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Banned: Elysian893
at: 11:30 PM 09/04/2009
Moderator's note: This thread is just for new features found. Discussion posts are now here.

Here we go(stole the original list to start):
[*]Bookmarks are now backed up by the Palm Profile (Screenshot)
On the WebOS Quick Installer, I've tested the mods to see which work, and I can tell you which ones not to try:

Don't do anything to the Messager
Don't do anything to the Email client
I'm also assuming don't do anything to the PDF Viewer


4x4 icons works, Hiding Nascar and NFL work, Call Duration in Call Log works, changing logos/backgrounds still work, Silencing the dial tones still works, and Add/delete launcher pages works. Thats the stuff I tested(besides PDF Viewer).

Screenshots:




Feel free to add anything I might have missed, and I'll update the OP.

*Disclaimer: I do not suggest installing this, unless you are familiar with rooting your phone and can disable the UpdateDaemon. This update is, as far as I'm concerned, experimental, beta, and definitely not supported by Palm, since it isn't official. My suggestion is to wait for the official release. This update has a build date of 8/30, so its already a few days old, I'm guessing the final release will have a different build date, and hopefully incorporate some of the changes mentioned in the other thread.
Banned: Elysian893
at: 11:37 PM 09/04/2009
Originally Posted by Reminiz:
anyone try the virtual keyboard patch?
While reading through the original thread, found that it will not work, because of the updated mojo framework.
Member: theoottesen
at: 11:39 PM 09/04/2009
There is also a new file called lunaAnimations.conf

Originally Posted by :
[Equations]
easeInStrength=3
easeOutStrength=3
easeInOutStrength=3

[FPS]
normalFPS=35
slowFPS=20

[Cards]
cardLaunchDuration=400
cardLaunchStrength=40
cardSlideDuration=300
cardMaximizeDuration=300
cardMaximizeStrength=30
cardMinimizeDuration=350
cardMinimizeStrength=40
cardDeleteDuration=300
cardScootAwayOnLaunchDuration=400
cardScootAwayOnLaunchStrength=30
cardMoveNormalDuration=100
cardMoveOverviewDuration=100
cardShuffleReorderDuration=200
cardSwitchReachEndMaximizedDuration=200
cardSwitchMaximizedDuration=350

[Spaces]
positiveSpaceChangeDuration=400

[Launcher]
quickLaunchDuration=350
quickLaunchSlideToStacheDuration=150
launcherDuration=350

Member: NachoB
at: 12:03 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by un_designer:
can you scroll inside a text input box? for example, if you were to post on this forum and typed a really long message, are you able to scroll inside the text input box? thx.
Originally Posted by Elysian893:
Yes! I just tested this, and absolutely, you can. You press the orange key while sliding your finger, just as if you were scrolling through normal text. Adding this to the list
Originally Posted by un_designer:
woo hoo.
You can do this now on 1.1.0, not new.
Developer: rwhitby
at: 12:05 AM 09/05/2009
[ Copying this here from http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pr...ml#post1870924 so that we can hopefully stem all the questions in this thread too ]

Well, since I don't personally have a Pre, I can't join in the fun, but reports from others are that (as expected) all of the webos-internals services, plugins and applications are working fine.

Patches are bound to break across webOS .x version changes like this, and it seems about half of them have made it through and the other half are no longer working due to changes in the original applications.

The Virtual Keyboard will need to be updated, cause the framework version has changed. I expect work on that is already underway ;-)

Preware seems to be working fine (as expected).

I would expect WebOS Quick Install to be able to connect to a device with 1.2 on it, but would expect the same amount of tweaks to fail (since most of them are ports of the patches in the webos-internals repository).

As for really under the hood stuff (like the bluetooth changes), people are still looking into it.

-- Rod
Banned: Elysian893
at: 12:08 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by NachoB:
You can do this now on 1.1.0, not new.
Strange, I had tried it on 1.1 before, and not had luck. Though, that was after I left the text box and for some reason the text would get much bigger, and clicking in the box and trying this didn't work... You're talking, multiline boxes in the browser, right?
Banned: Elysian893
at: 12:19 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by OneDeep:
No the ones at the very top where it say articles, reviews, accessory store..
There are drop downs for those? I don't get them in my browser(Opera 10)

I think I know what you mean though, basically drop downs that, in a regular browser, you'd mouseover and they appear? If thats the case, then no, 1.2 doesn't do anything different there.
Member: jhoff80
at: 12:19 AM 09/05/2009
Demo video of 1.2 up here: YouTube - Palm Pre Running webOS 1.2

So that this doesn't get taken off track, if you want to comment on the video, do so in the thread I created here: http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pr...emo-video.html
Member: jhoff80
at: 12:28 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by llamaegg:
Would have been nice to see an irc client, but I'm heavily doubting on that one.
Mibbit Mobile works for most servers: Mibbit ™ Mobile
The full Mibbit website (Mibbit.com - Easy and fast Webchat) isn't horrible on the Pre either in 1.2, though I'd still prefer a native app.
Banned: Elysian893
at: 12:38 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by OneDeep:
September is already looking to be a good month.

@Elysian you should try and open as many cards to see if the can't open any more cards comes up.. I get that alot when I only have one card open
I've got 12 cards open, actively loading web pages. Its slow, but usable. After 12 I got the too many cards thing.
Member: d2globalinc
at: 12:44 AM 09/05/2009
You can also add this to your list of 1.2 enhancements!

1. Car Kit Options - Looks like palm is adding support for sending items such as contacts to a "Car kit"

2. "Send Contact" option now shows up when you have a contact open. Send to options are Car Kit, MMS, and Emial.

3. Clock Now has additional preference under a "Ring Switch Off" area - "Play Alarm Anyway" on/off button.

4. Calendar now has additional preference setting for "Calendar View Options" to set the color of your calendars and to show them in the "All Calendars" view.

5. Phone settings now have a switch to turn on or off "Data Usage"

More as I find em -
Member: jhoff80
at: 12:56 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by Elysian893:
what?
If you go to a contact, you can now send your contact as a vcard.vcf file via MMS, Email, or Send it to a Car Kit.
Member: un_designer
at: 12:58 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by jack87:
I cant figure out why in the hell palm keeps removing useful functions like email pinch... and new card for links with orange+sym tap on link they should of made it into a gesture tap
isn't the open-link-in-new-card available in 1.2 via orange-click? that's one fewer key to press.
Member: d2globalinc
at: 01:00 AM 09/05/2009
Add the following to the new features -

1. "Send Contact" option now shows up when you have a contact open. Send to options are Car Kit, MMS, and Emial.

2. Calendar now has additional preference setting for "Calendar View Options" to set the color of your calendars and to show them in the "All Calendars" view.

- D2G
Member: jhoff80
at: 01:03 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by d2globalinc:
2. Calendar now has additional preference setting for "Calendar View Options" to set the color of your calendars and to show them in the "All Calendars" view.
You always could do that, but you used to have to go into each account separately and set all of the calendars for only that account. It's great that it's combined into one option like this now though.
Member: d2globalinc
at: 01:17 AM 09/05/2009
Another update - Not really important - but they reduced the size of the palmpre intro video from 7mb to 6.1 - the difference is that they cut the text at the end of the video that tells you to goto the HELP icon to learn more, and then says "Have Fun" - So i guess they don't want us to have that much fun anymore

- D2G
Member: michaelw9
at: 01:33 AM 09/05/2009
1.2 includes disabled code for LED blinking when you have a notification and the screeen is locked.

After I uncommented out some lines in the necessary files, the "Screen and Lock" menu puts the toggle switch as seen here. (Thanks theo for your help). If you have any notications while the screen off, the center LED then blinks smoothly on and off. I guess we can add this as a patch soon.
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Member: qitupx
at: 01:35 AM 09/05/2009
All the menu animations seem to be more snappy. Not as much lag throughout the whole OS. The launcher comes up quicker, switching pages is quicker, notification bar doesn't cause sluggishness and adding contacts and merging them is also quicker.
Member: michaelw9
at: 01:38 AM 09/05/2009
Originally Posted by kehanra99:
There are still two huge, basic features missing from this phone...stuff I've had on phones since 2003.

1 - No video on a phone with this kind of power?
2 - No recurring reminders available after you miss a message or have a text waiting.

The second one is the biggest. I missed a potentially job-killing message last Sunday because I didn't check my phone for about 4 or 5 hours. I'd really like a sound every 10 minutes, or at least to have a one of those glowing lights pop up every few minutes to catch my eye...
There is an option that was disabled by default, I just enabled it by removing some commented code. The LED then blinks when your screen is off and you have a notification.
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Member: jhoff80
at: 01:57 AM 09/05/2009
Okay tethering has almost definitely been purposely disabled in the Wifi driver. If I go to the Terminal and follow the manual instructions:

wifidriver -i
iwconfig eth0 mode Ad-Hoc essid PreNet

I get the following message:
Originally Posted by :
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument.
Bluetooth tethering using My Tether is working properly though. (Turn on USB tethering, then connect to the Pre via Bluetooth PAN). I presume that should mean USB tethering itself works as well.
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