14 DAY TRIAL // Android 4.4 KitKat has just been pushed into the wild and many devices are waiting to receive the update. If that's not interesting enough, hackers are already at work to bring an unofficial build to some devices many of us have long forgotten.
This is the case of the two-year-old HP TouchPad, a 9.7-inch tablet that features a dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM plus 16GB of internal storage. It also packed the now-extinct webOS operating system. The slate is no stranger to hacking, as we have seen versions of Android and Linux running on it.
Developer flintman has been working an Android Open Source ROM called Evervolv, which got posted on the xda-developers forum. And KitKat is a task in progress since mid-November.
Nevertheless, don’t get your hopes up. This is an experimental version of the build and a lot of features are currently obsolete. Bluetooth is not functional, the web browser doesn't work and there’s always the risk of data loss.
Bottom line is that at this moment the OS is not stable enough and all you can pretty much do now is help with the bug testing. If you’re curious enough and want to give it a go, user Roland Deschain has posted a video to teach you how to do so. You’ll need to use the ACMEInstaller tool, which allows you to flash Android onto a device running webOS.