Universal Novacom Installer (UNI) v1.2.1

[Jason Robitaille]

Just updated Universal Novacom Installer to v1.2 with full webOS 3.x support

Edit: Another update

v1.2.1 - July 2, 2011
- Updated to fix a bug where reinstall attempts on Windows could fail if novacom.exe was missing

[scaramanga89]

I also cannot get this to install on a Mac. It hasn't since 2.0. I recently bought a brand new machine so it isn;t that.

It's a pain in the ***, as it won't recognise the phone in iphoto etc, and there doesn't appear to be a solution.

[jcmarcos]

No luck at this office's Windows 7: UniversalNovacomInstaller detects it as "Windows 64 bit", and then downloads and starts the driver setup. But, while it finishes successfully, the "novacomd" service isn't created, and I can't find any file named "novacom" in the whole system.

I fear the current user, which doesn't have administrator rights, is to blame... Could anyone confirm?

[nnordstr]

I'm also experiencing the same problems that the Mac owners are with the novacom driver installation failing.

[ahjah]

Hello, I'm having a weird behavior with systeminfo.exe (windows xp). When it's called by the installer itself there is no output and after a couple of seconds it fails with this errors:

From novacomInstaller.exe.log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "novacomInstaller.py", line 31, in <module>
  File "novacomInstaller.py", line 17, in download_novacom_installer
KeyError: 'System Type'

If I run systeminfo.exe from a normal CMD session it works fine, so it's not systeminfo.exe that fails.

Any idea?

Thanks and regards,
Leo

[angele_smell]

Trying to install novacom driver to my mac 10.6.7 so i can use a cool theme... not working says FAIL to me. about to try restarting everything and using disk utility to repair permissions.

[saltsaint]

Hello everybody,
It's a while I try to solve the novacom issue I have, in order to be able to run WebOS QuickInstall.
The situation is as follows:
I have an PowerBook G4, OSX Leopard
I run on this machine Virtual PC, Windows XP SP3
On OSX, it's impossible to install Java 1.6 - the PPC processor and lack of support for this from Apple.
On Virtual PC, I already have installed Java 1.6 and Quickinstall but, it didn't recognize my device - Pixi - because novacom could not be installed (there is an error announcing that installation failed).
If there's any solution for this please be so kind and let me know about it.
Thanks

[ramboe]

Have update java runing win7 64bit when i try to open the .jar as ethier the unv. Installer for novacom or the webos quick install i get a flash of a cmd and then nothing happens what is the fix for this?

[Jason Robitaille]

Originally Posted by ramboe

Have update java runing win7 64bit when i try to open the .jar as ethier the unv. Installer for novacom or the webos quick install i get a flash of a cmd and then nothing happens what is the fix for this?

sounds like an issue with Java not being up to date or the jar files not being opened with the JVM

[azzgunther]

Jason - would it be possible to get a the name of the .pkg file that the downloader downloads on OS X? The installer does not work (operation fails at the end) but I suspect we can manually install the files, if we look inside the .pkg and if you could tell us where the files go.

[kennom]

I am also having issues installing.

I am running Windows 7 64-bit. This is the same issue whether I am using WebOS Quickinstall or else this universal installer. I launch them and they download the drivers, but then I receive a notification after it has attempted installation that the service was removed, and then it closes. Novacomd.exe is not installed in the stated folder. I do not know what else to do.

[Nudgie]

I was having heaps of issues getting the Novacom drivers installed for WebOS QuickInstall to recognize my touchpad, including a simple "Driver installation failed" error. I finally stumbled across a link this morning to the latest novacom driver msi executables (ie no automated download). Found on HP Touchpad - RootzWiki

Worked for my Touchpad on Windows 7-64 and Vista-32, here are the links. Just extract with WinRar or whatever:

Windows-x32: http://palm.cdnetworks.net/opensourc...com-win-32.tgz
Windows-x64: http://palm.cdnetworks.net/opensourc...com-win-64.tgz

[gtcruz]

Originally Posted by Jason Robitaille

Just updated Universal Novacom Installer to v1.2 with full webOS 3.x support

Edit: Another update

v1.2.1 - July 2, 2011
- Updated to fix a bug where reinstall attempts on Windows could fail if novacom.exe was missing

The installer doesn't want to work on my computer. Is it possible it's not updated for Lion OS on Mac?

[Jason Robitaille]

Originally Posted by gtcruz

The installer doesn't want to work on my computer. Is it possible it's not updated for Lion OS on Mac?

it's not yet, though WOSQI is, so you could reinstall Novacom from WOSQI fine

[danktuft]

I cannot find the folder where the Novacom drivers have been installed, although I have installed successfully three times now, anyone know where they are in Mac OS X 10.7.2?

[DaMummy]

using ubuntu, im having trouble installing novacomm through univ installer and quickinstall. could be something to do with the fact im using unicode as my password, each time i enter my password, it tells me its wrong password, after 3rd try, it stops asking and shuts down. any solution for me here other then changing sudo pass?