Tried Koush's Alpha 11/12, and while pretty good for alpha builds the interface just seemed sluggish, wholly apart from the new (and bad IMO, less flick-ey and more stick-ey, ymmv) scrolling algorithms in ICS. The Cyanogenmod developers don't like being asked for ETA's, but their last update was six weeks ago, hopefully we'll get some news for non-touchpad devices soon.
Did you try a different launcher? The default one is crappy. ADW EX is MUCH smoother as is go launcher. Not perfect, but a whole lot better than the bundled launcher.
It makes a good demo because everyone knows exactly how it should run (and it's faster to load since it's pretty much always near the top of the Market :P).
I hope its more stable than Gingerbread CM7. I've had that on my TP for a couple of weeks and have experienced several crashes, reboots, one touchscreen crash, and twice I've lost downloaded apps with no explanation. And that was all with very sporadic use in the first 3 days after downloading it. I certainly haven't pushed it. On the plus side, theres a ton more toys to download on Android than poor webOS.
I hope ICS will fix these problems. Maybe I'd use the thing a little more, at least initially just for kicks. Overall, tablets feel like rather useless gadgets if you have a halfway decent PC around. I knew that before jumping in and I still feel the same afterwards.
I have found some nice uses for my TouchPad. I use it while watching TV/movies to check what's going on in Facebook and such. When I'm travelling, I find it a lot easier to watch movies on the TP than on a laptop whenever there isn't a table available. It's also something I take with me to the toilet, it's nice to read some comics while doing other "business" at the same time.
When a proper ICS port is released for the TP, I believe I'll use it even more as more apps become available than there are in the HP AppCatalogue. Such as the free XBMC Remote.
There's also a fairly decent working alpha of CM9 on the Nook Color. Everything works for the most part, but unfortunately, HW acceleration is not working due to no updated GPU drivers. However, you can still do most everything on it, it's just a little slower in places vs CM7.
I installed it on my hp touchpad, and for the most part it works fine, there are a couple of glitches, I guess the biggest is turning it on, when I go to turn it on, I have to hold the power button and the home button, ne idea why?
Have Team Hacksung's ICS build on my Captivate, runs very well... and CM7A3.5 on my touchpad, again runs great for an Alpha... In reality, it should be considered Beta.. but whatever. Only issue I've had hit me is that if left in a sleep state for a long time, there is a low percentage chance its not waking up. Other then that, the odd time I need to sighup wifi... Not bad at all for an Alpha build, on a mostly unsupported tablet. Quite impressed considering I paid 0$ for the OS and $99 and $149 respectively for my two Touchpads.
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tipoo - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
Tried Koush's Alpha 11/12, and while pretty good for alpha builds the interface just seemed sluggish, wholly apart from the new (and bad IMO, less flick-ey and more stick-ey, ymmv) scrolling algorithms in ICS. The Cyanogenmod developers don't like being asked for ETA's, but their last update was six weeks ago, hopefully we'll get some news for non-touchpad devices soon.EnzoFX - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
My experience was the same just recently as having finally installed CM7 on the Touchpad. More "flick-ey" seems more intuitive to me =P.randomlinh - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
Did you try a different launcher? The default one is crappy. ADW EX is MUCH smoother as is go launcher. Not perfect, but a whole lot better than the bundled launcher.webmastir - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
Why must one demo Angry Birds. Please find a new game to demo already.JNo - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
I know. It impressed when first out but now there's so much more that's better gameplay-wise and graphically...A5 - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
It makes a good demo because everyone knows exactly how it should run (and it's faster to load since it's pretty much always near the top of the Market :P).augiem - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
I hope its more stable than Gingerbread CM7. I've had that on my TP for a couple of weeks and have experienced several crashes, reboots, one touchscreen crash, and twice I've lost downloaded apps with no explanation. And that was all with very sporadic use in the first 3 days after downloading it. I certainly haven't pushed it. On the plus side, theres a ton more toys to download on Android than poor webOS.I hope ICS will fix these problems. Maybe I'd use the thing a little more, at least initially just for kicks. Overall, tablets feel like rather useless gadgets if you have a halfway decent PC around. I knew that before jumping in and I still feel the same afterwards.
Kepe - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
I have found some nice uses for my TouchPad. I use it while watching TV/movies to check what's going on in Facebook and such. When I'm travelling, I find it a lot easier to watch movies on the TP than on a laptop whenever there isn't a table available. It's also something I take with me to the toilet, it's nice to read some comics while doing other "business" at the same time.When a proper ICS port is released for the TP, I believe I'll use it even more as more apps become available than there are in the HP AppCatalogue. Such as the free XBMC Remote.
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
There's also a fairly decent working alpha of CM9 on the Nook Color. Everything works for the most part, but unfortunately, HW acceleration is not working due to no updated GPU drivers. However, you can still do most everything on it, it's just a little slower in places vs CM7.sirhat1 - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - link
I installed it on my hp touchpad, and for the most part it works fine, there are a couple of glitches, I guess the biggest is turning it on, when I go to turn it on, I have to hold the power button and the home button, ne idea why?ViRGE - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link
Sweet! As a $99 TouchPad buyer this is what I've been waiting for. I hope they manage to fully hammer out Android on the TouchPad.Darkskypoet - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link
Have Team Hacksung's ICS build on my Captivate, runs very well... and CM7A3.5 on my touchpad, again runs great for an Alpha... In reality, it should be considered Beta.. but whatever. Only issue I've had hit me is that if left in a sleep state for a long time, there is a low percentage chance its not waking up. Other then that, the odd time I need to sighup wifi... Not bad at all for an Alpha build, on a mostly unsupported tablet. Quite impressed considering I paid 0$ for the OS and $99 and $149 respectively for my two Touchpads.