Hi Thomas, what I did was surprisingly easy with the help of the images that Bruno sent the link to. They are from the "VegnuX" project that is hosted at http://b2g.vegnux.org.ve/ -- I've since tried to use the v1.2 images (which worked nicely). Here's what I did in short:
1. Download the v1.2 image from http://b2g.vegnux.org.ve/downloads/hamachi/v1.2/ (I've used images-hamachi-v1.2-20131028.zip md5sum b1efa31e6e11a66f76a437829cad8bcd) 2. Extract the ZIP to a temp directory. You'll see that included is a "system.img" and "userdata.img" file. 3. Disconnect the phone from USB, shut it off (maybe remove the battery if it doesn't shut off). When completely off, hit the "volume down" key and turn it on. Keep "volume down" pressed for a few seconds. You should see the phone display the Alcatel logo and hang there. The phone is now in fastboot mode. Connect it to the PC via USB. 4. Verify the phone is in fastboot mode by issuing: $ fastboot devices (you should see one device connected) 5. Now flash the image from vegnux: $ fastboot erase cache $ fastboot flash system /tmp/images-hamachi-v1.2-20131028/system.img $ fastboot flash userdata /tmp/images-hamachi-v1.2-20131028/userdata.img 6. After flashing completed successfully, restart the phone: $ fastboot restart 7. Your phone should boot up (but only have English and a few other languages that I all don't speak available). SIM functionality should work with this image. 8. Build B2G with your locale (German in my case), I've also used BRANCH="v1.2" 9. Flash the phone using the adb flashing mode (simply invoke "./flash.sh" after having booted into a ro.secure=0 image, as is described on http://k.japko.eu/alcatel-otf-hackers-guide-1.html in nice detail). 10. You should now have a phone that works again with your own B2G version and your desired locale(s). I might add that while I do have plenty of embedded linux experience, I'm a complete novice with smartphones. So this howto may contain errors and/or inaccuracies. Please correct if encountered. Hope that helps, Best regards, Joe On 18.11.2013 16:54, T.L. wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > if you have the time, could you maybe do a little howto on the process > you used? > > Thanks in advance, > > Thomas _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
