I was impressed by the demo videos and blog posts about Firefox OS and decided to try it on my phone Nexus S. Searched for Nexus S ROM and found one here. (TODO: Try building latest version of Firefox OS)
Installation went smooth, followed the documentation from here.
Installing Firefox OS on my Nexus S. Fingers crossed :)
— Aravinda (@aravindavk) November 18, 2012
Booting is superfast and Unicode rendering is awesome, adding new fonts also easy. I just used adb (Android Debugger) to push the font from my system.
Installing fonts is so easy in #FirefoxOS, #kannada works like a charm :) #mozilla #nexusS
— Aravinda (@aravindavk) November 18, 2012
I took screenshots using ADB and ffmpeg.
./adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0
ffmpeg -vframes 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb32 -s 480x800 -i fb0 ~/firefoxos_screenshots/s1.png
Lock screen and Twitter app
Kannada in browser and Camera in action
Kannada in Twitter app(Special case text using Zero Width Joiner) and Keyboard
Apps and Marketplace
Dailer and Outgoing call screen
When home button is long pressed
Settings and notification slider
When power button long pressed
Used it for a day and changed it back to Cynogenmod since it was not yet ready for day to day use.
Hoping to learn more about Firefox OS in Firefox OS App Days.
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