HP Touchpad tips and tricks

loopymum · 30-08-2011 10:44PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Just figured out swiping bookmarks (left or right) gives you the delete option.

...oh, and switch off the screen auto dim. Surprised nobody has done this in the reviews.

Nice one on the bookmarks, I have been wondering how to do that!:D

Why don't you like the screen auto dim?

Does anyone know where files transferred over from pc are kept?

Kenny Logins · 30-08-2011 10:56PM

loopymum wrote: »

Nice one on the bookmarks, I have been wondering how to do that!:D

Why don't you like the screen auto dim?

Does anyone know where files transferred over from pc are kept?

The screen just looks dull when the auto dim is on.

ShaneU · 30-08-2011 11:17PM

Is there any way to organise bookmarks though?

Doodah7 · 31-08-2011 11:32AM

Got one of these for my wife and am now reasonably happy with the set up.

One issue she has is that she can't access http://www.rollercoaster.ie on the browser. Would someone be very kind and try the website on their browser?

karltimber · 31-08-2011 11:49AM

tallpaul wrote: »

Got one of these for my wife and am now reasonably happy with the set up.

One issue she has is that she can't access http://www.rollercoaster.ie on the browser. Would someone be very kind and try the website on their browser?

not working for m either

Tinie · 31-08-2011 02:37PM

Can anyone tell me how to get Kindle Books on amazon even though we live in Ireland. I cant seem to download any free ones as it says its because we live outside the UK. Ideas?

feelpablo · 31-08-2011 02:55PM

Tinie wrote: »

Can anyone tell me how to get Kindle Books on amazon even though we live in Ireland. I cant seem to download any free ones as it says its because we live outside the UK. Ideas?

go to amazon.com and i think you have to select ireland from the drop down menu..

Waiting on delivery of my kindle so havent done it yet but i think this is how its done.

Tinie · 31-08-2011 02:57PM

feelpablo wrote: »

go to amazon.com and i think you have to select ireland from the drop down menu..

Waiting on delivery of my kindle so havent done it yet but i think this is how its done.

Cheers, yeah it seems Ireland have to use amazon.com. Strange, thought co.uk would be for us, but it works none the less.

loopymum · 01-09-2011 12:10AM

karltimber wrote: »

not working for m either

nor me, Magicmum and Eumom are working though

Doodah7 · 01-09-2011 09:47AM

karltimber wrote: »

not working for m either

loopymum wrote: »

nor me, Magicmum and Eumom are working though

It is odd that the rollercoaster website won't load. I assume it is their website rather than the Touchpad. It might be useful to keep a track of websites that won't load properly?

baldshin · 01-09-2011 11:40AM

Anyone else tried using flashsportstreams.tv on this? When I go to play a video using flash, I get a triangle with an exclamation mark??

fdevine · 01-09-2011 02:12PM

LOF streaming won't work either.

Can log in, view available streams and select them, but then get a 'connection failed' message.

Anyone got it working?

groom · 02-09-2011 09:18AM

When unmounting the TP from Windows with the Palm Novacom driver installed you'll probably get an error saying the that it is in used and cannot be disconnected.

You can stop the Palm Novacom service under Administrative Tools menu to gracefully unmount the device and not get a scary error on your TP.

Or there are some alternative suggestions here

blankblank · 02-09-2011 11:48AM

anybody know how to get a working facebook chat up and running? Or how to get it set up in the messaging app on the tp?

podge3 · 02-09-2011 01:21PM

I was having trouble uploading my music (over 30Gb) to Box.net. It froze/crashed after 50 - 100 songs. I tried numerous times with various browsers but all to no avail.

Someone on another site suggested using http://www.gladinet.com/ and this seems to have done the trick. It'll be uploading for a few days but it does seem to be working.

You can also put Dropbox, Skydrive etc on your Gladinet drive if you wish.

Kenny Logins · 02-09-2011 07:36PM

It seems the HPTP supports USB host. ;-) but I have just tested with my camera and it doesn't work (Samsung Galaxy SII does).

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?4332-Functional-USB-Host-on-Touchpad

Tinie · 03-09-2011 01:09AM

Free apps for Ireland are here now, we only get 3 of them though :rolleyes:

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/09/good-things-like-promo-codes-come-to-those-who-wait.html

Brian · 03-09-2011 01:20AM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

It seems the HPTP supports USB host. ;-) but I have just tested with my camera and it doesn't work (Samsung Galaxy SII does).

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?4332-Functional-USB-Host-on-Touchpad

Kind of useless without "powered host" support, but an interesting development nonetheless.

Kenny Logins · 03-09-2011 08:53AM

Baza210 wrote: »

Kenny Logins wrote: »

It seems the HPTP supports USB host. ;-) but I have just tested with my camera and it doesn't work (Samsung Galaxy SII does).

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?4332-Functional-USB-Host-on-Touchpad

Kind of useless without "powered host" support, but an interesting development nonetheless.

Just tried to reply over there regarding the camera not working, site uses a daft captcha puzzle that doesn't work with my Android browser. Fail.

Brian · 03-09-2011 11:37AM

Aye, rootzwiki is pretty amateurish.

kendragon · 03-09-2011 07:22PM

Tinie wrote: »

Free apps for Ireland are here now, we only get 3 of them though :rolleyes:

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/09/good-things-like-promo-codes-come-to-those-who-wait.html

Worth keeping an eye on this over the next few days. When the original 'six-pack' sold out in the states they gave a few more apps for free. Hopefully they will do the same for us.

fdevine · 03-09-2011 09:47PM

Tinie wrote: »

Free apps for Ireland are here now, we only get 3 of them though :rolleyes:

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/09/good-things-like-promo-codes-come-to-those-who-wait.html

Codes seem to be valid up to either 16th or 17th September

jazzy cian · 04-09-2011 03:53AM

Davie89 wrote: »

anybody know how to get a working facebook chat up and running? Or how to get it set up in the messaging app on the tp?

i think if you get an aim account it should come up in the chat. Do it on a pc though maybe because I tried setting up an aim account on the touchpad and it kept telling me my password was too short even though it wasn't. I didn't actually bother turning on the pc to set up an account after so im not sure.

jazzy cian · 04-09-2011 03:58AM

this might be useful to somebody at some stage. My touchpad froze a week or so ago while switching between cards. If it happens anyone just hold the power button and the middle button til it resets (10 seconds I think) and on an unrelated note if you just press these buttons together at any stage it takes a screen shot. Most of you probably know that at this stage though.

jazzy cian · 04-09-2011 04:59AM

http://www.mobilewhack.com/android-gingerbread-2-3-5-gets-dual-booted-on-hp-touchpad/
webOS and android dual boot may happen yet

kilsmum · 04-09-2011 07:42AM

Did anybody try using the Touchpad with Joikuspot?

Tried it yesterday using Joikuspot premium on my Nokia N8 and it didn't pick it up in the wi fi menu at all - just kept searching.

Any hints would be very much appreciated.

Kilsmum

loopymum · 04-09-2011 04:57PM

I wonder where is the best place to ask if a cabbage app for webos

noclee · 05-09-2011 10:24AM

I use the touchpad for following:-
Touchplayer (plays everything I though at it under 3Gig) Kalemsoft player plays over 3g files 720p.
Mount samba shares from my nas server movie database
clocked at 1.5g
Plays all flash www

Anyone tried the vpn, currently seems to be Cisco proprietary. Looking for ipsec standard vpn.

groom · 06-09-2011 01:26PM

loopymum wrote: »

I wonder where is the best place to ask if a cabbage app for webos

A guy in the Android forum develops it for Android and responds to queries

cianr · 06-09-2011 05:22PM

Tinie wrote: »

Free apps for Ireland are here now, we only get 3 of them though :rolleyes:

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/09/good-things-like-promo-codes-come-to-those-who-wait.html

Do you just select purchase to get these and then at some stage enter the codes? Its prompting me to set up a credit card.

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