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Browse All News Articles. Smart TVs Ads. This also means that software designed for Android 3. Next, download moboot - do not extract this file, and CyanogenMod 7. After that, create a new folder and name it cminstall , copy the compressed file of CyanogenMod , ClockworkMod and moboot here:. Before proceeding, make sure that the hard disk space is at least 2GB because CyanogenMod will need at least 2GB to extract and store the necessary system files.
Disconnect the connection mode from the TouchPad to the computer, but keep the cable connected:. Open the Command Prompt on the computer, use the cd command to go to the directory folder and transfer the ACMEInstaller file in the previous step. Then type the command:. If you do a custom installation, just make sure you install novacom which is also known as the command line interface tool.
Download CyanogenMod 7. Download Clockwork recovery from the original thread or from our mirror here. Once the drive mounts, create a cminstall folder and copy the CyanogenMod zip file, the ClockworkMod zip file, and the moboot zip file into the folder.
CyanogenMod will require 2 GB for system files and will resize your media partition. Next, turn on the TouchPad and immediately push the volume up button until you get a big USB symbol on your screen. Then run the command. Your TouchPad will reboot in a few seconds and you will get a Linux boot screen with our good friend Tux sitting atop scrolling text. To switch between the two operating systems you can just reboot the device and using the new bootloader, select your desired operating system using the volume keys and home button.
First you need to download the Google Apps package from the CyanogenMod wiki found here. Plug your TouchPad into your computer and browse to the cminstall folder we created earlier. Copy the gapps…zip file to that folder and reboot the TouchPad. Select choose zip from SD card and then navigate to the cminstall folder and select the gapps…zip file.
Navigate back to the home screen and reboot the device. Increasingly slick and almost fully functional versions of Android are now running on the TouchPad, making it competitive with many current tablets. Otherwise you may be stuck relegating your TouchPad to the role of an overpriced appliance. Anyone with a TouchPad is certainly a candidate for Android.
As application support for WebOS lags further behind both Android and iOS, and with the open-sourced future of the popular WebOS platform in doubt, Android provides a stable alternative with hundreds of thousands of applications. Even better, most of the solutions for running Android on the TouchPad actually make it a multi-boot device, so you can still boot WebOS if and when you need it. Keeping in mind those benefits, the conversion is not without challenges.
In theory you can brick your tablet make it unusable , by doing the conversion wrong, but in practice the TouchPad has recovery failsafes that make this almost impossible. Holding down the Power and Home keys together for seconds will almost always reset the device, for example.
If you have previously flashed custom ROMs on an Android phone or tablet, most of the process — except for the initial steps — will be familiar to you. The trickiest steps in the process of adding Android to your TouchPad involve loading all the utilities which need to be installed first.
On your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer — there is much more support for performing these steps from Windows but it is not the only option — you start by ensuring you have Java installed and then installing the Novacom tool from Palm the creators of WebOS purchased by HP. This is a lot of software, and involves following quite a few steps, but very detailed instructions for installing CM9 ICS version of CyanogenmMod on your TouchPad make it fairly straightforward as long as you pay attention to the order in which things are done.
If you prefer to watch, there is also this video which walks you through the process. Download all of the above files to your computer. Some of the links point to the forum thread, so you need to find the specific file yourself from the list of downloadable files.
These instructions primarily presume you are running Windows, but if you are familiar with the command line you can follow them on Linux or OSX, too. Open it and create a new folder called cm install. It is recommended that you have at least 2GB of free space in your TouchPad to avoid any problems during the process. We will now install the Boot loader on the TouchPad. First, press and hold the Power button and select Shut Down.
It will turn off the device. Now, turn on your TouchPad and quickly press the Volume Up button. It should show you a USB symbol on your screen; if not, shut it down and try again. On Windows, this should be.
Now, you need to open the command prompt, and switch to the Novacom folder. In Windows, you can do this by navigating to the aforementioned folder, holding the Shift button and right-clicking anywhere on blank area, then choosing Open command window here from the context menu that appears.
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