[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Where are you from?

We are neighbors within walking distance, if you take the challenge, but is within reach of a human.

It's pretty obvious the way you use the English language that English is not your first language.

English is not my native dialect, I am also a creation of a dual communicator by need and not by choice.

I'm guessing somewhere in Canada, probably Quebec.

Wrong guess, but it does not matter.

You don't seem to understand the difference between hardware failure and software corruption.

Hardware failure: Depends which component, but will not allow any fixes by software, the damage is permanent.

Software corruption: Depends where the data is damage in the storage media. If the device is off and never use, it will last for as long as the (storage media, "hardware"). Software does not get corrupted for not been use, but hardware will.

You don't even understand that whatever OS is installed is what makes it the type of device it is.

There are specifics native codes by design that dictates the original intention for the device.

Remove the OS and it's just a useless device.

The OS is separate from the boot loader, or BIOS (two totally different things)

Install WebOS, it's a WebOS device. Install Android, it's an Android device. Install Linux and it's a Linux device. Install LuneOS and it's a LuneOS device.

If you run all those OS as a virtual machine on a host PC, what will the name of the device be?

If you install MAC OS X on a generic AMD PC, will that be an Apple PC?

What do you think a boot loader is?

Bios -->> Boot loader --->> OS

If's not an OS. It's what loads whatever OS you program it to install. In fact, HP accidentally sold several TouchPads with Android installed. So obviously they were experimenting with the idea of releasing it as an Android tablet.

HP acquired PALM (WebOS) to have their own mobile OS. Big horses where getting into the race at those time and everyone wanted to win. We will never know why those decisions where made, but can only speculate. Microsoft forced HP to abandon WebOS, it was going to compete with Windows Mobile. The next victim was Nokia, which now sells Android. The only one that is completely dead is the Windows Phone. " Isn't that ironic?

Too bad they decided to install WebOS instead.

WebOS was ahead of its time, use it on your Touchpad and you will see that the user experience is what is been use now from Android and iOS.

The TouchPad might have survived. And to prove what I am saying, go to this link and read the section on operating systems that have been installed on the HP TouchPad, not the HP WebOS TouchPad.

The WebOS boot loader is the reason that all those OS can be install on it easily without the risk of getting bricked.

The tablet has generic component, is not a proprietary hardware and WebOS was the generic mobile Linux at the time, before Android was even a dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_TouchPad#Operating_systems

Someone needs to update that info on Wikipedia. The most important OS that was ported and that J.C Sullins used to make his ToolBox is Angstrom, without it there will no ToolBox and future versions of Android.

http://webos-internals.org/index.php?title=Angstrom_on_Touchpad

J.C. Sullins proved with the release of TouchPad Toolbox that the TouchPad could in fact run Android as a stand alone OS without WebOS being installed just as HP did accidentally.

The ToolBox is a set of commands (Scripts) running on Angstrom OS, is brilliant he did a marvelous job!

Is all possible because of PALM novacom command Memboot:

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Memboot

If developers had had access to the correct drivers for the TouchPad's hardware, it would have been an outstanding Android device, but they didn't so there was always a struggle to run Android on the TouchPad.

Once other smartphone and tablets came out the Android drivers became available for the generic components, is amazing how all the developers came together and got the drivers working.

The HP Touchpad is running with native Android drivers is all perfect.

You keep accusing me of spreading false information, did you ever think it just might be you who is the one spreading that false information?

Do not take it personally, the false or incomplete information comes from the device manufactures that spread worse than a virus to everyone and then we got to clean it up with arguments because in the manual that ships with the product does not mentioned what a ( battery icon with a question mark means ). If it did said it, we will not be having this argument.

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