It went pretty well, with a couple of hitches, so I'll see if I can explain what I figured out in an easy way to follow:
So, the initial part is to use Preware's saved patch list (in Preware's menu). Do a save, which will save all the stuff you've installed in Preware. Then you'll need to have the Save/Restore homebrew app. Run that and choose Save Application data. Make sure everything is selected and do a save selected. Now connect your phone to your PC via USB and transfer the entire saverestore folder to your PC. Now you can doctor, or get your replacement Pre, etc. and you can do the following: If you're getting a replacement Pre, especially a new one, make sure you are on the latest version, 1.4.5! I forgot about this initially, but it really should be the first thing you update! Now, install Preware via WebOSQuickInstall. Also make sure to install Unzip, since save/restore needs this to unzip the zip files that it uses as archived settings. Go into Save/Restore, make sure everything is selected, and do a restore selected. This will load all the saved patches and other Preware settings from your old phone (or old setup before doctoring). Now you can go into Preware again, go to the Saved Package List, and you should see a list of all your old patches and homebrew apps. You can try doing an Install All and you may be lucky, it may be able to install everything without issue. I wasn't quite as lucky. I had a few things that would not install. Some were simply patches that caused errors, but others were a patch and some homebrew apps that were not in Preware to begin with and so when Preware tried to install them, it just kept trying and went on for long periods without stopping, so I finally had to close preware. You can actually delete these from your list of saved packages, but I found that it didn't always recognize this right away, and even if it did, when I tried to do an install all and it came up with an error, I couldn't quite figure out what patch was causing it, so eventually had to install about a third of the remaining patches individually. But just about all of them did install. By the way, the apps and patch that didn't install are as follows: App: NaNplayer, which is a beta music player that Palm hasn't approved for the app catalog yet, and which isn't available via homebrew either. IE it's a private beta. App: Free Music Ringtones: this used to be in the app catalog, which is what my Preware was pointing to, but wasn't able to find it since it's not there anymore. I believe you can get this app through Homebrew now, though. Patch: Inverted keyboard brightness (or something like that): this is a nice patch that sets the keyboard brightness to the inverse of the screen brightness. In any case, it seems that patches that are not in Preware's catalog, but which you installed manually, Preware doesn't really know what to do with, so it just keeps trying to install them. Anyway, I hope this stuff is helpful for folks. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling stuff a bunch of times as I wanted to do it as "cleanly" as possible. While it wasn't the smoothest of operations, if you play with it a bit, it does work and ends up saving you a lot of time and effort in the long haul... Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:44 AM, ldouglas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/20/10, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > > restore. I've never actually done this before, but I'm hopeful it will > work > > well... > > let us know how it goes > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
