The Official HP TouchPad Thread

str · 16 Nov 2011 at 23:55

It's likely to be months for CM9 but should be worth the wait.

stoke1863 · 27 Nov 2011 at 13:00

My USB cable has broken and now i cant charge my HP touchpad! Plugging a standard USB cable into the charger my touchpad throws up a complaint and doesnt charge ( complaint saying you need the official cable)

Where can i get a new cable? bought one on the bay but thats the same problem!

gsf600y · 27 Nov 2011 at 13:44

I *think* it's a USB OTG cable or something isn't it? Uses a 5th pin or something like that.
Same problem exists for getting car chargers.

EDIT: I also seem to recall if you turn the device off, and plug it in to the USB, it will actually charge, just amazing slowly. Worth a go.

kona786 · 27 Nov 2011 at 13:55

I have used a non-hp usb cable with the official charger and it charges fine - no complaints.

Its a belkin 2m one.

try some other cables.

gsf600y · 27 Nov 2011 at 13:57

Poster called "Wheel_nut" on these forums who seems to know a lot about it.

http://forums.precentral.net/

quoting him:

There are two separate factors determining the TouchPad's ability to accept charge:

1) The configuration of the Data+ and Data- lines in the Charger. The TouchPad will only charge if the Data lines are bridged and a potential divider applied giving the correct Voltage and Impedance

2) The Charger's ability to supply the (up to) 2 Amps which the TouchPad will draw if it senses the correct configuration described in 1) above. Beware that frigging a cable to allow the TouchPad to draw its full current may overload an iPod Charger though an iPad charger is capable of delivering up to 2.1 Amps.

Caveat: If you don't understand my ramblings, DON'T play with this!

Zaf · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:22

My HTC cable works fine with the Touchpad wall usb adapter

gsf600y · 29 Nov 2011 at 13:11

Good to know should the cable ever die.

I've just purchased a modified in-car dual USB socket charger from "Wheel_nut" on the precentral forums. He's up in Scotland and modifying these for those who request them. £18+a little postage a pop.

ShortWarning · 29 Nov 2011 at 17:44

I've just taken my touchpad off of my touch stone and it appears to have died. Just won't turn on.

What's the best way to go about getting it replaced?

Malt_Vinegar · 29 Nov 2011 at 18:27

I had that with mine once. Held down the power button for ages with the wall power connected, and it came back. I think it was like 60 seconds almost!

ShortWarning · 29 Nov 2011 at 22:01

Didn't work.

gsf600y · 29 Nov 2011 at 22:44

Tried charging through the cable? Leave for a good while, then attempt to turn on.
Power+volume up attempts to boot from USB doesn't it?
Power+select does a reset I think.

JamesRJ · 29 Nov 2011 at 22:57

Hold power and home together for about 30 seconds. Will sort it, happened to mine a few times. ( plug it on charge before you start just in case its dead flat )

ShortWarning · 30 Nov 2011 at 12:39

Are any LEDs or anything supposed to turn on when you put it on charge?

doodah · 30 Nov 2011 at 14:59

Can someone please enlighten me? I have updated my TP to 3.04 (which is a pretty poor update) but seem to have lost some of the functionality of the patches I had installed on 3.02. AFAIK the only thing I needed to worry about when updating was the OC patch which I have resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling the profile/patch that works with 3.04.

What about the others? I can't restart the machine any more. Is it best to go through the set up guide on Precentral and manually check the list of patches against mine? Do all of those patches even work on 3.04? Or should I just wipe, update and start the guide again? Finally will there be an update to 3.04 any time soon? I can't believe it got past QA!

ShortWarning · 30 Nov 2011 at 17:46

JamesRJ said:
Hold power and home together for about 30 seconds. Will sort it, happened to mine a few times. ( plug it on charge before you start just in case its dead flat )

This didn't work. It's dead.

MikeHunt79 · 30 Nov 2011 at 18:37

xibinim said:
Can someone please enlighten me? I have updated my TP to 3.04 (which is a pretty poor update) but seem to have lost some of the functionality of the patches I had installed on 3.02. AFAIK the only thing I needed to worry about when updating was the OC patch which I have resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling the profile/patch that works with 3.04.

What about the others? I can't restart the machine any more. Is it best to go through the set up guide on Precentral and manually check the list of patches against mine? Do all of those patches even work on 3.04? Or should I just wipe, update and start the guide again? Finally will there be an update to 3.04 any time soon? I can't believe it got past QA!

I lost all my tweaks when going to 3.04.

I guess the tweaks may need to be updated?

Ahleckz · 30 Nov 2011 at 18:58

I'm very much behind in the Touchpad game. Any guides I should check out, don't know if I want to put Android on there - I'm not sure if I need it, quite happy with WebOS but happy to see any new functionality things and whatnot that I'm missing out on.

mjones1 · 30 Nov 2011 at 19:07

Ahleckz said:
I'm very much behind in the Touchpad game. Any guides I should check out, don't know if I want to put Android on there - I'm not sure if I need it, quite happy with WebOS but happy to see any new functionality things and whatnot that I'm missing out on.

There are pretty much zero drawbacks from changing to android, it would be silly not to try it out.

Ahleckz · 30 Nov 2011 at 22:02

Right oh. Is there a guide out there I can follow?

lay-z-boy · 30 Nov 2011 at 22:48

Head over to rootzwiki, pretty comprehensive info + link to files in this thread.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10121-releasealpha3cyanogenmod-touchpad/

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