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Flashing Firefox OS for Geekphone
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booting-and-flashing.md
  • Download the image you want to flash from http://downloads.geeksphone.com/ according to the geekphone model you have (keon, peak or revolution)
  • unzip .zip
  • cd
  • If you look at the content of the directory you'll see it contains adb and fastboot Android platform tools.
  • Start adb server: sudo ./adb start-server
  • Turn on your phone and enable "Remote Debugging" under Developer settings section.
  • Plug your phone to your computer using your USB wire.
  • Check that your computer is listening to your phone: ./adb devices. You'll see something like this:
List of devices attached 
89a27088f488	device
  • Boot your phone ./adb reboot bootloader. A system screen must appear after booting.
  • If your phone status is LOCKED: see unlocking instructions.
  • Flash your phone:
sudo ./fastboot flash boot boot.img
sudo ./fastboot flash system system.img
sudo ./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sudo ./fastboot erase cache

  • And then reboot it: sudo ./fastboot reboot

  • Kill the adb server: ./adb kill-server

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