- #HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID HOW TO#
- #HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID INSTALL#
- #HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID 64 BIT#
- #HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID DRIVER#
- #HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID 32 BIT#
I knew because when I connected the Touchpad to the PC, and waited for it to find a driver, it did not find it.
#HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID DRIVER#
Basically I assumed that the WebOS SDK-PDK had installed the Windows driver that will allow the PC to talk to the Touchpad in this developer USB mode, but it DID NOT. You do this by turning the Touchpad back on by holding BOTH the power button AND the up volume button together until a large USB icon appear on the Touchpad screen.ĩ) This is where you are supposed to go ahead and connect the Touchpad back to the PC via the USB cable- but don't do it- YET. Then TURN OFF the Touchpad.Ĩ) Now you have to boot up the Touchpad in a special developer mode. You'll see an "Ouch!" message, but don't worry about it- but you have to wait until that message disappears (takes about 20 seconds or so as the Touchpad scans for new files). Create a folder on the Touchpad called "cminstall" and copy the "moboot_0.3.5.zip" and "update-cwm_tenderloin-1012.zip" files to that folder.ħ) Disconnect the Touchpad from the computer. Browse on your computer to the HP Touchpad (should show up under "Devices with Removable Storage if you are running Windows 7). You have to enable the "Mass Storage Mode" on the Touchpad upon connection. I picked "C:\webos-pdk" because instead of the default folder because it was shorter and would be easier to type (which you will have to do later).Ħ) The next step was to plug the HP Touchpad to the computer via USB.
#HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID INSTALL#
I chose custom setup so I could select the path/location to install the WebOS SDK-PDK. Yours may be different if you are running 32-bit Windows. I saved all 3 files under "C:\hp-touchpad-cyanogenmod".ĥ) I then went ahead and ran the WebOS SDK-PDK installer which I downloaded in step 3.
If you are running Windows XP, the chance is 99.9999% that you are running 32-bit. If you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista and are unsure, go to Start, Control Panel, System, and look for System Type to see whether it says 64-bit or 32-bit.
Make sure you download the proper version- 64bit or 32bit depending on which Windows system type you have. As instructed, I downloaded the latest version of the WebOS SDK-PDK, which was 3.0.5 via.
#HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID HOW TO#
The file was saved to "C:\hp-touchpad-cyanogenmod".ģ) I then navigated to the Cyanogenmod Wiki for how to install the OS on the HP Touchpad. Under the "Nightly Builds", I went ahead and downloaded the newest version, which was "cm-9-20121028-NIGHTLY-tenderloin.zip". Under "Stable Mod", there was nothing, and same goes for "Experimental Mod" page. Here we go- do you have 2 hours of spare time because that's probably how long the entire process will take.ġ) I knew ahead of time that I needed to download a collection of files for the procedure, so I created a folder called "hp-touchpad-cyanogenmod" on my "C:" drive.Ģ) I went to the official Cyanogenmod TouchPad page to download the firmware and instructions on how to do the upgrade.
#HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID 32 BIT#
But I also wanted to make these instructions applicable to 32 bit and older Windows versions as well.
#HP TOUCHPAD UPDATE ANDROID 64 BIT#
I used a PC running Windows 7 64 bit for this. It was a resounding success, and I wanted to share the steps/instructions I used to make the conversion work. I had some free time today so I decided to dive into the mini-project of converting WebOS to Android on my HP Touchpad. After reading many positive experiences of people of had flashed the WebOS bound Touchpad to Android, I decided to give it a shot. Plus I didn't want to install Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but rather have at least Android 4.0 (ICS aka Ice Cream Sandwich) which matches the current version of Android on my EeePad TF101. I knew about CyanogenMod for a while now and I heard of its success on the Touchpad, but I really wanted to see if the developers will bring the product out of the "experimental" stage. Since the Touchpad w/ WebOS has no Netflix, Google apps, Dropbox, and no Pulse (a news reader app, but yes, pun intended), we barely use it- maybe once a week at most. Even though I liked the Touchpad, the dearth of apps for the WebOS, plus my increased exposure to Android (on my phone + Asus Transformer TF101) and the iPad, had me wanting to do something to increase our family usage of the device. About a year and a half ago I bought the HP Touchpad, which has as everyone know, became pretty much unsupported.