These are instructions to bypass network activation on a Palm Pixi with a Ubuntu computer.
Shut off the phone and either
- power the phone on while holding the “volume up” button, then connect it via USB to the computer, or
- remove the battery, then press and hold the “volume up” button while connecting the USB cable to your computer.
The Pixi screen should show a USB icon (option 1), or a battery icon (option 2). Either way, you’re ready to program it on the computer.
Use lsusb to make sure the device is connected. Mine is 2nd to last below.
Search for the novacomd file. It has to have the ’d’ at the end, running novacom itself won’t do anything.
Run: sudo path/to/novacomd and let it keep running in its own terminal window.
Open a new terminal window and run: java -jar path/to/devicetool.jar
If all goes well you should see the final message: “Device is ready”.
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