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Today it was my Touchpad's turn to get a try of CM9 Android 4.0. Upgraded from CM7 Alpha 3.5 to CM9 Alpha 0.6. The upgrade went fairly smooth. All my data and apps from the CM7 install were preserved and no apparent side effects from upgrading.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452625
Been playing with it for just an hour or so and have a few good and bad things...
The good part I got Android 4.0 on my Touchpad. Finally can see tablet versions of my apps and browsers that are more tablet friendly. And the UI is pretty responsive.
The bad part. Both Google browsers seem a tad slower than Dolphin at loading a page and flicker a little bit while loading, both should be a lot better than this. The touch screen doesn't seem quite right CM9 Alpha 0.6 mentioned some fix was added, but more work is needed, tapping icons more often causes the page to move than activate the icon, taps sometimes don't register at all.
Other than the screen being finicky and the Google browsers acting a bit weird, I'd say things are working well enough that I'll continue using it a while longer. There are numerous other tiny bugs and imperfections and the big one is video acceleration still isn't working, but I can live with these.
Oh one other issue I ran into, sometimes the combination bar (the soft keys and notification bar at the bottom) doesn't hide in full screen apps or there are apps that don't have fullscreen mode but would work better without that bar on. So I needed a way to force that bar to hide. Someone created a toggle that you can install that will do this.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15924-no-way-to-hide-the-bottom-bar-in-cm9/page__st__70
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Is there a way to revert to the old CM7 option if CM9 doesn't work so well?
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Beid25 posted:
Is there a way to revert to the old CM7 option if CM9 doesn't work so well?
Not sure, but I'm guessing no.
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Looks like I will be sticking with CM7 for the time being. I am happy with CM7 and really don't want to go back to WebOS if there is no revert option.
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Well if it goes badly, you can always start over and reinstall CM7. Which is probably what I'm about to do, kinda getting annoying having to double and triple tap all the time because the screen sensitivity is messed up or something.
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I'm using the ACMEUninstaller and completely removing Android from the tablet. This should leave only WebOS on the tablet. Then I'm going to try CM9.0.6 Alpha "fullofbugs" (that's really the name of the ROM file, haha) again.
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Wiped Android and did a fresh install of CM9, played around with it some more. Screen sensitivity still didn't seem right. Decided to wipe it again and return to CM7 (latest Xronified ROM). CM7 definitely runs really great on this though. CM9 needs a bit more time, but looks very promising.
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I guess when I first got this it was cause it was a great deal and I could play around with roots on it.
Is it bad that I really like web os a lot and don't see a need to root? What am I missing web os seems like a great OS.
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my only gripes with cm9 is that the screen sensitivity is way off to every other android device i've used and youtube and my camera doesn't work.
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