Re: [b2g] Only GCC 4.7 or newer supported

2015-08-17 Thread Gabriele Svelto
This might be related to bug 1087161 [1] as the issue is not caused by your host compiler but rather by the cross-compiler used to build gecko. Gabriele [1] Investigate upgrading the toolchain used for B2G ICS/JB/KK/L builds to GCC 4.9 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087161

Re: [b2g] For those who encountered battery life issues

2015-07-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 06/07/2015 16:14, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > It seems like wakeups are something we should try to track over time, > so we find issues like this more quickly. > > Can we use some performance system like Talos / Raptor / etc. to track > these over time with each build? I'd say mostly yes dependi

[b2g] For those who encountered battery life issues

2015-07-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
[cross posting to dev-gaia and dev-b2g since this affects all devices] We've identified a rather bad battery-draining issue that had lingered in our codebase for a long time in bug 1173140 [1]. Fabrice just landed a fix in bug 1180533 [2] so it should trickle down to devices with the next update (

Re: [b2g] Flame is recently constantly hot

2015-07-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Same issue here, I noticed that the battery drained overnight and the phone didn't even have the data connection on (nor wifi enabled). I've run my own scripts this morning monitoring the system for 10 minutes and the main b2g process woke up ~120 times. So either something landed in the system ap

Re: [b2g] RIL module owner/peer update

2015-06-17 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Congrats to everybody and thanks for your excellent work on the RIL! Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g

Re: [b2g] PSA: Please avoid landing risky patches on master/m-c for 3 weeks

2015-06-07 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 08/06/2015 04:19, Greg Weng wrote: > BTW, I don't know why we looks like to have no standard working model > for "risky" patches. I mean, as Vivien mentioned, and what I've seen > in other OSS projects, to create a new branch for such radical changes > is a 100% rational action. +1 If we need

Re: [b2g] Updates for the Web Telephony API documentation

2015-06-04 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 03/06/2015 20:39, Chris Mills wrote: > Just a quick heads up: whilst fixing a few dev-doc-needed bug requests, I > came upon some recent additions to the Web Telephony API that needed adding. > This quickly turned into a huge rabbit hole, as it turns out our Web > Telephony API docs are way o

Re: [b2g] Can we build Firefox OS on 32-bit Ubuntu

2015-06-01 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 31/05/2015 14:28, Sai Karthik wrote: > Since my pc cannot support 64bit OS Can i use 32bit OS to build Firefox OS & > my phone processor is also 32bit. Please explain Generally speaking we don't support building FxOS on a 32-bit OS so there's no guarantee it will work. That being said if your

Re: [b2g] Using a shallow B2G clone for faster download times and reduced storage requirements

2015-05-14 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 13/05/2015 21:37, Juan Antonio Aguilera Tamayo wrote: > I have the same error for KEON, I see that is for Geekphone devices, the > log... I've done a few tests and it seems that non-master branches don't work when using a shallow clone and even on the master branch I cannot seem to be able to f

Re: [b2g] Using a shallow B2G clone for faster download times and reduced storage requirements

2015-05-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/05/2015 17:44, kgu...@mozilla.com wrote: > Would changing this default affect syncing of existing "full" clones at all? > I assume not but worth checking. No, it doesn't. Running a 'repo init' with depth set to 1 over an existing clone doesn't seem to have any effect (i.e. since the history

Re: [b2g] Using a shallow B2G clone for faster download times and reduced storage requirements

2015-05-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/05/2015 17:22, Greg Weng wrote: > I've a patch for it: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1161909 Thanks for the heads' up Greg, as I wrote in my reply to Kevin I'd rather have this as the default with the full clone being available as an option. > Also, I prefer to provide a

Re: [b2g] Using a shallow B2G clone for faster download times and reduced storage requirements

2015-05-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/05/2015 17:13, Kevin Grandon wrote: > This looks really great, thanks for the tip! It seems like needing the > history of things pulled in by config.sh would be the exception, and not > the norm. How do you feel about making this the default? If it were for me I'd make this the default while

[b2g] Using a shallow B2G clone for faster download times and reduced storage requirements

2015-05-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
[cross-posting to dev-gaia] TL;DR a shallow clone of the main B2G repo downloads 1/10th of the stuff needed for a full clone and takes half the space on disk (including built objects). Unless you have a very important reason for keeping the whole project history around go ahead and use it, it's ac

Re: [b2g] 3.0 Flame testing, the pretend-256M 319M memory threshold, , , and GC settings

2015-05-07 Thread Gabriele Svelto
I've filed bug 1151672 [1] with full memory reports attached. I've CC'd some people who might be interested but feel free to add more. It seems that bug 1151672 [2] is responsible for most of the USS increase but I've spotted some other issues outside of that, some of which look like genuine regres

Re: [b2g] 3.0 Flame testing, the pretend-256M 319M memory threshold, , , and GC settings

2015-05-07 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 07/05/2015 15:48, Eli Perelman wrote: > From what I understand, launch times and memory usage are both > underground large regressions right now from the preallocated process bug: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151672 Thanks for pointing that out. I've glanced over the about

Re: [b2g] 3.0 Flame testing, the pretend-256M 319M memory threshold, , , and GC settings

2015-05-07 Thread Gabriele Svelto
> On 03/25/2015 5:49 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: > > Previous experience suggests that if we relax the limits at all it's going > to be quite difficult to claw that back. > > Somebody should take some memory reports from 2.2 and trunk and diff them, > so we can start looking at where the fat is. After mu

Re: [b2g] Failure: `BRANCH=v1-train ./config.sh emulator`

2015-05-07 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 06/05/2015 22:38, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Then I built the `emulator-jb` B2G, and the boot image. > > Attempt to boot the device with that image: > > $ fastboot boot myboot.img > downloading 'boot.img'... > OKAY [ 0.302s] > booting... > FAILED (remote: dtb not found) >

Re: [b2g] SERIOUS ISSUE!! (was: Peak doesn't boot anymore)

2015-05-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 07/05/2015 00:42, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: > But what really scares me is hat this simple mistake was able to break > my entire device... I filed a bug here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162281 Good point, our parsing code should be more robust than this. Gabriele signatu

Re: [b2g] Compiling Fire C kernel: What am I doing wrong?

2015-05-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 04/05/2015 14:16, Felix E. Klee wrote: > What follows are the steps that I undertook. They lead to an error > message. Now I wonder: *Did I do something wrong, or did Alcatel not > provide the proper source code?* That's an interesting question... Is the AndroidKernel.mk setting some environmen

Re: [b2g] Failure: `BRANCH=v1-train ./config.sh emulator`

2015-05-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 04/05/2015 01:07, Felix E. Klee wrote: > With the `flame` target, build fails with: > > Blob setup script has changed, re-running > Backing up system partition to backup-flame > error: device not found The script is trying to pull binary blobs from the device. This is possible if t

Re: [b2g] Whose copyright does Alcatel violate?

2015-04-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/04/2015 16:50, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Don't know if it was me asking again and again, also escalating the > issue with telephone support two weeks ago, but the source has finally > been released on the 9th: > > Excellent news! Bugging them c

Re: [b2g] Need some clarification in LMK (Firefox OS)

2015-04-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 06/04/2015 09:35, vishwas.cec2...@gmail.com wrote: > Could any one of you please clarify the relation between adjustment score and > process priority ? A summary description of how this works is here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Out_of_memory_management_on_Firefox_

Re: [b2g] Building B2G in Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)

2015-03-09 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 08/03/2015 21:44, Konstantin Ikonnikov wrote: > Can i build B2G for Alcatel OneTouch Fire E (6015X)? What phone codename > i should use? AFAIK we don't have an internal build for the E and as far as I can tell nobody succeeded in doing one externally. I've also been monitoring Alcatel source re

Re: [b2g] The new audio channel management - status update

2015-03-05 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 05/03/2015 13:36, Dominic Kuo wrote: > If you find/know any hacks about the audio > channel, PLEASE, file them and set dependency to [4], we will be very > appreciated. Also, if it's not urgent, let's NOT to write new hacks in > gaia for audio channel and I am able to provide some suggestions if

Re: [b2g] git is freezing when trying to fetch repo

2015-03-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 02/03/2015 23:48, Kobalt Kitsune wrote: > I get no errors in the terminal, and it looks like it is fetching the > repos at random from the .xml file, so it makes it difficult for me to > pinpoint the problem. I've seen this issue in the past when checking out and the only way I've solved it is

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

2015-02-26 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 15/02/2015 21:56, kissingwithsciss...@gmail.com wrote: > Anyone has some luck with this device so far? I'm in the desperate need of a > recovery image as I tried to upgrade to 2.x as well but all I achieved is a > pitch black, non-working screen so I'm trying to find any original image I > co

Re: [b2g] what does this mean in logcat?

2015-02-26 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 26/02/2015 16:23, an wrote: > That's good or bad :)? I don't know; I've seen it spam my logs for ages so I don't think it's bad. Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org htt

Re: [b2g] what does this mean in logcat?

2015-02-26 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 26/02/2015 16:00, an wrote: > I'm running v2.1 on Open C and get lots of these: > > E/QCALOG ( 707): [MessageQ] ProcessNewMessage: [XTWWAN-PE] unknown deliver > target [OS-Agent] > E/QCALOG ( 707): [MessageQ] ProcessNewMessage: [XT-CS] unknown deliver > target [OS-Agent] > E/QCALOG ( 70

Re: [b2g] Failure: `BRANCH=v1-train ./config.sh emulator`

2015-02-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/02/2015 20:02, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Aren’t the processors similar enough? The issue isn't about the processors rather than the surrounding hardware. The Fire and Fire C use different SoCs and thus will need different kernels. > The device has been out for some time. So I’m not too optimis

Re: [b2g] Failure: `BRANCH=v1-train ./config.sh emulator`

2015-02-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/02/2015 19:20, Felix E. Klee wrote: > I want to try rooting my Fire C, following the guide for the non-C Fire: > > > > B2G 1.3 is what's running on the phone, so I assume that sticking with > 1.x is safe, although I don't really understan

Re: [b2g] Failure: `BRANCH=v1-train ./config.sh emulator`

2015-02-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/02/2015 19:08, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Building 1.4 seems to have succeeded (after a couple of hickups where > I had to install missing build dependencies): Do you have a specific reason for trying older versions of the emulator? It's most likely possible to still build them but you'll have t

Re: [b2g] How to backup data from Alcatel OneTouch Fire C?

2015-02-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/02/2015 17:44, Naoki Hirata wrote: > fyi, you can probably back up the boot.img via using dd, something like : adb > shell dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd0 of=/sdcard/boot.img bs=4096 > (you'll have to look up which is the boot.img via looking at files like the > proc/partitions or proc/mounts ) > Again

Re: [b2g] Building for rasperry pi fails: ** Don't have a product spec for: 'rpi' ** Do you have the right repo manifest?

2015-02-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 17/02/2015 12:27, Jan Jongboom wrote: > ./config.sh rpi goes fine, > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Hacking_b2g_on_Raspberry_Pi links to an empty > pastebin doc, so no idea where to find this patch. > > ./build.sh fails with > > ** Don't have a product spec for: 'rpi' > ** Do you have the right re

Re: [b2g] settimeofday failed Bad file number

2015-02-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/02/2015 12:43, Panos Astithas wrote: > Why is that? > Can't we fix flash.sh to work properly, at least on the Flame? Bug 1070061 [1] has been filed for this but it apparently flew under the radar. There's already a patch there and I've flagged :mwu for review. Hopefully we'll land it soon an

Re: [b2g] Firefox OS & IoT

2015-02-16 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/02/2015 15:13, Jan Jongboom wrote: > To come back to this: is there any advantage of running Firefox OS on > the raspberry pi over any other distribution? The ui of ffos is > unsuitable for the Pi, 80% of the device APIs are for hardware that is > not present. I see no appealing thing for run

Re: [b2g] Firefox OS & IoT

2015-02-13 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 13/02/2015 12:29, Jan Jongboom wrote: > - Do you think Firefox OS has the potential to be a viable IoT platform? I think that making web technologies available in the usually deeply embedded IoT platforms would definitely go hand in hand with Mozilla's mission. While FxOS might currently be lac

Re: [b2g] Get framebuffer socket on Flame

2015-02-10 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 10/02/2015 10:38, Jan Jongboom wrote: > Anyone? Could it be that the Flame's kernel doesn't have the right module? Or maybe is just missing some kernel boot parameter or init bit? Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [b2g] GCC version to build Firefox OS

2015-02-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 02/02/2015 09:09, an wrote: > So what's the final word on this, can B2G be built with gcc 4.9 or not? I'm > on Arch Linux and there seems to be some problems with gcc 4.6, must I rescue > my Debian partition? I've been compiling B2G with gcc-4.9.2 for a few weeks now and never encountered a p

Re: [b2g] building B2G for Zen 105

2015-02-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 01/02/2015 18:36, g2 wrote: > (btw: how does one build a specific part using ./build.sh? is there some may > to do the equivalent of ./build.sh kernel or ./build.sh mali.ko) First source the proper environment: $ source setup.sh Once you've done this you can build stuff directly with make, e

Re: [b2g] Measuring CPU usage during app start up on quad-core devices

2015-01-30 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 30/01/2015 00:59, David Flanagan wrote: > I've recently been investigating some app startup time issues on > quad-core devices (like the nexus 5) and needed a way to find out how > good the Gallery app is at using all the available cores when it starts up. > > I ended up writing a python script

Re: [b2g] GCC version to build Firefox OS

2015-01-28 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 28/01/2015 11:07, Shian-Yow Wu wrote: > Do we still need gcc 4.6 as Firefox OS build prerequisite? If not, > probably we should remove this part from MDN. Being on Fedora I've been building recent branches using either GCC 4.8 and 4.9 and didn't encounter any problems. I think we can safely dr

Re: [b2g] Can't update because not enough space system/

2015-01-14 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/01/2015 14:21, Guillaume Marty wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue on 3 different Flames. I can't update OTA because there > is not enough space on system/ (about 85M). The new build is downloaded, > but uncompressing it fails. > I'm on the latest base image v18D. > > Has anyone faced a simila

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-14 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 13/01/2015 18:00, Naoki Hirata wrote: > I am not 100 % sure of this Gabriele. It depends on what feature you are > using and which version. The gaia portion can depend on some of the gecko > api calls. > > Hence you may need to match the gaia version with the appropriate gecko > version.

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-13 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 13/01/2015 11:17, leandro wrote: > i mentioned flashing only gaia because the rom originally shipped works > flawless over the hardware (camera, etc) so i would prefer test the > latest software without lose hardware features. Keep in mind that some features in the most recent version of gaia m

Re: [b2g] Bug 1120427 - Something about the way the emulator uses the sdk caused the all the emulator opt tests to fail

2015-01-13 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 13/01/2015 10:41, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > I think was in gaia/build/config/common-settings.json: 'screen.timeout' > contains the timeout in seconds. IIRC a lot of integration tests also disable the lockscreen so that it doesn't get in the way. Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-13 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/01/2015 23:16, leandro wrote: > will try to flash Gaia only Note that if you're doing gaia-only work you don't need to build the whole FxOS. The gaia sources have a makefile target (install-gaia) that installs only the gaia bits. Coupled with the APP environment variable it can be used to in

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/01/2015 20:02, leandro wrote: > thank you for your interest, Gabriele You're welcome. > /➜ ~ adb shell getprop | grep ro.build.version/ > /grep: warning: GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated; please use an alias or script/ > /[ro.build.version.codename]: [REL]/ > /[ro.build.version.incremental]: [

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 12/01/2015 17:16, leandro wrote: > can you indicate me how to get that value, please? See what you get with this command: adb shell getprop | grep ro.build.version Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ dev-b2g maili

Re: [b2g] Fire C codename

2015-01-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 11/01/2015 19:55, leandro wrote: > hi, somebody can tell me what's the Alcatel Fire C codename? > > Hamachi is ok? Hamachi is the regular Alcatel Onetouch Fire, I don't think it's the approriate one for Fire C. Can you tell which base Android version the Fire C is using? Gabriele signatu

Re: [b2g] WARNING: cgroup support landing soon

2015-01-09 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 09/01/2015 08:58, Tim Guan-tin Chien wrote: > I presume this will impact behavior of apps around app-switching, e.g. > any app that do any significant clean-up when receiving > visibilitychange will be slow down. Is that correct? It depends on how much CPU is available. On single-core devices t

[b2g] WARNING: cgroup support landing soon

2015-01-08 Thread Gabriele Svelto
[cross-posting to dev-gaia because this will affect everybody] TL;DR I am about to land cgroup support; this changes the low-level mechanism we use to prioritize applications. If you see unsual slow-downs during application startup or when more than one app is active at the same time, leave a comm

Re: [b2g] Import databases to simulator

2015-01-05 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Hi Nino, On 03/01/2015 17:06, Nino Vranešič wrote: > Any tip how to import SMS messages into Firefox OS simulator? You can pull the SMS sqlite database from your device by retrieving the following file & directory: /data/local/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/226660312ssm.sqlite /data/local/storage

Re: [b2g] Feedback from using a FxOS device for a week

2015-01-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 30/12/2014 14:08, Toby Kurien wrote: > - The keyboard is terrible: always shows uppercase characters, touch targets > are not correctly placed, leading to constant typos (not using auto-correct). > SwiftKey on Android works much better without auto-correct and same screen > size. I am guessin

Re: [b2g] Has anyone notice that sometime the clock would be incorrect on Flame?

2015-01-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 31/12/2014 16:01, Martijn wrote: > Your https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061797#c31 comment > is now saying otherwise: > " > FYI I've been testing the v18D base image plus the current gecko+gaia > nightly build and I can still reproduce this problem. > > " Yes, sorry about my earl

Re: [b2g] Has anyone notice that sometime the clock would be incorrect on Flame?

2014-12-29 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 29/12/2014 20:36, Gareth Aye wrote: > Difficult to diagnose currently since flashing latest mozilla-central > gaia + gecko makes the regions and cities disappear from the settings > selector. Currently, my flame says it's 6:56pm which isn't correct in > any timezone (it's 2:35 EST right now) and

Re: [b2g] Building for the Alcatel One Touch Fire

2014-12-29 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 29/12/2014 02:50, Martin Jernberg wrote: > Found this thread on Github: https://github.com/FxOSBuilds/cli/issues/18 > > and these roms worked perfect: > http://vegnuxmod.wordpress.com/hamachi-alcatel-otf/ > > but still no Swedish Locales in 1.3 anyone know what version is the best > and how i

Re: [b2g] Building for the Alcatel One Touch Fire

2014-12-23 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 23/12/2014 13:45, Martin Jernberg wrote: > Tried to install this build: http://firefoxosbuilds.org/ but it got > bootlooped and stuck etc when i was trying to install it, but maybe i > did something wrong said it missed some file when trying to root via CWM > and that script I haven't tried usi

Re: [b2g] Building for the Alcatel One Touch Fire

2014-12-22 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 22/12/2014 05:02, Martin Jernberg wrote: > Hello, i just got a OneTouch Fire from a Mozilla dude someone know if > there is anyway to flash it to 1.3 i tried but failed or if there is > coming any official updaes i got the T-Mobile Poland version > would be cool if i could try the Swedish L10n o

Re: [b2g] Updates to "Firefox OS Development" section of MDN

2014-11-27 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 25/11/2014 12:34, Chris Mills wrote: > To this end, I’ve done the following: > [...] > Does this information look ok? I’d specifically like comment on 1. and 2. > Does it feel like there’s a lot of things missing? What else would we like to > see covered? This is stunningly good work! Thanks

Re: [b2g] tc not working on Keon device

2014-11-19 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 18/11/2014 11:34, Maria wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get tc working on a Keon device, but even though it is > installed, when I run some commands to control the bandwidth I get these > outputs: > > #tc qdisc add dev wlan0 parent 1:10 handle 10: sfq perturb 10 >Android does not support

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 >

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 rep

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

2014-11-10 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 10/11/2014 15:16, Daniel Wacker wrote: > This is exactly hat I was trying to do, but sadly I'm coming upon a > closed/locked system: That's locked down a lot more then what I was expecting :( Have you found a way to enter fastboot mode somehow? Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

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

2014-11-10 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 10/11/2014 14:29, Daniel Wacker wrote: > Thanks for the info! I am familiar with dd, but this would require me to have > adb root access. > How to get adb root access on the OT-6015X? To read the partitions (in order to back them up) you shouldn't need root access, regular adb access should be

Re: [b2g] Personal hacks for Firefox phone?

2014-11-05 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 03/11/2014 17:17, Craig Anderson wrote: > * Access internet with WiFi, but not from cell data network. Definitely possible. > * Manage contacts from a Linux desktop I think there's already a tool for that. > * Use phone as sms modem from a Linux desktop. I'm not sure if this is possible rig

Re: [b2g] For v2.2: distributable certified apps

2014-10-25 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 24/10/2014 23:17, Fabrice Desré wrote: > 4) Gecko improvements so that partners don't have to ship a patched one. >We have the engineering mode API, we need to finish the system update >API, and the RIL team is working on stabilizing the RIL interfaces. >With that in place, we may ha

Re: [b2g] firefox os on S5?

2014-10-23 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/10/2014 18:26, mr.bus...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi all, I have the Samsung galaxy S5 (UK 4g) and I was wondering if it was > possible to install firefox os on it, I have seen that there are guides for > the s2 but the s5 is a different device, Any ideas anyone? While it's theoretically po

Re: [b2g] Hamachi no longer supported?

2014-10-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/10/2014 17:52, Ralph Daub wrote: > It seems that the Hamachi is no longer supported, developer-wise, > according to the Build Instructions in the MDN page: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites master builds still work fine on my Hamachi, so even

Re: [b2g] Perf regression in Gecko between 1.3 and 2.2?

2014-10-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/10/2014 15:44, Jan Jongboom wrote: > So for the fun of it I flashed mc on top of a Tarako device (not running gaia but [1] instead). > > On 1.3t it all boots pretty fast, in my current config with 15 js files loaded through require.js it takes around 3 seconds. > > Now on mc it takes 22 secon

Re: [b2g] RPi Builds

2014-10-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/10/2014 07:27, Paul Scott wrote: > Am I doing something drastically wrong? Should this be working? Any > guidance would be appreciated! You might want to check our meta-bug for the Pi: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001404 The last comment mentions that recent builds broke,

Re: [b2g] Buri - is it still supposed to work?

2014-10-14 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/10/2014 11:10, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > I still use a Buri for developing (along with a Flame) because it helps > testing in a low-end environment. > I upgraded Gecko today and my SIM is not visible anymore. Also, > disabling airplane mode does not do anything (and the button stays > greyed i

Re: [b2g] Do not try to install OTA updates on FxOS 2.2

2014-10-11 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 10/10/2014 21:24, Bob Thulfram wrote: > So for now I'll just reboot and not do OTA updates (perhaps your warning > about 2.2 applies to 2.1). I had the same thing just happend to me on my > Nintendo 3DS. Go figure! Worst case you can always download a more recently nightly build from Geekspho

Re: [b2g] Which Phone to Upgrade?

2014-10-09 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 09/10/2014 17:29, Jan Jongboom wrote: > It's basically unusable. It's slow as shit, and a lot of render artifacts. Actually it used to be that way; it seems to me that this was fixed sometimes between 2.0 and 2.1 and now it's fairly usable. Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi

Re: [b2g] Which Phone to Upgrade?

2014-10-08 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 08/10/2014 01:17, Bob Thulfram wrote: > I have three Firefox OS phones: > > 1. The original ZTE phone (little and orange) > 2. The Geeksphone Peak (not so little and white) > 3. The ZTE Open C (black and nasty) > > Which phone will I have the least amount of trouble upgrading to the > LATEST F

Re: [b2g] Please update your Flame to the new base image

2014-10-02 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 02/10/2014 07:43, tucker.mckni...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to put the 2.0 base image on my Flame, but I think it's getting > stuck at the first "flashboot flash" command. It says "Partition table..." > but then says "," and never gets past that. The screen > goes blank and the LED indica

Re: [b2g] Flame Not Keeping Time

2014-09-16 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 16/09/2014 17:08, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > Is there anything we need to do to use it, or installing latest base > builld is enough? The latest JB base build is not enough IIRC, I haven't tried the KK one though. For a detailed analysis of how the clock is being changed during reboot you can rea

Re: [b2g] Unable to flash Peak

2014-09-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/09/2014 20:25, laukst...@gmail.com wrote: > PC Windows 7 does not recognize Peak device, issue in > https://forum.geeksphone.com/index.php?topic=6278.0 The thread mentions also Linux use, does it get recognized under Linux or not? Gabriele signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: [b2g] Black screen in keon device after flashing latest Gaia today

2014-09-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 11/09/2014 22:06, Kumar Rishav wrote: > I tried to go to recovery mode. > Then did install zip from sdcard. > install zip from sideload. Nothing is working. > Please help Have you tried installing one of Geeksphone original images via fastboot? http://downloads.geeksphone.com/ Also please do

Re: [b2g] Overhauling the process priority manager

2014-09-05 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 02/09/2014 05:18, Jonas Sicking wrote: > Thinker is pointing out one important problem that we'd need to solve > though. At least for when we are receiving a phone call, it is > important that we are able to as quickly as possible launch the > process for the dialer app and give it a high CPU an

Re: [b2g] Overhauling the process priority manager

2014-09-05 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Hi Alive, I've been sidetracked by other issues so here's my late answer... On 01/09/2014 12:23, Alive wrote: > The searchBar is part of the system app, but the search app window is not. > > If system app does send the search window to background correctly when > it is not invoked, is this still

[b2g] High CPU usage when idle on today's build

2014-09-03 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Hi everybody, we've encountered an issue today where a phone would have at least one core pegged at ~40% usage when the phone is idle and the screen is on. If you encounter this behavior and want to help check for bug 1062119 [1]. An initial investigation shows the epoll_wait() call in the main p

Re: [b2g] Overhauling the process priority manager

2014-09-01 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 30/08/2014 01:05, Jonas Sicking wrote: > First off, I'm somewhat concern about not giving the homescreen any > special treatment. It seems to me that even for users that swipe > between apps a lot, going to homescreen is going to be a relatively > common action. > > It sounds like the perfect s

Re: [b2g] Overhauling the process priority manager

2014-09-01 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 29/08/2014 20:37, Fabrice Desré wrote: > One question: do you think it would be worthwhile to have more direct > signals from the system app on what app is important or not? I see that > in your proposals you still relies on somewhat indirect hints like > visibility, etc. The system app is part

[b2g] Overhauling the process priority manager

2014-08-28 Thread Gabriele Svelto
TL; DR The process priority manager has accumulated a fair amount of technical baggage and is in need of an overhaul. I'm proposing a bunch of changes here as well as some historical perspective and the rationale for those changes. This is not a very well known topic so if you don't know this area

Re: [b2g] Log collection needs improvement

2014-08-28 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 28/08/2014 01:56, Jonas Sicking wrote: > I got the impression that the problem was "application is blocked for > N ms", which seems like a fixable implementation bug. Indeed and besides we've always got the option to easily turn off logging at runtime in JS code (like DUMP() does for instance)

Re: [b2g] ZTE Open 1.2 Beta

2014-08-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/08/2014 15:22, Paul Hannington wrote: > Although I see that many people have raised the issue regarding ZTE Open > updates in the past and it has fallen down a bottomless pit between Mozilla > and > ZTE, but after seeing the potential improvements which could be achieved by at > least one mo

Re: [b2g] Log collection needs improvement

2014-08-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/08/2014 08:21, Tim Chien wrote: > Previously we had a creative invention from Frsela that turning on/off > a all-caps DUMP() function with mozSettings. I would love that being > formalized in Gecko. > https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/js/dump.js Standardizing all gaia ap

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

2014-08-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/08/2014 00:44, Daniel Wacker wrote: > So I just ordered another one of these awesome phones, maybe I can rescue the > first one by transferring images. Which tools would be suitable for that task? You can backup the partitions from a working phone using 'dd' to dump them (you can find the r

Re: [b2g] [Peak] device storage does not work properly

2014-07-22 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 22/07/2014 14:37, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: When I tap the record button, it switches to recording mode, a file gets created and then a alert dialog opens with only a single dot. After closing the dialog the UI returns to "not recording". Same issue here, if you're using your own build then thi

Re: [b2g] [Peak] device storage does not work properly

2014-07-22 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 21/07/2014 21:31, Dave Hylands wrote: > I don't have a peak, so I'm not sure what the production vold.fstab > looks like. I didn't think that the geeksphones had internal/external > media storage areas. I though that they just had the physical sdcard > (but I could be wrong). > /data is an inter

Re: [b2g] withheld number

2014-07-18 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 18/07/2014 17:19, fz wrote: > is it possible to activate / deactivate withheld number in firefox os? > Thats a big problem for users of the EPlus-Net in Germany, because heres > the number withheld by default. > In other OS its possible ... AFAIK you should be able to enable that one using USSD

Re: [b2g] [Peak] build process does not work anymore

2014-07-16 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 15/07/2014 19:43, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: > thank you for your help, I have now a mostly working build of v2.0. But > I have now some new problems... > > 1. wifi does not work anymore, it's stuck at 'initializing...". Until > now I could fix this by removing everything from /data/misc, but that

Re: [b2g] Show of fingers: Tracking multitouch issues on FFXOS and/or ZTE Open

2014-07-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 15/07/2014 18:29, Adrian Custer wrote: Otherwise, we can wait until the hardware improves. (I'm working these days with my web app bundled into an .apk and deployed onto a good android device). For FirefoxOS, since the current plan is to race to the price bottom, the majority of upcoming phone

Re: [b2g] Show of fingers: Tracking multitouch issues on FFXOS and/or ZTE Open

2014-07-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 15/07/2014 18:06, synper...@aol.com wrote: So if this comes down to terrible driver, what happens? Is that in the hands of ZTE/Alcatel to fix, or what? Knowing a couple of things about driver development this could be even more up the chain. Possibly in the hands of the touchscreen vendor.

Re: [b2g] [Peak] build process does not work anymore

2014-07-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 15/07/2014 14:02, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: > I flashed now the latest nightly image and tried to build v2.0 and > master, but both fail at this point > > host StaticLib: libpng > (out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libpng_intermediates/libpng.a) > host Executable: aapt >

Re: [b2g] [Peak] build process does not work anymore

2014-07-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/07/2014 22:13, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: > I thought I could update the files which are taken from the device > backup. So I flashed the official Geeksphone v2.0 image, removed > backup-peak, out and objdir-gecko and rebuild. But now the build process > always fails... I did the same a few week

Re: [b2g] Show of fingers: Tracking multitouch issues on FFXOS and/or ZTE Open

2014-07-15 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 14/07/2014 22:34, synper...@aol.com wrote: > 1) Device Name & FFXOS version > 2) How many fingers (max) it could detect > 3) Whether or not two fingers side-by-side (Y-Axis delta =ish 0) registers > discrete or "averaged" input > > I'm curious if this is only a ZTE Open issue, or only a v2.1 m

Re: [b2g] User report: 6 months of Firefox phone

2014-06-08 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 08/06/2014 23.54, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hm yes the Alcatel is quite a tortoise speed-wise and unresponsive at times. I also blame the hardware for that. The hardware is not stellar but we could also do better in certain respects. Is the difference between the Alcatel One Touch Fire and the

Re: [b2g] v1.2 to v1.4 update -> black screen on Alcatel One Touch Fire (hamachi)

2014-06-08 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 08/06/2014 23.34, Johannes Bauer wrote: When the phone is in blackscreen mode, it seems to have booted, but just isn't displaying anything. When I do "adb shell" I do get a command shell. When I start the phone with a running "adb logcat", here's what I get: http://pastebin.com/ZnqFZAY8 This

Re: [b2g] Compiling Gaia and

2014-06-06 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 06/06/2014 18:50, A. Crespo wrote: > If my .config is: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7558855/ > And my gaia/locales/languages_dev.json is: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7558858/ > > Will those languages be installed If I build the whole B2G? They should. If you need more info on this topic check the instr

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