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Recently I bought a Symphony Gofox F15 Firefox OS phone that is available in Bangladesh for $60 (4650 BDT). I bought a used one from bikroy.com with 3100 BDT. It is not a very appreciable set in terms of performance but it works. It is a Firefox OS 1.4 phone having 512mb RAM & ROM that gets a bit slow on heavy usage.

As a Web Developer myself I am thrilled that an entire mobile phone can be operated from browsers. If you are new to the trend, everything you see on FFOS is running on browsers, every button that you click is a <a> or <button> tag, every image that you see is either CSS or an <img> tag. So the OS takes very less RAM and resources to run, on theory.

But I must admit, some features are very well thought and they are way ahead compared to some earlier versions of Android. The 2.0 version also comes with a brilliantly designed UI thatll impress you for sure.

The good fun in ADB connection is the fact that you can run the app, debug it, touch different elements and inspect it in real time from your desktop PC! You can even modify styles of app drawer in an instant and with only changing some good old CSS codes.

As you expect, as it is less used in Bangladesh, I couldnt find the appropriate drivers for the phones ADB connection. Although Mass storage worked right out of the box. The conclusion is, in Windows (both 32 & 64 bit) I failed to load it in WebIDE. But I succeeded in Ubuntu. Heres how I did it:

Connecting Gofox F15 for ADB/WebIDE in Ubuntu:

Step 1: Prepping the Ubuntu:

1. Created an udev rule for the device.
First ran the command on terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

Then added the following code in the file and saved:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1782", MODE="0666"

(I got the 1782 value from running lsusb command.)

2. Now run:

sudo service udev restart

Step 2: Prepping Firefox Desktop:

1. Got the latest Firefox Nightly for Linux (currently version 38) from here
Earlier versions are less likely to work. It is best to get the latest possible version.
Get the Firefox tar file, extract it in a directory like this:

cd ~
mkdir Apps
cd Apps
tar xvf path/to/firefox-xxx.tar

(I have created and chosen the "Apps" directory. You can use any directory you want.)

2. Installed the ADB Helper
from here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/fxos-simulator/

Step 3: Prepping the Phone:

1. Turned on the USB Storage option from Settings
2. Disabled Screen Lock from Settings -> Screen Lock (Because if the screen lock comes, the debug bridge will be stopped.)
3. Most importantly, enabled Developer menu, Settings -> Device Information -> More Information and checked "Developer Menu". A Developer item is now revealed in the Settings.
Then enabled ADB option from Settings -> Developer -> Remote Debugging -> ADB and Devtools.

Step 4: Bridging the ADB:

1. Found a good cable from another phone and conneted with it. The cable given in the box does not work. Also sometimes, I heard, using a USB port directly on the motherboard helps. But I used extension cord and still got connection. I was lucky!


2. Started Firefox Nightly (from home/Apps/firefox) and opened about:app-manager through the addressbar. It showed a button with a strange number at the bottom. I clicked on it. It showed some errors, like this:

12:34:56: connection error. Possible causes: USB port not connected, port not forwarded (adb forward), wrong host or port, remote debugging not enabled on the device.

3. Out of curiosity I ignored the message and then tried opening the WebIDE (from Firefox menu -> Developer -> WebIDE.) and it showed the device in the Menu on the right side! This time it also showed the strange number, not exactly the device name (S32SV2B000010123). But I clicked on it anyway.

(After requesting connection with the device, there will be a message in your phone asking whether you want your Desktop to connect with your phone. Tap on OK button on your phone when it comes.)

Surprisingly, it connected!

4. I disabled and re-enabled ADB from Settings, started Firefox Nightly, plugged in the phone, started WebIDE and voila! It came with the right name!

Here goes a screenshot to my success!

Remarks:

1. Use shorter cable if possible
2. Use a good quality cable
3. Connect it directly in the USB port of motherboard
4. Try enabling and disabling ADB option if doesnt get detected
5. Use this page to troubleshoot .

Anytime I wanted to connect, I just followed the point 4 under step 4.

Now I can create Apps in my Firefox browser and run it directly on my phone! yayy!

Help & ref:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936909
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE/Troubleshooting

Ambient Noise is a very clean implementation of a simple idea that will help you stay focused on your work while on the computer. And it integrates well with your Ubuntu sound menu. Care to learn more? Read on.

Ambient Noise for Ubuntu PPA (Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04)

Listen to the sounds of nature and relax yourself. Ambient Noise is a no non-sense application that is capable of playing a wide variety of sounds from nature non-stop and without much fuss. The idea behind Ambient Noise might be simple, but such is the nature of extremely popular apps, that can also have a profound impact on your work habits. Selection of sounds include rain, storm, coffee shop, forest, night, wind and fire.

Installation is super easy. Just do the following in Terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/anoise
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install anoise

After completing the installation, launch the Ambient Noise application from Ubuntu menu. Thats it. The app sits nicely in your sound menu and you can skip, pause and play through the preloaded sounds from the Unity sound menu. Ambient Noise works in offline mode as well.


And guess what, you can download even more sounds from the ANoise Preferences window. I have to concede that Im enjoying this app more than any other supposedly relaxing music Ive in my playlist. And my favorites are rain and storm modes. If you want to support the project, do visit ANoise homepage. Thanks for reading. 

The overall theme and appearance of the official Ubuntu Forums was revamped recently to match the current Ubuntu branding. Now, it features quite a heavy, orange-coloured header, an orange-coloured navigation bar as well as orange-coloured buttons and an Ubuntu-branded element set. While there are many who are amazed by the new look of the Ubuntu Forums, there are quite a few who don't like this shiny, glowing and quite unfinished* look.

For the latter group, including myself and Krytarik, the 'Stylish' browser add-on is all that is needed to tweak the look of the Ubuntu Forums, or any other website as well, for that matter. Krytarik has created two 'Stylish' styles for the Ubuntu Forums, a light one and a dark one. You can choose any of these and you can also edit the styles to match your liking.

*) added by Krytarik

Ubuntu Forums Default	Krytarik Light	Krytarik Dark

Setup

Enter the following command in Terminal,

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s gnome-shell

Reboot PC.