Tutorial #1 Developer Mode

Hello all, welcome to the first of the tutorials on improving your HP Touchpad. For your reference all pictures in this blog are a screenshot taken on my Touchpad. This is a native feature and you can take a screen shot at any time by holding the home key and then pressing the power button. This will then save the screenshot into your gallery under 'Screen captures'.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to do the first basic thing that you need to do before trying to do any sort of customization or installation of homebrew apps. What you have to do is put your webOS into developer mode. This is fairly straight forward so just follow these next couple of steps and you'll be right on your way to being a tech geek with your amazing customized Touchpad.

1. Press the 'Home' button on your touchpad until you get to a page looking similar to this but with a different wallpaper.

2. The next step is to type into the 'Just type...' search bar: 'upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart' without quotes. Your screen should now look like this.

3. You may have noticed that in the Launch category an icon labeled 'Developer Mode' has appeared. Tap on this icon and on the next screen switch developer mode 'ON'. When prompted to create a password just leave the field blank to avoid problems later on.

If you're wondering what to do next then read my next post on installing Preware on your Touchpad.

Daniel