Comments on Android on HP Touchpad
Jul 14, 2012It’s been months since I modded my HP Touchpad with
Cyanogenmod. I’m not
going to get into how to do it because there are fairly adequate
guides.
I’m now running a mid-June official CM9 nightly build. The touchpad is a
nice Android tablet (read that “games”) and a great e-reader (kindle &
nook apps) after setting the DPI to the native 132 with DPI
Changer.
The wireless behaves itself, battery life is acceptable, and other than
the camera and app store it mostly works. The camera is only supported
by a binary blob in an old kernel unless HP makes a code drop, so may
never work. The Google app store, a.k.a. Google Play, is annoying in
that it checks the DPI and make and model of the unit when it is first
run but never again after that and disables updates on many existing
apps. Setting a few
values (youtube example on
CM7) in the build.prop
then clearing the app cache in system settings,
clearing the /cache
partition, and rebooting with the default DPI
fixes it. I used
ro.product.brand=samsung
ro.product.model=GT-I9100
ro.product.name=GT-I9100
ro.product.device=GT-I9100
which gives better results than the usual recommendation of faking a
SGH-T989
. After updates, I switch the DPI back to 132.