brings some fancy VNC action
They certainly weren't kidding when people declared the Pre has a very hackable OS. Nebula from the #webos-internals IRC channel has done it again. Not too long ago he made history by porting running
