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HP Touchpad... Horrible battery life, crappy, even with Cyanogen Mod?

ibex333

ibex333

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Anyone with a rooted HP Touchpad? I got mine brand new after all the positive talk from other owners and I must say I am very disappointed.

1)Battery life is abysmal. In standby/sleep mode it only lasts like 4-5 hours before battery drains completely. If I turn it off completely it lasts longer off course.

2)I understand that CyanogenMod is a work in progress and has many bugs, but I didn't know it's a complete piece of trash... Yeah, yeah, it's nice the devs even enabled us to install android on an HP Tablet, but if it isn't very usable, what's the point then?
Camera doesn't work.... Android market place either works or it doesn't. and when it doesn't work I have to go back deep into settings to reset something. Many games and apps don't work properly or just crash.
Even videos dont work very well. It's a hit or miss depending on the video app being used... 🙁

Really, the only thing the touchpad works great for is e-books, and it sure as hell isn't worth the price people charge for it on the various forum sale threads. Good thing I got it much, much cheaper.

How are YOUR experiences? Do you get more usage out of your touchpads?
 
I thought it was a POS and gave it away, there's a reason it didn't sell @ MSRP, HP got out of the tablet business, and why they were blown out at $100.
 
Mine is the bomb with ICS. I haven't booted webOS since installing CM7.

My battery life is fine and consistent with benchmarks. Mine is at 88% after 3 hours off the charger with moderate use (checking email, rebooted to change DPI, tweaking some other stuff, some browsing).

Haven't had any problems with videos that I've encoded, so not sure about that. With CM7, had zero problems with the market, was able to play most Tegra 2 games with Chainfire going (which is beyond the scope of what one should expect), can't really think of any problems aside from the camera not really working.

edit: Of course, keep in mind the whole $100 thing. If I had bought this at full price, I'd be pretty unhappy.
 
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I think you should sell it and buy yourself an iPad. All your complaints are listed on the warning notice.

My experience is complete opposite of yours. I was totally surprised and shocked by the level of polish and functionality of the alpha. It's the best alpha I've seen of anything. It's going to be amazing once it reaches final build.
 
The biggest problem that I had at first is that wireless sleep is not enabled by default, so it left the wireless on at all times. :| This is only in WebOS.
 
I had an HP touchpad and I thought it was a piece of shit too. Sold it for more than I paid for it and am more than happy with the decision. Too many bugs and too much time devoted to try and fix those.

There is a reason they had a $99 firesale. The thing would *not* sell, even if they tried to sell it at $300.
 
Mine can last for days off the charger, sitting there checking email in the background. I'm not really sure what you mean by "rooted" for webOS, but I did put mine in developer mode so I could write an app. I've always been very happy with its battery life, both standby and active (e.g. Angry Birds, flash videos / Amazon Instant Video). I've never tried Android on it though. I think it's a pretty great device... if they had done a version 2 that was thinner and lighter (and priced the original at $250ish) they could've had a winner. They shouldn't have tried charging iPad / iPad2 prices for something that wasn't an iPad.
 
Pliablemoose said:
I thought it was a POS and gave it away, there's a reason it didn't sell @ MSRP, HP got out of the tablet business, and why they were blown out at $100.
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cheezy321 said:
I had an HP touchpad and I thought it was a piece of shit too. Sold it for more than I paid for it and am more than happy with the decision. Too many bugs and too much time devoted to try and fix those.

There is a reason they had a $99 firesale. The thing would *not* sell, even if they tried to sell it at $300.
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For $99 you guys thought you were gonna get a iPad? Go figure!

ibex333 said:
ohhhhhhh..... didn't know ICS was available! Gotta try that.
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CM9 needs alot of work still. Alot of stuff doesn't work yet but it does give one a taste of what it will be like.

My battery life with CM7 didn't seem that bad to me. The initial release was crappy but after the first or second update it was much better. I bought a touchstone so I just set it on it when I'm done with it. I figured the m-usb slot is kinda fragile so I only use it when I need to.
 
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mine lasts 4-5 days with minimal use, gmail/exchange push email. Maybe longer, can't remember. CM7/CM9? 2 days with no use, if that. I've been using it more w/ CM9, so not too fair a test, but it's draining pretty quickly.

As for webOS itself, if HP actually put any weight behind it when they bought it, it'd be fine I think, just short on apps instead of short on everything. But I got the tablet with the gamble that the CM guys would be able to pull it off, and they seem to be almost there.
 
My Touchpad works just fine in WebOS, standby battery life is probably 3-4 days?

I tried the CM7 Alphas, and they were pretty bad as you'd expect since Gingerbread is garbage on tablets. I can't imagine using ICS is a pleasant experience, but I'm glad people are willing to test it and work on it so that I have something usable in 3 months 😛
 
User error is the biggest issue here. Cm7 works fine and battery life under webos and cm7 is good. Good luck with cm9 though, you'll need it.
 
Using ICS on mine atm. Couple things that I know dont work are YouTube HQ videos and Netflix. If you switch off the HQ on YouTube the videos play just fine. Also a couple games here and there along with the camera, which I never used. Other than that haven't found another app I use that doesnt work. Also the market works great as well.
 
A5 said:
My Touchpad works just fine in WebOS, standby battery life is probably 3-4 days?

I tried the CM7 Alphas, and they were pretty bad as you'd expect since Gingerbread is garbage on tablets. I can't imagine using ICS is a pleasant experience, but I'm glad people are willing to test it and work on it so that I have something usable in 3 months 😛
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Ehh I'd say WebOS can go for more. Closer to a week. I've left it for a whole weekend and come back with 67% or so left, so I estimate it can go for a week.

The Android standby is just not usable. I don't care if you say it's because the wireless doesn't shut off, then how do you explain iPads going idle forever and still being able to get push notifications of alerts?

CM7/9 is unsuable to me until they figure this battery stuff out. Otherwise I might as well have a tablet that's forever plugged in.
 
If I had a WebOS device the last thing I'd do is ruin it by installing Android. WebOS is still a great OS, even if the Touchpad's not a great device. WebOS >>> even ICS by a long shot imho.
 
QueBert said:
If I had a WebOS device the last thing I'd do is ruin it by installing Android. WebOS is still a great OS, even if the Touchpad's not a great device. WebOS >>> even ICS by a long shot imho.
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I've used both and alpha ICS>webOS

Honestly I don't see the fuss about webOS, yeah the flingy cards are fun for about 30mins but when you realise that just changing browser tabs involves dealing with them they lose their gloss.

I get that lots of people wanted webOS to be great for various reasons but it just wasn't.
 
L33tMasta said:
With heavy usage, my ICS TouchPad is lasting 8+ hours. It's amazing. Best $150 I ever spent.
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For price of one iPad, I got three 16gb Touchpad, one 32gb Touchpad, one Touchstone charger, one Bluetooth keyboard, two HP cases. 🙂. I couldn't be happier with mine. WebOS/CM9 dualboot and WebOS/CM7 dualboot. I wouldn't trade mine for any tablet right now.
 
QueBert said:
If I had a WebOS device the last thing I'd do is ruin it by installing Android. WebOS is still a great OS, even if the Touchpad's not a great device. WebOS >>> even ICS by a long shot imho.
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WebOS may be a good OS but what good is a tablet that only has a browser on it? You'd benefit greatly from having the Android market.
 
gorcorps said:
WebOS may be a good OS but what good is a tablet that only has a browser on it? You'd benefit greatly from having the Android market.
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Not only that but I think ICS browser is the best mobile browser of any OS right now. Google improved the browser a ton in ICS.
 
ponyo said:
Not only that but I think ICS browser is the best mobile browser of any OS right now. Google improved the browser a ton in ICS.
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Agreed, it's the best/fastest browser I've used in a mobile device.

I had a Touchpad but sold it during the buy frenzy. WebOS has some nifty features, but it just doesn't stand up to Android IMHO.

I'm still waiting out for the 1080P Transformer. Though knowing me, we'll get some news of upcoming tablets by then and I'll be waiting once again.
 
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