The Touchpad Android thread

Honestly I find WebOS suits all my needs at present on the TP. I also have it tethered to my phone now and Kalemsoft works over 3G despite it saying it failed the remote test on the PC. I love the simplicity of the OS.
 
The only thing I use webOS for now is watching videos (mainly 720p) and playing Robotek HD. As soon as the former is sorted, I will be permanently jumping ship.
 
Alpha 1 is out: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/18843-releasealpha1-cyanogenmod-9-touchpad/

Alpha 1 Release notes:

We finally have hardware video decode working largely thanks to some help from yjwong. This release is primarily just to get hardware decoding out for folks to enjoy while other work continues. This build does not work with Netflix yet. However, hardware accelerated video decoding does work for Youtube HD and playback of local media. This build still uses the 2.6.35 kernel. The 3.0 kernel is still being heavily worked on and is also the primary focus for development. Don't expect hardware video decoding to be perfect yet. Its half a miracle it works at all on our current kernel.

Similar to the last build I will provide flashable zips to make it easier to switch to lcd density 120 with proper launcher layout. The hardware video decoding will not make it into the nightlies for a few days. There is still some work to do in order to get it merged into repositories and ensure it doesn't break other devices.
Hardware video decoding support. As a result, Youtube HD and 720p and 1080p local media will now be playable. Netflix does not work yet.
Includes touchscreen improvements by Dees_Troy
Now able to enable use of 2D companion core to offload composition
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What's this about LCD density? Is 120 better?

Still having problems with WiFi on Alpha 1

This seemed to fix my WiFi problem:

What seemed to finally unstick things was turning Wi-Fi off, setting Airplane Mode on, turning Wi-Fi back on, and when I observed that turning Wi-Fi on was not automatically turning Airplane Mode off, I manually toggled it myself. Almost immediately, Wi-Fi connected.
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720p video plays :D
 
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With 120 LCD Density, all the UI elements will be smaller and fit on the screen how they're supposed to (I think it's 120 for this tablet?). It's kinda similar to changing resolution on your desktop.
 
I got used to 160 tbh, Alpha 1 seems good though.

EDIT - Just noticed (only after a friend brought it up though), video is a little blocky.
 
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ICS is SOOOOOOOOOOOO sexy and SO DAMN FAST!

I am using AnTuTu CPU Master to re-apply a 1.5GHz overclock.

In love already :D

Been missing my FTP, SSH, Telnet apps. Not a single free FTP app on WebOS :(
 
For all those having Wifi Issues

I was constantly having Wifi disconnect issues.

I amde the following changes on my router and now after 6 days I have not had 1 disconnect (previously was at least 6 an hour!)

Router Mode:
Was: b/g/N
Now: b/g

Wireless channel
Was: 11
Now: 1

In short it seems the drivers for the touchpad on android do not yet fully support wireless n. Forcing it into G mode by changing it on your router seems to fix it. At least it has for me
 
yeah wireless n was an issue for some in webOS as well - it's 50/50 whether i can get an N single in either webos or cm9 (and cm7 before that). Bit weird really, but i just use 54g on the touchpad now anyway, and other than having to cycle the wireless when it's been left for a day or so, it's been fine :)
 
Video does indeed seem blocky.

On my 720p content 1024pixel resizes from handbrake it seems better, but anything which is lower than native and is stretched on the device is very bad.

Edit - Does seem to be the resize. 100% or Crop looks fine, stretch looks bad. Going to see if it clears up using 120dpi.

Edit 2 - Nope, if anything worse at 120. 160 seems far more usable for a tablet 120 looks pretty naff.
 
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Blocky video can be fixed by editing the build.prop file
and changing
debug.composition.type=c2d
to
debug.composition.type=gpu
 
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Wow.....the Tablet YouTube app with full redirection from the web based version is a MUCH nicer experience than flash in the WebOS browser.

I found WebOS browser based YT videos buggy, impossible to reliably fullscreen/track/otherwise.

This is so much nicer.
 
Also, SimpleText is an awesome little app.

Made my own custom icons for app launching instead of messy mismatched default ones from downloaded apps.

tp_ics_icons.png
 
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