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[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
You just learned how to fix your own PC of any disaster!

Any device can experience any failure at any time and PC are the ones at higher risk. When one device suffer data corruptions another device needs to be use to repair it.

If the HP Touchpad suffer data corruption then any PC can be use to repair it with the ISO file. ( The PC recovered the HP TP )

The PC or Laptop suffers data corruption and it won't boot into the OS.

If this happens when the user is at home or at work and have the recovery media to restore or fix the PC then that is an option.

But in live things happens in the worse circumstances, example:

The user is traveling, it has a PC Laptop and the HP Touchpad, the PC suffers data corruption it won't boot.

The HP Touchpad works and can connect to the Internet then any ISO file can be downloaded from internet that will fix the specific issue. The ISO file does not need to be LINUX, it can be the installation media for Windows 10 or any other OS. As you have done it, DriveDroid is the Magic tool to transform the HP Touchpad into a USB flash drive and load it into the PC. ( The HP Touchpad recovered the PC )

The HP TP is extremely valuable as it can have SuperUser access and anything can be done with it ( is a TOY that does it all ). Is not a good idea to use an Android Smartphone as is the main source of communication and some can be brick by attempting to root it.

Think how easy will be to download onto the HP TP the new OS version of the PC, connect Tablet and updated. No need to create the USB flash drive or DVD, is as simple as download and load !
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
There is a reason to use newer versions of Android, otherwise we all will be using WebOS now.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
You are correct Smithy, and just like my before and after pictures below, with your burned DVD ( I have not tried that method ) you can fix the "Bermuda triangle" that you see in my before picture with one touch of a button. Notice in my after picture the "bad" touchpad is now in TWRP ready to become "good" again.

It pains me to think so many people out there are using their HP TOUCHPAD as a paper weight or selling it on ebay for $10 as junk, or like HPTP said you might find one in the garbage dump. But it still could have life in it, but the life has to be extracted.

I have been playing the the touchpad so much the past few weeks, I even had a dream about it last night. I have to cut back on the pizza and pop before bed! LOL

See below:

before ( Corrupted Boot Triangle ) and after ( TWRP recovery install button ):
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Yes HP_TOUCHPAD this is a good tool for a variety of reason, one being we can fix our PC's.

As per my PC, I also have something called "recovery partition D" ( see pic ), and if my computer gets a virus or gets corrupted somehow, I can reinstall Windows 10 from this partition.

I have never used it, and not sure I know how to use it, but if needed I have it.

But also have the Puppy LINUX too now.
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Back in the days every PC came with the installation media, first the floppy disk, then CD. If the hard drive failed, the installation media will be use to reinstall the OS or repair it.

Moving into the future, hard drives became cheaper with more capacity. PC companies created a partition on the only hard drive of the PC with the installation media that can be boot from. Is a benefit to the companies, saving money not providing the physical installation media. The user is responsible for creating the " Physical installation Media" after finishing installing the OS for the first time.

If the hard drive fails there is no way to boot into the Rescue media. If the boot sector gets damage or a virus can disable that partition and hold the data hostage. To get the authentic OS ( drivers) for the PC the user needs to call the company to order the DVD, it all depends if it will be provided for free or pay for shipping.

Drivers can be downloaded from the companies web site, but about a year ago I encounter a failure the OS is not available to download, do not know as of now. Also the user must know how to get all the files form the internet and create the USB media for installation.

The same thing happened with the HP Touchpad, no installation media was provided. The Bermuda Triangle directs the user to the palm.com website ( no longer working ).

WebOS DR, will be use to repair it, but the user needs to set up novacom driver to make it work. If HP provided a small CD, with a Linux OS similar as of this guide and shipped with the Tablet it could have clear a lot of confusion. But to make more profit a service must be reduced, changed or removed and charge more.

The Physical Installation Media ( was removed ) ( more profit )
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Is there a way to use driveDroid to copy my "recovery D drive" to HP TOUCHPAD because its size is essentially 5 GB, and I think thats too big for DataMedia, so if that don't work, then I guess I can copy "recovery D drive" to a USB drive ( like my fixed 14 GB one ). If and when my PC gets corrupted or gets virus, than what do I do with USB? Can I boot this USB drive to fix my PC?

Because I thought I just need to press F10 key until I have access to the Boot menu.

When the Boot menu appears, I thought one of the options on the menu is to boot into the recovery volume and this would help me rebuild, restore or re-create PC. Because the C: Hard Drive is totally separate from the Recovery D: drive, so if Hard Drive is corrupted, D: drive is still healthy.
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
It can not just be copy, it won't work that way. The USB has to be prepare in a way to make it boot.

Once you have a valid USB Recovery Drive made it will boot the same way as the process used to boot the Linux OS file made using UNetbootin.

I can not give you the specifics on how to do it as, my advice is to follow the OS company process found here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026852/windows-create-a-recovery-drive

Keep in mind that Windows 10 is constantly been updated, if you use the Recovery partition from the PC, it will install the OS as the first day you turn on your PC and then apply all the updates.

In my opinion the Recovery process that PC companies have implemented, does not work. If the Hard Drive fails there is no way to get the PC back and running quickly, it could take a lot of hours. The process of making a Recovery Media is not simple enough for the regular user. Before the Operating System boots into the desktop it should ask the user to insert a USB drive to create the Recovery Media and no more options or questions.

As the system gets updated , the OS needs to ask the user to insert the USB Recovery Media and apply all the system updates. If there is a failure the user uses the USB Recovery Media that is updated and can get the PC back and running with a single boot.

The other way is to keep another drive and backup all the drive, but a recovery boot USB needs to be made of the backup software to boot from and restore after replacing the failed hard drive.
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Yes, build.prop needs to be the same for the Android version used.

The boot.img is the Kernel and Ramdisk combined.

Thanks for the detail exploration, now is time to get to know Android from the inside:

https://xdaforums.com/hp-touchpad/general/hp-touchpad-universal-authority-t3963766
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Hello HP_TOUCHPAD, thanks for the comments on my post, you added two links ( not the Universal Authority link ), I am talking about the 2 other ones, they are just getting me to the general area, I think you wanted to give me more detailed links to a specific thread, please fix, so I can learn from the specifics threads you intended.

As per Universal Authority, I look forward to it, but I still have some more exploring to do in the

Novacom Repair tool thread, and the live USB LINUX. Today I went into Linux and saw where you were storing

the .png images for the icons on the main screen, they are in /Media. Now in /root/.jmw/ there are some jwmrc-tray* files that give commands to the icons. For example take Wipe All. Well the icon is /Media/Wipe_All.png and it executes the shell script /Repair/Wipe_All_Create_Android_With_Swap.sh, and that shell script essentially runs this command:

novacom boot mem:// </Repair/uImage.Wipe_All_Create_Andriod_with_Swap.

So I have a lot to learn, but I do look forward to Universal Authority.....Lots to learn and read.
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
I check the posted link and it does point to the Universal Authority, which I am updating.

Click HERE for Universal Authority

There are many ways to configure a Linux environment Desktop. I had to quickly learn in specific how JMW does all the Menus to customized it.

Everything is learning as you go, there is no ending.

The most important is the use of script that can be use with Universal Authority with the App Gscript.

Also Evervolv 9 was release and works perfectly!

You should give it a try and flash the Open Gapps variant Super to fully test the swap settings with the use of Gscript.

https://xdaforums.com/hp-touchpad/development/rom-evervolv-hp-touchpad-t3923512/page10

Don't get consumed too much into the details, there is way too much learn !
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
I was talking about the below links you put in previous post ( not the Universal Authority link that was fine ) Here are the links that you made mistake on because it just goes to hp-touchpad....

Is already there, take a look at the guide for the /boot details

https://xdaforums.com/hp-touchpad

and this comment and link

All the setting are available to view and also how to change them.

https://xdaforums.com/hp-touchpad
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Thanks for the correction, is fix now on my post.

The guide got updated today, with everything !
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Yes maybe I actually should get back to playing with YouTube videos and other apps, I have been learning so much about Android inner working, but thats "playing" too.....

Oh yea I saw latest Evervolv 9 is released, did they fix the bluetooth? I will download it this week, I have to keep up on the most cutting edge Android version....
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Bluetooth is not working, is an old standard that will be hard or impossible to migrate with the new, but who knows a devoted developer with time to spare could make it happen.

Camera works, for taking pictures, videos can not be recorded.

Home button works

WiFi works the same or better than 7.2.1.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
2nd Journey into HP RAMDISK: Using /boot from uImage

In my 2nd journey into HP RAMDISK, I used the other method described by HP_TOUCHPAD called, "Ramdisk from /boot uImage." There is this video posted in the OP, I will link it here:

Ramdisk from /boot uImage

It looks like the video is recorded using VNC viewer, using screen record. The videos are High Quality and they have a clear goal in mind, "to teach the user how to use each method of the tool". They are reasonable length. Here are some tips for the newbie viewer, the videos go quickly, it might be best to play them at 1/2 or even 1/4 speed, and the cursor is small and hard to follow. Some videos on YouTube have some kind of big "yellow" circle that highlight the cursor nicely, these videos do not have that, I am not sure its even possible using VNC viewer.

Anyway there is a nice instruction manual that is in /HP_RAMDISK, that will post below too.

Attached are my pictures from Journey #2 to HP RAMDISK, essentially it takes your "uImage.Android" from your /boot directory in your connected HP TOUCHPAD, you rename the file to boot.img and unpack it. Then you can edit the individual files to your liking, and then repack you boot.img and then rename it, and push it back to you /boot.

Of course HP_TOUCHPAD is now touting the Universal Authority which is probably going to make changing the

settings even more user friendly. I have yet to investigate it, but its on my 'wish list'.....
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Thank you for posting all your adventures while exploring. The biggest challenge sometimes is not applying settings, but create a process and instructions for anyone to fallow and replicate, otherwise it will be useless.

Once the new uImage is created, the user can have two ways to boot the Tablet with completely different settings and nothing is done in Android.

At this very moment I am exploring the way to get out of a black hole somewhere in the milk way galaxy. There are no instructions or help I can get, is all about guessing and one step at a time.

In all Android ROMs for the HP Touchpad the available RAM ( memory is no more that about 800 and something MB) It needs to be over 900MB as it has 1024 MB ( 1GB ). That is how it shows under WebOS.

So far I got it to 888 MB, trying to get it higher.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
We have faith in you HP_TOUCHPAD to get out of the black hole of the milky way galaxy and get at least 12 more MBs to push you over the 900MB, just like WebOS had. If there is a will there is a way. It will take some brain power and the ability to think outside the 6 walls, but that is your specialty. Normally there is a person on this XDA site that usually says, "Google is your friend" but in this case there is no google help, you are the pioneer, you are the cutting edge. The question is "Can you boldly go where no man has gone before?" by getting 900MB.

Can you answer this question, why does it need to be over 900MB?, it that some threshold were it will become super fast, as some say "snappy"?
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
The more RAM is available the better, for any device to work faster RAM will make it perform better than a higher CPU Frequency.

A device with the fastest CPU, but very low in Memory ( RAM ) will perform slower than a device with slower CPU but a lot of Memory (RAM)

The extra RAM that is available, applying this setting is around 120 MB. The swap file can be increase to 800 MB and that will be the maximum total RAM and App could use.

It may not seen like a lot, but it does makes a huge difference. But unfortunately by doing this, sounds does not play nor Camera. It seems as some of the RAM is mapped for those services or hardware. It will take an expert on managing the Memory settings from the Kernel to get it just right to the last byte. I can not do that, there are have been too many modifications and finding out all the codes and correct mapping will take more time than getting out from a black hole!

The attached screenshot are from Evervolv Pie, which it was used to recompile the Kernel and apply the setting.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
3rd Journey to NRAT

So this is my 3rd Journey into the Novacom Repair Android Tool, and this time I investigated how the icons were made, and how messages/commands get displayed/executed when a user hovers over the icon, and presses the icon, in NRAT.

For my example I am just going to look at C/Boot icon, it would be the same type of investigation

for all the icons.

So first I just opened up a large Linux command window and ran a general 'find' command to see where everything is located: find / -xdev -type f -exec grep -i 'Create Boot' { } + | more

It gave me some good information to go digging around:

So first I investigated /Media folder and sure enough all the raw .PNG icon files resided there, I saw Create_Boot.png.

Then I went to /root/.jwrm directory and found all the jwrm-tray* files, the one I was interested in was jwrm-tray1, this shows what message gets displayed when you hover over the icon C\Boot, and when you select C\Boot. It also shows the shell script that gets executed which is

/Repair/Create_Only_Boot_and_Flash_TWRP.sh

And sure enough when I go to the folder /Repair I see the contents of the above shell file is this:

Novacom boot mem:// < /Repair/uImage.Create_Boot

And uImage.Create_Boot file you can investigate with HP_RAMDISK, after you unpack it ect..., as I showed in my first 2 journeys to HP RAMDISK.

Enjoy the pics below, this is my last journey to HP RAMDISK for a while. Now I might move on to installing the new version of PIE, and also investigating the "highly touted" Universal Authority.
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Now you can customized everything, create new commands and scripts. Also actualize anything.

After you have everything as you like it, you can make your very own version.

Go to Applications ---->>>Setup---->> Remaster Puppy live-CD.

Follow the onscreen instructions and your very own version will be created in a ISO file.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Wow! thanks HP_TOUCHPAD, I was actually thinking of adding the tool that copies the JC Sullins TPTB to the /boot directory, then showing the "masses" the journey, but I have so much on my "TP to do list", like installing PIE, investigating Universal Authority. But thanks for the info to create another live ISO files, good to know.
[TouchPad General] lipenheimer@gmail.com:
LOVELY

FABULOUS

NERDITUDEISM!

Great thread geeks!

You are such Geeks!

That you have GEEK SHEIK

Nice nerdy technical thread that should get my one tablet unbricked.

Haven't had time to read it all the way through, but I will try this weekend.!

Had initial success writing (USE RUFUS YOU TARDS!!! BEST DAMNED USB STICK WRITING UTILITY EVER!!)

8)

Love the fact that there is still MUCH PHIELTHY PHLASHING going on!!

You all need to................PUT YUR PANTZ BACK ON YOU PHIELTHY PHLASHERS!!!!!!!

EVERYONE QUIT ALL THAT IN THE 70'S.........

8)

Lip Lip Lip

P.S. Thanks HP_TOUCHPAD! super DUPER good stuff. These tablets are super nice, rugged........LOUD....adequately enough powered to be quite useful still.....ESPECIALLY with all these good people on our scene to help us all out raising all boats! Humanity at it's best. Collective effort that does useful things!

Kudos people, and thanks!

Lip Lip Lip
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Thanks for the feedback, but there is nothing to worry about, the Tablet is un-brick-able.

Make sure is always charging when not in use, have it on and connected and the battery will last very long time.

Take a look at this thread starting from post 104, the user reports that the battery is not discharging.

If the Tablet is been charge for a while, the battery takes longer to discharge.

Take a look here to have the fastest tablet with a full 1GB of RAM.

https://xdaforums.com/hp-touchpad/general/hp-touchpad-max-1gb-ram-max-1836-t3973149
[TouchPad General] lipenheimer@gmail.com:
Well, I downloaded the ISO and used RUFUS to write it to a ThumbDrive. Booted it up on a Toshiba with an Intel Core2 Duo Chipset with USB2.

When these tablets are showing the Battery with the ? Icon, there are two modes that present.

- The HP Bootie mode

- The Qualcom Mode

I am fairly certain the USB was working properly because the software was seeing the Bootie and the Qualcom mode, but when I hit the C:\BOOT icon on the screen, a Linux shell popped up saying "Cannot find the device"

1. Which mode do I want the tablet in for it to unbrick, and two is there anything else that needs to be done to the software, other than writing it to a thumb drive and booting it, to make it function.

Thanks!

Lip Lip Lip
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
The Linux OS is working perfectly, the Tablet is not brick. The battery needs to be charge properly, it will take days.

After it boots then place it in the WebOS Recovery Mode ( USB symbol ) Load the Toolbox and only use it to flash the A6 Firmware.

Keep charging the battery and only remove it from charger when it needs to be use, then place it back to charge at all times.
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Hello [MENTION=8005714]HP_TOUCHPAD[/MENTION],

Can you tell me the steps needed to make a video on on Puppy Linux of the ADB screen?

I want to make a video like you did in the OP of this thread, essentially I want to plug my HP TOUCHPAD into

my PC which has Puppy Linux Novacom Repair tool loaded. Then I want to make a live video of the the ADB screen running any number of memory commands like: free -k, cat /proc/meminfo, top, and of course the best

dumpsys meminfo. Then I want to take a simultaneous video with a camCorder of what is happening on the my Touchpad live. To show the viewers examples like this:

--- maybe the screen locks, well how does memory look at that time?

-- maybe a popup message comes up saying "Castbox wants to close" well what is memory telling me?

Then I want to do a picture in picture, kind of like how I made the below YouTube video about Chess and the software Arena 3.5 take a look at the video maybe look at the 11:45 mark and notice how I have a live Chess board, but also a screen on what the computer is thinking!!! That is my vision of an HP TOUCHPAD video with live memory updates!!!

Chess Video Example of picture in picture

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[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
How Android uses memory is very tricky, even the memory that an App see as available is not even the real one.

The idea is great, but Android is a fake OS and probably after looking at the collected data on the screen nothing will make sense.

I just found out another hoax, this time with CPU frequencies. The Tablet can have the fastest Overclock CPU on this planet. !
[TouchPad General] DoubleStuff:
Wow HP_TOUCHPAD that is breaking news that the HP TOUCHPAD can have over 1836 Hz. as a CPU frequency?

Will not the tablet get too hot? Are you starting to work on that now? Because did you not tell us that some

tablets can't even handle 1782 or 1836, what percentage of the tablets will be able to handle the "fastest overclock CPU on the planet" lets call it 2500 Hz for kicks....
[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
Not all Tablets were built by the same supplier that is why some can handle a higher frequency.

As all the settings has been properly applied or working better than before. I started doing what I did first, raising the Voltage to make the CPU faster using the same frequencies. But as when you explore you always find something that should have not be found.

Is not going to be the fastest, but can look like it at over 2500000000 Hz or 2.5 GHz.

There is very little changes in temperature, it does not overheat
[TouchPad General] smithylovestouchpad:
I'll have to see this to believe it. Independently tested and verified. Back in the day of WebOS testing, devs were trying to O/C the TouchPad to 2.1 Ghz and it was very unstable. Heard of fried cpu's.

Smithy