Category Archives: News

This should be used for general news where the other categories do not apply. One category per article!

News Crumbs – 3rd August 2015

Has it been almost four months since we last shook out the toaster? Some of these crumbs may be a little stale, but lets recap:

That’s it for now. I’ll be looking for ideas for the next batch.

Tip: How to Bypass Activation

When powered on, a ‘new’, reset or doctored webOS device will attempt to contact HP’s servers to allow a user to log in to an existing Palm Profile account or create a new one. In the past, this allowed access to the app catalog and other services such as cloud backup & remote wipe.

Now, the HP servers are gone. You can read articles on these pages about the various community fixes for issues that have arisen over the years and how to set up the device and install apps. But if starting afresh, you’ll hit an apparent brickwall: webOS wasn’t designed to skip the activation if contact isn’t made. Palm naturally assumed that everyone would want to download apps & use the services, so the machine waits for contact, advising the user to check the connection or contact HP.

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C+Dav Synergy Connector Updated for webOS

webOS Synergy Accounts
webOS Synergy Accounts

webOS Nation’s forums user and webOS Ports team member, Garfonso, has updated the C+Dav Synergy Connector for webOS to version 0.3.31.

CalDav and CardDav are now the standards with the broadest server support for syncing calendars and contacts. And thanks to his and webOS Ports’ efforts it works for legacy webOS AND LuneOS too.

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Preserving webOS apps

Yesterday, webOS day saw the ninth testing release of LuneOS, but it was also the first anniversary without the servers and app catalog. The future looks promising, but we are on our own now. Most of us backed up our apps before the shutdown, but it should be remembered that the original announcement only went out to developers. Since the 15th of April a number of users have appeared whose devices have reset and are stuck at the account activation screen. Having bypassed this obstacle, they will then find their accounts and apps will not automatically restore. For them and to have a reasonable portfolio of apps for LuneOS, steps are being taken to encourage developers to make their apps available in alternative channels. Some have added to the webOS Nation app gallery, others are hosting installation packages on their own websites or code repositories.

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LuneOS June Stable Release: Café Cubano

We’re very pleased to present you our latest monthly stable release, Café Cubano or “Cubano” in short.

The key highlights for this month are the virtual keyboard & bug fixes! We’ve been focusing heavily on the virtual keyboard after last month’s orientation support implementation.

The old keyboard had been bugging us and our users for quite some time already, so we decided to get started. We have taken webOS 3.0.5, LunaCE and Open webOS virtual keyboards as inspiration.

For tablet layouts we have now done the following:

  • Added an additional row with numbers.
  • Added a trackball like in LunaCE.
  • Added support for multiple keyboard sizes (XS, S, M and L).
  • Added alternate keys while long pressing a key (indicated by …) so you can get é ë è etc while holding e.
  • A large number of UI tweaks to make it look very similar to the legacy webOS 3.0.x virtual keyboard.

For phone layouts we have done the following:

  • Created a complete new layout inspired by the virtual keyboards as it was included in Open webOS and featured on webOSNation.

This is currently only available for the English keyboard layout. We will work on the layouts for the other languages in the near future, as well as further fine tuning of the various keyboard layouts and features!

We also have been reworking the update mechanism to allow updating nightly releases.

Grab your Nexus 4, HP TouchPad, Nexus 7 (2012 WiFi) or emulator and load up our latest builds!

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