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Enable Root Access

The pre has been rooted.

It is actually a fairly simple rooting procedure. Look below.

Procedure:

Windows:

1. Download the WebOS image
2. Rename this file to .zip, and extract it
3. set the Konami code on your pre (upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart), and put it into dev mode. Plug it into your windows laptop after it's booted
4. Run the driver installer from the extracted file, it is: webosdoctorp100ewwsprint/resources/NovacomInstaller_x86.msi
5. Install Python 2.6
6. Get the rooter from subversion: webos-dev - Revision 3: /trunk/rooter
7. Download all files from subversion
8. Run talk.py inside of subversion, it'll output a bunch of lines. If you see an error, join the irc (irc.freenode.net #webos-internals). If you get: "[Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" or "An error with some kind of int() problem with getport", then make sure to turn off all firewalls (including Windows Firewall) and all antivirus programs and run talk.py again. You should see a bunch of lines with Got/Expected. Once you get that, you can turn your av's and firewalls back on.
9. Turn on the wifi on your pre. Get your pre's IP address, and you can telnet into it (username: root)
10. Secure the network access once finished. See Installing dropbear/openSSH via ipkg-opt

If you do not secure the network, your device will be accessible by anyone on the internet until rebooted.

Alternatively, use the novaproxy tool to get a root shell over USB after step 5.
asedeno's novaproxy at master - GitHub

Mac OS X:

1. Download the WebOS image
2. Rename this file to .zip, and extract it
3. untar resources/NovacomInstaller.pkg.tar.gz (tar -xzvf)
4. run NovacomInstaller.pkg
5. click through the installer
6. put your Pre in dev mode following instructions above
7. connect to your mac via USB cable ( no need to select a mode, doesn't seem to matter )
8. cd /opt/nova/bin
9. ./novaterm
10. At this point you should have root

Linux:

1. TBD

Next Steps:

Once you've done this, you should Enable the Optware package feed, and then install either dropbear or openssh to allow secure ssh access to your Pre over the wifi link, even when developer mode is disabled.
What You Should See:

root@castle:/# ls
bin dev etc lib md5sums mnt sbin tmp var
boot dspbridge home lost+found media proc sys usr
root@castle:/# uname -a
Linux castle 2.6.24-palm-joplin-3430 #1 175.1.15 armv7l unknown
root@castle:/# whoami
root

From pre dev wiki: Welcome to the Pre/webOS dev wiki all this and more can be found.

rick

Some cool video's to see what this thing can do.

Rooted Pre


Rooting a Pre

josmo

Thanks Rick,

Very nice too know

hiroglifs

hi new to the site wanted to know what do you do with (tar -xzvf) for osx.
i downloaded files but not sure how to unpack.

josmo

untar resources/NovacomInstaller.pkg.tar.gz (tar -xzvf)

means that once you have unziped the file cd to the resources directory and tar -xzvf NovacomInstaller.pkg.tar.gz and then double click on the pkg

or are you asking something else?

hiroglifs

just wanted to start off saying thank you the quick response. Now the next question is i installed the package and from then on connect my palm in dev mode but when i run the commands in terminal nothing happens. Did i miss a step?

mgrebel

cd /opt/nova/bin - can someone explain how these steps are done on a mac

./novaterm - this one too.


thank you

guruzen

Hi guys,

Is there any way to get a terminal run in Win/Mac for Palm Pre SDK emulator?

RICO

thanks for the video but i couldn't not see anything