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hey everybody its michael with pocketnow.com today we're gonna do a quick step-by-step run-through of how to install Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the HP TouchPad tablet now some of you might remember the touchpad was going to be the spearhead of HP's big push into the tablet market with the operating system they inherited from Palm called webOS when HP cancelled those plans they put the touchpad on fire sale for ridiculously low prices and the rush was on to port the more powerful Android tablet platform to the device and thanks for the efforts of the CyanogenMod team it's now possible to run Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad let's see how now since we're focusing on an OS 10 install of Android on the HP TouchPad today what we're going to need is an Apple Macintosh computer the HP TouchPad itself a USB cable and some good thoughts so what we want to do first is drop the touchpad into developer mode and how we do this is by entering just type and inputting the Konami code for all you old-school gamers that should be very familiar up down up down left right left right B a start we type that in and developer mode pops up tap the developer mode enabler and we're prompted for a password we can skip that in very short time we're dropped into developer mode and the touchpad is unlocked back to the Mac we can hop on to the Java website make sure our Java install is up-to-date if it's not software update takes care of that for us next step is going to be hopping over to webOS nation there's a thread we're gonna drop into the video here we want to download the latest version of the webOS quick install software the Mac will warn you that it's not safe go ahead and say it's safe and here we are next step we're gonna hop on over to routes wiki dot-com and drop the URL in there for you as well this is where we're gonna grab the software necessary for the rest of the install scroll on down to the download section on this page we're going to grab most of the files here in the list we want to make sure not to forget the Google Apps package because a Google tablet is not terribly useful without the Google Apps that it comes with pop the USB cable into the touchpad and the computer touchpad tells us there's a USB cable connected do we want to go into USB mode yes indeed we do HP TouchPad pops up on our desktop as an accessible device we're gonna create a new folder I'm gonna name the folder CM install and clean it up just to get it out of the way then we're going to select those four files that we just downloaded in the previous step making sure not to forget the Google Apps ICS package and drag them over to the CM install folder that we just created on the touchpad next we're going to eject the touchpad from our computer however we want to make sure that we're not unplugging the touchpad just yet we need to leave it plugged in back on the computer and we're gonna scroll through our filesystem find folder called opt then under opt we're gonna find Nova and we're gonna find bin and we find a bunch of files in the bin folder that's good news next we're gonna do is drag the Acme installer to file to that folder turning our attention back to the touchpad we're gonna go to our settings menu and find our restart options in the device info screen there's a lot of reset options here we're going to do a standard restart vote this time when we do it we're gonna hold down the volume key the volume up button while we do it so let's do that hold down volume up press restart and we'll give the device a second to process that request we get the spinning HP or above thought and we should be provided with a large USB icon there it is next we'll head back to the computer open up terminal and we're going to change the directory that we're working in terminal to the directory that we just created now if you don't frequently jam with the console Cowboys in cyberspace if you like me in other words you're gonna get a lot of errors in terminal as you figure out how the hell to do this kind of very rudimentary code work particularly if you're new to the Mac relatively new to the Mac and you grew up in das but a quick series of googling and a little bit of trial and error finally got me to a place where I could get some results now we're going to hit enter watch the HP logo come back and boom code lots and lots and lots of code the touchpad is gonna do this for a little while you're gonna see a lot of stuff flying by on the screen here it's gonna take a while it's gonna pause at points where it just kind of sits there and stares at you and get a little blinky cursor there and it doesn't really do anything leave it alone don't unplug it don't move it don't look at it funny just let it be and then it'll start again you can get a little goofy if you want and it'll start inflating all these files and then we see something very familiar we see the Ice Cream Sandwich multi-coloured Google rainbow dynamic shape explosion it's good news because we've got Android ICS now running on the HP TouchPad but our work isn't over yet we want to power the tablet off because we have to make sure that we are getting all those Google apps that we were so focused on installed properly and when it reboots it's going to give us the option to boot into webOS boot into Android or do some other options here we want to boot into clockworkmod then want to select install file from zip we're going to apply the update from the zip file on quote the SD card go to the top option there we're using the volume keys and the HP TouchPad single center button to select options we're going to scroll down to the folder called CM install we're going to choose a zip to apply and it's going to ask us to confirm cannot be undone we select yes go back to work once it's through we'll just go back select reboot system now the top option it'll come back we'll select boot into CyanogenMod so that Android loads again on the touchpad and before you know it Android will optimize those applications that were in stalled in that package and we have ICS running again on the touchpad but this time with the proper suite of Google Apps that's what we call awesome well that's it for today's walkthrough once again I'm Michael Fisher with pocketnow.com I want to give a quick shout out though to the folks that simple help dotnet without whom this walkthrough probably would not have been possible they have some excellent information which we use a lot of in this and also stay tuned for some reviews of Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad as I spend more time with this device and more time with this build of CyanogenMod in the meantime leave us some comments let us know what you liked or didn't like be sure to give us a thumbs up if you did like the video and stay tuned for more it's pocketnow.com thank you