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HP TouchPad refuses to die, receives Android 9 Pie custom ROMs
It’s been almost 8 years since HP launched the HP TouchPad tablet for $499,
saw how poorly it was selling and then quickly marked it down to $99 and
sold off remaining inventory in a fire sale… prompting bargain hunters to
snatch them up and start tinkering with them.
Since then, a small group of die-hard enthusiasts keep releasing new
software that makes these aging tablets surprisingly usable. The latest
example? You can now run Android 9 Pie on an HP TouchPad.
Keep in mind, the HP TouchPad didn’t ship with any version of Android pre-
installed. Instead it ran WebOS, an operating system originally designed for
Palm smartphones. But then HP acquired Palm, tried to launch a tablet,
failed spectacularly, and eventually sold off the assets to LG, which uses
WebOS for its smart TVs.
Anyway, it didn’t take long for hackers to start porting Android to the
system, and since then we’ve seen custom ROMs bring almost every version of
Android to the TouchPad.
A few days ago xda-developers forum member elginsk8r released a build of
Evervolv for the HP TouchPad that’s based on Android 9 Pie. The ROM is
based on the Android Open Source Project, but includes a few extra features
including an extended power menu and support for controlling music playback
using the tablet’s volume buttons.
The ROM doesn’t currently support Bluetooth or the camera on the HP
TouchPad, but elginsk8r says both are works in progress.
A day after the Evervolv Android 9 Pie ROM was released, it was joined by a
port of the Dirty Unicorns Android 9 Pie ROM.
You might have to jump through a few more hoops to install Android on a
tablet that runs WebOS than on one that shipped with Android, but it is
doable… and if you’ve already got a TouchPad tablet lying around that’s
running an early version of Android then it should be a little easier to
update — although you may still need to take some extra steps to make sure
the tablet’s disk partitions are set up for newer versions of Android.
Still, it’s kind of remarkable that this tablet continued to get software
updates close to a decade after it was discontinued, thanks to a group of
third-party developers.
It’s been almost 8 years since HP launched the HP TouchPad tablet for $499,
saw how poorly it was selling and then quickly marked it down to $99 and
sold off remaining inventory in a fire sale… prompting bargain hunters to
snatch them up and start tinkering with them.
Since then, a small group of die-hard enthusiasts keep releasing new
software that makes these aging tablets surprisingly usable. The latest
example? You can now run Android 9 Pie on an HP TouchPad.
Keep in mind, the HP TouchPad didn’t ship with any version of Android pre-
installed. Instead it ran WebOS, an operating system originally designed for
Palm smartphones. But then HP acquired Palm, tried to launch a tablet,
failed spectacularly, and eventually sold off the assets to LG, which uses
WebOS for its smart TVs.
Anyway, it didn’t take long for hackers to start porting Android to the
system, and since then we’ve seen custom ROMs bring almost every version of
Android to the TouchPad.
A few days ago xda-developers forum member elginsk8r released a build of
Evervolv for the HP TouchPad that’s based on Android 9 Pie. The ROM is
based on the Android Open Source Project, but includes a few extra features
including an extended power menu and support for controlling music playback
using the tablet’s volume buttons.
The ROM doesn’t currently support Bluetooth or the camera on the HP
TouchPad, but elginsk8r says both are works in progress.
A day after the Evervolv Android 9 Pie ROM was released, it was joined by a
port of the Dirty Unicorns Android 9 Pie ROM.
You might have to jump through a few more hoops to install Android on a
tablet that runs WebOS than on one that shipped with Android, but it is
doable… and if you’ve already got a TouchPad tablet lying around that’s
running an early version of Android then it should be a little easier to
update — although you may still need to take some extra steps to make sure
the tablet’s disk partitions are set up for newer versions of Android.
Still, it’s kind of remarkable that this tablet continued to get software
updates close to a decade after it was discontinued, thanks to a group of
third-party developers.
