Activation Bypass for TouchPad

[GMMan]

During the various times I reset my TouchPad, I have not found any way to skip the First Use app. Unlike what HP says there is no Phone app available during First Use, and no full Device Info app to enter the custom app code in. Here's a way you can bypass First Use by adapting the old activation bypass tool.

You'll need:

• Your TouchPad (duh)
• A computer with Java installed
• USB cable
• webOS Doctor for your TouchPad
• Acivation-bypass tool (from https://developer.palm.com/content/r...ce.html#c21702)
• A file archiver that can read .jar and .tar files

Procedure:

1. Install Novacom if you haven't already (run webOS Doctor, but don't attach your TouchPad)
2. Open the webOS Doctor .jar with your archiver.
3. Navigate to the "resources" folder, and open "webOS.tar"
4. Extract "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage"
5. Open devicetool.jar
6. Navigate to "com/palm/webos/devicetool/images/"
7. Add the extracted "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage" to this folder, and save
8. Turn off your TouchPad
9. Hold Vol+ and Power on your TouchPad until the big USB logo is displayed
10. Plug in your TouchPad to your computer with the USB cable
11. Open up a command prompt/terminal
12. Type
    

    java -jar path/to/devicetool.jar

    where "path/to/devicetool.jar" is where you downloaded devicetool.jar to
13. Wait until the tool displays "Device is ready.", and then you can disconnect your TouchPad. Your TouchPad can now be used and connected to with Novacom

Sample tool output:

C:\>java -jar devicetool.jar
Found device: topaz-bootie
Copying ram disk.................
Rebooting device...
Configuring device...
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "store" using metadata type lvm2
  8 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
Rebooting device...
Device is ready.

When you're ready to properly set up your TouchPad, delete "/var/luna/preferences/first-use-profile-created" on your TouchPad and reboot.

[GMike01]

Originally Posted by GMMan

During the various times I reset my TouchPad, I have not found any way to skip the First Use app. Unlike what HP says there is no Phone app available during First Use, and no full Device Info app to enter the custom app code in. Here's a way you can bypass First Use by adapting the old activation bypass tool.

You'll need:

• Your TouchPad (duh)
• A computer with Java installed
• USB cable
• webOS Doctor for your TouchPad
• Acivation-bypass tool (from https://developer.palm.com/content/r...ce.html#c21702)
• A file archiver that can read .jar and .tar files

Procedure:

1. Install Novacom if you haven't already (run webOS Doctor, but don't attach your TouchPad)
2. Open the webOS Doctor .jar with your archiver.
3. Navigate to the "resources" folder, and open "webOS.tar"
4. Extract "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage"
5. Open devicetool.jar
6. Navigate to "com/palm/webos/devicetool/images/"
7. Add the extracted "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage" to this folder, and save
8. Turn off your TouchPad
9. Hold Vol+ and Power on your TouchPad until the big USB logo is displayed
10. Plug in your TouchPad to your computer with the USB cable
11. Open up a command prompt/terminal
12. Type
    

    java -jar path/to/devicetool.jar

    where "path/to/devicetool.jar" is where you downloaded devicetool.jar to
13. Wait until the tool displays "Device is ready.", and then you can disconnect your TouchPad. Your TouchPad can now be used and connected to with Novacom

Sample tool output:

C:\>java -jar devicetool.jar
Found device: topaz-bootie
Copying ram disk.................
Rebooting device...
Configuring device...
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "store" using metadata type lvm2
  8 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
Rebooting device...
Device is ready.

When you're ready to properly set up your TouchPad, delete "/var/luna/preferences/first-use-profile-created" on your TouchPad and reboot.

thanks, i get this, its nice that we have people like you

[cosber]

Originally Posted by GMMan

During the various times I reset my TouchPad, I have not found any way to skip the First Use app. Unlike what HP says there is no Phone app available during First Use, and no full Device Info app to enter the custom app code in. Here's a way you can bypass First Use by adapting the old activation bypass tool.

You'll need:

• Your TouchPad (duh)
• A computer with Java installed
• USB cable
• webOS Doctor for your TouchPad
• Acivation-bypass tool (from https://developer.palm.com/content/r...ce.html#c21702)
• A file archiver that can read .jar and .tar files

Procedure:

1. Install Novacom if you haven't already (run webOS Doctor, but don't attach your TouchPad)
2. Open the webOS Doctor .jar with your archiver.
3. Navigate to the "resources" folder, and open "webOS.tar"
4. Extract "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage"
5. Open devicetool.jar
6. Navigate to "com/palm/webos/devicetool/images/"
7. Add the extracted "nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage" to this folder, and save
8. Turn off your TouchPad
9. Hold Vol+ and Power on your TouchPad until the big USB logo is displayed
10. Plug in your TouchPad to your computer with the USB cable
11. Open up a command prompt/terminal
12. Type
    

    java -jar path/to/devicetool.jar

    where "path/to/devicetool.jar" is where you downloaded devicetool.jar to
13. Wait until the tool displays "Device is ready.", and then you can disconnect your TouchPad. Your TouchPad can now be used and connected to with Novacom

Sample tool output:

C:\>java -jar devicetool.jar
Found device: topaz-bootie
Copying ram disk.................
Rebooting device...
Configuring device...
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "store" using metadata type lvm2
  8 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
Rebooting device...
Device is ready.

When you're ready to properly set up your TouchPad, delete "/var/luna/preferences/first-use-profile-created" on your TouchPad and reboot.

I tried doing the bypass on a touchpad we forgot the password to unlock it. When I run java -jar devicetool.jar it tells me no device found and tells me to pull the battery. No way I can do that!
I've tried running webos doctor but the touchpad asks for the password, which is why I tried the bypass. When I plug in the touchpad, Windows sees it, thought it asks for sofware. I'm sure I have everything loaded that I need.
Any help would be appreciated.

[lemanho]

If forgot the password for developer mode. Try this...(HP's guy told me and never try it).
1. type in 123456 and repeat it 3 times
2.novacom -t open tty:// -r 123456 -c login
3.rm/var/novacom/passwd
4. Done and Work.

Hope can work....

[cosber]

Originally Posted by lemanho

If forgot the password for developer mode. Try this...(HP's guy told me and never try it).
1. type in 123456 and repeat it 3 times
2.novacom -t open tty:// -r 123456 -c login
3.rm/var/novacom/passwd
4. Done and Work.

Hope can work....

Sorry, I don't know enough about the thing to follow your directions. Where do I type the 123456 3 times? It certainly doesn't work on the device itself.
I was able though to find the device. I put the nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage in the images folder of the devicetool.jar but upon running it tells me it can't find the file. I thought I was almost there when it said it found topaz-bootie. Help!

[GMMan]

1. You need to have Novacom installed.
2. Boot into USB Recovery mode.

[lemanho]

Originally Posted by cosber

I tried doing the bypass on a touchpad we forgot the password to unlock it. When I run java -jar devicetool.jar it tells me no device found and tells me to pull the battery. No way I can do that!
I've tried running webos doctor but the touchpad asks for the password, which is why I tried the bypass. When I plug in the touchpad, Windows sees it, thought it asks for sofware. I'm sure I have everything loaded that I need.
Any help would be appreciated.

1.Just type: webos20090606-----Developer mode.....type in 6 digi number like 123456 .. ..submit(Of cause it desn't work but doesn't matter). repeat it three times
2. Use Novacom with above command .
3. Or hardset the device (Open the back cover.push the hard set bottom on the mainboard. Or try to disconnect the battery directly......).

[cosber]

Originally Posted by GMMan

1. You need to have Novacom installed.
2. Boot into USB Recovery mode.

I'll probaby try skyping you later tonight. In the meantime, your instructions say to run webos Doctor to get Novacom. What I don't understand is, the instructions for getting the nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage says to pull it out of the webos Doctor archive. When I downloaded webos Doctor, it doesn't download an archive, just a java script that appears to run the program from an external source. Nothing downloads on my machine that I can see. Did I miss a folder someplace? I downloaded the nova-installer-image-topaz.uImage itself from the web. Also, I did boot into USB recovery mode. Thanks.

[cosber]

I don't know what happened. I started everything up to give it another shot and this time webos doctor saw the pad and did it's job. It's back and running. Thanks for your efforts.

[GMMan]

Huh, you Doctored the device instead of removing the passcode? The actual Doctor file link is available from the WebOS Internals website.