[TouchPad General] nevertells2:
OK, here we go. To install a new build, which is what you are trying to, start with "Install Zip". Your file should be somewhere on your internal SD card, so select "Choose Zip from /sdcard. Browse to where the file is at. Select it and tap yes. BTW, you know that this particular version of CWM allows you to use the touch screen to navigate or the old way of using the volume to navigate and home button to select. Once the file is installed, go back to the main screen where it says "Reboot System Now" and select "Wipe Cache Partition". when that is done, select "Advanced" and then "Wipe Dalvik Cache". When that is done, go back to the main screen and " Reboot System Now". Be patient, it's going to take a few minutes for the system to rebuild all your apps. At some point it will show on the screen something like "rebuilding apps" and give you a count of the progress.

The only reason you would use "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" then "Clean to Install a New ROM" is if you plan to install a different data media Rom like Flintman's Evervolv or Shumash's PacRom, or if you want to install a different build number of Cyanogenmod like moving from CM11 to CM12.1 or even going backwards from CM12.1 to CM11. There is no reason to use TouchPad Toolbox "Install Android" again.

Keep in mind that when you do a "Clean to Install a New Rom", that will wipe out all your apps, settings, data and the like. So be sure you have either made a nandroid backup with recovery or backed up your apps and data with an app like Titanium Backup. Also, if you don't like CM12.1, as long as you have made a nandroid backup of your previous installation, you will be able to restore the backup and it will be like you never installed CM12.1. And always keep a copy of your nandroid backups on your PC in case you have a catastrophe on your TouchPad. You will always be able to get back to where you were as long as you have a safe copy of your backups.

You did not previously say, did you do the TPTB's "Complete Data Reset" so that WebOS was removed before installing Android? That gives you approx. an additional 5 gigs of memory in the data media or internal volume. It also frees up a whole bunch of space in the /boot volume. There is enough room that with a little work, you can put a copy of TouchPad Toolbox in /boot so you don't have to use your PC to get it running if you do need to resize partitions or reflash the A6 controller which seems to be a common housekeeping practice now. If you don't know about that, ask and I'll explain or give you a link where you can go read about it.

Also, there is a way to use recovery to back up and restore just data, apps, and settings. You would use this if you did a complete clean install for some reason and wanted to recover those item only.

OK, lesson over. Now go use your new skills.

NT

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

I'm using ADW right now and either long press the screen or there is a ADW Launcher settings icon in the upper R/H corner that brings up all ADW settings options including the wallpaper manager. Don't remember if Nova has this or not. I think just about all launchers use the long press to access the launcher's settings. Can't tell you about Trebuchet, have not used it in years.

NT