The Touchpad Android thread

Hamster · 3 Jun 2012 at 17:36

Has anyone had a good play around with CPU/battery analysis apps and changed settings to improve battery life? If so, please share your findings and fixes.

Locke · 3 Jun 2012 at 23:09

Nope, I just overclocked mine to 1700 MHz~ and it flies on Android! Almost without a hitch now. Such a bargain for £80 or so.

Azza · 4 Jun 2012 at 00:09

Where's the cheapest place to buy a Touchstone and a case from? Is the official case any good?

doodah · 6 Jun 2012 at 09:57

Lent my TP to my mother recently and just got this email:

"Any idea why it won't shut down when charging? With display, input barely exceeds output and so takes 12+ hrs to charge. If do a "power off" shutdown, it comes back on and reboots, the start-up including a message about excessive overclocking."

Any ideas? I will suggest reverting it back to 1.2Ghz but it charged fine with me.

dasyad · 6 Jun 2012 at 10:20

xibinim said:
Lent my TP to my mother recently and just got this email:

"Any idea why it won't shut down when charging? With display, input barely exceeds output and so takes 12+ hrs to charge. If do a "power off" shutdown, it comes back on and reboots, the start-up including a message about excessive overclocking."

Any ideas? I will suggest reverting it back to 1.2Ghz but it charged fine with me.

I found with mine that it would turn on when plugged in to charge for some reason, however if I then turned it off while still plugged in to charge it would stay off.

Beans on toast Dave · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:42

quick question

i never updated from alpha 1 but use the current nightly
would it have auto updated to alpha 2?

Sin_Chase · 6 Jun 2012 at 18:50

Nightlies should contain the merged Alpha 2 changes.

It was very minor stuff from 1 to 2 anyway, just some Neflix and video fixes IIRC.

pingu666 · 7 Jun 2012 at 11:03

on the charging, I think the offical charger is 1.4 or 1.2amps, and a normal usb charge is something like .5amps ? so could be that. i think u can buy generic high amp chargers if you cant find a hp one

Evilpaul · 7 Jun 2012 at 13:00

pingu666 said:
on the charging, I think the offical charger is 1.4 or 1.2amps, and a normal usb charge is something like .5amps ? so could be that. i think u can buy generic high amp chargers if you cant find a hp one

The official HP TouchPad charger is rated at 2 amps, generic USB chargers would usually comply with USB 2.0 specifications and only supply 1 amp.

angela · 9 Jun 2012 at 14:24

Locke said:
Nope, I just overclocked mine to 1700 MHz~ and it flies on Android! Almost without a hitch now. Such a bargain for £80 or so.

Hey, which app or program did you use to OC TP?

413x · 17 Jun 2012 at 11:23

Just literally done this. Was wondering if it would be worth it.. No more web os for me!

Main reason I have is to use it for a fancy remote for my Htpc, was watching live tv from it via windows mce earlier

Works well! Just need a decent app that effectively just turns the pad into a big trackpad, splashtop works well for remote desktop

Looks really different to my ics on phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgp4bZ6slc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

manveruppd · 17 Jun 2012 at 14:06

So, are any of you planing to move back to WebOS when Open WebOS comes out? There's a group online over here who said they'll work to port it to the Touchpad and Pre 3, I've already emailed them to volunteer to help.

DIABLO · 17 Jun 2012 at 14:51

The Microphone is now working with a patch.

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Jun 2012 at 15:03

al4x said:
Just literally done this. Was wondering if it would be worth it.. No more web os for me!

Main reason I have is to use it for a fancy remote for my Htpc, was watching live tv from it via windows mce earlier

Works well! Just need a decent app that effectively just turns the pad into a big trackpad, splashtop works well for remote desktop

Looks really different to my ics on phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgp4bZ6slc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

what do i need to do this?

413x · 17 Jun 2012 at 21:48

challengedavid said:
what do i need to do this?

What do you have so far? I guess ics is on your pad?

413x · 17 Jun 2012 at 21:50

manveruppd said:
So, are any of you planing to move back to WebOS when Open WebOS comes out? There's a group online over here who said they'll work to port it to the Touchpad and Pre 3, I've already emailed them to volunteer to help.

Most definitely not! Can't believe how good ics is on it
For first time since the first few weeks I had I I haven't touched it until now.

DIABLO · 17 Jun 2012 at 22:38

angela said:
Hey, which app or program did you use to OC TP?

SetCPU

Beans on toast Dave · 18 Jun 2012 at 08:10

al4x said:
What do you have so far? I guess ics is on your pad?

yes i have ics also splashtop, thats about it

413x · 18 Jun 2012 at 12:36

challengedavid said:
yes i have ics also splashtop, thats about it

All I do is turn the pc on, and boot mce, i have splashtop set to the Touchpad resolution if I don't have the tv on, mce then fills the screen, not maximised tho. And then just use the touchpad in finger tracking pad mode (dunno the proper name).

Theoretically I could watch tv anywhere in the world of the Htpc is on and the bandwidth is high enough. Actually might try that at work on Wednesday

Beans on toast Dave · 18 Jun 2012 at 17:21

al4x said:
All I do is turn the pc on, and boot mce, i have splashtop set to the Touchpad resolution if I don't have the tv on, mce then fills the screen, not maximised tho. And then just use the touchpad in finger tracking pad mode (dunno the proper name).

Theoretically I could watch tv anywhere in the world of the Htpc is on and the bandwidth is high enough. Actually might try that at work on Wednesday

thanks, i thought it was a special app