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[TouchPad Development] akz007:
Hi Guys awesome too see the work still going, thank you!! just had a question what's the most stable rom for the touchpad at the moment?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
I would suggest you go read the first post!

NT
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
I'll keep this log. Currently working on 6.0 but this log will help with that once I get into BT. This damn audio is kicking my ass. Nothing in logs so its a shot in the dark to try and locate the issue. Plus with only nuplayer is making it a little harder need to finally learn nuplayer code now 8)
[TouchPad Development] vmahe53:
?U people working on 6!!!!!! I think you people are crazy....

thank you for your work on touch pad.
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
I tried installing this last night but kept getting invalid zip errors no matter what version of gapps I tried. Installed a different ROM w/no issues but would like to get Evervolv going on the TP. I search for "invalid zip" and found no posts related, any suggestions on what to do?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
This is happening through recovery?

NT
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
I should have specified that I was using Touchpad Toolbox for the install, and its validation of the gapps zips is where it failed (I tried all of the zips listed on GitHub following the link on the 1st page). This was attempted on a previously stock TP that was wiped using the Toolbox.
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
The toolbox doesn't support more recent gapps I believe after 5.0 not supported ATM
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Ah, so that could explain it since all the gapps on GitHub are 5.1. However, the link is on the first page and it states those are the gapps being used along with the Evervolv ROM (unless I'm reading that wrong).

Can anyone point me to a zip that will work? Thanks again...
[TouchPad Development] EricBlade:
Make sure you're using the latest version of the Toolbox? The one prior had some issues with it's filename based filters.
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
I used v42 from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2756314
[TouchPad Development] fraydz:
v42 is the issue (zip validation). proceed exactly the same with v41 and you should be good to go !
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Great, thanks for the info. I'll try v41 later today and see what happens.
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Well, v41 doesn't work any better. At first it didn't like both the gapps and TWRP zips. So I loaded different ones only to have it start failing for a whole different reason. The latest failure message is this:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "usr/tptoolbox/bin/tt_izip_check", line 337, in <module>

fip.partse(kvs.key, kvs.val)

There's 3 more entries similar to that, then KeyError: 'ROM'. I've tried 4 different ROM zips and they all do the same thing. What could be causing this?

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Went back to CM11 for now until I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
Since you are on cm11 you don't need to use toolbox unless you need to resize your system partition. Install the custom recovery from the first post then install lollipop. You will need to do a factory reset when switching which a custom recovery will do
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Thanks Flintman, I'll mess with it more on Friday.
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Okay, so I did a wipe then mounted the TP and loaded Evervolv 5.1 and got a zip error trying to install it. So then I loaded 4.0 and the latest GApps and they seemed to install just fine. However when I boot up there's no Play Store, etc. I'm not prompted to enter my GMail info or anything like that, so no way to get things set up. So it seems I'm going back to again CM11 :(
[TouchPad Development] Abaddon:
seems like gapps weren't installed correctly. try wiping /system then reflash rom + gapps
[TouchPad Development] Paul1965:
Yeah, for whatever reason I couldn't get gapps to work at all. Tried wiping, tried flashing them after installing the ROM and they just wouldn't work. Google tells me I'm not the only one with this problem either, so I'll stick with CM11 for now.
[TouchPad Development] Trainer_H:
Which kind of logcat do you that i can show you my autorotation didn't work?

There are 4 different options.
[TouchPad Development] tpuserhp:
Hi flintman, Im running Marshmallow on my nexus 7 2012. It had a problem of no sound. The developer fixed with the following:

In audiopolicy conf force all yo 44100 and not 48000 mhz

Not sure if the above info is applicable to TP?
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
Thanks but tried already. I even rewrote some of the hal and it just cuts out, trying to dig through thousands of line of code to figure where its getting locked up. Somewhat close, i get it lasting longer now but still not there yet.
[TouchPad Development] Trainer_H:
I found the rotation problem. Only x and z axis are working. The y axis have a problem. Does anyone know how to fix it?
[TouchPad Development] rfoster2009:
I so appreciate all of your hard work with this!
[TouchPad Development] chmcarro:
EDIT: removed, wrong forum
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Hey Flintman, Don't know if you are aware that J.C. Sullins has released a Lollipop build today. Hope that some of the things that he as done with it will help you out. It's posted here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=43605. Sorry, don't know where he keeps his github.

NT
[TouchPad Development] lepa71:
Does camera work in skype on this ROM?

Thanks
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Hi,

i am trying to install the "ev_tenderloin-5.1.1-testing-2015.10.02.zip" in the first post but I'm having all kinds of trouble!

I installed "cm-11-20150612-SNAPSHOT-jcsullins-tenderloin" via the tptoolbox 42 and everything went smooth, but when I reboot to recovery to flash this rom it keeps giving me an error (status 7) see pic attached!.

Can I flash this rom from tptoolbox 42? Which gapps do I use for tptoolbox to not get errors?

Thanks
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
The version of twrp you are using. You will probably need the updated twrp in the first post as well. I dont think 2.7.1 had support for lollipop in it.
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Keenan, you might also want to "test" the zip file to be sure it is complete and the checksum is accurate by using most any zip archive program/app.

Also you might want to up the system partition size to 800MB minimum. Personally, I bumped it up to 1GB, since coming releases are growing every day and rebuilding foundation partitions can be disruptive, so I try to do this as seldom as possible. Use the tp toolbox if you need/choose to do this.

I've flashed this version of LL on one TP and it does work, with only a small number of known minor issues at this time.
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Thanks guys! Redownloaded the zip and it installed fine! ;)

Just a quick question.. Is everyone experiencing slow and jerky youtube playback? Sometimes the video just pauses while the audio keeps going..

Is there any fix for this?
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Keenan, I don't usually use the youtube app, but let me take a few minutes to load it on the LL tablet to try...

Update: I viewed several, short and long, without any lags or delays. I tried pausing/restarting... Acted normal. Buffering ahead looked normal. Have you checked your WiFi link? Is the current WiFi channel clear and strong? Are there many other WiFi routers nearby (neighbors) that could clog the channels? Do you have other devices using WiFi, like laptops, printers, phones, etc? There are utilities for the pc that sniff the WiFi channels for signal strength/usage, but in Android environment there are many choices. Look for WiFi Analyzer by farproc. It helps determine which WiFi channels are used by neighbors and suggests alternate better channels to use. Are you experiencing other apps that have network issues like this?

On another thought stream, newly flashed images may be a little sluggish at first while LL collects/builds everything. So it can be very busy. Letting it rest a while to catch up, maybe a few hours, and try YouTube again. There is also an app called 3c that let's you look deeply into all aspects of the Android and change the configurations. Perhaps the cpu , network and task monitoring tools would reveal something interesting.

Mike
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Hi Mike,

Thanks for your input and advice.. Are you using this rom with the latest youtube downloaded from the play store?

I think youtube defaults to 480p which does seem fine now, but 720p is very flaky!
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Yes, Keenan, I simply loaded YouTube from the play store yesterday for the first time. I didn't see any settings to control the resolution. I supposed that YT sensed my device resolution and fed me the best they could offer. So I retested YT with different clips, modern color/old bw, and got smooth results in both small inset frame and full screen. I'm still seeing good read ahead caching in progress. Are you running anything else on TP that could be excessively using the network or cpu? It seems to work fine on my device at this time. To confirm, I'm running Lollipop 5.1.1 dated 10/3/2015, with YouTube 10.49.59.
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Hi Mike,

Do you mean Lollipop 10/2/2015? I think that is the last rom available to download in this thread..

Do you apply any other performance tweaks or overclocks?
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Yes, sorry. 10/2/2015
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Hi Mike,

Thanks for all the input so far. Another quick question, what is the expected battery drain in sleep? I charged the tablet full last night and and disconnected the charged at 10pm making sure no apps were running in the background. by 8am this morning the battery level had dropped to 78%. Is that normal?
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Battery consumption hasn't been mentioned lately. So let's see where we stand now. To test the battery stress and drain I started two tablets below with full (or nearly so) charge. Then I disconnected all external power,* started the battery monitoring/recording and forced each to sleep mode for one hour. At the end of the hour of quiet time I woke up the device to inspect the saved historical results during sleep mode.* I next used the tablet continuously for another 30 minutes. Then I took a screen shot of the results (see below).

From this information we can surmise that sleep mode consumes about 0.4%/hour, a drain of approximately -43-48 mA on average with Lollipop 5.1.1 and approximately -23-25 mA with Marshmallow. The drain rate goes up with full usage on both versions to - 765 mA (LL) and - 915 mA (MM).

In sleep mode a full charge should last at least 9.5 days on LL and about 5 days on MM. Active use timing would vary with the apps being employed,* network activity, Blue Tooth use,* ambient temperature, screen intensity, etc.

Did I error in assessing these results below? At least this is what I'm experiencing with my devices at this time.

Marshmallow 6.0.1 below and Lollipop 5.1.1 last.
[TouchPad Development] shumash:
All 3.4 kernel ROM's have similar usage, 5.1.1, 3.0 kernel usage shown:

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[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
I am having a bit of a hard time with battery drain. I fully charged the touchpad to 100% and installed the latest Jsullins CM11 rom via the TP Toolbox to see if KitKat was any better.

After the first reboot I reflashed the A6 firmware

Booted, set up Google play and installed:

* Chrome

* Netflix

* Kodi

* Youtube

* Battery Monitor Widget (I set up the widget according to my battery code on the box and rebooted)

* I have set wifi to off while sleeping and unticked optimize.

* I have disabled location services.

* I have also done the old battery drain work around by disabling the "wake" and "keep awake" states of google play services.

Now, after letting the touchpad sleep for an hour I can see that it drains at -317mA while in sleep. What else could cause the high battery drain?

Thanks for reading my ramblings..
[TouchPad Development] Ohjustdale1963:
I'm running 3 HP touchpads with kk 4.4.4 on them
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
Can u get some logs i can look at? Kernel and logcat. Sounds like yoi have an internal issue if you are experiencing this across different roms
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Tethering to cell phone locks WiFi ON

I just tried to tether my Lollipop Touchpad to my cell phone, as no WiFi was available. It worked well as expected. Too well it seems.

I'm using a old Windows Phone 8 through AT&T with their latest firmware flashed in November. It's a little slower than the home wired network, but usable. When I finished my work session, I turned Off the WiFi on tablet to save on the phone data plan. But it came back on immediately and stayed connected. The only way I found to disconnect the Tethering was to turn Off the phone end of the link and stop the WiFi on the tablet. Otherwise it was tenaciously effective at keeping the link going!

Is this an unadvertised non-stop feature? Has anyone else experienced this? Is there another method for breaking the tether link?

Update: by tinkering a bit with this over the last day or so I found I could turn Off the WiFi on the tablet, then turn On the Internet sharing on the phone and voila the tablet turns the WiFi back On in two seconds by itself magically. I don't understand this at all. If I turn the WiFi radio Off, shouldn't it stay off? This leads me to wonder about security/hackers/identity theft intrusions / etc. I seem to have no control over my device in this situation. This seems to suggest a more urgent look into this, Flintman.
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Could anyone venture a guess as to why I now keep getting errors when I try to clean install this rom with tptb 41?

Did a complete data reset, copied files to ttinstall folder and unmount...

Then error no matter what gapps or recovery! Tried redownloading the rom again, but still no go..

Any ideas?
[TouchPad Development] Ohjustdale1963:
Try different rom
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
One, try using TPTB v42. Two, the install is failing because TPTB does not like the Gapps file you are using. Try the Lollipop Base Gapps Package from this link: http://xdaforums.com/android/software/app-minimal-gapps-gapps-lp-20150107-1-t2997368

Once you get your install done then if you still want the gapps 5.1-arm that TPTB does not like, then you can flash it via recovery.

NT
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Thanks NT,

It's not that I want those, it's that they are the gapps linked to in the first post in this thread :(

I'm not being ungreatful, but it would help if the developers give a tiny hint in relation to tptb installs..

I'll try the ones you posted..
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
It was J.C. Sullins that made us aware that it was the gapps that was causing installs using TPTB to fail. That link I gave you is what he suggested. He has said that he intends to correct TPTB to check the gapps in a different way. Some gapps builders leave out a file that TPTB looks for.

NT
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Thanks for all your help! The gapps you linked to did it!

I compared antutu results between KitKat (3.0 kernel) and this rom with both running at 1.7Ghz. KitKat scores around 12000 and this rom just above 18000. Could the kernel really give 50% performance increase?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Flintman should be able to answer this. It's my understanding that 3.0 kernels are better on battery usage and 3.4 kernels are snappier. However, by the amount your tests show, I'm not sure. It might be something he did to tweak this particular Rom rather than the particular kernel version.

NT
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Thanks NT

I did some testing today because enen though these KK and JB roms run great, I do find the visual effects of opening apps or windows a bit choppy and jerky! Sadly all the roms feel this way no matter what kernel they are based on.

Could you possibly run Antutu 6 on your CM11 and post a screenshot of the results?
[TouchPad Development] jcsullins:
FWIW, here are the Antutu results from my latest CM-12.1 snapshot (dated 20151226) that uses 3.0 kernel: 20222.
[TouchPad Development] keenan316:
Hi jcsullins!

Thanks for the info! So it's clearly not down to the kernel! Why is there no dedicated thread for your latest CM12.1 rom?

I have found the rom on your hosting site and will be flashing it soon..
[TouchPad Development] awaraarawa:
Thank you Santa (and jscullins and team)!

Before I jest, many thanks to jscullins and team for helping keep the HP Touchpad alive and up to the latest version.

Now, for the funnies!

I received (and I suspect others did as well) an early Christmas present this year! Late on the night of Dec 24, up popped an alert about an updated ROM with the date of Dec 24 on my Nov Lollipop enabled Touchpad. An early Christmas present, I reckon. Ever the eager beaver, I went ahead and flashed it right away. And then the excitement started: After a (dirty) flash and reboot, I was well set for excitement. You see, all I had was popups about Google play not working and com.android unexpectedly terminating, etc. And I could see a popup message asking me to update Google apps as it was incompatible. Ofcourse, I could never get to fixing it as my screen was fully occupied by my whack-a-mole activity of OK'ing error messages. Hmm....clearly I had done something wrong. TWRP to the rescue - boot to TWRP, delete cache and dalvik, reflash and reboot. No improvement. Try again. No change. Try again. No change. Try again. Went back to the November version of the ROM and the associated gapps (after deleted cache, dalvik an data) and all is quiet. Well past midnight now and I decided to go to bed. I did not want to risk Santa seeing me work and skip my house.

Dec 25 is here. A new alert about an updated ROM with a Dec 25 date. Aha! Looks like the developers saw something wrong with the Dec 24 update and alerted Santa to get out a new version. Still excited, pulled down the Dec 25th version of the ROM and went through the whole cycle. SURPRISE! We are back to the future....er past! Same excitement as of the night of Dec 24. Back to clean cache, etc. reflash and repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat....sound familiar?

Finally after many cycles, figured out Santa brought me coal and was having fun playing mind tricks. Went back to the Nov release for 5.0.x ROM.

Somewhere in the depths of my mental capabilities, I decided to do this again today (Dec 26) with a new gapps package...after all that was one of the error message when I flashed the new ROM. And then as I went through the matching of the appropriate gapps package, the light bulb came on. Santa had come to the wrong door!!!!

5.0.x users were sent 6.0.x updates! No wonder there was excitement to be had! Kids got the adult cookies!

But there is good news (atleast for me)! I have been converted....er, migrated. I pulled down the Dec 25 6.0.x ROM along with the corresponding gapps package and flashed. For now, all is well. Good bye to 5.0.x and Lollipop. Hello mushrooms and phychedelia! Happy new year.

All kidding aside, thanks to jscullins and team once again. You may just want to uncheck the 6.0.x package push to the 5.0.x users to help them avoid some extra holiday fun.

Thank you and a happy new year to all! :D
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
.

FYI, this Rom and thread belongs to Flintman. I was not aware that Flintman had released a Marshmallow Rom. So if it is in fact a Flintman MM Rom that you installed, you might want to clarify that. If it's a Sullin's Rom, you are talking about, you might want to take the discussion to the link below. As of right now, there isn't another thread to discuss his builds:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2712680

Regards,

NT
[TouchPad Development] gjlowe:
Alright - I have been hit by the same as above. I have wiped and started over a few times, but I cannot get a working ROM. So, can someone PLEASE tell me what gapps to use for the latest 5.0.1 nightly release? I can't seem to find the right ones.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Made sure Antutu 6.0 was installed and ran the test. Not going to fuss with a screen shot. The overall score was 12641. Hope that helps.

NT

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By any chance did you read my post, #1647, one page back?:)

NT
[TouchPad Development] gjlowe:
After this post, yes :) I had figured it was the files I was using. Found an older 5.0.1 ROM and gapps as well as a compatible recovery. Seem all ok so far. Thanks.
[TouchPad Development] awaraarawa:
Apologies.

Many thanks to Flintman! I believe he is the lead behind the Evervolv ROM that is installed on my HP Touchpad. Flintman, please review and update as necessary. If Flintman is not the lead for Evervolv ROM, please point me to the right place.

I also take this opportunity to thank jscullins for his excellent work on CM and TPTB and flintman for the Evervolv ROM. See I can make these mistakes as well! ha ha!

PS: Love the new ROM. Snappy and smooth.

---------- Post added at 07:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:37 PM ----------

Select the package that best matches your need at following URL: http://xdaforums.com/android/software/app-minimal-gapps-gapps-lp-20150107-1-t2997368

This helped me out.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
In the interest of promoting all Roms that are developed for the HP TouchPad, I want to let everyone know the following:

If you have not been visiting the HP TouchPad forum over at RootzwiKi because of all the spam or your account was disabled, it's finally been figured out what happened. I won't bore you with the details but http://rootzwiki.com/forum/217-hp-touchpad/ is now healthy and open for business. If you have any problem still logging in, please let me know and I will contact the moderator responsible for fixing the forum. There is always the possibility he missed a few people. Be sure to include your forum name so he will know where to look.

NT
[TouchPad Development] alienkidmj12:
query

hope someone can help, i have an hp touchpad 16gb version

im trying to use touchpad toolbox to put on rom 5.1.1

i have the following files,

ev_tenderloin-5.1.1-testing-2015.10.02.zip

FLINTMAN-TWRP-touch-data_media-SELINUX-2.8.3.0-12-23-14.zip

gapps-lp-20150222-signed.zip

the only prob is that gapps comes back with unrecognized, i have tried numerous gapps and the ones ive tried all come back as unrecognised,

can someone help me locate a working gapps for 5.1.1
[TouchPad Development] vik5:
Try installing toolbox file from JC sullins only after restart than do clean install and flash your files 5.1.1
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Allen, try increasing the system partition to AT Least 800 mb (I set mine to 1gb, but then I have a 32gb tp). The new Rom and GApps modules are larger today. You didn't mention in your note if you had adjusted the partition sizes. Use the toolbox to do that, then flash the twrp, followed by reboot into twrp and flash the rom and the gapps nano version in one go.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
You need to use a Gapps from this link, http://xdaforums.com/android/software/app-minimal-gapps-gapps-lp-20150107-1-t2997368

TouchPad Toolbox has issues with most other Gapps files. Then if you want to reflash the Gapps you mentioned, just do it from recovery.

The /system volume needs to be 1gb for Android 5 and above.

NT
[TouchPad Development] bmac1191:
I'm also having trouble with gapps too. I tried the one in this thread and the one linked above to get through the installer.

Is it normal to get the "gapps has stopped responding" message on boot up? Playstore is there and works but I haven't logged into it.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
The Delta Gapps should work fine. Are you sure you installed the correct one? However, now that you have your Rom and recovery installed, why not just flash the Gapps from the OP using recovery.

NT
[TouchPad Development] iknight8:
I have my touchpad dual booting with iOS and Android. How will this update affect my tablet? Thanks.