This post describes how to activate/deactivate the on device demo on legacy webOS devices. It also features the videos extracted from said demos.

Activation on webOS 1.x devices

Launch the Phone app
Type the following code: #*3366# on GSM or ##3366# on CDMA
Tap Dial

Please note that this will erase all your accounts (e.g., email), but it will not delete your files or apps.

You will need the following packages to be installed for this to work:

root@palm-webos-device:/# ipkg list | egrep "odd|ondevicedemo"
com.palm.app.odd - 1.0-21 - 
com.palm.app.ondevicedemo - 1.0-7.1 - 
ondevicedemod - 1.0.5-60 -

Activation on webOS 2.x devices

Install the following package: http://museum.weboslives.eu/AppPackages/com.palm.sncbls.pre3_3.0.3_all.ipk on the Pre 3 or http://museum.weboslives.eu/AppPackages/com.palm.app.odd_2.1.12_all.ipk on all other devices
Launch the dialer and dial #*3366# on GSM or ##3366# on CDMA
Follow on-screen instructions

Activation on webOS 3.x devices

Install the following three IPKs in this particular order: http://museum.weboslives.eu/AppPackages/com.palm.app.oddx_2.0.0_all.ipk http://museum.weboslives.eu/AppPackages/com.palm.app.oddx_2.1.10_all.ipk http://museum.weboslives.eu/AppPackages/com.palm.sncbls.touchpad_3.0.13_all.ipk
Reboot TouchPad
Launch Device Alive app

Current list of recovered ODD IPKs

How to remove ODD?

The easiest way is to use novacom or novaterm as follows:

novacom -t open tty://
root@Palm Pre Plus:/# ipkg list | egrep "odd|ondevicedemo" 
com.palm.app.oddcore - 1.0-22 - 
ondevicedemod - 1.0.8-93 - 
root@Palm Pre Plus:/# ipkg remove ondevicedemod
Removing package ondevicedemod from root... 
root@Palm Pre Plus:/# ipkg remove com.palm.app.oddcore 
Removing package com.palm.app.oddcore from root... 
root@Palm Pre Plus:/# ipkg list | egrep "odd|ondevicedemo" 
root@Palm Pre Plus:/# reboot

This example shows a Pre Plus. Package names may differ in newer versions of ODD.

Watch the videos online

I have extracted the videos from all the IPKs, you can watch them here:

Phones: http://weboslives.eu/videos/webos_phone_demoloops/
TouchPad: http://weboslives.eu/videos/hp_touchpad_wifi_demoloop/