The Touchpad Android thread

Psycho Sonny · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:03

al4x said:
Is this at a stage where its worth doing? Want to use my touchpad as a htpc remote and want ics.

Btw, never done anything like this.

it's always been worth doing for the apps, it's still extremely buggy but still workable, for example none of my videos no longer work but they used to on the older android.

poker works excellently, which is what i mainly use it for.

str · 29 Jan 2012 at 10:23

A warning about battery levels and charging with ICS alpha 0.5. :confused:

It dropped to 0% battery and ICS said powering down so I plugged in the mains charger and saw the big charging icon with the red line. I tried to switch it on but it wouldn't, it remained at the big charging icon then after a few minutes it showed the boot menu and it booted to ICS but it wasn't charging, even after a few hours of supposedly charging it was still at 0%. I tried unplugging and replugging the mains charger but still it wouldn't charge.

I powered it down by holding the power button in ICS and attempted to switch it on but again it wouldn't switch on then eventually after a few minutes the boot menu showed and I chose webos and it booted to webos but it still wasn't charging so I had to unplug the charger and plug it back in and now it's charging normally.

Previously it charged fine on multiple occasions with alpha 0.5 so I'm thinking the charging problem only occurs when the battery drops to a very low level.

Sin_Chase · 29 Jan 2012 at 11:32

Seems OS unrelated and more hardware?

The charging circuit should be OS agnostic as you do not need it booted to put power in it surely?

str · 29 Jan 2012 at 11:47

Sin_Chase said:
Seems OS unrelated and more hardware?

The charging circuit should be OS agnostic as you do not need it booted to put power in it surely?

There was a fix for CM9 alpha 0 for a slow charging problem so it could be a similar software problem.

It quickly charged to 35% in WebOS so I rebooted to ICS and it showed 34% and said it is charging but it dropped to 33% after a few minutes so I am not sure what to make of it. I unplugged the mains charger and it said 33% discharging and now I plugged it back in and it says charging so hopefully it'll work.

EDIT: It's properly charging now. I unplugged the mains charger and plugged it back in like I had to with WebOS and it's up to 75% with alpha 0.5 now.

Still not sure what to make of it. The charging problems started after I installed ICS but perhaps it is the charging cable or the micro USB slot on my touchpad at fault although that doesn't explain why alpha 0.5 wouldn't charge when the battery level was at 0% even though I unplugged and plugged back in multiple times.

spudbynight · 30 Jan 2012 at 09:08

I installed Alpha O.5 over the weekend for my wife. It really seems very stable. Yes, there are a couple of teething issues but there were more issues with WebOS.

Is is perfect, no. Is is better than WebOS, yes.

Caffrey · 30 Jan 2012 at 11:34

Another small update http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15509-releasealpha06-cyanogenmod-9-touchpad/

Touchscreen fixes
Ability to hide the combined bar(navigation buttons and clock) for full screen. This uses the ICS api so it will require app support(not all apps have been updated). This is an option under Settings->[Interface]->System->Combined Bar (Credits to Flemmard)
Scrollable quick settings. This will require tweaking later to allow it to be bigger on the Touchpad but fixes overflow issue on 7" tablets with the new Bluetooth toggle. (Credits to Flemmard)
Reboot to recovery is working via the power menu(hold down power button). Note: reboot will sometimes shutdown rather than rebooting.
Preliminary support for Rom Manager. In order to use this you will need Rom Manager Premium because it is not official yet. In order to use it you will need to execute "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" in Rom Manager. Confirm the model is cm_tenderloin, say yes that you have installed manually, and check ClockworkMod 3.x. Now you can use Rom Manager to flash update.zips. Official support should come soon.
Other general changes from syncing with latest changes

Psycho Sonny · 30 Jan 2012 at 13:26

Caffrey said:
Another small update http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15509-releasealpha06-cyanogenmod-9-touchpad/

this one doesn't exactly seem worth the hassle of installing, i don't understand most of it, lol :confused:

Locke · 30 Jan 2012 at 16:01

Hassle?

Just flash it via Clockwork Recovery and boom, done.

DIABLO · 30 Jan 2012 at 18:25

It takes all of like 2 minutes to flash.

Kreeeee · 30 Jan 2012 at 18:48

Using the PS3 pad for emulation is awesome now, full dual analogue support via touch profiles in PS1 and N64 games

fail at the internets · 30 Jan 2012 at 22:38

anybody else having issues with wifi not connecting?

FartInferno · 31 Jan 2012 at 07:42

fail at the internets said:
anybody else having issues with wifi not connecting?

Quite a common and random issue. I had a lot of issues in CM7 but a lot less now on ICS.

Kreeeee · 31 Jan 2012 at 08:03

Setting wifi channels to 11 fixes the wifi issues.

mrgubby · 31 Jan 2012 at 09:24

I've found that my WiFi is much better with CM9 than WebOS

Em3bbs · 31 Jan 2012 at 09:38

Kreeeee said:
Setting wifi channels to 11 fixes the wifi issues.

Hmm interesting, I had a lot of wifi problems before with CM7 which seemed to be fixed when I installed CM9. But also on the same day I installed a second wireless router downstairs to get better coverage, using the same SSID and a fixed channels rather than auto so maybe that explains why I get no problems now (although I am using channels 2 and 3 as they were unused by others in the road).

str · 31 Jan 2012 at 10:05

mrgubby said:
I've found that my WiFi is much better with CM9 than WebOS

Same here. Sometimes it stopped working in WebOS and I had to airplane mode it and back on to get it going again but no troubles like that with CM9.

spudbynight · 31 Jan 2012 at 13:33

DIABLO said:
It takes all of like 2 minutes to flash.

LOL - I was amazed. I went through the steps following a guide. I ran the ACME installer expecting a load of further steps and was amazed to find that was it.

ShadowMan · 1 Feb 2012 at 01:24

Half bricked my TP doing this. Had an old CM7 install I forgot about and started messing around with trying to remove it the hard way.

Ran the WebOS doctor and all seemed fine. Went to copy files to cminstall and it said disk needed formatting. Stupidly clicked ok and formatted the disk in windows. Killed the SD card partition and then spent 5 hours on google and using novacom and novaterm to reset all the stores and logical partitions back up the hard way.

Got it flashed back into 3.0.5 WebOS and did a clean CM9 install.

Happy days it works great

vintage-x · 1 Feb 2012 at 08:09

ShadowMan said:
Half bricked my TP doing this. Had an old CM7 install I forgot about and started messing around with trying to remove it the hard way.

Ran the WebOS doctor and all seemed fine. Went to copy files to cminstall and it said disk needed formatting. Stupidly clicked ok and formatted the disk in windows. Killed the SD card partition and then spent 5 hours on google and using novacom and novaterm to reset all the stores and logical partitions back up the hard way.

Got it flashed back into 3.0.5 WebOS and did a clean CM9 install.

Happy days it works great

Similar thing happened to me. Thank god for google

DIABLO · 1 Feb 2012 at 10:10

spudbynight said:
LOL - I was amazed. I went through the steps following a guide. I ran the ACME installer expecting a load of further steps and was amazed to find that was it.

Don'nt even need to use acme for future updates, just plonk the update.zip on the touchpad , reboot the device into clockwork mod and use that to flash the update restart and bobs your uncle.