Mozilla Flame (t2m-flame)

WARNING: This device is not recommended for future use with postmarketOS due to its armhf architecture. Alpine Linux (the distribution that postmarketOS extends) pmaports#599 has been considering dropping it.

This device is still running on armhf, although the processor supports armv7. If you own it, change it and test it that way.

Mozilla (T2Mobile) Flame

Mozilla Flame
Manufacturer	Mozilla (T2Mobile)
Name	Flame
Codename	t2m-flame
Released	2014
Type	handset
Hardware
Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8610)
CPU	Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU	Adreno 302
Display	480x854 AMOLED
Storage	8 GB
Memory	1 GB
Architecture	armhf
Software
Original software	Firefox OS
Original version	Linux 3.0(?)
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no

Features

Flashing	Works
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Audio
Camera
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi	Partial
Bluetooth
GPS
NFC
Modem
Calls
SMS
Mobile data
Miscellaneous
FDE
USB OTG
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer

Contributors

• kskarthik
• MartijnBraam
• ata2001
• ollieparanoid
• dzervas
• lawl
• yuvadm

Users owning this device

• Arthurlutz
• Mossroy (Notes: sometimes used : it can not be flashed easily. Broken touchscreen with an unactive zone, and some hardware USB issues)

Installation

Build and install to SD card:

$ ./pmbootstrap.py install --sdcard /dev/mmcblkX

Boot the phone into fastboot mode (power + volume down) and flash the boot partition:

$ ./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_kernel

Insert SD card and boot.

Modules / Firmware Support

Most modules and firmware while built and installed do not load correctly. Ongoing work is in progress to support:

• Touchscreen
• Wifi
• Audio
• etc.

Unknown chunk type

mozilla-flame.img cannot be flashed to either the system/userdata partitions due to bootloader limitations (probably because the system image is larger than the max download size and it forces the download into sparse mode, which is handled badly.)

$ fastboot flash userdata flame/mozilla-flame.img 
target reported max download size of 301989888 bytes
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [  1.254s]
sending sparse 'userdata' 1/2 (288781 KB)...
OKAY [ 10.018s]
writing 'userdata' 1/2...
FAILED (remote: Unknown chunk type)
finished. total time: 11.275s

Workaround is to install to SD card, or to init your build with none UI instead of weston, which will produce a system image under the limitation.

Internal Data

Taken off a clean v18D_nightly_v5.zip B2G base image

Partitions

shell@flame:/ $ df
Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   451.7M   132.0K   451.6M   4096
/sys/fs/cgroup         451.7M     0.0K   451.7M   4096
/sys/fs/cgroup/memory: Permission denied
/mnt/asec              451.7M     0.0K   451.7M   4096
/mnt/obb               451.7M     0.0K   451.7M   4096
/system                412.5M   283.5M   129.0M   4096
/data                    2.0G    40.4M     2.0G   4096
/cache                  70.8M     4.1M    66.8M   4096
/persist                 4.9M     4.0M   852.0K   4096
/firmware               64.0M    31.7M    32.2M   16384
/storage/sdcard          3.8G     8.0K     3.8G   4096
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard: Permission denied

shell@flame:/ $ cat /proc/partitions                                       
major minor  #blocks  name

 253        0     196608 zram0
 179        0    7634944 mmcblk0
 179        1      65536 mmcblk0p1
 179        2        512 mmcblk0p2
 179        3        128 mmcblk0p3
 179        4         32 mmcblk0p4
 179        5        512 mmcblk0p5
 179        6        500 mmcblk0p6
 179        7      15360 mmcblk0p7
 179        8        500 mmcblk0p8
 179        9       1024 mmcblk0p9
 179       10       1536 mmcblk0p10
 179       11       1536 mmcblk0p11
 179       12     429580 mmcblk0p12
 179       13      32768 mmcblk0p13
 179       14      73728 mmcblk0p14
 179       15      15360 mmcblk0p15
 179       16       1024 mmcblk0p16
 179       17       1536 mmcblk0p17
 179       18          1 mmcblk0p18
 179       19          8 mmcblk0p19
 179       20      10240 mmcblk0p20
 179       21       1024 mmcblk0p21
 179       22       1024 mmcblk0p22
 179       23        256 mmcblk0p23
 179       24         10 mmcblk0p24
 179       25        512 mmcblk0p25
 179       26        500 mmcblk0p26
 179       27        500 mmcblk0p27
 179       28     204800 mmcblk0p28
 179       29    2162688 mmcblk0p29
 179       30    4095983 mmcblk0p30
 179       32        512 mmcblk0rpmb

shell@flame:/ $ ls -la /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/                 
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 abootbk -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 custpack -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 fota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 pad -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 rpmbk -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 sdi -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 secro -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 splash -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 traceability -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 tuningpara -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 tzbk -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 usbmsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1969-12-31 19:10 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29

See also

• postmarketOS on Mozilla Flame blog post with installation instructions and screenshots of Plasma Mobile and Weston
• Kernel Source
• Bleeding edge device/mozilla-flame branch
• UART/serial debug logs
• Serial debugging
• Mozilla Flame B2G build artifacts mirror
• Firefox OS Devices: T2Mobile Flame
• MDN: Flame

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