Wi-Fi not working after update

[JonnyTech]

After updating my ZTE Open to v1.3 everything works apart from Wi-Fi. I can turn Wi-Fi on and it displays "scanning" but no network is ever found. I also cannot disable Wi-Fi without rebooting. Help?

[koliada]

Wow, this one seems serious. I'd rather wait for resolving before flashing :)
By the way, what version do you see on the Device Information screen? I've got 1.3.0.0-prerelease built by some guy last spring and Wi-Fi works here.
One more question: does your cellular network works? It might be a radio firmware issue so I can try to share the working IMG if this issue stays unattended.

[JonnyTech]

I updated using the img files from http://download.firefoxosbuilds.org/zteopen-1.3-imgs.zip and all went well.

Upon rebooting the cellular network was not working, but was resolved from here: #10

The wireless kept scanning but would never find any network - I found no fix for it.

I do not remember what the version was shown, but it was 1.3.xxxx....

I have tried many builds, this one seems the best, if only I could figure out the wifi issue.

Where did you get your working build from? Are the developers still maintaining this project?

[koliada]

Unfortunately I cannot find the link to the origin of my current ROM, but I remembered that it wasn't a zip file, but a folder of a nandroid backup.
I've found it on the phone, here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1kZIULx0Nktc09oYWd1YnhjMUE/view?usp=sharing
You know what to do with it.

[JonnyTech]

Thank you, if there is no further development with the builds on this site then I shall give it a go. It is such a shame that there are not any working newer builds anywhere else...

[willyaranda]

We want to work on this, but in other way. We would like to have just a cli that downloads a gecko + gaia build from Mozilla and a binary compatible phone (flame, alcatel, tablet… whatever) and flashes to the phone, without bootloaders, without .img files. Just that.

You are kindly welcome to contribute on this.

[JonnyTech]

Whoa, I wouldn't even know where to begin - I'm not a coder, just a tinkerer. Wouldn't one have to go through the process of downloading the source code from Mozilla and then compiling it? AFAIK that take hours! Surely .img files are the way for mass deployment? I see why you want to go that way - to be able to have one installer for a multitude of phone types.

I will look at the existing code and try to learn what I can, and maybe troubleshoot or bug hunt, but can anything be done without the phone? (It is not mine and I updated it as a favour and got into the whole FirefoxOS thingy)

Glad to know that the developer is reading the issues here - do you have a quick-fix that I could try to resolve the reported issue of no wireless? Thanks.

[willyaranda]

HI @JonnyTech, sorry for the delay :)

The idea is to download builds from Mozilla (compiled builds!), so we don't have to do anything. Just a script that roots, backup, format and flash the phone.

I would say that it's difficult to do something without the phone, since you have to test the scripts with a real phone :)

And we don't know anything about wireless problem :(

[JonnyTech]

OK, sounds reasonable. Where can one download compiled builds from? I cannot find them on the Mozilla site. I'll give that a go then if it works I'll try to make an automated script (any tips for a starting point?).

[willyaranda]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/ and more info here: http://paulrouget.com/e/openc/

[JonnyTech]

Thanks for that - any idea which builds to use for the ZTE Open - the article only mentions the Open C?

[willyaranda]

Hamachi

[JonnyTech]

Thank you, I'm going to find some time to start exerimenting - it's all starting to make sense now, thanks for your patience.

BTW, can I double check that it is Hamachi because in your README.md it states that ZTE Open is inari.

[willyaranda]

I mean, hamachi is Alcatel One Touch Fire. Inari is ZTE Open. hamachi builds should work on ZTE Open (inari)