Thread: How To: Install Preware onto the HP TouchPad

Worked great! one question. Do I leave in Dev mode now permanently?

My device was recognized once, but not ever since. need help..

just followed the steps in this awesome article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-new...-touchpad/3866


now, some asked if developer mode needs to be turned off or left on...when you throw the card away (close) developer mode is still on. (if you redo the search for webos20090606 and open the icon).

should it be left on for the changes to be effective? or should it be turned off? please help!

I got stuck for a bit because of the first download link being a .zip instead of .jar file.

Once I switched to the second link everything was cool beans.

Thanks

Just installed.

Thanks for your detailed instructions!

This is fantastic, with the "fire sale" happening now I just ordered two of these bad boys. I can't wait to get them in hand and be able to use this to my advantage.

Thanks!!

Whenever I try installing preware or any other applications i get a "Unable to download" error. Any suggestions?

Parton the "newbieness"...but manage to turn on dev mode and connect it and Quick Install found the tablet but where can I find the PreWare IPK file I am suppose to install

::EDIT::

I clicked on the icon below the minus symbol, I am assuming this is the "Feeds Applications"



Stays stuck on the screen above saying "Downloading and parsing: http://ipkg.preware.org/feeds/precentral/Packages.gz"

My question is, can I just install the file like I've been doing using the plus symbol and adding the file I downloaded from get.preware.org (org.webosinternals.preware_1.7.0_arm.ipk)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks for the tut

I did it and it worked. Nice

Thanks

Im with Chino, in the same problem, although mine didn't freeze, im assuming that globe thingy is the Feeds were supposed to click? Also what do we do after clicking that? is it really installed?

Thanks for instructions

I tried the file i got from get.preware.org and I am working @ 100% thanks to imposta also

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated.

great tutorial. Thank!

Got it going perfectly with the instructions. Can't wait to try this out. Thanks!

sweet, thanks for the tip

thanks for the links