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The Official HP Touchpad Thread of $100 Digital Picture Frames
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Sleeplessnights
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Found a new TouchPad in a shop for a cheap price, thinking about getting it and putting CM7 on it. Good idea? Worth getting a TouchPad?
MiloFoxburr
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Sleeplessnights said:
If you're at all interested in getting an Android Tablet some point soon you'd be mad not to jump on a cheap Touchpad.
eternalthree
Member
Joe, I have this exact same issue. I ended up putting my music into
media/internal/downloads/boxnet
and now I can access my mp3s in both OSS
anyone have a more scientific/clean answer?
media/internal/downloads/boxnet
and now I can access my mp3s in both OSS
anyone have a more scientific/clean answer?
Joe said:
eternalthree said:
That sounds like a bug that was in the first alpha, it's supposed to be fixed in 2.1. People were saying folders/files got deleted when you switched OS's unless you put them into the "downloads" folder.
If you upgraded to 2.1 and you're still experiencing it, maybe try using the ACMEUninstaller to delete Android and install 2.1 as a fresh install.
If that doesn't work maybe they didn't fix it all the way.
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?4011-RELEASE-ALPHA-Discussion-CyanogenMod-team-Touchpad-port
The Big Rig
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Sometimes I think Android uses less power than Webos.1-D_FTW said:
So I just sold my touchpad. I just wasnt using it with an iPad in the house and couldnt get over its UI and speed deficiencies (some of which were certainly reduced with preware utilities)
I didnt flip it for more cash. Just got back what I paid.
a shame HP couldnt get a fully baked product out on the market. there really is potential in WebOS. but its had potential for years now and could never quite be as good as it needed to be to succeed.
I didnt flip it for more cash. Just got back what I paid.
a shame HP couldnt get a fully baked product out on the market. there really is potential in WebOS. but its had potential for years now and could never quite be as good as it needed to be to succeed.
claviertekky said:
Put it on last night, and have had no real complaints. I used setcpu to avoid the SOD issues some have had (I've had none). The only real quibble, which is minor, is that the wifi drops off when it sleeps and doesn't come back automatically. Other than that, however, all the apps I'm interested run flawlessly. If you want to see which apps do or do not run then this will help.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...C01N2VlMHVmeFY0LVU2UUNLNDJHRXc&hl=en_US#gid=0
When you set it up the first time be patient as a few times I thought it was stuck before it booted.
I have zero regrets, and doubt I'll boot back into WebOS anytime soon.
eternalthree
Member
Ericsc said:
Well, my folders and files are there, they haven't been deleted. It's just that the music players in webOS and cm7 are not locating them unless I move them into the folder I specified.
ok, I'll bite, time for the acmeuninstall. The sod is pretty frequent on 2.1. Question, I know it was mentioned a few pages back, but I wasn't able to find it anymore. How do I back up all the droid apps I installed? Thanks.
SolidsnackooFoxhound
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claviertekky said:
Running Alpha 2 and everything is good here. Not having any issues with battery life anymore and not having the screen not respond when the tablet is sleeping for more than 10 seconds.
butter_stick
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Discontinued device in not-as-good-as-market-leader shocker.LCfiner said:
butter_stick
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I'm assuming you bought it after it had been discontinued though. Seems pointless when you have an iPad and didn't intend to profit. Why even keep it this long?LCfiner said:
butter_stick said:
I was curious about webOS because I had heard good things about it for a while and I wanted to try it out for more than a couple weeks. I wasnt planning on selling it till just this week.
I really wish HP and Palm had figured out how to make WebOS a better performer because the OS has really great ideas. it just doesnt feel as smooth as it should.
butter_stick
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Once you install some preware stuff WebOS Itself isn't too much of a burden. It just doesn't empower you in any way. The lack of apps means there's nothing about WebOS that makes it worth keeping. As a vanilla OS, it's no better or worse than anything else for tablet use.
DR3AM said:
On webOS
no netflix, have to use android for netflix
twitter, I don't know, maybe there's an app on the app catalog, or you could just use the webbrowser.
yes facebook app
yes flash
espn3 If it works on your ISP then I think it works... wait does espn3 block phones and tablets? I'm not sure. If espn3 works on your PC and doesn't work on webOS, it probably would work if you install the hulu fix.
If you want to install the hulu fix you can get it from here
webOS 3.0.4 HULU fix
Also, I recommend you download Xecutah, XTerm, XServer from Preware so you can install and uninstall the patch right from the touchpad itself.
Download the hulu.zip from the above link, unzip it and put the "hulu" file on your touchpad.
Now using your touchpad just go into Xecutah, start XTerm up and type
/media/internal/hulu
and now hulu and other blocked websites will work, BUT DOING THAT WILL BREAK THE webOS HP app catalog.
when you want to go into the webOS hp app catalog just start up XTerm and type
/media/internal/hulu uninstall
and now you can go into the app catalog.
Easy
br0ken_shad0w
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kmfdmpig said:
I had SOD issues with the first alpha but the second alpha I don't think I had one yet. It's still buggy as shit but the ability to use Opera Mobile over WebOS's browser means I'm never going back.
Ok I just fooled with FPse (psx emu) and plays like a champ too!
Only thing is that the videos look weird like pixelated but the filtering option helps I suppose. Can be used with a DS3 with the sixasix app tool I posted about before. Tomba 1 plays slow with filter like 20~26FPS while with filter off 40~45. I hope emulation improves with Android OS port. Didnt they not get the 3D rendering all the way for the port yet in Alpha2? Ah well, sick device!
Only thing is that the videos look weird like pixelated but the filtering option helps I suppose. Can be used with a DS3 with the sixasix app tool I posted about before. Tomba 1 plays slow with filter like 20~26FPS while with filter off 40~45. I hope emulation improves with Android OS port. Didnt they not get the 3D rendering all the way for the port yet in Alpha2? Ah well, sick device!
Installed CM7 Alpha 2.1, and while it's impressive how well it works, it really highlights just how not suited to Tablets Gingerbread is. The browser is better than webOS, to be sure, and the dedicated Google service apps (Gmail, Google Maps, Google Reader) are nice, but the overall usability of the OS (speed aside) actually isn't as good as webOS, and quite a few apps actually work and feel better on webOS (Kindle, Facebook, generic email client, etc). I sure hope ICS gets ported to this soon.
And Emit, the main reason I decided to give Android a shot, is really a very very poor man's version of AirVideo, on both the client and server side. Better than nothing, I suppose, but I'm guessing at the end of it all, I'll have ended up buying an iPad just because AirVideo works so much better than any video streaming with on-the-fly transcoding.
And Emit, the main reason I decided to give Android a shot, is really a very very poor man's version of AirVideo, on both the client and server side. Better than nothing, I suppose, but I'm guessing at the end of it all, I'll have ended up buying an iPad just because AirVideo works so much better than any video streaming with on-the-fly transcoding.
It sounds like others have had success getting HP to repair them.Jeels said:
I know that for mine the connector for the charger can be extremely finicky. Is it possible that it's just not connecting well? If the sound is on it will be easy to tell if it's connecting and then disconnecting.
Phone chargers aren't the right voltage. Too little juice. I was having trouble with my touchstone and it was the connection between the cable and the big cylinder piece. Even tho it looked like it was all the way in I had to wiggle it a bit so it would charge again. If you're completely drained it's not going to come right back if the connection is loose. Wiggle it a bit more or take it out completely and reseat it and try again in 20 min.
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B005AWYDTW/Kintaco said:
hawkshockey11
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sfedai0 said:
My button sucks as well, Have to use my nail...
Phantast2k
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Swipe up instead of using the button. Only noobs use the horrid button 
(edit: up from the bottom bezel edge)
On pdf: I don't think there is, but there are patched versions of the stock reader floating around that implement a memory function and add some more stuff, but yeah - no folder aware reader that I know of.
(edit: up from the bottom bezel edge)
On pdf: I don't think there is, but there are patched versions of the stock reader floating around that implement a memory function and add some more stuff, but yeah - no folder aware reader that I know of.
ComputerMKII
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Aldiko is good. It even remembers which page you were at the last time you opened the file and I missed that in WebOS.Bleepey said:
whatsinaname
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WTF?!
I didn't want to update to the new version of WebOS as that would break most of my pre-ware patches. So I kept hitting install later.
Then I set my touchpad to charge and now I see that it has started updating automatically?
I didn't want to update to the new version of WebOS as that would break most of my pre-ware patches. So I kept hitting install later.
Then I set my touchpad to charge and now I see that it has started updating automatically?
1-D_FTW said:
I was looking online and it seems on webOS, some people can get espn3 to load fine, others needed the hulu fix, and for some it doesn't work even with the hulu fix. Very strange, I wonder why it doesn't work for some people at all.
I guess the only way to know for sure is to try it both with and without the hulu fix and see if espn3 works.
whatsinaname said:
Happened to me too.
Whole thread about this over on precentral
http://forums.precentral.net/hp-touchpad/304160-my-tp-updated-3-0-4-itself.html
HardBeatZ on precentral.net said:
HardBeatZ on precentral.net said: