[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Well, after reading all the discussion here is this thread and the information from TeamWin, I want to offer up a few take aways. First up, if one owns a WebOS only TouchPad, and wants to install this Rom, there currently does not exist a method like ACMEInstaller3 to do so. The only way I see one can do it is to first install Moboot and the data media version of ClockworkMod using ACME3. Then boot to WebOS and after installing Preware and Tailor change the Android partitions to suit the install of this Rom.

OH, and what about using Tailor to change the partitions sizes? No one to date has made it clear that when using Tailor, the checking and repairing of a particular partition may take numerous tries and a very long time before it finally reports all is well. In fact, I still don't think it's clear that each time before one makes a change, the check file system check has to be run. My hat is off to RolandDeschain79 for creating a video that gives a user at least a fighting chance to use Tailor successfully.

Now here is where one runs into their first dilemma. How much memory to dedicate to the /data partition. According to Milaq, as much as possible. That means the WebOS USB drive will be left with virtually nothing to work with. I suppose that's fine, most who install Android don't use WebOS anyway. But if one does need or wants to use WebOS, how crippled will it be with virtually no drive space to use?

But now comes the second dilemma. HP will shortly be abandoning all WebOS devices by turning off the servers that supports them including the TouchPad. How does one go about activating and setting up WebOS, installing Preware and Tailor now? Why isn't there some kind of effort to write ACMEInstaller4 that takes care of all of this? Again, my hat is off to Gradular and codycoyote for getting at least a flashable zip working that changes the /system partition size to 512MB. That still does not take care of the other partition size changes. And a new ACMEInstaller would have to allow for the user choosing the particular partition sizes. Not everyone wants to dedicate all their old FAT storage partition space to the new SD card partition.

Now what about the user who already has Preware and Tailor installed? Once this new Rom is installed, according to what I have read, Windows doesn't recognize ext4 because it is not a FAT storage partition. So how does one go about copying files to their new fangled SD card? What about all the files and apps that were installed or residing on the old FAT storage partition? What happens to them when one shrinks the old FAT storage partition/USB drive down to virtually nothing? And don't start suggesting one use ADB to push files to the TouchPad. The average user barely understands how to use Tailor, a menu driven app. Installing ADB and typing ADB commands is not an option for most.

One definitely cannot use TWRP to install this Rom. It's still not clear to me whether one can still use TWRP to maintain Android once one has installed this Rom. For sure, be careful on what version you try to use. Anything before 2.3.2.0 is a no no! And it's been reported versions after 2.4.1.0 don't necessarily play well with the TouchPad.

The only two benefits I have found is no more 50 app limit, or at least that's what the TeamWin folks think. One can install as many apps as there is space since the /data partition will contain virtually all the space that use to be dedicated to the FAT storage partition. Secondly, no FAT limitations on file size. So if you have the space, those big old HD movies will now work.

And just for the record, I'll say this again, This is not meant as a slam about this Rom. It's meant to elicit discussion and hopefully solutions to some of the issues I have mentioned. There may be other issues that I have forgotten to mention or not read about yet. If you know of one, this is the place to bring it up.

---------- Post added at 03:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:08 PM ----------

I think you mean the /system partition. I see no reason why taking away some of the memory you moved there should harm anything as long as you don't try to move more than what is free. I would suspect that Tailor will warn you if you are moving too much and probably not even allow you to do so if harm would be caused. You do have a Nandroid backup made just in case something unexpected happens?