HP Touchpad tips and tricks

Tweaky · 17-11-2014 11:07am

My touchpad is not charging - getting the empty battery symbol and connect cable sign. Think I may have damaged the USB connection at the bottom. Does anyone in the Cork Area have a touchstone I could borrow to see if I can get it back to life. Tried multiple cables and chargers and nothing happening

Thanks

Squeeonline · 17-11-2014 11:09am

Tweaky wrote: »

My touchpad is not charging - getting the empty battery symbol and connect cable sign. Think I may have damaged the USB connection at the bottom. Does anyone in the Cork Area have a touchstone I could borrow to see if I can get it back to life. Tried multiple cables and chargers and nothing happening

Thanks

you may need to leave it plugged into a wall and charging for a couple days to make it come back to life. Don't let the battery drain completely, it really FUBARs the tablet.

Moyglish · 11-12-2014 2:51pm

Guys, talk about Murphyl law!

Just got a buyer for my Hp Touchpad and I just went to do a factory reset on it to erase all data of it before giving it to the buyer. I looked up online and found that if you simultaneously hold dieback the volume, power and middle buttons it should prepare to factory reset.

Well I just tried this and the Touchpad has completely died on me!

It was got charged before I attempted to factory reset and I've just plugged it in to see if that would help kick start it and nothing!

I've never had any issues with it before, it was 100% perfect before I went to do the factory reset.

Can anyone please help?

Agh!! Talk about timing!

Edit - Panic has been averted, phew!!

She's not dead Jim!

ouncer · 19-12-2014 11:27pm

Power and middle button and it will restart after 30 seconds.

ouncer · 19-12-2014 11:32pm

Squeeonline wrote: »

you may need to leave it plugged into a wall and charging for a couple days to make it come back to life. Don't let the battery drain completely, it really FUBARs the tablet.

All power cables say connect correct cable. The issue is not the cable but the charger. Leave it overnight charging then respond with issue

neacy69 · 08-01-2015 3:56pm

Ok my touchpad is gone dead again....seems to be no life coming from it now...

Tried leaving it plugged into the original charger for 48 hours and on a 1amp charger for 48 hours and no life from it whatsoever...anything else i should try?

Squeeonline · 08-01-2015 4:48pm

neacy69 wrote: »

Ok my touchpad is gone dead again....seems to be no life coming from it now...

Tried leaving it plugged into the original charger for 48 hours and on a 1amp charger for 48 hours and no life from it whatsoever...anything else i should try?

Hold the power button, and tap the home key, like 20 times or more. Then plug it in again and see if it comes to life with charging.

neacy69 · 08-01-2015 4:49pm

Squeeonline wrote: »

Hold the power button, and tap the home key, like 20 times or more. Then plug it in again and see if it comes to life with charging.

I'll try that...Cheers

neacy69 · 09-01-2015 9:26am

Squeeonline wrote: »

Hold the power button, and tap the home key, like 20 times or more. Then plug it in again and see if it comes to life with charging.

Cheers Squee...That worked. Back online now! I'll have to try to stop it getting dead again...

BenEadir · 09-01-2015 12:53pm

neacy69 wrote: »

Cheers Squee...That worked. Back online now! I'll have to try to stop it getting dead again...

Install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llama&hl=en and set it to shut down the TP when the battery gets to 7%.

Works for me.

neacy69 · 09-01-2015 2:58pm

Done - Thanks BenEadir

BTW I am selling my Touchpad now in case anyone is interested......

Squeeonline · 09-01-2015 4:04pm

Sweet! Very glad it worked for you!

mp3ireland2 · 13-01-2015 11:03pm

Hi
My touchpad is running android 4.4.4 Pacman ROM.

It won't connect as a media device.
(I have done the office and changed the USB connection setting to MTP in android)
Firstly I disabled debugging as I thought this was issue.
Then I went into device manager and followed this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/195607/how-to-get-your-android-device-to-show-up-in-file-explorer-if-it-isnt/

To update the driver, however the driver won't update to MTP Media Device.
I get a code 10 error. Has this happened anybody?

I'm pretty sure it never worked as I'd always gone to Web OS to transfer files, however i've no longer got that installed...

It connects fine as a camera so i can copy files on there and move them after but it's awkward!

Running windows 7

Thanks,
CHris

BenEadir · 14-01-2015 7:59am

Try installing http://adbdriver.com

mp3ireland2 · 14-01-2015 8:26am

BenEadir wrote: »

Try installing http://adbdriver.com

Thanks I'll try this tonight!

Squeeonline · 14-01-2015 8:49am

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

Hi
My touchpad is running android 4.4.4 Pacman ROM.

It won't connect as a media device.
(I have done the office and changed the USB connection setting to MTP in android)
Firstly I disabled debugging as I thought this was issue.
Then I went into device manager and followed this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/195607/how-to-get-your-android-device-to-show-up-in-file-explorer-if-it-isnt/

To update the driver, however the driver won't update to MTP Media Device.
I get a code 10 error. Has this happened anybody?

I'm pretty sure it never worked as I'd always gone to Web OS to transfer files, however i've no longer got that installed...

It connects fine as a camera so i can copy files on there and move them after but it's awkward!

Running windows 7

Thanks,
CHris

Used to have the same problem.

Dont have my tablet at work to test, but it's not MTP driver you want to select in device manager. Instead, look for something like "generic mass storage" or maybe something with "Composite Device". That was an option for me and works perfectly (ish, the TP is very slow to transfer)

neacy69 · 14-01-2015 8:54am

If all else fails try airdroid....its slow but it worked for me in the past

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en

mp3ireland2 · 14-01-2015 6:02pm

neacy69 wrote: »

If all else fails try airdroid....its slow but it worked for me in the past

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en

How slow was it? i'm currently using my wifi with es file explorer and getting 150-300 kbps depending on the traffic :-(
EDIT: yeah it is a lot faster! 1.3-1.5 Mbps..still slow, but manageable to put a few movies on!

Yeah neither of the above options worked, I didn't have the option in my driver settings and abd driver installer didn't recognize any android device when it was attached.....

Is there any app that you can use which once mounted turns the touchpad into a usb mass storage devicle? Not finding one myself.....

The Mulk · 16-01-2015 12:18pm

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

How slow was it? i'm currently using my wifi with es file explorer and getting 150-300 kbps depending on the traffic :-(
EDIT: yeah it is a lot faster! 1.3-1.5 Mbps..still slow, but manageable to put a few movies on!

Yeah neither of the above options worked, I didn't have the option in my driver settings and abd driver installer didn't recognize any android device when it was attached.....

Is there any app that you can use which once mounted turns the touchpad into a usb mass storage devicle? Not finding one myself.....

Do you still have WebOS on it,
I kept mine and boot into that for transferring movies over

emo72 · 30-01-2015 6:26pm

so im running cm12 lollipop now. this machine is the gift that keeps on giving. and it was a breeze to install with tptoolkit.

nc6000 · 30-01-2015 7:11pm

emo72 wrote:

so im running cm12 lollipop now. this machine is the gift that keeps on giving. and it was a breeze to install with tptoolkit.

Any issues so far with Lollipop and what ROM did you use?

emo72 · 31-01-2015 12:46pm

nc6000 wrote: »

Any issues so far with Lollipop and what ROM did you use?

No issues. Cm12 nightly. I only use it lightly at this stage, so haven't been pushing it too hard. Was having a lot of crashes on KitKat so that prompted my upgrade rather than messing about with KitKat.

BenEadir · 31-01-2015 1:25pm

emo72 wrote: »

No issues. Cm12 nightly. I only use it lightly at this stage, so haven't been pushing it too hard. Was having a lot of crashes on KitKat so that prompted my upgrade rather than messing about with KitKat.

Camera and Bluetooth working?

Squeeonline · 31-01-2015 1:26pm

BenEadir wrote: »

Camera and Bluetooth working?

Do you actually use the camera on it? Even for skype it's pretty crap, when it does work.

Whosthis · 31-01-2015 1:27pm

Would anybody have a spare original charger to sell?

the_syco · 31-01-2015 2:38pm

Just wondering, now that HP support for the device has now totally gone, if I was to port this to Android would it be possible to put it back to WebOS? My mum uses the Touchpad when on holidays, and I'd prefer to put Android onto it (more apps to play video, etc), but on the off chance my mum wants WebOS back onto it, is it at all possible?

Squeeonline · 31-01-2015 9:38pm

the_syco wrote: »

Just wondering, now that HP support for the device has now totally gone, if I was to port this to Android would it be possible to put it back to WebOS? My mum uses the Touchpad when on holidays, and I'd prefer to put Android onto it (more apps to play video, etc), but on the off chance my mum wants WebOS back onto it, is it at all possible?

There is really no point in putting webOS back on it. There are no apps, no app store any more. Even using it as a video player is extremely limited with the built in player.

Just tell her if only comes with android. There really isn't an alternative.

the_syco · 01-02-2015 1:17am

Squeeonline wrote: »

There is really no point in putting webOS back on it. There are no apps, no app store any more. Even using it as a video player is extremely limited with the built in player.

Just tell her if only comes with android. There really isn't an alternative.

Using some video player app that I bought for €2.50 or so shortly after I got it in the firesale. Plays anything I throw at it. The only thing wrong with the Touchpad currently is I altered the sound with an app so it's louder with headphones, but the speakers on it no longer gives sound. There are still quite a few apps for it, and I never used the app store anyhoos.

She can use it at the moment, so it's a case of if she doesn't like Android, I need a way to get it back. If there's no way to get it back, I'll leave it as is; less hassle.

neacy69 · 01-02-2015 10:02am

the_syco wrote: »

Using some video player app that I bought for €2.50 or so shortly after I got it in the firesale. Plays anything I throw at it. The only thing wrong with the Touchpad currently is I altered the sound with an app so it's louder with headphones, but the speakers on it no longer gives sound. There are still quite a few apps for it, and I never used the app store anyhoos.

She can use it at the moment, so it's a case of if she doesn't like Android, I need a way to get it back. If there's no way to get it back, I'll leave it as is; less hassle.

Mine is dual boot for android and Web os so it's certainly possible

The Mulk · 03-02-2015 4:27pm

anyone running XBMC/Kodi on theirs, everytime I click on a channel it comes up scrambled

opus · 12-02-2015 11:26am

emo72 wrote: »

so im running cm12 lollipop now. this machine is the gift that keeps on giving. and it was a breeze to install with tptoolkit.

Made the jump to CM12 as well myself, seems reasonably ok although I don't use it for too much other than streaming music/internet radio in the kitchen.

Can confirm that the camera does not work as I saw somebody asked earlier in the tread.

Whosthis · 12-02-2015 9:11pm

What's the battery life like on lollipop? Hadn't used my touchpad in months until recently, installed kitkat and although its the smoothest OS I've had on it the battery life is shocking.

mp3ireland2 · 13-04-2015 6:05pm

Stuck!

Ok so I used touchpad toolbox to install kitkat. Working fine untill it wouldn't charge one day.
After exhausting all other options i used ubuntu to use the tpdebrick software and got it going again, problem solved..or so i thought...
IT didn't start into android, so i figure i'd go to touchpad toolbox, do a complete data reset and start fresh...

When i try a complete data reset I get
"ERROR: Invalid partition info: end-gap greater than 1 percent of mmc"

When i try to install Android I get
Problem w/ vgchange-ay

I tried with touch pad v41d and also v42. Same issues. Not sure what to do.

Thought a complete data reset would work :-(

EDIT: I can't access the sd card i went into ClockworkMod but can't install a new rom from zip or wipe the sd card partition there either.

EDIT 2: Found problem I'm an idiot. I have a 32GB touchpad not a 16GB one....ran that wrong tpdebrick size!

nc6000 · 14-04-2015 9:48pm

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

Stuck!

Ok so I used touchpad toolbox to install kitkat. Working fine untill it wouldn't charge one day.
After exhausting all other options i used ubuntu to use the tpdebrick software and got it going again, problem solved..or so i thought...
IT didn't start into android, so i figure i'd go to touchpad toolbox, do a complete data reset and start fresh...

When i try a complete data reset I get
"ERROR: Invalid partition info: end-gap greater than 1 percent of mmc"

When i try to install Android I get
Problem w/ vgchange-ay

I tried with touch pad v41d and also v42. Same issues. Not sure what to do.

Thought a complete data reset would work :-(

EDIT: I can't access the sd card i went into ClockworkMod but can't install a new rom from zip or wipe the sd card partition there either.

EDIT 2: Found problem I'm an idiot. I have a 32GB touchpad not a 16GB one....ran that wrong tpdebrick size!

So back working again?

mp3ireland2 · 15-04-2015 7:25am

nc6000 wrote: »

So back working again?

yeah back to full health thanks!

Left the info there anyway in case somebody is as silly as me as forgets the size of their touchpad!

Fair play to whoever came up with the tpdebrick program, quite a lifesaver! Wasn't half as much hassle as i thought (was initially put off by the ubuntu etc., but can just run from a usb stick and takes minimal effort to get tpdebrick to work it's magic)

neacy69 · 28-04-2015 2:45pm

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

yeah back to full health thanks!

Left the info there anyway in case somebody is as silly as me as forgets the size of their touchpad!

Fair play to whoever came up with the tpdebrick program, quite a lifesaver! Wasn't half as much hassle as i thought (was initially put off by the ubuntu etc., but can just run from a usb stick and takes minimal effort to get tpdebrick to work it's magic)

Mine is gone dead again and wont come back to life despite using all the tips and tricks on this thread....

I will look into this tpdebrick program tonight...did you work for you with a completely non-responsive touchpad?

Squeeonline · 28-04-2015 3:58pm

neacy69 wrote: »

Mine is gone dead again and wont come back to life despite using all the tips and tricks on this thread....

I will look into this tpdebrick program tonight...did you work for you with a completely non-responsive touchpad?

I posted about it before, but did you try leaving it to charge for ages (couple days probably)
then, while holding the power button, tapping the home key like 30 times?

That always resurrects my touchpad.

neacy69 · 28-04-2015 4:17pm

Squeeonline wrote: »

I posted about it before, but did you try leaving it to charge for ages (couple days probably)
then, while holding the power button, tapping the home key like 30 times?

That always resurrects my touchpad.

Yup...that worked the last time....nothing doing this time...i've had it plugged in for days at a time. I've used numerous combinations of plugs and cables (orignal hp - htc ones etc)... still nothing happening

54and56 · 29-04-2015 8:40am

neacy69 wrote: »

Yup...that worked the last time....nothing doing this time...i've had it plugged in for days at a time. I've used numerous combinations of plugs and cables (orignal hp - htc ones etc)... still nothing happening

I recall having a similar problem at one stage and having tried the multi day charging etc more or less gave up and left the TP in a cupboard. Came back 6-8 weeks later and tried charging it again and within a couple of hours charging I had the white LED surrounding the home button lighting up followed a while later by the battery charging icon on the screen and eventually a reboot once the TP had enough juice which I think is circa 10% charge.

It's possible your TP battery just needs to fully drain in order to snap out of whatever hibernation it is in. If nothing else works try leaving it alone for a few weeks and then charging again.

Mine is still used almost daily by the kids for YouTube/Netflix and as a quick internet lookup. It sits proudly on the charging stand in front of the telly. Not bad for €100 a few years ago!!

phill106 · 30-04-2015 1:03pm

Mine still going grand, rocking lollipop at the moment, case is looking very saggy round the edges though!

nc6000 · 30-04-2015 1:21pm

phill106 wrote: »

Mine still going grand, rocking lollipop at the moment, case is looking very saggy round the edges though!

What Lollipop ROM did you use?

I'm still on 4.4.4 but not sure if I should upgrade or leave well enough alone. When I last looked at it I saw that Netflix wasn't working with Lollipop and not sure the camera worked either which would be a problem for Skype.

mp3ireland2 · 04-05-2015 3:20pm

neacy69 wrote: »

Mine is gone dead again and wont come back to life despite using all the tips and tricks on this thread....

I will look into this tpdebrick program tonight...did you work for you with a completely non-responsive touchpad?

I had left mine charging a couple of days, it was fully charged, the issue seems to be that the touchpad doesn't realise the battery is charged, as when tpdebrick ran, it said battery as at 100%, even though nothing i did before it could get it to turn on. You have any luck?

What's the story with USB OTG, I've ordered an adapter, do i need to do anything to activate usb OTG mode? or is it standard now? (i'm running kitkat pacman 4.4)

54and56 · 05-07-2015 12:45pm

Hi Guys,

Was about to give up on my trusty old 32GB TP as it was acting weird, freezing then looping through reboots and ultimately looked bricked but I eventually got to boot into CM recovery, did a factory reset and it's like a new pin!! I just installed about a dozen of the main apps which get used on the TP (MX and VLC for movies, Netflix, Chrome, a few games and a few news apps) and 20GB of movies/TV series and it's handling it all no problem at all.

I'm running CM 10.1-20131210-SNAPSHOT-VPN-tenderloin V4.2.2 and the OS includes a Performance setting which allows the Processor to be tweaked e.g. I've the CPU governor set to "Interactive" but should it be set to "performance" or "ondemand" to get the most out of the TP? Should the MAximum CPU frequency be changed? I currently have it set to 1188 Mhz but should I push it to 1620 Mhz or even 1782 Mhz? What about turning on options like "Allow purging of assets" or "Kernel samepage merging" both of which seem to improve performance?

If anyone knows what the optimum "Performance" settings are to get the best most stable performance from the TP are I'd appreciate your input. I don't want to go tweaking things randomly as the TP is actually working fine at the moment but if there is a way to improve things I'd like to give it a go.

54and56 · 19-08-2015 8:17pm

Hi all,

MY TP is going strong but I've a weird WiFi problem.

With WiFi turned on I can see my local 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks no problem and I can successfully log onto/connect to each one but when I do although I get a strong WiFi signal icon in the notification bar it remains white rather than blue and I'm unable to get any sort of internet connection. I tried both networks,tried forgetting and reconnecting to both networks, tried rebooting several times but no matter what I try all I get is a white WiFi icon.

I tried connecting to the web via several browsers with no luck and tried several SpeedTest type app's I have on the TP but they all report "network communication problems".

Any suggestions what I need to do?

I can always do a factory reset but I'd prefer to leave that as a very last resort!!

god's toy · 21-08-2015 5:56pm

There use to be a wifi bluetooth bug, have you tested this with bluetooth off?

54and56 · 21-08-2015 7:00pm

god's toy wrote: »

There use to be a wifi bluetooth bug, have you tested this with bluetooth off?

Yeah, I'm familiar with the BT conflict with WiFi, spceifically the 2.4GHz band but unfortunately that bug only slowed Wifi speed and in any case I have BT turned off.

The Mulk · 24-01-2016 11:14am

What's the best ROM for battery life?
I've recently updated to 4.4.4 but seems a high drain, it is the reccomended build from jcsullins.
If anyone has a bgood one let me know,
Thanks

nc6000 · 24-01-2016 8:50pm

I'm using cm-11-20140913-SNAPSHOT-jcsullins-tenderloin and it's very stable. I did have Lollipop but it was very bad so went back to 4.4.4.

frash · 04-04-2016 2:14pm

Stumbled across this thread - glad to see it's still going.

I have the Touchpad and have some version of Android running on it - can't remember exactly as I haven't used it in ages.
Problem is I can't power it up as I've misplaced the original USB cable that came with it and any time I try a different one it says to use the original one.

Anyone else had this problem?

The Mulk · 04-04-2016 2:28pm

Do you have the original charger, if so you need a USB cable with charging and data transfer capabilities.
I think a blackberry cable is one I heard works fine
If you don't have the original charger you need a USB with 2Amp output. Phone chargers aren't powerful enough

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