The Touchpad Android thread

Azza · 7 Feb 2012 at 12:51

Hamster said:
I think this is one of the many bugs. I get the same thing every now and then and need to reset the touchpad. I'm sure it will get fixed at some point.

Yeah had it again just now after leaving it on charge.

Now I just need some decent tablet apps & games!

Em3bbs · 7 Feb 2012 at 12:53

Ardmanz said:
I think I'm going to wack ICS on my touchpad tonight.

When newer versions come out is it relatively simple to just flash over the top? Also, does it save your settings or does it essentially factory reset every time you flash it?

No need to do a wipe normally, you just copy a zip over and flash it from clockworkmod.

Zaf · 7 Feb 2012 at 17:09

Ardmanz said:
I think I'm going to wack ICS on my touchpad tonight.

When newer versions come out is it relatively simple to just flash over the top? Also, does it save your settings or does it essentially factory reset every time you flash it?

Don't put the CM9 release on but the Bricked Rom, yes in the future you just reflash over the top.

Hamster · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:32

A quick question. I have an app which which centred itself on the screen with CM7 but only took up around 25% of the Touchpad's screen area but now with CM9 it's too big for the screen and a big portion of the app area is off the screen. It can't be resized in the app. Any ideas how I can get the app to display properly?

ShortWarning · 8 Feb 2012 at 12:27

Flashed last night. Was fairly painless. Seems good so far.

How can I log out of gtalk? I've heard it kills your battery life.

kona786 · 8 Feb 2012 at 12:46

HP releases an official TouchPad Android kernel

http://blog.gsmarena.com/hp-releases-an-official-touchpad-android-kernel/

Zaf · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:32

Hamster said:
A quick question. I have an app (math workout) which which centred itself on the screen with CM7 but only took up around 25% of the Touchpad's screen area but now with CM9 it's too big for the screen and a big portion of the app area is off the screen. It can't be resized in the app. Any ideas how I can get the app to display properly?

You could try changing your dpi in the build.prop

Kreeeee · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:45

kona786 said:
HP releases an official TouchPad Android kernel

http://blog.gsmarena.com/hp-releases-an-official-touchpad-android-kernel/

This is pretty huge!

kona786 · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:50

Kreeeee said:
This is pretty huge!

does this mean future roms will be a lot less buggy - fully stable even?

mjones1 · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:59

Pretty kind of HP, maybe the audio issues should be fixed now.

Azza · 8 Feb 2012 at 14:06

Wouldn't CM have to start all over again to get any benefits out of this official kernel?

NuclearWinter · 8 Feb 2012 at 14:13

From twitter:

dalingrin Erik Hardesty
Kernel source from HP would have been more helpful earlier in development. Don't expect huge gains from this source.

dalingrin Erik Hardesty
It will help with things like serial console and Bluetooth. Most other areas it *might* with will be minor.

JBod · 8 Feb 2012 at 14:23

NuclearWinter said:
From twitter:

dalingrin Erik Hardesty
Kernel source from HP would have been more helpful earlier in development. Don't expect huge gains from this source.

dalingrin Erik Hardesty
It will help with things like serial console and Bluetooth. Most other areas it *might* with will be minor.

Should help with drivers. Specifically things like touch/wifi/sound/gpu etc..

NuclearWinter · 8 Feb 2012 at 14:32

JBod said:
Should help with drivers. Specifically things like touch/wifi/sound/gpu etc..

He's specifically said that it wont help with wifi in response to someone who asked, so I doubt it.

Hamster · 8 Feb 2012 at 15:36

Zaf said:
You could try changing your dpi in the build.prop

Thanks

Any idea how to do that and do you know if it would have other consequences?

Locke · 8 Feb 2012 at 15:45

Hamster said:
Thanks Any idea how to do that and do you know if it would have other consequences?

You can use an app such as LCD Density.

Hamster · 8 Feb 2012 at 15:54

Locke said:
You can use an app such as LCD Density.

Thanks. Just tried LCD Density Modder and it doesn't seem to save the changed setting on reboot.

SKILL · 8 Feb 2012 at 17:46

JBod said:
Should help with drivers. Specifically things like touch/wifi/sound/gpu etc..

I'm fairly sure that all 4 bits you mention will be very basic at the kernel level with a large proprietary blob of code in userland to do most of the 'driver' work, this is one of the annoying things manufacturers do to make software engineers lives harder...

/me walks away muttering about TI video acceleration...

steinooo · 12 Feb 2012 at 20:47

Hi all,

I get severe problems with the wi-fi on my Touchpad 0.5 ICS beta....does anyone else?

I mean unusable bad, completely disconnects every few seconds, then refuses to see the network.

I use WPA/PSK, do you think it would matter if I upgraded the security to WPA2?

Deep · 12 Feb 2012 at 21:41

I'm tempted to put Android on my Touchpad, will I be able to watch MKVs on it or has that feature not become available yet?