How to get to the home screen on HP TouchPad?

XP1 · 08/30/2011, 01:30 AM

How to get to the home screen on HP TouchPad?

Is there a different way of getting to the home screen or showing the cards rather than pushing the physical button on top of the USB port?

netwrkr9 · 08/30/2011, 01:32 AM

Tapping the power button.

Knucklehead · 08/30/2011, 01:32 AM

Start an upward swipe from just below screen border and go off the top of the screen.

rmausser · 08/30/2011, 01:32 AM

You can perform an upswipe.

Swipe from off the bottom of the screen onto the screen and lift your finger off the touchscreen when you are about halfway up it.

FenrirWolf · 08/30/2011, 01:33 AM

Swipe up from below the screen and you'll minimize an app the same way that hitting the home button does.

viper151 · 08/30/2011, 01:33 AM

Flick up from the bezel to the mid of the screen and the home screen will be revealed to you.

netwrkr9 · 08/30/2011, 01:34 AM

Yeah, swipe up from the bottom, thought you were talking about when the device is asleep.

MicahDG · 08/30/2011, 02:04 AM

If by home you mean the screen with all the app icons (a.k.a. the ipad's style of a home screen) you need to do two swiped from the bottom

spud101 · 08/30/2011, 02:33 AM

Or one swipe with two fingers.

jedinat · 08/30/2011, 02:58 AM

I showed my father how to do this today after he'd owned the thing a week. It's something I'd been doing since the first minute of use; he'd watched me do it many times on my own touchpad... I don't get some people. Is there like a block in their brains?

You sit down in someone else's car and you don't have to ask what this wheel does, even though it looks different than the wheel on your own car. Why is it that so many people are so stupid when it come to computers, etc.? They ask me which button is pause on the ipod I lend them--It's the one with the pause symbol!! How do I [do 100 different things] on my email? I don't know!! I've never used that email client before! Let me take .3 seconds to figure it out for you!!! Why won't the TV turn on? I don't know--I hardly ever watch the TV, whereas you do EVERY DAY! But let me show you!

Yeah, tangent.

XP1 · 08/30/2011, 03:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knucklehead

Start an upward swipe from just below screen border and go off the top of the screen.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rmausser

You can perform an upswipe.
Swipe from off the bottom of the screen onto the screen and lift your finger off the touchscreen when you are about halfway up it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FenrirWolf

Swipe up from below the screen and you'll minimize an app the same way that hitting the home button does.

I got it. Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jedinat

I showed my father how to do this today after he'd owned the thing a week. It's something I'd been doing since the first minute of use; he'd watched me do it many times on my own touchpad... I don't get some people. Is there like a block in their brains?

I have never seen someone else use a TouchPad before, so I think asking how to go the home screen is a good question.

Ozpeter · 08/30/2011, 03:49 AM

Mine came with a short quick start leaflet covering all that kind of thing. Two in fact. You could probably download pdf versions from HP. There's also a full-scale downloadable pdf manual, something like 200 pages. When I think I know everything about it, I'll read the manual right through to discover that actually, I don't!

crucialcolin · 08/30/2011, 03:50 AM

I was wondering if there was another way to accomplish this. Thanks all

It seems to me like the physical home button is little weak and could be a breaking point with extended usage over time. Anyway to avoid using it so often is a good thing

next_milenium · 08/30/2011, 03:55 AM

I think its horrible for you to call your father and others who aren't quite tech savy stupid. I'm sure there are subjects you aren't so good at and that doesn't make you stupid, does it?

jmpierson · 08/30/2011, 07:08 AM

Once I found the swipe up on the screen, I haven't used the button since...

kamalot · 08/30/2011, 10:20 AM

There's a button on this thing?

Mr Hyde · 08/30/2011, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spud101

Or one swipe with two fingers.

I had no idea about the two finger swipe. Very cool, thanks!

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netwrkr9 Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3,132 Likes Received: 154 Thanks: 453 Thanked 495 Times in 364 Posts	Tapping the power button.
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Knucklehead Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 248 Likes Received: 26 Thanks: 26 Thanked 42 Times in 26 Posts	Start an upward swipe from just below screen border and go off the top of the screen.
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rmausser Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 1,487 Likes Received: 311 Thanks: 64 Thanked 660 Times in 214 Posts	You can perform an upswipe. Swipe from off the bottom of the screen onto the screen and lift your finger off the touchscreen when you are about halfway up it.
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FenrirWolf Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 901 Likes Received: 83 Thanks: 19 Thanked 121 Times in 101 Posts	Swipe up from below the screen and you'll minimize an app the same way that hitting the home button does.
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viper151 Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 292 Likes Received: 40 Thanks: 10 Thanked 21 Times in 17 Posts	Flick up from the bezel to the mid of the screen and the home screen will be revealed to you.
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netwrkr9 Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3,132 Likes Received: 154 Thanks: 453 Thanked 495 Times in 364 Posts	Yeah, swipe up from the bottom, thought you were talking about when the device is asleep.
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MicahDG Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 234 Likes Received: 13 Thanks: 99 Thanked 20 Times in 15 Posts	If by home you mean the screen with all the app icons (a.k.a. the ipad's style of a home screen) you need to do two swiped from the bottom __________________
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spud101 Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 825 Likes Received: 66 Thanks: 78 Thanked 96 Times in 53 Posts	Or one swipe with two fingers.
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jedinat Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 97 Likes Received: 38 Thanks: 11 Thanked 20 Times in 7 Posts	I showed my father how to do this today after he'd owned the thing a week. It's something I'd been doing since the first minute of use; he'd watched me do it many times on my own touchpad... I don't get some people. Is there like a block in their brains? You sit down in someone else's car and you don't have to ask what this wheel does, even though it looks different than the wheel on your own car. Why is it that so many people are so stupid when it come to computers, etc.? They ask me which button is pause on the ipod I lend them--It's the one with the pause symbol!! How do I [do 100 different things] on my email? I don't know!! I've never used that email client before! Let me take .3 seconds to figure it out for you!!! Why won't the TV turn on? I don't know--I hardly ever watch the TV, whereas you do EVERY DAY! But let me show you! Yeah, tangent.
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08/30/2011, 03:49 AM	#12 (permalink)
Ozpeter Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 117 Likes Received: 9 Thanks: 4 Thanked 27 Times in 15 Posts	Mine came with a short quick start leaflet covering all that kind of thing. Two in fact. You could probably download pdf versions from HP. There's also a full-scale downloadable pdf manual, something like 200 pages. When I think I know everything about it, I'll read the manual right through to discover that actually, I don't!
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crucialcolin Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 231 Likes Received: 11 Thanks: 12 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	I was wondering if there was another way to accomplish this. Thanks all It seems to me like the physical home button is little weak and could be a breaking point with extended usage over time. Anyway to avoid using it so often is a good thing
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next_milenium Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 333 Likes Received: 29 Thanks: 14 Thanked 27 Times in 19 Posts	I think its horrible for you to call your father and others who aren't quite tech savy stupid. I'm sure there are subjects you aren't so good at and that doesn't make you stupid, does it?
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