Re: [b2g] Non-stock headphones with the ZTE Open
One more question: does anyone know of a good place to buy an adapter for this? I gather I want a 3.5mm OMTP to CTIA adapter, but all of the places I've seen online that sell these look rather untrustworthy. - Jim On 10/09/2013 05:58 PM, Naoki Hirata wrote: It's the phone connector that makes the difference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_%28audio%29 see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812607#c4 Regards, Naoki On 10/9/13 3:51 PM, Jim Porter wrote: Does anyone know what's required to make non-stock headphones work with the ZTE Open? The headphones that came with it (or maybe that came with the Unagi?) work fine, but other headphones don't work at all. Plugging them in shows the headphone icon in the utility tray, but audio doesn't come out of the headphones. I've tested multiple pairs and they all do this. To make matters worse, I lost the pair of headphones that does work with the ZTE Open, making it a lot harder for me to dogfood. Any ideas? - Jim ___ 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
[b2g] Third-party browsers on Firefox OS
Does Mozilla intend to allow third-party browsers and third-party rendering engines to be published on Firefox Marketplace and run on Firefox OS? Apple only allows WebKit-based browsers to run on iOS. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
[b2g] Problem with remote debug with firefox on desktop and firefox os on zte open phone.
Hi, I have ZTE Open with Firefox OS. I have macosx laptop. (And also parallels with windows vista, 7, 8 etc. if it may help…) I enable remote debuging and console in phone settings and remote debuging in Firefox Nightly on desktop. Download adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917 from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and run: ./adb devices List of devices attached roamer2 device So device is connected Then I run ./adb forward tcp:6000 localfilesystem:/data/local/debugger-socket Because this article https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging Then I open Firefox and Tools - Web Developer - Connect… http://f.cl.ly/items/1N3F2n441S36163q170E/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-13%20at%203.43.02%20PM.png And nothing… Just timeout. Then I try ./adb forward tcp:6000 tcp:6000 Get this on my ZTE Open: http://f.cl.ly/items/0n3T2q2Q2G2v090j0U3q/2013-10-13-15-55-53.png Click Ok and get this on my desktop: http://f.cl.ly/items/2j0O1b0y3n2e2n3Q1a0E/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-13%20at%203.50.34%20PM.png No tabs! What I am doing wrong?! Help me please. With all best regards. Anton. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
I also have a bricked ZTE Open, yes one of the early ones without the later fastboot update. Mine is neither accessible via fastboot nor adb anymore, only through the diagnostics interface. I can't get into clockworkmod recovery (it hangs), so it requires some sort of low level flash. Unfortunately, ZTE refuses any support (even if you would pay for the reflash!) in this case and redirects all requests to the eBay seller who proposes to send me a new device for 80% of the price. Sorry guys, but this is absolutely unacceptable! Please - if somebody knows how to do a low level flash of this phone (i have backups of all partitions), please provide some instructions. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
I will send an email to ZTE about this. I will let you know what they say. Andreas Sent from Mobile. On Oct 13, 2013, at 6:40, daniel.i...@googlemail.com daniel.i...@googlemail.com wrote: I also have a bricked ZTE Open, yes one of the early ones without the later fastboot update. Mine is neither accessible via fastboot nor adb anymore, only through the diagnostics interface. I can't get into clockworkmod recovery (it hangs), so it requires some sort of low level flash. Unfortunately, ZTE refuses any support (even if you would pay for the reflash!) in this case and redirects all requests to the eBay seller who proposes to send me a new device for 80% of the price. Sorry guys, but this is absolutely unacceptable! Please - if somebody knows how to do a low level flash of this phone (i have backups of all partitions), please provide some instructions. ___ 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
Re: [b2g] Third-party browsers on Firefox OS
All our apps are written in HTML5. If someone writes a browser or even rendering engine in HTML5, we would definitely not object to that. Mozilla is all about choice. Andreas Sent from Mobile. On Oct 13, 2013, at 5:15, Kalinni Gorzkis musicdenotat...@gmail.com wrote: Does Mozilla intend to allow third-party browsers and third-party rendering engines to be published on Firefox Marketplace and run on Firefox OS? Apple only allows WebKit-based browsers to run on iOS. ___ 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
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
Andreas was so kind to forward my issue to some other Mozilla people who now forwarded it to ZTE. I really hope that ZTE will find a better way to deal with this situation, especially if I'm not the only having this problem. I own a couple other devices, but normally for developer devices there is a way to recover from a brick without the manufacturer's help (i.e. sbf_flash for Motorola Devices or Odin/Heimdall for Samsung). For other ZTE devices like the ZTE Skate III there seem to be various other tricks like putting a specially named image with contents on the SDcard or some external tools. I am pretty sure there is also something similar for the ZTE Open (which seems to be pretty much the same as the ZTE KIS), so it would be extremely helpful if ZTE would share their info with FFOS developers/enthusiasts. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
[b2g] ZTE Open 1.2 flash fails after attempting to set time
I am trying to flash a 1.2 build onto my ZTE Open (US eBay version) according to the instructions on the Mozilla wiki, and it goes smoothly until the end when it fails with this error: Attempting to set the time on the device time 1381424366 - 1381424366.0 settimeofday failed Bad file number I've tried this several times after reverting back to the image from ZTE's website but it always fails at this spot. Fastboot seems to work properly and the flash process gave no errors or warnings up to that point. For what it's worth, I am building in Ubuntu 12.04 running as a Virtualbox VM. Any help on getting this working would be much appreciated. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
On 13/10/13 09:36 AM, daniel.i...@googlemail.com wrote: I also have a bricked ZTE Open, yes one of the early ones without the later fastboot update. Mine is neither accessible via fastboot nor adb anymore, only through the diagnostics interface. I can't get into clockworkmod recovery (it hangs), so it requires some sort of low level flash. Unfortunately, ZTE refuses any support (even if you would pay for the reflash!) in this case and redirects all requests to the eBay seller who proposes to send me a new device for 80% of the price. Sorry guys, but this is absolutely unacceptable! Please - if somebody knows how to do a low level flash of this phone (i have backups of all partitions), please provide some instructions. You can download the update.zip image from ZTE directly. You put it on the SD card and boot the phone. It will update. To download For the US phone http://www.ztedevices.com/support/smart_phone/b5a2981a-1714-4ac7-89e1-630e93e220f8.html For the European phone: http://www.ztedevices.com/support/smart_phone/cba40ed6-d3ab-44c0-bdee-3a15803dc187.html I don't have a device myself but I have been told this works from people that has similar issues. Hope this helps. Hub ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
Hubert: Thanks, but this works unless you haven't also bricked your recovery. If you look at the instructions inside the archive you can see that it needs to be flashed from recovery. Holding down the volume rocker will not start flashing blindly but just get you into recovery. This might help for some people, but unfortunately not for me. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open 1.2 flash fails after attempting to set time
Hi, i have modified the original boot image and adapted it for zte open commercial devices and custom builds via B2G repository. Donwload https://mega.co.nz/#!uJ52xZJa!M_YwAEXRwifN21QmQbHgNCcEc5Ml2CKw57IBGxnvdm4 change filename to boot.img and copy into B2G_root/out/target/product/inari/ then run ./flash.sh Edu On Sunday, October 13, 2013 3:43:28 PM UTC-4:30, tre...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to flash a 1.2 build onto my ZTE Open (US eBay version) according to the instructions on the Mozilla wiki, and it goes smoothly until the end when it fails with this error: Attempting to set the time on the device time 1381424366 - 1381424366.0 settimeofday failed Bad file number I've tried this several times after reverting back to the image from ZTE's website but it always fails at this spot. Fastboot seems to work properly and the flash process gave no errors or warnings up to that point. For what it's worth, I am building in Ubuntu 12.04 running as a Virtualbox VM. Any help on getting this working would be much appreciated. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] error: Cannot fetch platform/libcore
Hi had the same problem, the issue is the still broken linaro git. To overcome
it I did the following:
git clone https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest.git
Edited nexus-s.xml in this repo, and replaced the linaro git by the aosp one so
it reads:
default revision=refs/tags/android-4.0.4_r1.2
remote=aosp
sync-j=4 /
Commited the changes (git commit -a) and next changed the config.sh file in the
B2G checkout (not the manifest) in the master branch to point to my local
Manifest instead of the Mozilla one:
GITREPO=${GITREPO:-file:///home/daniel/nexus-s/b2g-manifest}
I was able to build both master (1.3) and 1.2 after doing this change. (For
1.2, you have to redo it in the v1.2-branch as well)
The issue is well-known since a long time and there is already a pull request
for a patch, but I don't know why it has not landed in master yet.
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Re: [b2g] config.sh unable to find Git object in Linaro/prebuilt
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Re: [b2g] clang error building on mac os
James, Yes, the changes I made allowed me to successfully build B2G v1.3. There were a few other bumps down the road - some other spots needed updates for CC and CXX vars In the end, I was able to successfully flash it onto my ZTE Open, and so far it's working great. Your assessment of the Xcode 5 update sounds about right to me, gcc and g++ on my machine were no longer symlinked to my llvm-* binaries as they may have been in Xcode 4.x If the output from the build process was correct, then I won't be able to build for a simulator, but I haven't tried that. Regards, Christopher De Cairos Integration Engineer - Webmaker Mozilla Foundation On 2013-10-12 4:12 PM, James Kruth wrote: Some updates on what appears to be going on here: * On Xcode 4.x, /usr/bin/gcc was a symlink, likely to llvm-gcc-4.2 (which apparently wouldn't produce a usable emulator build - I'm not sure about inari) * With the Xcode 5 update, the CLI tools have replaced that symlink with an actual binary, which is clang, as opposed to gcc. The build obviously doesn't compile with clang, and so things are broken in their current state. I'd be curious to know if Christopher's modifications gave him a working inari build. Where is the appropriate place to report a bug like this? - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:59:23 AM UTC-4, James Kruth wrote: Actually, Keon is called out specifically: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Requirements_for_Mac_OS_X At this point, I'm willing to say it's not a problem with inari, as I just attempted to build for emulator and received the same clang errors. There's definitely a problem with the build process. - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:55:27 AM UTC-4, Caio Lima wrote: Guys, I don't remember where, but I have seen in documentation that the inari build is not working on Mac OS X. I guess it was in Build the Firefox OS on MDN Give a look on this tutorial. On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Reuben Morais wrote: And yes, I'm pretty sure the bootstrap script should be passing --enable-cxx to GCC's configure script. Not entirely sure because it looks like Clang is being picked up (and causing the errors in the OP). You can manually fix it by doing: brew install https://raw.github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/master/scripts/homebrew/gcc-4.6.rb--enable-cxx -- reuben -- Caio Lima ___ 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
Re: [b2g] Problem with remote debug with firefox on desktop and firefox os on zte open phone.
Hi Anton, On 10/13/2013 06:36 AM, thesilent...@gmail.com wrote: No tabs! What I am doing wrong?! Help me please. You're not doing anything wrong. You device is running 1.0 or 1.1 where there is no support to debug apps remotely. You need at least 1.2 (and forward adb to localfilesystem:/data/local/debugger-socket) for that to work. Fabrice -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] ZTE Open 1.2 flash fails after attempting to set time
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 2:41:31 PM UTC-7, Eduardo González wrote: Hi, i have modified the original boot image and adapted it for zte open commercial devices and custom builds via B2G repository. Donwload https://mega.co.nz/#!uJ52xZJa!M_YwAEXRwifN21QmQbHgNCcEc5Ml2CKw57IBGxnvdm4 change filename to boot.img and copy into B2G_root/out/target/product/inari/ then run ./flash.sh Edu Thank you Edu! That solved the problem. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] clang error building on mac os
Christopher, That's great news! I'm wondering if you might be so kind as to outline the files you needed to change? - James On Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:40:09 PM UTC-4, Christopher De Cairos wrote: James, Yes, the changes I made allowed me to successfully build B2G v1.3. There were a few other bumps down the road - some other spots needed updates for CC and CXX vars In the end, I was able to successfully flash it onto my ZTE Open, and so far it's working great. Your assessment of the Xcode 5 update sounds about right to me, gcc and g++ on my machine were no longer symlinked to my llvm-* binaries as they may have been in Xcode 4.x If the output from the build process was correct, then I won't be able to build for a simulator, but I haven't tried that. Regards, Christopher De Cairos Integration Engineer - Webmaker Mozilla Foundation On 2013-10-12 4:12 PM, James Kruth wrote: Some updates on what appears to be going on here: * On Xcode 4.x, /usr/bin/gcc was a symlink, likely to llvm-gcc-4.2 (which apparently wouldn't produce a usable emulator build - I'm not sure about inari) * With the Xcode 5 update, the CLI tools have replaced that symlink with an actual binary, which is clang, as opposed to gcc. The build obviously doesn't compile with clang, and so things are broken in their current state. I'd be curious to know if Christopher's modifications gave him a working inari build. Where is the appropriate place to report a bug like this? - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:59:23 AM UTC-4, James Kruth wrote: Actually, Keon is called out specifically: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Requirements_for_Mac_OS_X At this point, I'm willing to say it's not a problem with inari, as I just attempted to build for emulator and received the same clang errors. There's definitely a problem with the build process. - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:55:27 AM UTC-4, Caio Lima wrote: Guys, I don't remember where, but I have seen in documentation that the inari build is not working on Mac OS X. I guess it was in Build the Firefox OS on MDN Give a look on this tutorial. On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Reuben Morais wrote: And yes, I'm pretty sure the bootstrap script should be passing --enable-cxx to GCC's configure script. Not entirely sure because it looks like Clang is being picked up (and causing the errors in the OP). You can manually fix it by doing: brew install https://raw.github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/master/scripts/homebrew/gcc-4.6.rb--enable-cxx -- reuben -- Caio Lima ___ 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
Re: [b2g] Sensor data flow for light sensor
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Re: [b2g] ZTE Open-- bricked when updating OS
El miércoles, 28 de agosto de 2013 13:31:21 UTC-5, Ernie Powell escribió: Hi, So I bought a Firefox ZTE Open about a week ago on Ebay-- when it was the thing to do. I connected it to my wifi network and saw what it could do. Liked it. After a while, I received a request to update the OS, about a 35 MB package in total. Didn't think nothing of it so I said okay and it began downloading. Flash forward to 9 hours later and it was still downloading. For some reason, I ended up turning off the phone while it was still updating. I thought, maybe it'll just abort and I can start fresh. Wrong. Now when I power on the phone, it wont go past the the boot screen. Sadly, I didn't even think to enable the USB debugging. Is there any way to get the original image back on the phone, given that it is not in USB debugging mode? I noticed a bootloader menu screen when I hold down the power and up volume button, and a FTM (FML?) screen when I hold the other direction, but havent been successful in finding a factory ZTE Open image online. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi, i try to enter into recovery mode of my zte open, but for some reason i don´t get it, not working, i hold the start button and volume up button but the cel starts with the firefox os logo and then the sitting fox but nothing happens, the fox still forever. Anyone know what happens? ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
[b2g] instructions for using fastboot to flash ZTE Open
Does anyone have instructions for using fastboot to flash the ZTE Open? Jezra Web: http://www.jezra.net Status: http://status.jezra.net Coffee: http://coffee.jezra.net ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] Custom ringtones
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Dolanjski pdolanj...@mozilla.com wrote: Hello all, We know how important being able to set custom ringtones is to the user. We are working on wireframes/requirements to cover the scenarios around downloading (or transferring over USB) ringtones that the user can set. Our user research has also pointed out how common it was for people to edit their own song snippets to produce new ringtones. We may just want to encourage the ecosystem to build such an application, but I wanted to get some input here on what would be involved to produce such a utility. The basic functionality would be: - Utility presents user with audio files currently residing on device (or possibly accessed directly from Music app via the selected audio file) - The user should be able to chose the start time and end time for the ringtone (with a possible length limit in place) - Selection controls need to be precise enough to pick specific starting/ending points - The user should be able to preview the selected portion of the track - Once satisfied, the user should be able to save the snippet and directly set it as their ringtone - Displaying the waveform is probably optional, but would be nice to be able to pinpoint certain parts of the song How difficult is this? Is there platform functionality missing to enable this? I think the only platform pieces that are really missing is the ability to directly set a ringtone. Especially now that we have WebAudio landed (has it been uploaded to v1.2?) that should make some of the above even easier I think. What we might be missing is an mp3 encoding API. Is that part of WebAudio? Though I suspect you can work around that by simply grabbing chunks from the existing file, though it might be pretty painful to do so. You can work around the ability to directly set a ringtone by saving the edited song using DeviceStorage and then letting the user manually go over to the settings app and set the ringtone there. But it would definitely be better if we had a built-in app which responded to a WebActivity specifically and which allowed directly setting a ringtone. That both results in a better UX, and means that the ringtone-editing-app wouldn't need to be a privileged app. / Jonas ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] Custom ringtones
On 10/13/2013 08:56 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: What we might be missing is an mp3 encoding API. Is that part of WebAudio? Though I suspect you can work around that by simply grabbing chunks from the existing file, though it might be pretty painful to do so. There is an emscripten based mp3 encoder at https://github.com/akrennmair/libmp3lame-js But it would definitely be better if we had a built-in app which responded to a WebActivity specifically and which allowed directly setting a ringtone. That both results in a better UX, and means that the ringtone-editing-app wouldn't need to be a privileged app. I think that what djf landed recently let you do that. Fabrice -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] Sensor data flow for light sensor
I found that there is a .idl in gaia/xulrunner-sdk/idl/nsIDOMDeviceLightEvent.idl Is this the dom refered to the Sensor pdf page 5 nsIDOMDevicexxxEvent? I assume it is not because xulrunner should all most phased out in B2G. Further, I dont find any simple event related to devicelight in event_impl_gen.conf.in. Please let me know if this is incorrect. ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] Custom ringtones
I just landed bug 878057 which allows the use of any music file as a ringtone (it works on my Unagi, running aurora, but bugs have been reported against it on a Buri using m-c, so it is apparently not ready for prime time.) It allows the settings app to pick ringtones from the Music app, and allows the user to share songs from the Music app to be used a ringtones. This share activity works because the patch defines a new setringtone app. Currently, the app allows the user to listen to the song and has a set ringtone button. I imagine that this app will grow to include the ringtone cropping functionality that Peter is asking for here. (As Jonas points out, this can't be done by a 3rd party utility because only certified apps can write to the settings database to set the ringtone.) WebAudio allows us to extract audio data from any user-specified region of the song, but does not (apparently) define any way to encode that data to a compressed format. I have heard that the Media Recording team is working on a voice recorder app and that the plan is for it to produce ogg files, so we must have some kind of audio encoding functionality coming. On the other hand, it would also be simple to just store start and end times in the settings database along with the ringtone and use those to define a media fragment url (if that works with blob:// urls). So we may not actually need the audio editing feature: we can just store the entire song and the start time and endtime of the portion to be used as the ringtone. As for the UX of the audio cropping functionality, I would suggest that we do not try to rely on sliders or fine tuners of any sort. I'd have a normal set of audio playback controls that let the user play the song. And in addition, I'd add a record button with a traditional red circle icon. When the user gets to the point where they want their ringtone to start, they tap the record button. When they get to the point where they want to stop, they tap the button again. David On 10/13/13 8:56 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Dolanjski pdolanj...@mozilla.com wrote: Hello all, We know how important being able to set custom ringtones is to the user. We are working on wireframes/requirements to cover the scenarios around downloading (or transferring over USB) ringtones that the user can set. Our user research has also pointed out how common it was for people to edit their own song snippets to produce new ringtones. We may just want to encourage the ecosystem to build such an application, but I wanted to get some input here on what would be involved to produce such a utility. The basic functionality would be: - Utility presents user with audio files currently residing on device (or possibly accessed directly from Music app via the selected audio file) - The user should be able to chose the start time and end time for the ringtone (with a possible length limit in place) - Selection controls need to be precise enough to pick specific starting/ending points - The user should be able to preview the selected portion of the track - Once satisfied, the user should be able to save the snippet and directly set it as their ringtone - Displaying the waveform is probably optional, but would be nice to be able to pinpoint certain parts of the song How difficult is this? Is there platform functionality missing to enable this? I think the only platform pieces that are really missing is the ability to directly set a ringtone. Especially now that we have WebAudio landed (has it been uploaded to v1.2?) that should make some of the above even easier I think. What we might be missing is an mp3 encoding API. Is that part of WebAudio? Though I suspect you can work around that by simply grabbing chunks from the existing file, though it might be pretty painful to do so. You can work around the ability to directly set a ringtone by saving the edited song using DeviceStorage and then letting the user manually go over to the settings app and set the ringtone there. But it would definitely be better if we had a built-in app which responded to a WebActivity specifically and which allowed directly setting a ringtone. That both results in a better UX, and means that the ringtone-editing-app wouldn't need to be a privileged app. / Jonas ___ 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
[b2g] A list of pontential improvements
Last week, I had brought a FirefoxOS phone (unagi) as my only device on my way of hiking along West Highland Way at Scotland. I found some problems that potentially improve FirefoxOS as a better Swiss Army Knife of backpackers. - Stay in the last timezone before fallback of automatically timezone setting. - Some carrier does not support this feature. - FirefoxOS will use fallback of last manually setting, but device time was changed by automatically timezone features, so you get a weird current time. - HOME/END keys for browser and add-to-homescreen pages and EMail App. - To read a long long document, you oftenly try to jump to head or tail of the document. It is really stupid to scroll the document repeatly to the head or tail. - disable app sync/refresh/update by user's decision - While I am in roaming, I really hate to update apps, even for every month. - IndexedDB accept increamental/partial generated objects - we store a lot of data in IDB, but it can store only full built objects. It requires a lot of memory, some time, ex. email. - If IDB supports some kind of partial object, we don't need to keep all data in the memory. - service workers of apps can keep connection with lower memory requirement. - IM Apps are supposed to keep connection. But, with limited memory, it would be killed and lost conneciton. If they can create a worker to serve connections, we can kill UI for low memory while still keep connections. - no blocked for email updating. - Every launching, EMail App would be blocked for updating emails, even it is offline. I very hate that. - better gallery scanning. - like EMail App, Gallery App take a long time to scanning images on the storage, and it is nearly unusable during scanning. - a way to hide virtual keyboard - Some apps or pags don't not handle keyboard focus properly, so keyboard app was not hidden properly. I would like to have a button or a cross icon for hiding keyboard forcely. - shared free wifi db (online updated) - An evil feature - show only flagged emails - Since I had flagged an email, it should be really important, and I want to find it as quick as possible if I need it. - EMail App should provides a way to list only flagged emails. - batch uploading/downloading API - WiFi or 3G data is not always availabe, especially you are traveling. - I think we need a new API to help Apps to implement batch uploading/downloading. For example, a batch of XHR requests. - Apps can query status of batches or queues. - Platform implements upload/download batch queues. - Apps are not necessary in memory for uploading or downloading. - doing uploading and downloading while WiFi or 3G data is available. - image uploader supports batch uploading - use batch uploading/downloading API - image uploader shows only first N images - show images cost a lot of memory (creating thumbnail?) - don't show all images while the user try to upload a bunch of images. - gathering verion of XHR and WS with file object supporting and transcoder. - Apps need to load all data into memory before sending to the server. - With gathering APIs, Apps don't need to copy data into a buffer. - With capability of sending file objects directly, Apps don't need to load data into memory. A performance and memory improvement for memory limited devices. - Fake WiFi MAC or Device ID for unlimited free WiFi hours - an evil feature - create a snapshot image or cache of a page for offline browsing - FirefoxOS can make a screenshot now, but I really need a snapshot of full pages, not only the part on the screen. - saving or making a cache for the page. -- Sinker -- 天教懶漫帶疏狂 ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] Sensor data flow for light sensor
Thanks Marco. For my previous post, I found that there is a .idl in gaia/xulrunner-sdk/idl/nsIDOMDeviceLightEvent.idl Is this the dom refered to the Sensor pdf page 5 nsIDOMDevicexxxEvent? Is this correct? ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
Re: [b2g] clang error building on mac os
And a clear description of the problem would be good too. I'll then get it added to MDN in an appropriate place. cheers! Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills On 14 Oct 2013, at 01:02, James Kruth artlo...@gmail.com wrote: Christopher, That's great news! I'm wondering if you might be so kind as to outline the files you needed to change? - James On Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:40:09 PM UTC-4, Christopher De Cairos wrote: James, Yes, the changes I made allowed me to successfully build B2G v1.3. There were a few other bumps down the road - some other spots needed updates for CC and CXX vars In the end, I was able to successfully flash it onto my ZTE Open, and so far it's working great. Your assessment of the Xcode 5 update sounds about right to me, gcc and g++ on my machine were no longer symlinked to my llvm-* binaries as they may have been in Xcode 4.x If the output from the build process was correct, then I won't be able to build for a simulator, but I haven't tried that. Regards, Christopher De Cairos Integration Engineer - Webmaker Mozilla Foundation On 2013-10-12 4:12 PM, James Kruth wrote: Some updates on what appears to be going on here: * On Xcode 4.x, /usr/bin/gcc was a symlink, likely to llvm-gcc-4.2 (which apparently wouldn't produce a usable emulator build - I'm not sure about inari) * With the Xcode 5 update, the CLI tools have replaced that symlink with an actual binary, which is clang, as opposed to gcc. The build obviously doesn't compile with clang, and so things are broken in their current state. I'd be curious to know if Christopher's modifications gave him a working inari build. Where is the appropriate place to report a bug like this? - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:59:23 AM UTC-4, James Kruth wrote: Actually, Keon is called out specifically: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Requirements_for_Mac_OS_X At this point, I'm willing to say it's not a problem with inari, as I just attempted to build for emulator and received the same clang errors. There's definitely a problem with the build process. - James On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:55:27 AM UTC-4, Caio Lima wrote: Guys, I don't remember where, but I have seen in documentation that the inari build is not working on Mac OS X. I guess it was in Build the Firefox OS on MDN Give a look on this tutorial. On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Reuben Morais wrote: And yes, I'm pretty sure the bootstrap script should be passing --enable-cxx to GCC's configure script. Not entirely sure because it looks like Clang is being picked up (and causing the errors in the OP). You can manually fix it by doing: brew install https://raw.github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/master/scripts/homebrew/gcc-4.6.rb--enable-cxx -- reuben -- Caio Lima ___ 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 ___ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
