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webOS 2.1 Over-clocking Kernels for the Pre and Pre Plus Are Go

By: , 2/28/2011 10:25 pm | 24 comments

Image courtesy of @amjz (twitter)

If your an avid follower of webOSroundup, then you have seen the news that with a little technical expertise and assistance from the wizards of WebOS Internals, your Pre or Pre Plus can now be upgraded to webOS 2.1. That’s exciting stuff, but now we have some great news in addition to it. Over-clocking kernels for webOS 2.1 are now available through Preware for those now upgraded devices.

What does that mean? If you have the means and mind to upgrade your Pre to webOS 2.1, you can now make that shiny new OS install run more smoothly thanks to the magic of higher clockspeeds and all of the other goodies a tweaked kernel brings to the fold.

So like many instances with good news also comes a bit of bad. uNiXpSyChO, creator of many of the bespoke kernels, has stated that with the creation of these webOS 2.1 kernels, 1.4.5 over-clocking kernels will no longer be updated.  This might be bittersweet news for those who haven’t yet or won’t upgrade their legacy device to webOS 2.1, but it certainly is fantastic to see the state of webOS homebrew pushed to the next level for older hardware.

So readers, are you going to upgrade your Pre or Pre Plus to webOS 2.1 and if so will you over-clock it? If you know, let us know how your experience goes and in the meantime we’ll continue to keep you posted with updates to this story.

[Source: @amjz & @uNiXpSyChO via Twitter]

 

 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bean508 Bean

    Now that I have my 50 dollar pixi..ill give this a shot with my pre plus on vzw

    • Brandon

      No pixi update dang it

      • JoeZiehmer

        Pixi has been always been looked down up and neglected by Palm. Basically, the ugly duckling thanks to marketing and an in between phone and pda. With only moderate functioning thanks to the severe effects weather can take on it. I now believe that WebOS 2.0 would never have truly fitted. Not because of weak internals but due to, to many flaws not taken care of by the R&D mangenius’ at Palm. HP kind of realistically got screwed over but as long as Internals treats as well we can at least thank them for helping us.

  • http://twitter.com/screwdestiny screwdestiny

    Well, those are placeholder files for when they do go live, the only one you can actually download right now is Thunderchief, which may be a bit much if you have a wimpy Pre. :p

  • http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ Steve Nay

    I put 2.1 on my Verizon Pre Plus this weekend. Went very smoothly, except for some problems with my Palm Profile. Enjoying it a lot so far! Definitely worth the effort. A big thanks again to webOS Internals! Looking forward to the overclocked kernels.

  • http://www.webos-internals.org/ WebOS Internals

    Heh – all those -0 kernels are just placeholders. F105 is the only one released so far.

    – Rod

    • JoeZiehmer

      Rod please… Will there ever be a franken pixi WebOS 2.0 lite version? That would kick ass.

  • Tweller

    I think I’ll wait it out as I only have one pre. Maybe when I buy a pre 3 I will try it out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/geraldo.rigo Geraldo Rigo

    Just placeholders so I won’t install until it becomes official. Until then 600MHZ is alright through Govnah.. just waiting on some 2.1 Apps and I will be satisfied, WebOS Internals you have extended the life of my Pre Plus for another year until my contract is over, now lets figure out how to get Skype in there and I will be set =D

  • Diddly4

    I don’t plan on upgrading to 2.X because I’m up for an upgrade and I’ll wait to see if the Pre3 will be on Sprint. If not I may try it just to see how it works.

  • Tero3

    Will classic work on a uppdated pre? I need DateBk to run every day!!

  • Mastahaze

    O2 unlocked gsm/3g palm pre with 2.1.0 and yes. Overclock all the life also if the 2.1 work like a charm on old pres…well with OC it will probably FLY!!!

  • http://Bungie.net TheKingOfHalo

    I wonder how much Internals will overclock the 1.4 Ghz Pre³. Scary stuff, lol.

  • Eddie Althaus

    Can Pixi users upgrade to WebOs 2.1

    • Cliff

      At the moment the webOS 2.1 upgrade is only available to Pre & Pre Plus users. Sorry Eddie.

    • Cliff

      At the moment the webOS 2.1 upgrade is only available to Pre & Pre Plus users. Sorry Eddie.

    • Cliff

      At the moment the webOS 2.1 upgrade is only available to Pre & Pre Plus users. Sorry Eddie.

    • Cliff

      At the moment the webOS 2.1 upgrade is only available to Pre & Pre Plus users. Sorry Eddie.

  • [email protected]

    For Those Of Us That Are Computer Illiterate Can We Please Have Some Information As To Whom And Where We Can Ship Our Pres So It Can Be Done Properly.

  • Waylandk

    I have pre+ with overclocking and other patches. Can I update to web 2.1 without erasing all the patches first?

    • Davyboy

      No. Doctoring your phone will wipe it completely and will only leave what’s in your palm profile. If you do upgrade back up, email to yourself or otherwise make a note of anything important as you’ll likely lose it. Hope that helps.

      • sunmorgus

        That’s not entirely true…save/restore will backup the preware install list and you can then restore that after upgrading to 2.1…keep in mind though that there are only about 80 or so patches for 2.1 so far. Also, for your palm profile, you will more than likely have to erase it first, so any contacts/messages, etc in your profile will be gone, the only thing brought over will be the apps you have purchased/downloaded through the official catalog…

  • Cobalt

    I’m on a vzwpre+ with webOS, but all that shows up in preware is uberkernal 1.4.5. nonetheless, go homebrew community! I’m not as jealous of the pre2 I can’t afford :)

    • Ddonahueiup

      Me too, i tried installing it and all I got was that it is not available.