| Root Hacking the HP Touchpad Tablet PC |  |
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| Written by David Ramsey | ||||
| Tuesday, 06 September 2011 | ||||
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Installing PrewareWe've activated developer mode, but since the HP App Catalog is still our only source of downloadable software, we can't install Preware directly. Fortunately, using the WebOS Quick Install Utility, you can install software onto the Touchpad from your desktop computer. You can get this utility from the Pre Central forums here. This is a Java utility, so you'll need Java 1.6 or later to run it. If your system doesn't have Java, you can download it from the same link. Once you have a working Java installation on your computer, connect your Touchpad to your computer with its included USB cable, however, do not set it to USB mode (just tap the Close button that will appear). Run the Quick Install utility simply by double-clicking on it (if this doesn't run the utility, then you don't have Java installed). You'll see the Quick Install Utility main screen in a second or two. If the Quick Install utility says that it can't find a suitable device, your Touchpad either isn't in developer mode, or is connected as a USB mass storage device. In the latter case, simply unplug your Touchpad from its USB cable, wait a few seconds, then plug it back in and make sure to click the Close button. 
Now, click the little globe icon above the image of the Pre smartphone. The utility will scan a number of online software repositories and display a list of available software. You can scroll down the list or simply type "Preware" in the seach box aboce the list. 
After you've selected Preware, just click the Install button to install it on your Touchpad. Once this process completes, you'll have a new portal for application software, and that's where we'll get the utilities we need to make the Touchpad a lot faster and smoother. We cover this process in detail with the next article in this series: Performance Hacking the HP Touchpad.
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Astute fans will recognize this as the date webOS was launched on the original Palm Pre.
After typing this the dev mode icon will appear. Just tap it and turn it on using the on/off slider. Enjoy!
There are efforts underway to port the Android OS to the Touchpad, but nothing as of yet.
thanks people!!
You run Android apps on an Android tablet: a tablet running some version of the Android operating system. Similarly, you run IOS apps on a tablet running Apple's iOS operating system (i.e. an iPad). There is no way to make tablet apps designed for one operating system run on another operating system, just as you can't run Mac applications on a Windows machine.
You should do all this because you CAN get non-HP apps once you do it. HP apps are the "officially approved" applications in HP's App Catalog. With Preware, you can download "homebrew" or unofficial applications, many of which are very useful. But they're still all WebOS applications that only run on a Touchpad.
There are several reasons you might want to root your tablet. The most common one is so you can install software other than what's available in the vendor's "application store": the Android Market, HP's App Catalog, or Apple's App Store:
That's what I gathered after reading the above statement. And since it seems as though I was mistaken, where do I find other apps since I'm not getting them from the HP\Apple\Android market?
thanks again.
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Thanks
The second article, "Performance Hacking the HP Touchpad", is up now. That's all I plan do do right now, but if you have other suggestions or questions, let me know.
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I did a search on my touchpad and there is already Preware on it that I can download for .99, is this the same version you can download from your pc?
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I'm using Mac pro
Thank