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The Official HP Touchpad Thread of $100 Digital Picture Frames

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Kabuki Quantum Lover

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Before I reflash the whole thing, I installed the ICS alpha. I can't manage to get the Google app suite installed? Any tips?

Even in its 'alpha zero' state, ICS on the TP is rather impressive. The whole UI experience is exponentially better than what was being offered w/ CM7.
 
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Metalmurphy

Member
Copernicus said:
I wonder how Google feels about having their GAPPS being used on touchpad.

Historically they've turned a blind eye, mainly because the devices have originally been licensed for used with their GAPPS at retail. The Touchpad is a whole different ball game.

Stop SOPA/PIPA
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Well, considering the HP Touchpad is now recognized on the android market I'm pretty sure they're ok with it.
 
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No_Style

Member
typo said:
Even in its 'alpha zero' state, ICS on the TP is rather impressive. The whole UI experience is exponentially better than what was being offered w/ CM7.
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I was thinking about waiting until it reaches "feature parity" with CM7, but this makes me reconsider.
 
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cbox

Member
What would the process be in my situation to eventually upgrade to ICS?

Received touchpad, updated to 3.04, installed preware and several patches, then awoke the other tday to see what it had updated to 3.05 and all my patches don't work. Preware and the patches are still installed, but I'm not sure what to do.

Would I have to wipe it somehow before installing?
 
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Doopliss

Member
3chopl0x said:
So what is the process of updating? Do I go through clockwork? I've never updated before, only done a fresh install.
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You can install it in the same way you originally installed CM7, but using the new ACMEInstaller2. Or you can install it through CWM recovery, but you'll need to do a factory reset (wipes all apps and settings, but will leave your media files intact). I did the latter since I don't have that much stuff to set up and not wiping feels like it would be asking for trouble. You can backup everything in CWM anyway.

CM9 is working really well for me, haven't found any downsides so far. Everything I've tried works fast, looks and feels really polished and I've had no problems with stability. My only small gripe is that CM's custom launcher doesn't seem to be fully tablet optimized. You don't get a page indicator on the homescreen and the widget menu doesn't have the homescreen overview that you get on honeycomb tablets.
 
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theskat

Banned
3chopl0x said:
The market seems to crash as soon as I launch it, is it working for anyone else?
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Did you install the ICS gapps? The market is working like a charm for me, the only thing is that I have to re-download ALL of my apps again, even though I have my Google settings to sync all apps automatically. Also, I cant see my TP in My Computer (its giving me a MTP USB device failed to install error). But so far, so good! Its freaking smooth on my TP, and the browser flies!
 
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MiloFoxburr

Member
theskat said:
Did you install the ICS gapps? The market is working like a charm for me, the only thing is that I have to re-download ALL of my apps again, even though I have my Google settings to sync all apps automatically. Also, I cant see my TP in My Computer (its giving me a MTP USB device failed to install error). But so far, so good! Its freaking smooth on my TP, and the browser flies!
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To fix the MTP thing, go into Settings -> Storage -> Menu icon (top right) -> USB Computer Connection and tick Media Device (MTP)
 
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Echoplx

Member
theskat said:
Did you install the ICS gapps? The market is working like a charm for me, the only thing is that I have to re-download ALL of my apps again, even though I have my Google settings to sync all apps automatically. Also, I cant see my TP in My Computer (its giving me a MTP USB device failed to install error). But so far, so good! Its freaking smooth on my TP, and the browser flies!
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Where do I get the ICS version?
 
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theskat

Banned
Lyphen said:
Assuming the instructions are the typical wipe data/cache/flash zip and you're done?

Thanks.
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If you already had CM7 on the TP, it is just a matter of using cwm and the new ICS build and wipe cache/dalvik/flash update (be aware, this will erase every app on your pad). if you've never done it, then its a new install with all the files linked.
 
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MiloFoxburr

Member
Lyphen said:
Assuming the instructions are the typical wipe data/cache/flash zip and you're done?

Thanks.
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If you're already on CM7 you can use Acmeinstaller2 to install just update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-Touchpad-alpha0-fullofbugs.zip and not need to wipe.

If you use CWM to flash the file you'll need to wipe. A wipe is probably best though, seems to be a lot more stable that way.
 
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Krakatoa

Member
Anyone having problems connecting to the market place? I have latest gapps installed but it keeps saying "Error retrieving informtaion from server"

Okay fixed it. I had to remove my gmail account and add it again.
 
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1-D_FTW

Member
Great King Bowser said:
My TouchPad keeps failing to install 3.0.5, is it because I have preware and stuff on there?
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I have two of these and one of them just doesn't like to update. Finally gave up on getting 3.0.5 to install and did a WebDoctor OS reinstall:

http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/310468-3-0-5-86-update-fails.html

That thing has really finicky wifi that basically does not play nice with any public usage. Got it working fine at home with latest tomato router firmware, but hoping it miraculiously cures that. Some people on forums claimed it could be due to a faulty OS install. Interestingly enough, after I doctored that TP, I'm no longer asked to enter my ZIP code everytime I open the radio app. So maybe there was more borked than just refusing to update the OS. We'll see.
 
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Kabuki Quantum Lover

Member
1-D_FTW said:
I have two of these and one of them just doesn't like to update. Finally gave up on getting 3.0.5 to install and did a WebDoctor OS reinstall:

http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/310468-3-0-5-86-update-fails.html

That thing has really finicky wifi that basically does not play nice with any public usage. Got it working fine at home with latest tomato router firmware, but hoping it miraculiously cures that. Some people on forums claimed it could be due to a faulty OS install. Interestingly enough, after I doctored that TP, I'm no longer asked to enter my ZIP code everytime I open the radio app. So maybe there was more borked than just refusing to update the OS. We'll see.
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This is the reason I have to reflash my Touchpad. I thought I was the only one.
 
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Great King Bowser

Property of Kaz Harai
1-D_FTW said:
I have two of these and one of them just doesn't like to update. Finally gave up on getting 3.0.5 to install and did a WebDoctor OS reinstall:

http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/310468-3-0-5-86-update-fails.html

That thing has really finicky wifi that basically does not play nice with any public usage. Got it working fine at home with latest tomato router firmware, but hoping it miraculiously cures that. Some people on forums claimed it could be due to a faulty OS install. Interestingly enough, after I doctored that TP, I'm no longer asked to enter my ZIP code everytime I open the radio app. So maybe there was more borked than just refusing to update the OS. We'll see.
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Thanks, I'll give this a go later when I get home.
 
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Ashhong

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Plugging it in with the provided AC adapter? Make sure the connections are good..that's weird. I only get that if I'm plugging it into a computer or something
 
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Why would you do that?

Member
A small complaint of mine is that I don't like that you can't hide the status bar in fullscreen apps. That means I can't ever get true 1024x768 resolution in 4:3 apps.

It's pretty great, though. Among other things, the rhythm game Osu! is amazingly smooth now.
 
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Metalmurphy

Member
Ashhong said:
Plugging it in with the provided AC adapter? Make sure the connections are good..that's weird. I only get that if I'm plugging it into a computer or something
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Yeah I'm using the AC adapter and the icon was blue(charging) the whole time. I did have brightness set to max and wifi on though, but that's what I used to do with CM7, with CM9 however it seems to be too much.
 
taku

taku

Member
Something is up with my Touchpad. When I try to access it via USB, Windows tells me that I need to format it and it doesn't matter whether I use Android or Webos.

Anyone had this issue before?
 
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Metalmurphy

Member
taku said:
Something is up with my Touchpad. When I try to access it via USB, Windows tells me that I need to format it and it doesn't matter whether I use Android or Webos.

Anyone had this issue before?
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Yes, and it ended up with me re-installing WebOS from scratch and re-installing CM7.
 
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Doopliss

Member
Metalmurphy said:
Yeah I'm using the AC adapter and the icon was blue(charging) the whole time. I did have brightness set to max and wifi on though, but that's what I used to do with CM7, with CM9 however it seems to be too much.
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Its the same for me, even slow to charge when I'm not using it.

Why would you do that? said:
A small complaint of mine is that I don't like that you can't hide the status bar in fullscreen apps. That means I can't ever get true 1024x768 resolution in 4:3 apps.

It's pretty great, though. Among other things, the rhythm game Osu! is amazingly smooth now.
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It kinda sucks for 4:3 video. I thought the bar would hide since the buttons can on the Galaxy Nexus.
 
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onlyindreams

Banned
I installed CM9 last night and I figured I should finally get around to updating to the latest WebOS version that apparently wipes moboot when it installs. Does anyone have a walkthrough for getting everything working again after updating?
 
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Metalmurphy

Member
taku said:
Dang it. I presume I use this "WebOS Doctor" to re-install everything?
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You can try reformating with Clockwork recovery but it didn't work for me. You can also try to install CM9 if you haven't already, it might fix things. Just download the files directly from the touchpad.
 
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clav

Member
Side note if people didn't know already.

Since Microsoft announced the minimum resolution of 1366x768 resolution for Windows 8, looks like the Touchpad won't get it.

I'm fine with a decent ICS port.
 
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DJ_Tet

Banned
claviertekky said:
Side note if people didn't know already.

Since Microsoft announced the minimum resolution of 1366x768 resolution for Windows 8, looks like the Touchpad won't get it.

I'm fine with a decent ICS port.
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That sucks, what happened to them using the Touchpad to demo Windows 8?
 
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Krakatoa

Member
claviertekky said:
Side note if people didn't know already.

Since Microsoft announced the minimum resolution of 1366x768 resolution for Windows 8, looks like the Touchpad won't get it.

I'm fine with a decent ICS port.
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Thats not 110% true it will still run you just want have the real estate of 1366x768.

Well thats how it currently works with an intel tablet.
 
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