Hey,
On 4/19/14, 4:01 PM, Hydroid wrote:
I have a locked alcatel one touch fire with firefox os and I have tried to unlock it. I flashed the system from 1.1 to 1.3 but it didnt work. So my problem: On what software layer is the phone locked?
You are right that the 'lock' mechanism is below anything we have access to.
The Alcatel has two CPUs with the first running a closed source OS and controlling, among other things, the cellular telephony chips. The second CPU runs linux/gonk and is what we can modify if we have a 'rooted' phone or access to the fastboot boot stage.
I am not sure whether the 'locking' of the phone is a software thing or involves some modifiable ROM in a hardware chip. However, it requires low level interaction. There is a system to unlock the phone and many telephone shops claim to be able to get the right code to 'unlock' these phones but I have not yet been successful. If you try, beware that there is a hard coded limit on the number of unlock attempts you can make before you will need to get help from the various companies involved in selling you the hardware.
Yeah, this is terrible. ~adrian _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
