Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-11-11 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 10/11/2014 15:51, Daniel Wacker wrote: Yes, fastboot is working after holding volume down on reboot. But what is it good for without having any kernel image (or source) to flash or boot? Good point. Though you should be able to flash the system image this way which might allow you to

Re: [b2g] simple push does not work anymore

2014-11-11 Thread FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ SELA
Hi Jovan, It's curious... What're the contents of your /data/b2g/mozilla/your_profile_name.default/prefs.js file? Also, can you get the gecko level values?: You can use this script: https://gist.github.com/frsela/f1ae610563767684e389 use as: get.omni.ja.from.phone.sh folder_name

Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Wacker
Yes, fastboot is working after holding volume down on reboot. But what is it good for without having any kernel image (or source) to flash or boot? Good point. Though you should be able to flash the system image this way which might allow you to replace gecko/gaia. Sounds good, but my

[b2g] Improve performance on multi-core device

2014-11-11 Thread Ting-Yu Chou
Hello, We opened bug 1093564 to improve the performance on quad-core (or more) devices, and currently we're working mainly on application launch time as it is the major requirement from partner. But indeed we want to improve the performance of user's daily use, so I am sending this email to

Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Wacker
Yes, fastboot is working after holding volume down on reboot. But what is it good for without having any kernel image (or source) to flash or boot? Good point. Though you should be able to flash the system image this way which might allow you to replace gecko/gaia. Sounds good, but my

[b2g] Expose Storage Area, so people can write apps

2014-11-11 Thread André Jaenisch
So Firefox OS is heading to Africa. Great! I'm really excited! But thinking of it, I joined a chat on Twitter [0] yesterday. The topic was whether Firefox OS can bring web literacy/development to mobiles. You probably have heard about the Firetext project [1]. It's a text processor for Firefox

Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-11-11 Thread André Jaenisch
Am 2014-11-10 15:16, schrieb Daniel Wacker: This is exactly hat I was trying to do, but sadly I'm coming upon a closed/locked system: # mount ... /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ... ... /dev/block/vold/259:1 /storage/sdcard0

Re: [b2g] New Device, Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2014-11-11 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 11/11/2014 12:32, Daniel Wacker wrote: Sounds good, but my main problem now is that I have two devices one of which is bricked (since I accidentally did a fastboot flash instead of a fastboot boot). So I need a way to get the boot image off the working phone, on which I don't have any

[b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Dietrich Ayala
Is anyone using Windows 7/8 and working with the Spreadtrum devices that were shipped in India? I couldn't find an official USB driver, only links to file drop sites. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org

Re: [b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Aaron Cajes (Mozilla PHL)
Is it for development purposes? I was finding one too but got no luck yet. But luckily, i found a workaround. If you have an Android SDK installed in your computer, you can put this in your adb_usb.ini file at the end of the comments: 0x1782 Then open cmd and type adb devices and that should do

Re: [b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Kaustav Das Modak
The drivers are needed for the phone to be recognized as a valid device. Once the drivers are recognized, we can use the adb_usb.ini method in it. We found unsigned drivers on the internet, for which Windows 8 developers have to turn off device signing check. However, even using the modifications

Re: [b2g] Future of packaged apps

2014-11-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:55:58 AM UTC+2, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Ben Francis bfran...@mozilla.com wrote: It seems that the W3C proposal is incompatible with arguably the main use case of packaged apps in Firefox OS, which is the cryptographic signing

Re: [b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Aaron Cajes (Mozilla PHL)
Hi Kaustav, That's weird. Modifying the adb_usb.ini works for me. I'm using Windows 8.1 Enterprise and it can automatically detect my phone on adb devices, and can push apps using the App Manager and just now i have managed to push an app using WebIDE. The device name will be a mix of letters

[b2g] what if.... android merged into B2G?

2014-11-11 Thread Techno Buddha
I'm a big fan of what Mozilla stands for! Open Source, and no closed source code. its closed source for a reason! I'm a strong believer of google spying, since they've already agreed to allow the US Gov to have complete access to their CLOUD infrastructure:

Re: [b2g] Trouble updating Firefox OS on Mozilla Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Dee
Hello Dave, I have copied this rule before from the website. Mine /etc/udev/rules.d/android.rules looks like this: SUBSYSTEM==usb, ATTR{idVendor}==05c6, MODE=0666, GROUP=plugdev But even after reloading the rules with your line below, fastboot does not work without sudo. $ fastboot devices no

Re: [b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Kaustav Das Modak
Hey Aaron, I'm not sure about how your driver was installed. But the machines that we tried it on, did not have Android SDK installed, nor even the platform-tools. On 11 November 2014 21:35, Aaron Cajes (Mozilla PHL) aaronca...@mozillaph.org wrote: Hi Kaustav, That's weird. Modifying the

Re: [b2g] Trouble updating Firefox OS on Mozilla Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Dave Hylands
When the device goes into fastboot mode, the vendor id changes to 18d1. When the phone is in fastboot mode, you should see an entry like this when you run lsusb: Bus 003 Device 097: ID 18d1:d00d Google Inc. The line for the USB id 05c6 covers everything except fastboot mode. You need the

Re: [b2g] Trouble updating Firefox OS on Mozilla Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Dee
Hi Dave, adding the second line with Google helped, thanks. I have missed that part in the manual. After re-reading it, it seems clear that I should have added this line before. Thanks Dominik Am 11.11.2014 um 17:46 schrieb Dave Hylands: When the device goes into fastboot mode, the vendor id

[b2g] reference phone improvements

2014-11-11 Thread Asa Dotzler
As we star work on the next reference device(s) I wanted to reach out to y'all and ask you how the Flame *hardware* has worked for you as a daily driver (dogfooding) device. What do you like and dislike about the Flame hardware when it comes to using the phone as a daily driver, and what

[b2g] OTA updates for Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Nino Vranešič
Hello, I have installed Firefox OS 2.0 on Flame a while ago. But didn't receive any OTA updates. I have tried to change the update channel with change_channel.sh, but nothing worked. When setting release channel to nightly I get notification for update. But update fails to download (0MB is

Re: [b2g] OTA updates for Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Sebastian Becerra
Hi Nino, OTA Updates are still not working on 2.0,2.1 and 2.2. Instead of that if you don't want to lose your data you can apply the backup_restore_profile.sh Script to save all of your data and then restore it when you've done the flash... If you have any question, let me know! Cheers,

Re: [b2g] OTA updates for Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Gabriela Montagu
OTA updates are working fine for me on 2.2 and base image v188! I have to search for them though: Device information, search for updates, search now. What base image are you using? Maybe an older one causes the issue? I hope this helps! Best regards, Gabriela On 11 Nov 2014 18:16, Sebastian

Re: [b2g] OTA updates for Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Asa Dotzler
On 11/11/14, 1:10 PM, Nino Vranešič wrote: Hello, I have installed Firefox OS 2.0 on Flame a while ago. But didn't receive any OTA updates. I have tried to change the update channel with change_channel.sh, but nothing worked. When setting release channel to nightly I get notification for

Re: [b2g] reference phone improvements

2014-11-11 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
Like: Look and feel, build quality etc Dislike: Lack of 4G/LTE band (as a North American dogfooder this hurts), Wish audio jack was at bottom, the power jack seems akward and sometimes I have issues plugging in my micro usb This is totally side topic but would be nice to have a partner making

Re: [b2g] reference phone improvements

2014-11-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
Crappy camera has definitely been the biggest issue for me. And what makes me most eager to stop dogfooding. And I agree that I like the feel of the device in my hand. / Jonas On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Asa Dotzler a...@mozilla.com wrote: As we star work on the next reference device(s) I

Re: [b2g] Expose Storage Area, so people can write apps

2014-11-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
We already have APIs for reading/writing to the SD card or other internal device storage areas. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Device_Storage_API But we were lacking the ability to install an app that has been written to the SD card. However that was recently added here

Re: [b2g] Mulet - New desktop runtime

2014-11-11 Thread Eitan Isaacson
I think we need to take out all the firefox helpers from DESKTOP=1, but keep some things, like the additional-extensions downloader. We use it currently to install the screen reader simulator. Looks like that extension doesn't work out of the box with Mulet, but

Re: [b2g] reference phone improvements

2014-11-11 Thread Axel Hecht
On 11/11/14 10:04 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: As we star work on the next reference device(s) I wanted to reach out to y'all and ask you how the Flame *hardware* has worked for you as a daily driver (dogfooding) device. What do you like and dislike about the Flame hardware when it comes to using the

Re: [b2g] Spreadtrum drivers for Windows?

2014-11-11 Thread Ralph Daub
Hi, I am in touch with Vance Chen, our TAM with contacts for Spreadtrum, and they have released a driver that possibly works - however, it's not hosted anywhere, so I have it on my Dropbox for the time being. Here is my comment on the SUMO forums (including a link to the file), where I am

Re: [b2g] reference phone improvements

2014-11-11 Thread Dee
Hello Asa, Like: * external volume control * headphone plug-in at the top (at least near the volume control) * has a good feel in the hand Dislike: * Changing volume control works even when no music is playing. This accidentaly changes the volume when the phone is in my pocket. And often it gets

Re: [b2g] OTA updates for Flame

2014-11-11 Thread Dee
Hello, Nino, which updates are you expecting? Flame just got its first OTA update with the move from 1.3 to 2.0 yesterday. I'm not Nino but I would have expected some security updates that fix security issues that have occured since the base image (in my case v188). @Nino: Do App updates

Re: [b2g] Mulet - New desktop runtime

2014-11-11 Thread Kevin Grandon
The idea of the DESKTOP=1 helpers was that they provide some basic API shims that were not available on Firefox Nightly before. I am sure that there are still some shims that we want to mock in the new simulator, we should probably just go through and check them one by one. For now though, it