Want a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich on your $99 HP Touchpad? Don’t worry, the CyanogenMod team has got your covered. An Alpha 0 build of CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0) has been made available for everyone to try out for the HP Touchpad. Before you get all excited, you should know that there are a number of things that do not work with this zero alpha. Below is a list of things that still not functioning on the CM9 Alpha 0 for the HP TouchPad:
- Hardware video (OMX) – this means no Netflix and only non-HD videos work in YouTube
- Audio isn’t working right; microphone doesn’t work well
- Camera doesn’t work
- Market filters prevent certain apps from being installed
- Titanium Backup crashes the kernel
- Most of the hardware problems from CM7 still exists in CM9
- Gapps intended for CM7/Gingerbread will not work in CM9/ICS
In addition to the release of this alpha build, the CyanogenMod team has also released the source code for CM9 for the TouchPad. So, if you’re a coder and are interested in helping squash some bugs, you can do so now. AS always, the CM team has done a great job with getting Android running on the HP TouchPad and we all look forward to a stable release of CM9 for the TouchPad.
If you’re interested in running CM9 on your Touchpad, head over to RootzWiki for complete instructions. Remember that there are some risks involved and that not everything will be working right. If you’re a risk taker, head over to RootzWiki for complete instructions.
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Source: RootzWiki
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