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Tudor Davies

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HP Touchpad

Sunday, 11th Sep 2011 Posted @ 18:59

I was lucky enough to snag an HP Touchpad for £89 recently and it was delivered on Monday.

It didnt take me long to start playing around with it :)

First up was installing Preware - I followed the instructions from webOSbuzz.
Next up was installing patches from within Preware. I have the following installed:

EOM Overlord Monitoring
Add Download Link Option
Advanced Reset Options
Faster Card Animations HYPER Version
Increase Touch Sensitivity And Smoothness 10
Muffle System Logging
Private Browsing
Quiet powerd Messages
Remove Dropped Packet Logging
Remove Tap Ripple
Unset CFQ IO Scheduler
Unthrottle Download Manager

Next up was a new kernel:

UberKernel
Govnah

Then, some application patches and applications:

UberCalendar HD
Internalz Pro
Xecutah (which includes XServer and XTerm)
OpenSSH
Kalemsoft Media Player

Using UberKernel and Govnah means I am able to overclock the Touchpad to 1.5Ghz - making it more snappy that it already was. Several of the patches disable some of the effects and logging that slow webOS down a touch. The UberCalendar HD patch makes the calendar app even more usable and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
UberKernel also added CIFS support, so with a little editing of /etc/fstab, (through the use of Xecutah and XTerm) I am now able to mount shares from my file server and Kalemsoft Media Player can see them and play the AVI files directly :)
On the whole, it was a fantastic piece of kit for £89 and with a bit of fiddling (maybe 2 hours max) I now have a blisteringly fast tablet with a slew of extras that suit my way of working.

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