On 14 Oct 2014, at 19:46, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/14/14, 12:54 AM, Paul Scott wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> As a way of introduction (first post), my name is Paul and I am from >> South Africa. >> >> Formalities aside, I have managed to install FirefoxOS onto an old S2 >> now, but would like to point out a few things that may help others at a >> later stage. >> >> 1. Heimdall - Building latest from source produces errors. Rather use >> the 64bit packaged version from Ubuntu 14.04 repos. i.e. Don't use >> heimdall-flash:i386 >> >> 2. flash.sh - You need to change all instances of factoryfs to uppercase >> FACTORYFS, as well as kernel to KERNEL (check your pit output to confirm) >> >> 3. The Siyah-s2 Recovery ROM works best. CWM works as well, but there >> are a few issues. >> >> 4. Flashing using flash.sh will get the base OS working OK, but gaia >> seems busted out the box. A make reset-gaia PRODUCTION=1 will succeed >> subsequently. >> >> I am now at this point, so I will hopefully be able to update again >> soon. Time now to write some apps! >> >> Thanks for a really great project! >> >> -- Paul > > > Thank you for sharing your experience here. I'm sure it will be valuable to > other S2 folks.
These are great tips - thanks Paul! I’ve taken the liberty of adding them to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Follow_Samsung_Galaxy_S2_extra_steps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Install_heimdall Let me know if they look ok. Best, Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
