Building B2G OS for Flame on transition (kanikani) branch

[kskarthik (Sai Karthik)]

Good news flame users ! Now we can build the b2g from transition branch (kanikani).

Thanks to this tweak provided by @gsvelto

from his words…

I’ve successfully flashed the transition branches on my
Flame last week; using the instructions provided on the Wiki should do
the trick, just make sure that you use the flame-kk target when running
the config.sh script and your Flame has been pre-flashed using the V5 base image available here: http://cds.w5v8t3u9.hwcdn.net/v18D_nightly_v5/v18D_nightly_v5.zip

[kskarthik (Sai Karthik)]

@penserbjorne i’m looking at you Expecting a build from mexmod soon…

[Valentin]

An update from @nhirata on dev-fxos:

1. I made a slight correction in the instructions:
   https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Transition_Project#Building_the_Transition_Branches
   Having said that as per my action item, I tried it out and was able to make a success build which flashed and booted the device with the transition version (pine/kanikani).

2. To note, I did follow through with where the builds are located for MC/master as my manager had asked me a few questions, these builds are busted due to bug 1262808. This landed in inbound and maybe in tomorrow build, I will follow up with this. I did find that they were still being built. F/OTA is just not being pushed.

3. Device builds for pine are currently busted due to the following bugs : bug 1264060, bug 1264065

[penserbjorne (Paul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez)]

I’ll try to compile, but Flame is my primary device so make some test is sometimes a problem because my data , maybe we can try to make a tool/script to backup/restore or if you know some tool as TWRP or similar let me know, will help me a lot

[kskarthik (Sai Karthik)]

Flame is my primary device too. I will try to find a back up solution

Mozilla Discourse wrote:

penserbjornePaul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez

April 15

I'll try to compile, but Flame is my primary device so make some test is sometimes a problem because my data , maybe we can try to make a tool/script to backup/restore or if you know some tool as TWRP or similar let me know, will help me a lot

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[stargayte (Philippe)]

There is a section in mdn to restore data when updating your Flame. The link: Updating your Flame
I remember that it doesn’t save all your data, so be becarefull. You should list what you want to keep and look what the script currently save.
But I hope it will help you.

[penserbjorne (Paul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez)]

I used that tool for a long time, but actually doesnt work the last time my phone wasstucked rebooting So I dont use it anymore

BTW, thanks If I fond something I’ll post here!

[lissyx]

Stucked rebooting? Maybe it was just a bad build. We had a couple of very bad issues that would exactly produce this kind of behavior in the past week. It might be worth you retry and/or provide us with complete logcat from the whole boot.

[anon1576192]

Is transition branch supposed to be working with other devices as well (e.g. Xperia devices other than Z3C)?

[kskarthik (Sai Karthik)]

not yet AFAIK Well, you can try building

[penserbjorne (Paul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez)]

I’m not sure, that happened with my Flame, Hamachi, Keon and Inari so I thought that didn’t work, but I’ll try to use again, thanks!

[penserbjorne (Paul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez)]

The process seem to be “neutral” for my view point so I guess it can work for any actually supported device, so you can try to compile maybe It works.

[lissyx]

Yes, there is no reason this should not work. We just do not do it because of lack of time, but any device already supported can work.

[anon1576192]

That’s great! I’m no dev but I should be able to make builds, so I can test it on my Xperia E3 (flamingo). I’ll let you know how it goes…

[anon1576192]

I remember there were options to compile B2G for eng- or usr-releases, but I found nothing about that on the B2G building wiki. Does anyone know something about that?

[penserbjorne (Paul Sebastian Aguilar Enriquez)]

As I remember, NHirata said that for this first builds theres no VARIANT at least not yet

[lissyx]

No, he said there is only a VARIANT=eng build being done. But you can do VARIANT=userdebug builds yourself

[stargayte (Philippe)]

After one week full of fails trying to download/compile the repo, I finally got some success to flash my Flame
Do you know if the wiki on mdn has already a B2G part to move the FirefoxOS Flame page and update it with the transition branch?
Also, maybe it could be nice to create a page of what is currently working just to know what people need to test. Personally, I watch the B2G metabug from time to time and look at all the bugs in it, but even with that I’m not sure about what I can really test.

[benfrancis]

At some point the transition branch should be merged back into master, so it should only be a temporary measure.

What is currently working is changing every day (there will be a further update at today’s weekly meeting), but currently off the top of my head it’s basically:

• Lock screen is working
• Status bar and utility tray work
• Keyboard works
• Can create new browser windows and browse the web
• Can configure WiFi and set the date and time in Settings (accessed via the utility tray)

The meta bug is a good place to track progress and is the main source of truth, there’s also a tracker which tracks our high level progress through the backlog of work in two week sprints.

[kskarthik (Sai Karthik)]

Nice to hear this news