Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Available on the HP TouchPad

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Been waiting to get Ice Cream Sandwich on your HP TouchPad? Your wait is over CyanogenMod has release CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 for the HP TouchPad. Before you install the custom ROM on your HP TouchPad keep in mind that there are parts of the ROM that are not yet working.

CM9 Alpha 0 Features Not Working:

Hardware video (OMX) – this means no Netflix and only non-HD videos work in YouTube
Audio isn’t working right; microphone doesn’t work well
Camera doesn’t work
Market filters prevent certain apps from being installed
Titanium Backup crashes the kernel
Most of the hardware problems from CM7 still exists in CM9
Gapps intended for CM7/Gingerbread will not work in CM9/ICS

CyanogenMod has not only released the ROM to install Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich on the TouchPad but also released the source to allow developers to help with improvements.