[TUTORIAL] How to pwn your Palm Pre

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How to pwn your Palm Pre?

Palm Pre, its a very hackable device. If youre a hacker you will definitely love it! Unlike Apple, Palm has been really friendly to the Pre hacking community and they havent taken any action to block people from pwning it. If you own a Palm Pre and you want to pwn it, follow the steps below!

Pwn Palm Pre on Windows (Does not work on Windows 7!)
1. Download the most current webOS image
2. Rename the webOS image file to .zip, and extract it
3. Put your Palm Pre in developer mode by typing the Konami code: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart. After your Palm Pre reboots plug it in to your computer
4. Find the following file in your extracted folder: webosdoctorp100ewwsprint/resources/NovacomInstaller_x86.msi and run it
5. Install Python 2.6 from

http://www.python.com

6. Get the rooter from subversion at Sauriks site:

http://svn.saurik.com/repos/webos-dev/trunk/rooter/

7. Run the file talk.py inside of the rooter in subversion, and itll output a bunch of lines. If you see an error, join the Pre Wiki IRC at irc.freenode.net #webos-internals
8. Turn your Pres WiFi on, and get your Pres IP address. Now you can telnet into it using the username root!

Pwn Palm Pre on Mac
1. Download the most current webOS image
2. Rename the webOS image file to .zip, and extract it
3. Untar the resources/NovacomINstaller.pkg.tar.gz folder
4. Run the NovacomInstaller.pkg package
5. Click through the installer
5. Put your Palm Pre in developer mode by typing the Konami code: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart. After your Palm Pre reboots plug it in to your computer
6. Connect your Palm Pre to your Mac
7. Open terminal and type in the following commands:

- cd /opt/nova/bin
- ./novaterm

8. At this point you should now have root access to your Palm Pre!


So you Pwned your Palm Pre, now what?
Once you have root access to your Palm Pre, you can do a lot of cool things like enabling tethering (note: Sprint does not allow tethering so you may want to refrain from enabling it), enabling SSH, adding an NES emulator, running Doom or running VNC. There are a lot of different possibilites! All credit goes to Sargun and the folks at Pre Dev Wiki for bringing this to us! Stay tuned for more Palm Pre related posts. Feel free to post your Pre pwning experience in the comments!

 

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thanks for the post and will have to def give this a shot this weekend since i will have it off

 

[CODKill]

I've seen some crazy things that people have done by rooting their pre. I'm not confident enough with myself to do so, but there are many more apps available if you root your pre.

 

[BiG JeW]

what does PWN do exacty??

 

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what does PWN do exacty??

its like unlocking your pre so you can add more apps like jailbreaking your iphone for instance.... without doing this you wouldnt be able to use many of the apps, the program that they are talking about above is just a coding language.