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Footballguy
Sounds like this will have a future one way or another.
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Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Sorry don't have an extra one. Worst yet it looks like HP isn't getting rid of inventory at the close out price anymore, nor the headache of selling it themself. $239 for 32G vs $149 two month ago.If anyone has a spare that they want to sell, shoot me a PM as I'll be happy to take it off your hands
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Cool...I am starting to download 3.0.4 now.
joker
Footballguy
Oh well, thanks anyway. If anyone ever gets their backorders to ship and doesn't need them all, drop me a PM.Sorry don't have an extra one. Worst yet it looks like HP isn't getting rid of inventory at the close out price anymore, nor the headache of selling it themself. $239 for 32G vs $149 two month ago.If anyone has a spare that they want to sell, shoot me a PM as I'll be happy to take it off your hands
Righetti
Footballguy
I like WebOS as an operating system but their app store is completely dead.. anybody have any luck converting to Android?
Righetti
Footballguy
so I installed android on it mainly because although I actually love WebOS the fact that the app store was so limited forced my hand
Really love the Droid so far. Best $99 I have spent in a long while
I.still have WebOS installed and may go back and forth between the two operating systems
Really love the Droid so far. Best $99 I have spent in a long while
I.still have WebOS installed and may go back and forth between the two operating systems
jhib
Footballguy
I just decided to go ahead and put android on mine yesterday. Thrilled with the alpha 3 so far. Besides all the extra apps available, it just seems much more usable for what I need it to do. Much easier to access files I want to (which makes me happier that I ended up with the 32 gb one). There were definitely nice things about webos, but overall, this seems much better for me. So far, at least.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
So it is time?How much time is involved?
jhib
Footballguy
Not sure I understand it correctly, but I thought android install just treats the webos/media partition as an SD card, but there's no actual SD card slot. Is that not the case?
culdeus
Footballguy
Yeah. I'm a moron. It's been awhile since i checked progress on this. I thought. I remembered there being a disabled sd slot but it's actually a sim card holder.
jhib
Footballguy
I'm sure it depends on how you want to use your machine right now. The better web browser, the much better handling of pdf files (especially downloading them from sites like blackboard), and the better file manager giving me easy access to files I save on the machine all have made it more than worthwhile for me.I'm not sure exactly what the advantage is to waiting for ICS... what are your thoughts on that, culdeus?As far as the time involved, it wasn't bad at all. Probably wouldn't have taken any longer than half an hour had some of the steps been a little more clear in the list I was following. For example, you have novacomm installed on your computer and you download acmeinstaller. They didn't tell me that you should put the acmeinstaller file in the same directory as novacomm (which for me on XP was in c:\program files\palm, inc), otherwise the command line prompt you put in later doesn't do anything. So it took me just a little longer to figure out things like that.There were a couple parts where it looked like it stopped working, but you just have to be patient and let it do its thing.'Bottomfeeder Sports said:
culdeus
Footballguy
I don't know anything about android really. ICS was supposed to be their tablet OS by design and the other ones are really just phone OS ported, correct?
The Z Machine
Footballguy
Because they run an operating system that people actually develop apps for now.If these were so cheap a few months back why are they above 300 now?
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Norman Einstein
Footballguy
where's the link to the android conversion process?
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Brady Marino
Footballguy
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Insoxicated
Thoughts on best approach? I was thinking about just hammering "refresh" on this string starting around 5:30 (for 5 mins), 5:45 (for 5 mins), then 5:55 (All times CT):http://stores.ebay.com/hewlettpackard/Home.html__W0QQ_sidZ1064151579?_nkw=Touchpad
I imagine that should show TOuchpads in their store as soon as they're listed, no?
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
I've seldom been successful at obtaining things in this manner. I'll yield to the pros (and give you a bump).'[icon] said:
culdeus
Footballguy
do what now?
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Sorry.'[icon] said:
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Here you go (I've been waiting also. Waiting for this tweet.)ETA: Oh, and 3.0.5 was end of last week. You may need to remove preware patches to get it to load. And check before reloading the patches as HP moved some of the applications to new locations.
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Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
This is a
. Guess it is time to give it a try....
. Guess it is time to give it a try....
culdeus
Footballguy
yeah, i've been waiting for a base install of this from the onset.
Flyin Pigs
Footballguy
black dotting for later
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Went pretty easily. I seem to have had the wifi issue everyone had overnight, but changing the channel to "6" on the router seems to have fixed that. Haven't tried much yet, but seems good to go. Just wish I remembered to install getjar before buying a few things that could have been free.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
0.0 is working fine so I'm waiting for a bigger release to tempt fate.
culdeus
Footballguy
.5 is basically a point and click update.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Did .5 the weekend before last, .6 last weekend. Now I learn I'm a 1%'er. There goes my reputation around here.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
They started doing nightly builds in the past week or two, but never got to load one of those since Alpha 1 came out on Monday. I installed it last night.
Today Alpha2.
Both mostly concerned video
Alpha 2 Release notes:
This is for video playback fixes only, no other changes.
Fix netflix and other apps that rely on http live streaming
Fix blocky video due to bad scaling
Alpha 1 Release notes:
We finally have hardware video decode working largely thanks to some help from yjwong. This release is primarily just to get hardware decoding out for folks to enjoy while other work continues. This build does not work with Netflix yet. However, hardware accelerated video decoding does work for Youtube HD and playback of local media. This build still uses the 2.6.35 kernel. The 3.0 kernel is still being heavily worked on and is also the primary focus for development. Don't expect hardware video decoding to be perfect yet. Its half a miracle it works at all on our current kernel.
Similar to the last build I will provide flashable zips to make it easier to switch to lcd density 120 with proper launcher layout. The hardware video decoding will not make it into the nightlies for a few days. There is still some work to do in order to get it merged into repositories and ensure it doesn't break other devices.
Hardware video decoding support. As a result, Youtube HD and 720p and 1080p local media will now be playable. Netflix does not work yet.
Includes touchscreen improvements by Dees_Troy
Now able to enable use of 2D companion core to offload composition
Today Alpha2.
Both mostly concerned video
Alpha 2 Release notes:
This is for video playback fixes only, no other changes.
Fix netflix and other apps that rely on http live streaming
Fix blocky video due to bad scaling
Alpha 1 Release notes:
We finally have hardware video decode working largely thanks to some help from yjwong. This release is primarily just to get hardware decoding out for folks to enjoy while other work continues. This build does not work with Netflix yet. However, hardware accelerated video decoding does work for Youtube HD and playback of local media. This build still uses the 2.6.35 kernel. The 3.0 kernel is still being heavily worked on and is also the primary focus for development. Don't expect hardware video decoding to be perfect yet. Its half a miracle it works at all on our current kernel.
Similar to the last build I will provide flashable zips to make it easier to switch to lcd density 120 with proper launcher layout. The hardware video decoding will not make it into the nightlies for a few days. There is still some work to do in order to get it merged into repositories and ensure it doesn't break other devices.
Hardware video decoding support. As a result, Youtube HD and 720p and 1080p local media will now be playable. Netflix does not work yet.
Includes touchscreen improvements by Dees_Troy
Now able to enable use of 2D companion core to offload composition
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Keep udating us. I'll likely jump to this when it is full and stable. If only for the netflix capability.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Once I changed my router's channel, I've had no issues. Sometimes the "touch" is less than responsive. The camera doesn't work. They claim audio is bad, but I have had no problems. I don't have Netflix so hopefully jon or culdus will report on that. I'll probably give "crackle" a try when I get a chance to see if that works (I don't think it did). Still haven't had a chance to try HD YouTube either.The item I am waiting for are updates without having to use the recovery program. At that point I'll load this on those I purchased as gifts. (Well, when I am near those since one is 900 miles away and the other 1400.)
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
'culdeus said:It isn't clear to me if Netflix is supposed to work yet.
culdeus
Footballguy
wow, that was fast upgrade from alpha 1'culdeus said:It isn't clear to me if Netflix is supposed to work yet.
for missing the post above.
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Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
No concerns here. Especially since...
I wonder if that is what happened here. The fix from Alpha 1 to Alpha 2 was right there in front of them all along.
