HPTouchPad:PC Setup

Last Updated:' 07/01/2013 By: BillM

This page describes how to prepare a PC running Windows 7 prior to installing CyanogenMod 9 onto an HP TouchPad.

NOTE: This setup procedure should need to be done only once on the host system. Once these steps have been done, you can omit this procedure and go directly to Installing CM-9

The previous step to prepare the HP TouchPad was Configuring webOS.

PC Preparation

Install Novacom driver

The Novacom Installer can be obtained at:

• http://www.reverendkyle.com/index.php/articles/161-universal-novacom-driver-installer-fixed

Download the one appropriate to the PC architecture.

• http://downloads.help.palm.com/opensource/novacom/novacom-win-64.tgz

Running the Novacom installer will create a folder Palm, Inc in C:\Program Files

DO NOT REINSTALL Novacom if the folder C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc\ already exists and is populated,

Download Install and Uninstall executables

Download ACMEInstaller3 and ACMEUninstaller from web sites:

• http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouchpad/tools/ACMEInstaller3
• http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouchpad/tools/ACMEUninstaller

Verify MD5 checksums against the values provided on the download page.

Move ACMEInstaller3 and ACMEUninstaller to C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc\

Download the CM-9 Files

• Prepare a folder to contain the four .zip files that will be copied to the target TouchPad. I assigned it the name:

../cminstall.dir/

• Download the moboot .zip file, about 186 KB
  • http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouchpad/testing/moboot_038-tenderloin.zip

• Download the ClockworkMod6 .zip file, about 4 MB
  • http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouchpad/recovery/update-CWM6_tenderloin-20121215.zip

• Download the CM-9 nightly build .zip file that is appropriate to the HP TouchPad (Tenderloin). This build is the April 24, 2013 NIGHTLY. The file is about 125 MB.
  • http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=tenderloin&type=nightlycm-9-20130429-NIGHTLY-tenderloin.zip

• Download the Google Apps archive. This build is from April 24, 2012 which is about 50 MB.
  • http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip

Verify the MD5 checksums against the values provided on each download page.

Move these four .zip files to the ./cminstall.dir/ folder so they can be copied to the TouchPad in one step.

Locate the CM-9 configuration archive you will download later to the TouchPad. The current version of the file is on Google Drive, named clockworkmod.zip and is larger than 360 MB. Download the .zip file to your host system and extract from it. It will create a directory named 2013-05-16.15.13.12/ which is the format for a CM-9 archive.

The next step is Installing CM 9.