There's a Patch For That! (Part 1)

webOS Quick Install 2.7 Main Tweaks Screen

The Palm Pre webOS 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 updates brought users 125 new features and improvements (and some issues). Now it is the Pre user community's turn to give back. Users have developed dozens of patches (tweaks) including the On Screen Keyboard, landscape modes for email and messaging, plus upgrades for the Launcher, Sounds, Calendar, Contacts, and Phone.

The PreCentral forums are abuzz with brainstorming and testing while the patch source code and development are at webOS-internals.org. Patches can be installed using webOS Quick Install or the Preware using these instructions. As always, we need to throw the usual warning and provisos up there: you're patching system webOS files, so stuff can break here. For many Pre users, though, the risk is well worth the reward.

Here are some of our favorite patches so far.

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