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Firefox OS
=== Firefox OS ===
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* We've got 6 new contributors to Firefox OS over the last 14 days.
 
** Jonathan Hao in Taipei fixed his first OS bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024276 1024276] - Replace multiple character literals by numeric literals
 
** Volunteer contributor [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/MalihamOZ81/ Maliha Momtaz Islam] from Bangladesh, fixed bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072458 1072458] - Certain characters cannot be input using Bangla keyboard
 
** Mathieu Rhéaume, a volunteer from Quebec fixed three instances of "replace the existing ad-hoc functions with a shared function to load JSON files", bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062807 1062807], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062829 1062829], and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069808 1069808]
 
** New to Mozilla volunteer Scriptofer fixed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=996332 Bug 996332] - Switch back to alphabets after @ is typed. A big thanks also to Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] who mentored Scriptofer on this Good First Bug.
 
** [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/fjaguero/ Fernando Agüero], a volunteer from Spain, fixed his first Firefox OS Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072834 1072834] - [Settings] Remove simple tiling from the developer panel
 
** [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/delphine/ Delphine Lebédel] landed her first Firefox OS fix for Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1074446 1074446] - gaia-l10n builds for Portuguese locale (pt-PT)
 
** Oscar Patiño González had is first OS fix landed at Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073486 1073486] - Temporal patch to disable change resolution in OMX hardware encoder was not being applied
 
* A reminder that we've transitioned the Flame to KitKat-based Gonk which means that if you have not, you will need to flash a new base image and then do a shallow Gecko/Gaia flash to continue receiving nightly updates.
 
*The launches just won't quit! Last week, Firefox OS, via the ZTE Open C, arrived in Australia. Folks in Australia can get the carrier unlocked Open C from [http://ausdroid.net/2014/10/04/firefoxos-toting-zte-open-c-arrives-australia/ JB Hifi Stores]
 
*Some Firefox OS landing highlights from the last couple of weeks include:
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864327 864327] - Support of FM RDS in WebAPI
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043813 1043813] - [B2G][Flame]Volume level is very low at max setting
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=889737 889737] - Unify both sendMMI() and dial() functions
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=997564 997564] - launch engineering mode app
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063046 1063046] - Graphics UI shows black artifact on 50% of the time
 
**Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039501 1039501] - Allow for WiFi prioritized for downloading FOTA updates
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