Pre 3 Impersonation - Revision history

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RodWhitby at 04:44, 30 October 2011

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FrankAnthonyDavis: /* THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE. THE AT&T PRE3 DOCTOR NOW EXISTS AND AN OTA IS AVAILABLE */

2011-09-28T15:41:47Z

THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE. THE AT&T PRE3 DOCTOR NOW EXISTS AND AN OTA IS AVAILABLE

RodWhitby at 02:01, 28 September 2011

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   This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
-This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your AT&T Pre 3 speak German, Italian, or French.
+This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an AT&T Pre3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre3 has 8 GB only) could be such a reason. Or you want your AT&T Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
-If your Pre 3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).
+If your Pre3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).
 Note that the device continues to have the same cellular frequency bands, and continues to have the same amount of flash memory.
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 #In the terminal, type  <pre>./scripts/meta-wr-pre3-impersonate-att-2.2.4</pre> (to create an EU Pre 3 doctor for an AT&T Pre 3) or <pre>./scripts/meta-att-pre3-impersonate-wr-2.2.4</pre> (to create an AT&T doctor for an EU Pre 3).
-This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an AT&T Pre 3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.
+This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an AT&T Pre3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.

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   This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
-This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your AT&T Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
+This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your AT&T Pre 3 speak German, Italian, or French.
 If your Pre 3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).

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   This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
-This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your ATT Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
+This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your AT&T Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
 If your Pre 3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).
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 #In the terminal, type  <pre>./scripts/meta-wr-pre3-impersonate-att-2.2.4</pre> (to create an EU Pre 3 doctor for an AT&T Pre 3) or <pre>./scripts/meta-att-pre3-impersonate-wr-2.2.4</pre> (to create an AT&T doctor for an EU Pre 3).
-This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an ATT Pre 3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.
+This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an AT&T Pre 3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.

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   This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
-This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your ATT Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
+This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre 3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre 3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your ATT Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
 If your Pre 3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).
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 #In the terminal, type  <pre>./scripts/meta-wr-pre3-impersonate-att-2.2.4</pre> (to create an EU Pre 3 doctor for an AT&T Pre 3) or <pre>./scripts/meta-att-pre3-impersonate-wr-2.2.4</pre> (to create an AT&T doctor for an EU Pre 3).
-This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an ATT Pre3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.
+This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an ATT Pre 3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.

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   This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
-This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your ATT Pre3 speak German, Italian, French, or Spanish.
+This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so. Using an ATT Pre3 (has 16 GB) in Europe (European Pre3 has 8 GB only) could be such reason. Or you want your ATT Pre3 speak German, Italian, or French.
 If your Pre 3 ever ends up with a 9.9.9 webOS version in your palm profile, you can also use this procedure to switch it back to a real version (make it impersonate the other type of device, and then switch it back again using the other script).

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 #Download and setup the webOS Metadoctor.
 #*This is a tool that helps us modify the official doctor and then flash it onto our phones. Follow that page but DO NOT FOLLOW after where it says "STEP 2: Running the webOS Doctor" on that guide!!!! http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:MetaDoctor
-#In the terminal, type  <pre>./scripts/meta-wr-pre3-impersonate-att-2.2.4</pre> (to create an EU Pre 3 doctor for an AT&T Pre 3) or <pre>./scripts/meta-att-pre3-impersonate-wr-2.2.0</pre> (to create an AT&T doctor for an EU Pre 3).
+#In the terminal, type  <pre>./scripts/meta-wr-pre3-impersonate-att-2.2.4</pre> (to create an EU Pre 3 doctor for an AT&T Pre 3) or <pre>./scripts/meta-att-pre3-impersonate-wr-2.2.4</pre> (to create an AT&T doctor for an EU Pre 3).
 This is a one time processs only. If there is a need for re-doctoring, you have to create a new doctor file corresponding to the existing one. E. g. if you impersonated an ATT Pre3 mimicking being a European wr model, you have to build a wr doctor for the next time. Otherwise the impersonation doctor will refuse to load.

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	This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so.		This was important before the doctor and OTA update of the AT&T Pre 3 became available. Now it is not so important and is no longer recommended unless you have good reason to do so.
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		+	If you want to reverse this process so that you can use the AT&T Pre 3 Doctor again you have to do 3 things. First follow the instructions below using the "restore" tokens at the very bottom of the page, then flash the resulting meta-doctor to your device, then flash the factory AT&T Doctor.

	Note that the device continues to have the same cellular frequency bands, and continues to have the same amount of flash memory.		Note that the device continues to have the same cellular frequency bands, and continues to have the same amount of flash memory.

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 =THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE. THE AT&T PRE3 DOCTOR NOW EXISTS AND AN OTA IS AVAILABLE=
-This page is for those very lucky people who have somehow managed to score themselves the mythical 16GB AT&T Pre 3 device, and want to be able to make it impersonate a normal 8GB EU Pre 3 for the purposes of OTA updates, using the webOS Doctor and installing patches and custom kernels.  Note that the device continues to have the same cellular frequency bands, and continues to have 16GB of flash.
+This page is for anyone who wants to make a certain Pre 3 model impersonate some other Pre 3 model.
 You need to use the meta-doctor to change the tokens on the device: