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Android on HP Touchpad is Here and Coming Soon to You

Posted on the 24 August 2011 by Tftb @TFTB

UPDATE 5 : Alpha Release of CyanogenMod for TouchPad

UPDATE 4  : CyanogenMod 7 update brings WiFi, sound, accelerometer and Android Marketplace Apps support.

UPDATE 3 : Team-Touchdroid gets multitouch drivers for Android on Touchpad

UPDATE 2 :A team of dedicated TouchPad hackers, calling itself Team-Touchdroid, is now showing off a dual-boot configuration with Android 2.3.5.

UPDATE  1 : The real working Android on HP Touhpad by reputed Android mod community.

HP Touchpads are selling like hot cake everywhere. Amazon  listed HP Touchpad as #1 selling product for  the last two days. And almost all retailer websites which are selling HP Touchpad are getting overloaded by tablet enthusiasts.  All websites are going out of stock within minutes of listing it at the fire sale price of $99.

Android on HP Touchpad is here and Coming soon to you

If you still haven’t got one and want to get, you are try your luck in few days. HP just announced that more HP Touchpads would be out in market and to all retailers within few days.

Besides being a cheap dual core tablet and having the discontinued WebOS pre-installed, the major reason why people are buying this tablet is, its ability to run Android or even iOS.

Within few hours Android communities started buzzing with a team of developers who announced that they would be working on porting Android Gingerbread or Honeycomb on this tablet soon.  There even is a $1500 bounty for anyone who can get a working version of Android OS on the touchpad.

Videos started surfacing internet which claim to have successfully run Android on HP’s most sold tablet.

Alpha Release of CyanogenMod for TouchPad

For more details check RootzWiki

CyanogenMod 7 update brings WiFi, sound, accelerometer and Android Marketplace Apps support.

WiFi Working.
Accelerometer Working.
Android Marketplace working.
Everything Running Smooth and fine.

Team-Touchdroid did it again : HP TouchPad gets multitouch drivers for Android

A Team of dedicated TouchPad hackers, calling itself  Team-Touchdroid

CyanogenMod Team Gets Android Running on HP TouchPad

CyanogenMod team has successfully ported a CyanogenMod 7 firmware to the TouchPad.

For those who don’t know Cyanogen, it is a Custom Android firmware based on  the source code for Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Cyanogen team has been known for their brilliant custom ROM they developed which build a very big community of Android users and enthusiasts installing Cyanogen ROMs on their devices.


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