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I should point out that this was running FFOS upon Android ICS 4.0.(3?). Firefox OS uses much of Android's base for getting things working (last I checked). But, the perhaps bigger issue with Indian phones is the locking down of firmware. Spreadtrum (the SoC in the phone that you're mentioning) has all sources (device + kernel + vendor trees included) for compiling FFOS for the "tarako" board (upon which 3 of the fir…
Hi, Thats me. That repo has fully funtional source for the Zen variant of the phone. The Spreadtrum sources are enough to get started on other variants, but you will have to hack support for the dispay and possibly the touch panel. It was a very interesting exercise getting stock debian onto these babies. I have been hoping to write it up for a while now, but never got around to it.
https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ is the most promising.