On Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:29:54 AM UTC-8, richar...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, January 3, 2014 7:57:43 PM UTC+1, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > We're not focussing on 'top' terminals at all. As I said, ZTE Open is > > > > > > one of our "tier 1" terminals, that is the terminals we're specifically > > > > > > testing our code on. > > > > I think the confusion is that there are apparently 2 versions of the ZTE Open > - the one you can buy on Ebay and the one that Telefonica/Movistar sells in > Spain. > > > > They are both called ZTE Open, but have different binary blobs on them so are > not compatible. > > > > The ZTE Ebay Open is the "tier 1" model you test on. This seems to be > updatable from personal builds and is fully supported by Mozilla. > > > > The ZTE Movistar Open is in a state of limbo. Personal builds at least break > wifi due to the MAC bug/problem described in one of the linked bugzillas > above. That was the blocker for nightlies at least. The device might not even > be flashable, presumably for "security" or some other restriction made by > Telefonica (speculation). > > > > It's confusing. Also disappointing, as the ZTE Movistar Open is cheaper than > the Ebay one (50€ locally, no need for shipping, with some amount of prepaid > stuff included), but being so locked down means it is no good. As a user, it > is a bad choice as it probably won't be updated past 1.1. I know, you try > your best, but it is in the hands of ZTE, and handset manufacturers tend to > have a policy of "1 update and that's your lot" - that update was to 1.1. As > a developer it is risky since the chance of flashing not working is high, or > if it works then it might have bugs that will be WONTFIXED as it is not > really an officially supported tier 1 device. > > > > Is this the state of things or have I got something horribly wrong? > > > > Regards, > > Richard
I have the eBay US ZTE Open and mine is also currently bricked. No matter which ZTE update ZIP archive I try to apply on the SD card, I get a signature verification failure. What's worse is that it seems to have lost the ability to respond to adb or fastboot. So the procedure at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/ZTE_OPEN#I_bricked_my_phone does not work - it just sits there "waiting for device". There are probably half a dozen threads on the forum about various ZTE Open brickage; I can go dig them up if you want. As it stands, the US eBay ZTE Open is "not a user serviceable device" - you can't easily apply ZTE updates or install a custom-built B2G on it without risking getting it into an unusable state. The ones that are being shipped by the carriers in Europe and Latin America may be working fine to surf the web and make phone calls but as a 'developer phone' it's pretty much useless. _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
