And since in engineering school they tell you to never come with half a thing. Here's my proposal for a solution:
Since apparently no Mozilla developers have ZTE Opens, I will personally buy up to 5 ZTE Opens for any Mozilla developers that can work to support flashing custom builds to the device. Any takers? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Daniel Roesler <diaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > <rant> > I'm not disappointed at all in ZTE. This phone is dirt cheap, so what > can you expect for support? For $80, I definitely expected to be > hacking constantly to get it working. > > The one I am very disappointed in is Mozilla. > > The ZTE Open is their flagship phone and there are many more of them > out there than any other Firefox OS phone. If developers got a bad > taste from that device, they would like write off Firefox OS as a > flop. > > I expected Mozilla to be hacking right along side us, but it's almost > as if no one at Mozilla even owns a ZTE Open or can confirm that the > problems we are experiencing since 1.1 even exist. > > Why should I have to file a bug report about the reboot loop issue? > This is a blocking bug that prevents app developers (for the most > popular phone) from upgrading to more recent versions. Not only should > it have existed, it should have been marked as critical. > > Also, why do we have to download Eduardo's modified boot image (thanks > for that, by the way)? There should be a build patch/script that > unpacks and modifies the ZTE official boot.img to get a compatible > boot.img. > > Anyway, extremely disappointed in Mozilla. The lack of developer > support for the ZTE Open will probably be the poison pill that kills > Firefox OS's momentum. > </rant> > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Abhiram Chintangal > <abhiram.chintan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ZTE says that info is confidential, I'm not going to buy another ZTE in the >>> rest of my life (I hope everybody think the same) >> >> I think so too , I am currently running my custom build of firefox os >> on the Open. In my case I had to downgrade to the older-firmware with >> clockworkmod and >> then flash it with my build. >> -- >> Abhiram Chintangal >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
