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Regardless of method, the rest of the restore process needs Novacom to be up and running. Instructions were available for us with terminal experience to easily fix it, and I did, but I am not sure it was required since Novacom can also be started and stopped as needed from the terminal. Unfortunately OS X has changed its launch infrastructure since the good Doctor was released, meaning Novacom was properly installed and available but would not start automatically. This software - Novacom and its companion Novaterm - was installed and set up to run automatically on system launch. This amazed me even more when it turned out the setup process involved installing some terminal software used to communicate with the Touchpad. That always gives me a bit of a shiver, but apart from the misery of installing Java - no thank you, I do not want Yahoo to be my start page - it worked as if new. Webos doctor turned out to be a Java application. Once that worked, I could apply successive newer versions without a hitch and finally get the Touchpad up to 3.0.5.īut I am skipping ahead. I have no idea, and my problems and solutions were classically mixed up, but 3.0 was what I got going. Some forum posts seemed to point to it somehow being more able or stable than later versions.

The versions went up to 3.0.5, but in the end 3.0 was the one I was able to use to perform the actual restore. This with multiple versions turned out to be significant. Many different versions of Webos doctor were available, able to restore various versions of Webos to various devices. I quickly found myself on, where both the download page and the actual files were preserved in pristine condition. Happily, this was the easiest hurdle to clear. Of course, by now HP has shut down all its Webos stuff, leaving links pointing out into the void. HP provided a tool called Webos doctor which can reset and reinstall Webos devices. Full instructionsįor those up for more words, the details: The good doctorīack in the day, the restore would have been simple.

Run devicetool ( direct download) - altering the setup to bypass online validation (and some apps?).

Run Webos doctor again - factory restoring the OS.

Use terminal software to reformat drive and set up partitions.

Run Webos doctor, get terminal software (Novacom and Novaterm) installed and running.

I found myself spending an evening searching, hitting dead links, downloading stuff linked in forum posts, finding different information depending on the age of the link, weird hacked versions of old software and things preserved by .įor the impatient, I give you: The steps, final version Encouraged by its owner, I set about trying to bring it back to its original state. I got the privilige to borrow a Touchpad - the extremely short-lived tablet running Webos - but discovered it was running Android. The world of old hardware software is full of shadows.