Tweaking your HP Touchpad

[AnitaPeterson]

Has anyone been able to find a video player app that works with .avi and .mkv files (of both SD and HD flavour)?

 

[cronos]

Have you tried Touchplayer or Kalemsoft?

I believe Kalemsoft is better. It's a paid app from the app store but you can get the demo version directly from its website: http://www.kalemsoft.com/site/downloads.html

 

[Tristicus]

Touchplayer, the one that is with preware, sucks. Won't let me play anything, freezes if it does, horrible framerates if it does as well. Tried both a 720p and 1080p video since most of my stuff is in HD.

 

[WelshBloke]

Have you tried Touchplayer or Kalemsoft?

I believe Kalemsoft is better. It's a paid app from the app store but you can get the demo version directly from its website: http://www.kalemsoft.com/site/downloads.html

Kalimsoft works for me, make sure you download the free media streamer if you use the payed app.

 

[WelshBloke]

Disable the cache on the browser: http://coreyau.blogspot.com/2011/09/disable-weboss-flawed-browser-cache.html

This will basically fix the problem with the browser loading from cache. No slowdown or anything because downloading the page fresh takes less time than loading the page from cache then getting annoyed and hitting refresh.

...

Cheers :thumbsup: damn browser is so slow anyway I don't notice a difference in speed.

 

[Spoooon]

Digging around with internalz, I found this the other day (posted it originally at precentral).

Just for fun, you can change the size of your active and nonactive cards:

Use internalz and edit /etc/palm/luna-platform.conf

You'll see the following lines:

ActiveCardWindowRatio=0.55
NonActiveCardWindowRatio=0.50

In the screenshot, I have the activecardwindowratio at 0.75.

There's some other stuff in there to play with as well. Anyone know what EnableSplashBackgrounds does? I set it to true, didn't notice anything different. I figured out what this did, not as exciting as it sounded, just the background image that's behind the icon when you launch an app.



Here's a screenshot with some stacked cards. I also upped the size of the nonactive cards. I think it looks better.

Or make them really small: http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...99111-change-size-your-cards.html#post3156699

 

[SKORPI0]

thanks for the tips. Happy with 1.5GHz so far. I'll be trying 1.7 dual at later date. Trying to get used to this compared with Android. Too bad apps are not as plentiful.

 

[Makaveli]

Digging around with internalz, I found this the other day (posted it originally at precentral).

Just for fun, you can change the size of your active and nonactive cards:

Use internalz and edit /etc/palm/luna-platform.conf

You'll see the following lines:

ActiveCardWindowRatio=0.55
NonActiveCardWindowRatio=0.50

In the screenshot, I have the activecardwindowratio at 0.75.

There's some other stuff in there to play with as well. Anyone know what EnableSplashBackgrounds does? I set it to true, didn't notice anything different. I figured out what this did, not as exciting as it sounded, just the background image that's behind the icon when you launch an app.



Here's a screenshot with some stacked cards. I also upped the size of the nonactive cards. I think it looks better.

Or make them really small: http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...99111-change-size-your-cards.html#post3156699

How did you change your icons like that?

 

[Spoooon]

To change icons, you need to navigate to /usr/palm/applications/... and replace icon.png with whatever custom icon you want. Some applications (like Facebook) )are in /media/cryptofs/apps/...

/etc/palm/launcher3/launcher_icon_layoutsettings.conf

InterRowSpaceInPixels=4
IconHorizontalSpaceAdjustInPixels=15
MaxIconsPerRow=9
RowLeftMarginInPixels=1

You can tweak these a little bit and you may get different results. Since the most icons that I could get to fit was 8, you could probably change the icons per row value to that.

 

[finbarqs]

and hulu's gone again! hopefully this will bring the price down!

 

[dlock13]

Anyone else getting exceptionally bored with their TouchPad and are debating on selling it off?

 

[luv2liv]

Anyone else getting exceptionally bored with their TouchPad and are debating on selling it off?

not me! nor my gf! sadly, another friend of mine got his stolen in school.
i love to show off the Gorilla screen off to people by scratching it with keys n knives. amazing!

 

[dlock13]

not me! nor my gf! sadly, another friend of mine got his stolen in school.
i love to show off the Gorilla screen off to people by scratching it with keys n knives. amazing!

I mean don't get me wrong, it has a killer interface, but the whole fact that it will never see the applications I truly desire... It's just not it for me. Plus, I already have a Honeycomb tablet so this is just sitting here waiting around for something better.

I'm sorry your friend got his stolen. It's a cool device to have, but I just don't think it's worth it anymore. Damn hype.

 

[Makaveli]

Anyone else getting exceptionally bored with their TouchPad and are debating on selling it off?

No I use my tablet everyday.

I mean don't get me wrong, it has a killer interface, but the whole fact that it will never see the applications I truly desire... It's just not it for me. Plus, I already have a Honeycomb tablet so this is just sitting here waiting around for something better.

I'm sorry your friend got his stolen. It's a cool device to have, but I just don't think it's worth it anymore. Damn hype.

Why did you even buy it?

There are people out there still looking for these things that can put it to use.

 

[Spoooon]

I mean don't get me wrong, it has a killer interface, but the whole fact that it will never see the applications I truly desire... It's just not it for me. Plus, I already have a Honeycomb tablet so this is just sitting here waiting around for something better.

I'm sorry your friend got his stolen. It's a cool device to have, but I just don't think it's worth it anymore. Damn hype.

Dude, sell it while you can. If you wait too long, you're going to be stuck with something useless to you and worthless.

 

[AkumaX]

What's a good Media Player besides Kalemsoft?

 

[dlock13]

Why did you even buy it?

There are people out there still looking for these things that can put it to use.

I bought it for the sole purpose of putting Honeycomb/ICS on it. However, that doesn't look like it'll happen till about December, and by then there will be better tablets out there.

I'm going to sell it instead of keep it. I wish HP didn't purchase Palm. They killed a wonderful OS.

 

[Makaveli]

I bought it for the sole purpose of putting Honeycomb/ICS on it. However, that doesn't look like it'll happen till about December, and by then there will be better tablets out there.

I'm going to sell it instead of keep it. I wish HP didn't purchase Palm. They killed a wonderful OS.

good point but will there be better tablets at the same price point

and I blame the new idiot ceo.

I give him a year before he is fired.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I give him a year before he is fired.

You may be more right than you know, except it won't be a year.

 

[cosmicanomaly]

Has anyone been able to find a video player app that works with .avi and .mkv files (of both SD and HD flavour)?

I haven't found anything better than Kalemsoft (not that I've tried very hard as Kalemsoft works great for me.) I've heard of people that have good luck with streaming over orb but I never even got orb to work very well on Android so I didn't play with it in WebOS. Are you having issues with Kalemsoft? I may be able to help as I had some issues when I first tried it. The weirdest was that it would tell me it couldn't find the server when I was trying to play local media...this went away when I purchased the full version and registered it. Not sure if that's intentional or not...they don't say anything about it anywhere.

Something else that made life much easier when streaming was setting up a VPN on my media server (very easy to do in Win7.) Some of the networks I use won't allow communication on nonstandard ports but they all allow VPN! In general it is a good practice for your own safety to use a VPN on any open network anyway.

 

[ponyo]

What's a good Media Player besides Kalemsoft?

I use the Orb while at home to stream from my network. Quality isn't the best since it's Flash based and you can't fast forward or rewind but it's simple and works for me.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

SO...does anyone know how to open MS office documents correctly with this thing? Its fairly stupid this worthless quickoffice program can't open a single document I have.

 

[Makaveli]

You may be more right than you know, except it won't be a year.

Yeah looks like I was right but much sooner than a year and he got replaced by another clown from the board who is just going to continue down the same path.

If I was a shareholder I would want the whole board terminated its become quite obviously they are the cancer on HP not the retard ceo's they bring in.

 

[SunnyD]

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[ponyo]

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I love you. I was going back and forth about buying this app. Got it. Thanks!