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During installation of CyanogenMod, sometimes the HP Touchpad is "bricked", meaning ... it won't boot into WebOS or anything else. The tablet may look like this: | During installation of CyanogenMod, sometimes the HP Touchpad is "bricked", meaning ... it won't boot into WebOS or anything else. The tablet may look like this: | ||
[[File:brickedtouchpad. | [[File:brickedtouchpad.png|none|150px|"Bricked" Touchpad]] | ||
To recover, try these steps | To recover, try these steps | ||
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Thanks, Josh M., for finding WebOS Doctor during the CHOICE install! | Thanks, Josh M., for finding WebOS Doctor during the CHOICE install! | ||
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Revision as of 11:25, 22 August 2013
During installation of CyanogenMod, sometimes the HP Touchpad is "bricked", meaning ... it won't boot into WebOS or anything else. The tablet may look like this:
To recover, try these steps
- Go to http://ws.hpwebos.com/webosdoctor/sorry.htm
- Click HP TouchPad
- Click Login to Palm Profile
- Use the e-mail address and password from the setup (koc.hptp.choiceXX@gmail.com, kockoc12).
- Click Sign In.
- Click Device Options.
- Click Install WebOS Doctor.
- Open the downloaded file and Accept and security requests.
- Follow the instructions on the screen (mostly clicking next).
Note: The WebOS Doctor only seems to work on windows 8. I couldn't get it to work on windows 8 or Linux.
Thanks, Josh M., for finding WebOS Doctor during the CHOICE install!
