Originally Posted by llandry

Hey guys. Thanks for all the instructions and useful tools. I am in the process of getting Sprint Nav to work, but keep getting an error when trying to unpack the sprint files on the device

root@castle:/# ipkg install /com.telenav.sprintnavigation_1.0.0-64_armv7.ipk
ipkg install /com.telenav.sprintnavigation_1.0.0-64_armv7.ipk
ipkg: Invalid magic

Any suggestion on how to proceed?

Thanks a bunch!

Originally Posted by Quintus

Ok. If anyone else out there is following this thread, I have figured it out! There seems to be some basic steps that I was missing and hence the problems I was having in following Jason's instructions.

I figured this all out by going to a myriad of resources. Strangely enough, the information was not in any one location. Credit goes to sassansanai on the Palm Forums for posting the read-only/read-write codes, palmprehacks.com for the SDK link, diov for starting this thread and figuring out how to get the Sprint apps onto the Pre and, of course, Jason for showing us how to do it without having to use WebOS Doctor on our Pre! THANK YOU ALL!!!!

(1) First off, you need to have novacom installed on your PC. To do this, goto the WebOS Quick Install thread and follow the instructions there.

(2) To be able to use the "novacom" commands, you have to download the Palm SDK Mojo first and install it. It is not enough to just have novacom loaded and installed on your PC. You can download the Palm SDK from this link:

Registration

(3) Put your Pre into dev mode by typing "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” from the launcher page. Turn DevMode "ON". Your Pre will reset. Plug your Pre into your PC's USB port and choose "Charge Only".

(4) Install the apps you want to the Pre by following Jason's instructions for installing to the Pre found on page 1 of this thread.

(5) Now you need to set the Pre to Read/Write instead of Read Only. To do this, you open up the cmd menu on your PC (Start Menu, choose "Run" then type "cmd" or "cmd.exe") then type: "novacom -t open tty://" Then type "mount -o remount,rw /". Your Pre is now in read/write mode.

(6) Once you have your Pre in read/write mode then follow Jason's instructions for installing or "rooting" the app using the "ipkg install /file.ipk" command.

(7) Clean-up your pre after the install by following Jason's instructions and deleting the ipk's by using the "rm -f /file.ipk" command.

(8) To return your Pre to read-only after you've installed your apps - type: "mount -o remount,ro /"

(9) Turn off Dev.Mode which will reset your Pre.

Voila! And that is how I loaded Sprint Navigation on my Bell Pre!

For the newbies out there, this is not as complicated as it looks. Follow these instructions carefully and you will be fine.

Now I'm going to drive around the block with Sprint Navigation and try not to get lost.

Originally Posted by llandry

Have re-installed everything listed in the steps, have gone through the steps and still getting that "Invalid Magic" error when trying to unpack on the device

Originally Posted by diov

In case anyone's wondering, the same steps should work for WebOS 1.3.1. I'm testing updating with the apps installed and I'll keep you guys posted.

Originally Posted by diov

Does anyone know if the Sprint Apps are working on the GSM Pres across the pond?

Originally Posted by Quintus

Try installing it this way and see if it still gives you the same error. I know that Jason has simplified matters by introducing the Linux Command Line in WebOS Quick Install but try it this way and see what happens.