Hello again everyone. Just so you are aware there is another update for CM7. This one is Alpha 3 and has some fixes for the battery-life issues and also an improvement to wifi reliability.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10482-cm71-xronifiedalpha-3wipupdate-1272011vb12/
Just put the zip on your device and boot into CM Recovery then install update from zip and select the zip file you just put on.
Enjoy
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Installing the Android Market
For everyone who has already put CM7 on their Touchpad, I'm going to direct you to a tutorial which will show you how to install the Android Market on your device. At the moment I am a bit busy to make the tutorial myself but I will definately do it once I have the time.
Head over to http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6613-how-to-install-google-market-apps-on-cm7-alpha-touchpad/ for the tutorial and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here.
Happy Droiding :)
Head over to http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6613-how-to-install-google-market-apps-on-cm7-alpha-touchpad/ for the tutorial and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here.
Happy Droiding :)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Installing Android CM7 Alpha 2.1 (Part 2)
Part 2 will prepare you computer and your Touchpad for the installation of Android. Please follow this step carefully.
1. Make sure you have checked all your md5 values againts the ones provided in the first part to ensure that your downloaded files are not damaged.
2. Install the WebOS SDK (7 on the list from part 1). This will install the necessary NOVACOM drivers to your computer so you can successfully run this installation. It is necessary to reboot your computer after this.
3. Boot your Touchpad and connect it via usb to your computer. When prompted, select USB drive on your touchpad. Open up the touchpad in windows explorer and make a new folder in the root directory called "cminstall" without quotes. Proceed to copy the .zip files 4, 5, and 6 from Part 1 into that folder. You may now disconnect the Touchpad from your computer and turn the Touchpad off. Turn the Touchpad back on but hold down the "volume up" button until a large white USB symbol appears.
4. Please navigate on your computer to "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin" for (64 bit) or
"C:\Program Files\HP webOS\SDK\bin" (for 32 bit). If neither of these locations exists on your computer; you have skipped or done step 2 incorrectly and will have to do it again. If this location does exist then you will need to extract the ACMEInstaller.zip that you downloaded earlier (3 on list) into this folder.
5. Now pay very close attention to this step. Open cmd.exe as Administrator START ->
search: "cmd.exe" -> Right-click and select "run as Administrator". type into the command prompt one of the following commands depending on what folder existed in the above step.
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin
or
cd C:\Program Files\HP webOS\SDK\bin
your screen should now look like this:
6. You will now have to run the command which will cause your Touchpad to reboot and install Android. Again in cmd.exe run the following command
novacom boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller
Your Touchpad should now reboot and start showing many lines of code with two Penguins at the top. Wait a good 5 minutes for it to do it's thing, and it should then reboot to CM7.
If you had any issues at all with any of this please feel free to comment.
The next part will outline how to install the android market to your fresh install of Android.
Thanks
1. Make sure you have checked all your md5 values againts the ones provided in the first part to ensure that your downloaded files are not damaged.
2. Install the WebOS SDK (7 on the list from part 1). This will install the necessary NOVACOM drivers to your computer so you can successfully run this installation. It is necessary to reboot your computer after this.
3. Boot your Touchpad and connect it via usb to your computer. When prompted, select USB drive on your touchpad. Open up the touchpad in windows explorer and make a new folder in the root directory called "cminstall" without quotes. Proceed to copy the .zip files 4, 5, and 6 from Part 1 into that folder. You may now disconnect the Touchpad from your computer and turn the Touchpad off. Turn the Touchpad back on but hold down the "volume up" button until a large white USB symbol appears.
4. Please navigate on your computer to "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin" for (64 bit) or
"C:\Program Files\HP webOS\SDK\bin" (for 32 bit). If neither of these locations exists on your computer; you have skipped or done step 2 incorrectly and will have to do it again. If this location does exist then you will need to extract the ACMEInstaller.zip that you downloaded earlier (3 on list) into this folder.
5. Now pay very close attention to this step. Open cmd.exe as Administrator START ->
search: "cmd.exe" -> Right-click and select "run as Administrator". type into the command prompt one of the following commands depending on what folder existed in the above step.
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin
or
cd C:\Program Files\HP webOS\SDK\bin
your screen should now look like this:
6. You will now have to run the command which will cause your Touchpad to reboot and install Android. Again in cmd.exe run the following command
novacom boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller
Your Touchpad should now reboot and start showing many lines of code with two Penguins at the top. Wait a good 5 minutes for it to do it's thing, and it should then reboot to CM7.
If you had any issues at all with any of this please feel free to comment.
The next part will outline how to install the android market to your fresh install of Android.
Thanks
Installing Android CM7 Alpha 2.1 (Part 1)
Firstly, this version of Android for the HP Touchpad was developed by the Cyanogenmod team and full credit goes to them and the other developers out there who worked very hard to make this happen in such a short amount of time.
Secondly, this version of Android is still VERY BUGGY. It is not the full release and therefore certain things do not work at 100% and some not at all.
Thirdly, if you are not confident with computers DO NOT DO THIS TUTORIAL as you may very well brick your Touchpad. Neither myself or any of the developers at Cyanogenmod take any resposibility for damaged/bricked devices so consider this a warning.
For those of you that want to go ahead I will make this as easy to follow as I possibly can. I recommend that you read every step twice and then another 3 times until you are fully familiar with what needs to be done. This tutorial, once completed successfully, will allow you to have a dual booting Touchpad with WebOS and Cyanogenmod 7 (Android Gingerbread) given as boot options when you turn the device on. This tutorial also shows how to install Clockworkmod Recovery, which will allow us to install the Android Market and other google apps.
1. THINGS YOU WILL NEED BEFORE STARTING!
DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK YOUR MD5 VALUES AFTER DOWNLOAD TO AVOID BRICKING THE DEVICE!!!
64 bit windows: https://cdn.downloads.palm.com/sdkdownloads/3.0.2.652/sdkBinaries/HP_webOS_SDK-Win-3.0.2-652-x64.exe
I do not have a Mac so I cannot make a tutorial that suits Mac. If you have specific questions please google it and you will more than likely find your answer.
Please continue to Part 2 for installation preparation.
Secondly, this version of Android is still VERY BUGGY. It is not the full release and therefore certain things do not work at 100% and some not at all.
Thirdly, if you are not confident with computers DO NOT DO THIS TUTORIAL as you may very well brick your Touchpad. Neither myself or any of the developers at Cyanogenmod take any resposibility for damaged/bricked devices so consider this a warning.
For those of you that want to go ahead I will make this as easy to follow as I possibly can. I recommend that you read every step twice and then another 3 times until you are fully familiar with what needs to be done. This tutorial, once completed successfully, will allow you to have a dual booting Touchpad with WebOS and Cyanogenmod 7 (Android Gingerbread) given as boot options when you turn the device on. This tutorial also shows how to install Clockworkmod Recovery, which will allow us to install the Android Market and other google apps.
1. THINGS YOU WILL NEED BEFORE STARTING!
DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK YOUR MD5 VALUES AFTER DOWNLOAD TO AVOID BRICKING THE DEVICE!!!
- Read http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3477-releasealpha2discussion-cyanogenmod-team-touchpad-port/ before you start in case I have forgotten to mention something that the original post did. (I will include the download links from that site here)
- Download MD5 Checker http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=22900&t=4&i=1 (use this to check the integrity of your downloads against the MD5 value provided)
- Download the ACME installer http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouchpad/testing/ACMEInstaller3md5: b28627584691f88eb119697a43822433
- Download CM7 http://goo-inside.me...-fullofbugs.zip md5: 2d3a4f1984c025a07f7cff0d43b3aae1
- Download Clockwork Recovery http://goo-inside.me...erloin-1012.zip md5: 1308300f38685d44afde730efd9132cc
- Download Moboot http://code.google.c.../downloads/list
- Download the WebOS SDK from HP
64 bit windows: https://cdn.downloads.palm.com/sdkdownloads/3.0.2.652/sdkBinaries/HP_webOS_SDK-Win-3.0.2-652-x64.exe
I do not have a Mac so I cannot make a tutorial that suits Mac. If you have specific questions please google it and you will more than likely find your answer.
Please continue to Part 2 for installation preparation.
Friday, October 14, 2011
ITS HERE!!
GREAT NEWS!!!
Cyanogenmod have won the race to port android over to the HP Touchpad. I am currently having a play with it and think it's pretty sweet. Will be creating a full tutorial as soon as I can and posting it up. The process is pretty involved so I will put a lot of effort into making it easy to follow.
Stay Tuned
Cyanogenmod have won the race to port android over to the HP Touchpad. I am currently having a play with it and think it's pretty sweet. Will be creating a full tutorial as soon as I can and posting it up. The process is pretty involved so I will put a lot of effort into making it easy to follow.
Stay Tuned
Thursday, September 1, 2011
MOVIES!!!!
Hey everyone. As you may know already the Touchpad is limited to playing movies formatted as MP4. We can't really get around this right now effectively with apps or anything on the actual device. I however was pointed towards a windows program which does a fantastic job at converting all types of video formats to MP4 and they come out looking great. The program is called Free Video Converter and is on the site www.any-video-converter.com. I have played around with it and it will convert a full length movie in about 20 to 30 mins depending on the original quality. I converted a 720p movie in about that time.
Give it a try and let me know how you go or if you have found any better programs
EDIT: Thanks everyone for your app suggestions in regards to playing vids on the TP. Here's a list of your suggestions
Daniel
Give it a try and let me know how you go or if you have found any better programs
EDIT: Thanks everyone for your app suggestions in regards to playing vids on the TP. Here's a list of your suggestions
- Kalemsoft Media Player
- Air playit
- Touchplayer
and on pc
- Handbrake
Daniel
Monday, August 29, 2011
Update
So I've been busy over the last couple of days that's why I haven't got any posts out. I am still working on compiling a list of good webOS apps, which will come eventually. I wanted to post today to tell you that, and also to tell you, in case you hadn't heard yet, that the Cyanogenmod team have apparently been working very hard on getting android over to the HP touchpad. They announced yesterday that they have developed an alpha Android rom for it. This rom IS NOT released but they have announced that they will be releasing the Beta once completed. The only other information given was a video showing the touchpad running this OS and some information which hinted that the device would be able to multi-boot e.g run webOS and Android.
The Rom allows them to boot into Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread but many of the components are barely functional at this point. The touchscreen isn't supported yet, the graphics are a bit dodgy because graphics acceleration is not yet supported, and also the general layout of android is optimized for mobile phone rather than a tablet which would normally run 3.x.x Honeycomb Android.
This is great and exciting news that we've all been waiting for and I can't wait to get an easy to follow tutorial out for all of you to be able to enjoy what is bound to be a great $98 experience. Lets all show our support by donating over at the dev sites like Rootzwiki and Cyanogenmod
Click HERE to view the post on Rootzwiki
Stay Tuned
Daniel
The Rom allows them to boot into Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread but many of the components are barely functional at this point. The touchscreen isn't supported yet, the graphics are a bit dodgy because graphics acceleration is not yet supported, and also the general layout of android is optimized for mobile phone rather than a tablet which would normally run 3.x.x Honeycomb Android.
This is great and exciting news that we've all been waiting for and I can't wait to get an easy to follow tutorial out for all of you to be able to enjoy what is bound to be a great $98 experience. Lets all show our support by donating over at the dev sites like Rootzwiki and Cyanogenmod
Click HERE to view the post on Rootzwiki
Stay Tuned
Daniel
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