Hi Roland and friends,
Yes, in my experience your boot issues are
Due to your stock boot.img. That seems to be the one stop everyone gets stuck
At with the Open. Look back at 
Step 5 in my other post. If you follow
Edu's process for unpacking/repacking
The boot.img and make the modifications
That Ginn outlines you should have a
Working boot.img. Be careful of the
 "chmod" placements. Ginn also mentions
having trouble with a few of the mods but
 i did all three on my US firmware model
 and works for me. You can defiantly pull
The stock boot.img from your phone (to
modify) but I think you can just unzip the
SD card update and get it too. Once you
Get a modified boot.img you should be
Up and running.

I was extremely excited when I found out 
I could get a fxos phone in the usa for 
Development tinkering but just like you
I found the reality a little disappointing, 
Frustrating would be a better term...
But then I found the info I posted on
Modifying the boot.img and things 
Changed. I would focus on the
Boot.img before you frustrate yourself.

I can probably mash up those two posts
Later into a nice walk through if that
Would help? (there is a bit of info in them
That u didn't need to use)

-Foo

-----Original Message-----
From: "Roland Lindner" <[email protected]>
Sent: ‎4/‎22/‎2014 11:03 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [b2g] ZTE Open - supported or not?

I have both necessary UDEV rules, after the first v1.3 flash (with the old 
1.0.B02 firmware still on it) it was still accessible via adb.
after the second v1.3 flash (reconfigure as "user" device, with firmware 1.1 
installed) it was not accessible anymore, adb devices shows nothing.
its running on the 1.1 ZTE firmware now, and i'll look into the modifications 
of the boot.img (but there are different explanations out there and some 
require to install cwm recovery because they are based on the Revision 01 
phones without fastboot)
the most important change seems to be to disable the built RIL-proxy, as ZTE 
obviously provides this as a blob (BAAAAD - so much for "open")
1.4 does seem out of reach anyways, since its reported to be quite unstable.

is 1.3 such a big improvement over 1.1? (just checking if its all worth the 
hassle)

i am somewhat torn now, as it does seem to be overly complicated to get a new 
build running and i do not want to install a prebuilt image of someone else.
and it more or less also confirms that this phone is anything but "open", as it 
requires basically ZTE to provide the updates, as hacking the boot.img only 
gets you so far.

let me ask the other way around:
except the sold out Geeksphones, what phone can one buy that will actually run 
on a "vanilla" build of Firefox OS - i.e. is there any phone which can be 
updated by oneself without having to jump through hoops and hoping for 
continued support of the manufacturer?

also, the porting of ICS Android devices does not seem to be really explained,
and on XDA for example there are some people involved in doing ports, but they 
also don't want to "spill the beans".
why i ask? i have a nice old Samsung Galaxy Apollo lying around here, Android 
ICS is available for it (via an unofficial Cyanogenmod port) and it does seem 
to be in the same ballpark as the ZTE Open performance wise.
also since FFOS introduced dual sim support, i have a Samsung Galaxy Grand to 
play around with and test that. ;)

i am not just jet willing to giving up on FFOS, as i really like the basic idea 
behind it.
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