Hi
since there are some TP users and this issue is a bit scary when you have not done this, I describe about my experience with it.
What you get:
-2 GB of space reduced on your Touchpad for the Android partition
-a Dual-Boot menu that lets you boot into WebOS or Android (use Volume button + Home)
-An Android that uses the same data storage as your WebOS Touchpad - you can share photos,movies and even app-data (see my post here: http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6986.0)
-Fully featured Android tablet with fast OpenGL|ES graphics and great processor. Really stable.
Only downside: The default boot is set to Android, so you have to watch when you turn it on.
Download the package from here:
ACME-Installer, CyanogenMod,Moboot, (http://"http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/33227-alpha-cyanogenmod-7-for-the-hp-touchpad-v710-alpha-3-22-nov-2011-dont-link-directly-to-files/page__view__findpost__p__249373")
Get at least these 3 files.
- Do a backup of all your data from the Touchpad - if there's any. I did not do this, and it didn't break a thing. But I'm not you and you can't blame me if there might be an issue.
- Unzip the package.
- Read the README!!
- Copy the update..zip files (README!) onto the Touchpad using USB drive connection.
- open a command prompt
- change to the directory: C:\...\GLBasic\Compiler\platform\webos\tool\bin\novaterm\data\bin
- Copy the "ACMEInstaller" file into this directory. (Parallel to the novacom.exe)
- Type:
novacom boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller
Nice one Gernot. Your ACME link doesn't work though.
How do you backup a TP though? And when you say backup is it the whole thing or just your data? If just my data then I don't really care as I haven't used it for much except web browsing and GLB WebOS development.
Also any advice on how to undo all of this?
Cheers
Oh, and maybe you could try this?
http://www.opinionless.com/booting-to-webos-by-default-after-installing-cyangenmod-android-on-the-hp-touchpad/ (http://www.opinionless.com/booting-to-webos-by-default-after-installing-cyangenmod-android-on-the-hp-touchpad/)
If it works then I will probably try installing it. Really don't want to default boot to Android if can help it...
Is it Gingerbread BTW? I take it ICS is a while off...
Cheers
ICS shouldn't be too far off - the source has been released and there are betas available. But yeah, I'd rather wait for a stable ICS than go through the whole process more than once (the more you do something like this, the more chances there are of fecking it all up!)
Theres a device doctor on the hp site. That is like a firmware install, so when you backup your data, the device can't be bricked.
I have alpha2 installed with the SOD (Sleep Of Death) fix installed, and it is great.
Alpha3 is out that seems to fix some issues I have never found :)
About ICS it seems it be avaiable for TP in January.