HP TouchPad gets Android Jelly Bean via CM10 Preview Release

If you were lucky enough to get an HP TouchPad this time last year during their “fire sale” for $99 (16GB) or the $149 (32GB) your Android luck hasn’t run out yet. Remember, Android first came to the HP TouchPad via CM7, Gingerbread. A few months later, Android 4.0 came to the HP TouchPad, bringing a true tablet UI to the 10″ popular slate. The CyanogenMod development community continues to grace the HP TouchPad, this time with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean showing up via an unofficial CM10 preview release.

This preview released is exactly what it says it is. A preview of things to come. WiFi seems to be working great and many apps are working as you can see from the demo video below. As of right now, audio does not work and you cannot play videos via YouTube or from the Gallery. However, you can play videos via the MX Player app (without audio). Besides those minor hiccups, Jelly Bean is buttery smooth on the TouchPad as advertised and Google Now even works!

If you’re itching to pull the trigger to give this preview release of Jelly Bean, CM10 a try, here’s how you can get started:

The following is assumed you are familiar with installing CM7 or CM9 on your HP TouchPad. Please proceed at your own risk.
PLEASE DO A NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE PROCEEDING.

Download the following 4 files:

update-cm-10-20120801-UNOFFICIAL-tenderloin-not_ready_yet

GApps 7-26-2012

Modboot 0.3.5

ClockworkMod or TWRP 2.1.1

Place them in your cminstall directory on your HP TouchPad (the same directory you used to put Android on your HP Touchpad originally.)

Download the NEW ACMEInstaller v3 for CM10

ACMEInstaller v3

Connect your Touchpad to your computer via USB cable.

Reboot your TouchPad into the HP Recovery.

Launch a command prompt window. (CMD)

Navigate to the location where your ACMEINstaller3 file is located.

Type: novacom.exe boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller3

Your HP TouchPad will begin installing the CM10 preview release.

YouTube and RootzWiki user RolandDeschain79 has provided the following demonstration video and hands on installation tutorial for all to see. Thanks Roland!

Happy flashing!

Telus Samsung Galaxy Note gets a taste of Jelly Bean goodness

by Bogdan Bele, 2 weeks ago

The Telus Samsung Galaxy Note is finally getting its Jelly Bean upgrade, as the carrier has promised not long ago, so good news for you if you’re on Telus and you own the device. According…

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1408432386 Joe Innecken

Is the S4 gonna run Key Lime Pie
- http://www.facebook.com/duh.koda.1 Duh Koda
  
  If the S3 is getting it, then obviously the S4 will get it. But if you mean shipping with KLP, no, It’s shipping with (what is as of now) the latest version of Android, 4.2.2.
RaptorOO7

So much for a flagship phone, what a joke. The GS3 came with ICS 4.0, updated to JB 4.1.2 and Samsung has already publicly stated it WILL get KLP 5.0. Suckers buy HTC.
- LAKAME
  
  The Galaxy Note came with android 2.3, was updated to android 4.0, then 4.1, and probably will be updated to 4.2 :D
- amine ELouakil
  
  lol! they are talking about the One X, not the One, the One X came out before the GS3 got updated to android 4.1 before the GS3 in many major markets and it’s getting 4.2 most likely before the GS3, not to mention that the said report is not just some random rumors, (posted by those samsung blogers ?) anyways you need to check your facts before posting something stupid.
  - http://www.facebook.com/duh.koda.1 Duh Koda
    
    Even the S2 has 4.2 Jellybean already, pretty sad to say that a phone 3 years old has 4.2 and a 1 year old phone doesn’t even have it yet.
http://www.facebook.com/duh.koda.1 Duh Koda

This is why I will never buy an HTC phone. They have terrible support for all of their devices.
- http://twitter.com/danmcsw danmcsw
  
  I’m with you on this.
- geospa300
  
  Bad luck for you because I picked up my new HTC one and it’s unbelievably good.
carlisimo

That’s a photo of a One S. I have one of those, on T-Mobile, and I’m not convinced it’s even going to get 4.1. (The One S everywhere else in the world has, but it’ll probably end there.)

I didn’t expect any updates so I’m not bitter about it… but it’s impossible not to notice that Samsung and (unsurprisingly) Motorola have gotten much better about providing them.
Data1001

Does this apply to the HTC One X+, as well?
KC

This is timely news. I was going to buy the HTC One. Now that I know how HTC treats its customers, I’m now set on getting the Motorola-X instead.

But my wife and daughter have the HTC One X. They’re really disappointed about this.

Thanks for this news reminder on how HTC sucks!
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1059415746 Balint Udvarhelyi

Experience tells me that 4.2.2 is the last update for the One X and One S. Updating these phones to KLP would signal a very positive change at HTC. The forums are full of HTC users complaining about late or even missing updates (and lack of removable battery/memory expansion).