The Touchpad Android thread

dilated · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:35

Looking to buy a TouchPad for Android fun, is the FB405UA the one to go for? Seems to be a small of £99 stock kicking around.

Psycho Sonny · 28 Feb 2012 at 00:00

dilated said:
Looking to buy a TouchPad for Android fun, is the FB405UA the one to go for? Seems to be a small of £99 stock kicking around.

huh afaik there has been no "brand new" stock anywhere in the world for many months now apart from ebay having a few kicking about

TheOtherOption · 28 Feb 2012 at 11:02

Psycho Sonny said:
do what i did, do a full factory reset in CWM then clear both caches then re-flash alpha 2, then install gapps

Any particular version of Gapps you'd recommend using?

TheOtherOption · 29 Feb 2012 at 11:12

Problem solved - ended up flashing a nightly build from the 28th then installing Gapps

Loving it!

Psycho Sonny · 29 Feb 2012 at 13:32

TheOtherOption said:
Problem solved - ended up flashing a nightly build from the 28th then installing Gapps

Loving it!

apparently those nightly builds are completely different from the alpha 2, as in they not have the same fixes, but in future they should hopefully be merged.

i think i read that in the thread about the nighties.

Locke · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:22

Yup, Netflix and video playback aren't as good on nightlies yet.

TheOtherOption · 29 Feb 2012 at 23:20

I'm not hugely bothered by that at the moment - just having a CM9 install with the market working as it should is plenty to tide me over ... can just flash another better build as and when.

matt100 · 2 Mar 2012 at 15:53

I'm struggling here, I've managed to get moboot etc on there and I've installed CM9 as per the cyanogenmod wiki but when it starts up it gives me the boot options (clockworkmod/cyanogenmod/webos), CWM works, Webos works but CM9 starts, I get the initial splash screen then it reboots back to moboot.

Any ideas?

angela · 2 Mar 2012 at 16:55

Hi, Can sombedy advice me on Android instalation.

Used my HP TP for 2 weeks and luck of aplication on WEBOS makes me want to install Android (love Android on Galaxy s2), just checked couple youtube videos and thinking to install this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3wGUTTi1Y

I believe it is latest version CM9 and installation looks quite easy!

Do I have to consider something before installing android? will I have chance to delete it if something goes wrong? or any other useful tips welcome.

Thank You.

matt100 · 2 Mar 2012 at 17:08

matt100 said:
I'm struggling here, I've managed to get moboot etc on there and I've installed CM9 as per the cyanogenmod wiki but when it starts up it gives me the boot options (clockworkmod/cyanogenmod/webos), CWM works, Webos works but CM9 starts, I get the initial splash screen then it reboots back to moboot.

Any ideas?

by the way, just figured this out by accident, I was using acmeinstaller not acmeinstaller2... I always forget why flashing etc gets on my nerves until I'm doing it.

matt100 · 2 Mar 2012 at 17:13

angela said:
Hi, Can sombedy advice me on Android instalation.

Used my HP TP for 2 weeks and luck of aplication on WEBOS makes me want to install Android (love Android on Galaxy s2), just checked couple youtube videos and thinking to install this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3wGUTTi1Y

I believe it is latest version CM9 and installation looks quite easy!

Do I have to consider something before installing android? will I have chance to delete it if something goes wrong? or any other useful tips welcome.

Thank You.

its pretty straightforward, the issue I had was guides being all over the place but eventually it makes sense! Used briefly, looks good!

angela · 2 Mar 2012 at 17:58

^^ I checked couple other videos and all are slightly different, will one I picked be good to follow? I just don't want to mess anything up )

TheOtherOption · 2 Mar 2012 at 18:21

The videos by "reverend Kyle"I think he's called are good - helped me through the process, just need to substitute in which ever version of cm9 etc that you want to flash

str · 2 Mar 2012 at 18:43

For installing etc:

http://ergh.org/cmtp/

angela · 2 Mar 2012 at 19:18

JUST INSTALLED USING VIDEO LINK I PROVIDED BEFORE- got through getting tarted process/ connected to wifi..so far so good

will report back once checked everything

JAMAL · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:32

When you do post it in white and stop using red

angela · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:42

my all 120 apps where installed automatically, now first couple questions: Camera doesn't work? and when I connect device to PC my computer won't install usb drive.

JAMAL · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:19

Camera isn't working in CM9

TheOtherOption · 2 Mar 2012 at 23:30

angela said:
when I connect device to PC my computer won't install usb drive.

Go to Settings > Storage > tap the three dots top right of your screen > USB Computer Connection > Enable the Media Device (MTP) ...

Et Voila!

james.miller · 3 Mar 2012 at 09:47

WebOS-style task switcher

Not seen it mentioned yet, but WebAOKP has been ported. It's a WebOS-style task switcher and it works very well indeed. Certainly a lot better than the ICS task switcher and a plus for anybody who misses the WebOS switcher:

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/19142-mod-port-webcm9-03-webos-like-app-switcher-22912-cm9/