HPTouchPad:Installing CM-9

Last Updated:' 06/21/2013 By: BillM

This page describes how to install CyanogenMod 9 onto an HP TouchPad. It refers to file and directory names found in the previous step: Configuring webOS.

Prepare the TouchPad

• Boot the TouchPad to webOS.
• Connect the TouchPad to the PC with the provided USB cable.
• A USB notification window will pop up on the TouchPad display.
• Select USB Drive mode.
• The TouchPad will be assigned a device drive number by Windows Explorer.
• Windows Explorer will create a window open to the TouchPad's root directory.

Create the install directory

Create a directory cminstall in the webOS root directory. Precise spelling and case is essential.

Copy the four .zip files from the PC's cminstall.dir folder into the TouchPad /cminstall directory:

• moboot_038-tenderloin
• cm-9-20130429-NIGHTLY-tenderloin
• update-CWM6_tenderloin-20121215
• update-gapps-ics-20120429-signed

Create the backup recovery directory

• Create a directory clockworkmod in the webOS root directory.
• Create a directory backup in the newly created /clockworkmod directory
• Copy the correct archive to the /clockworkmod/backup directory.

Eject the TouchPad, then disconnect the USB cable from the TouchPad

Reboot and Install

Reboot the TouchPad into USB (recovery) mode

• Hold PowerOn button and Volume UP simultaneously until the large white USB symbol appears on the TouchPad display.
• Connect TouchPad to PC with provided USB cable. The PC will give a tone indicating the connection is made.

On the PC, open a Windows Command execution window

• cd C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc
• Excute the following command:
  • novacom boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller3
• The prompt will return within a second or two.
• The TouchPad display will change to the HP logo and then immediately to the Double Penguin display mode.
• Screens of text will scroll by while the installation proceeds.
• The TouchPad will reboot in five minutes or so.
• Disconnect the TouchPad from the PC as it boots.

Moboot should present multiple boot selections, and it should default to CyanogenMod 9 after a timeout of about five seconds. Allow the TouchPad to boot to CM-9. It takes two or more minutes to reboot.

Proceed to configure the CM-9 environment.