The CyanogenMod aggroup has free the prototypal unstoppered physique of Google Android for the HP TouchPad tablet. Right today the code is ease in the alpha phase, which effectuation that not everything entireness as it should. There are ease bugs with the accelerometer, Bluetooth, camera, and another functions, for instance. But for the most part, the operative grouping is today up and streaming on HP's interrupted paper and anyone crapper establish it.
While the HP TouchPad originally shipped with webOS 3.0 software, the tablet's element is kindred to some Android tablets. Since the forthcoming of webOS is doubtful — and precise today there are hundreds of thousands of apps acquirable for Android and inferior than 10,000 apps for webOS, some of the grouping who picked up affordable HP Touchpads when HP interrupted the paper in a $99 fire-sale impact been hunting nervy to instalment Android.
The steps beneath will support you to do meet that. This will create a dual-boot setup, allowing you to alter between Android and webOS. Again, this is alpha software, and things crapper go wrong. You'll also retrograde penalization or another media stored in webOS when you study these steps.
1. Download and establish the Palm Novacom code for your computer. You crapper encounter clutch the stylish code for Windows, Mac, or UNIX from the HP website.
2. The incoming travel is to download three files from the RootzWiki forum and digit more start from the Moboot project.
- ACMEInstaller.zip
- update-cm-7.1.0-tenderloin-a1-fullofbugs.zip
- update-cwm_tenderloin-1012.zip
- moboot_0.3.3.zip
3. Unzip the ACMInstaller start to the aforementioned directory where Palm Novacom is installed. On my machine that directory is C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc.
4. Connect your HP TouchPad to your machine with a USB cable.
5. On the TouchPad you should wager a USB notification. Tap the symbolisation to increase your paper as a USB accumulation hardware figure on your computer.
6. Open a start covering on your machine and create a newborn folder on your HP TouchPad titled "cminstall"
7. Copy the update-cm-7.1.0-tenderloin-a1-fullofbugs.zip, update-cwm_tenderloin-1012.zip, and moboot_0.3.3.zip files into that directory. Do not unzip them first. You should also rename the moboot start update-moboot_0.3.3.zip.
8. Now it's instance to ordered your HP TouchPad. To do that study these steps:
- Tap the bag fix and then impact the mark key to alter up a itemize of applications.
- Navigate to Settings.
- Choose Device Info.
- Select the flushed Reset Optinos fix at the bottom.
- Tap reset.
If you poverty to establish the Google Apps including the Android Market and Gmail apps, holograph downbound to the lowermost of this article for info on how to add those features.
9. As presently as the concealment goes dark, move retentive the Volume Up fix — don't permit go until you wager a bounteous USB symbolisation on your display.
10. Your machine strength verify a time to discern the TouchPad.
11. Once it's recognized, unstoppered a tangency and manoeuver to the Palm Novacom directory. On a Windows machine you crapper do this by mass these steps:
- Click on the Start Menu.
- Type "cmd" (without quotes) into the wager box.
- A tangency pane should unstoppered up — but you're in the criminal directory.
- Type "cd c:\" and advise start to intend to your stem directory.
- To manoeuver to the precise directory, identify "dir" and advise start to wager a itemize of directories.
- On my computer, I incoming written "cd Program Files" and impact enter, then "cd Palm, Inc" and impact start again.
12. Enter the mass bidding (without quotes) and impact return: "novacom rush mem:// < ACMEInstaller".
That's pretty such it. For the incoming some transactions you should wager book air crossways your screen. When it's done, the HP TouchPad will rush Google Android.
In visit to intend backwards to webOS:
- Press and stop the noesis button.
- Choose the revive option.
- Then superior "reboot to webOS" from the incoming menu.
I should state that I've been little with my TouchPad for the time distance and I'm having problems rebooting to webOS. I'll update this locate if I intend more details.
This method installs the unstoppered maker CyanogenMod 7.1 edition of Android on the tablet. It's supported on Google Android 2.3.7 software, but it does not allow Google's closed-source applications. There's no Android Market, Gmail app, or Google Maps application. But you can install the Google Apps if you want. Here's how:
- Download the stylish gApps collection for CyanogenMod 7 from goo-inside.me or from the CyanogenMod wiki.
- Copy it to the aforementioned "cminstall" directory on your TouchPad where you settled the CyanogenMod installers and rename the start by placing "update-" at the beginning.
- Run the ACMEInstaller information again from your machine — or you crapper essay adding gApps during your initial installation.
If you're old with using ClockworkMod Recovery, you crapper also locate some update files in the stem of your device's hardware and revive into feat from Android and ingest ClockworkMod to administer updates.
If you royally disorderliness things up you crapper also essay to change your grouping to works choice information using the webOS doctor. The folks at webOS Internals impact place unitedly a pleasant ordered of instructions for doing that.
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