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Palm Pixi Plus – Getting It to Work In India

19/10/2011

As I posted earlier here, I bought a new Palm Pixi Plus from DealsAndYou.com and… Please read that thread…

DAY1: Problem 1

Yeah I enjoyed the slick and smooth interface, connected it to my wifi, checked my mails and browsed some pages, and there it was, I realized I was missing something…. Oh Yeah… No Face book?… you must be kidding me, then and there I ran to the App Catalog, ran it… and it kept on glowing for about a minute or so, but to my horror, the App said, something went wrong, and I understood, that was a phone bypassed with activation patch from precentral or webos internals.

Just worried what can be done, and I suddenly realized that there was this small “E” symbol on the top, which meant the phone had automatically configured the Internet connection on Vodafone IN (waoh!, that’s a brilliant first impression, I am impressed…). So I figured out, that it must be something like registering again or something.

So follow up the simple guide as follows (might not work on data providers which use proxies like MTNL, BSNL, etc)

Go to “Device Info”.
Click “Reset Options”.
The phone will reset to as it was from factory, let it start, and wait to the welcome screen.
Welcome Screen will ask you for your info to create your palm profile, and will not work until your phone is on the network.
Let it configure the data connection, do not start until you see the “E” on the top.
Once done, just keep your fingers crossed and fill out the details.
It might not happen on the first try, but give it more tries, mine happened on the second try, and it was perfect then. (In case you are unable to get the palm profile created using the phone, use this thread on Palm Blog and bypass it, the phone will be as it arrived to you.)
Once done, you will be able do all sorts of things with you palm, like downloading apps from the app catalog and registering your accounts, plus have your phone backups online with the palm servers.

Hope you did that correctly!

Cheers

PS: in case you have any problems get in touch with me via mail.

PPS: I shall not be held responsible for any damages being cause to your phone (if you do it wrong!)… Toying around irresponsibly with your device can BRICK it, be careful!

PPPS: Hold On for a decent alternative to App Catalog + thousands of free apps/patches: welcome to Preware!.. :)