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I BOUGHT FirefoxOS phone, why don´t have root rights?

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dizzcz
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I BOUGHT FirefoxOS phone, why don´t have root rights? I think Mozilla/Firefox is about freedom, but this is slavery. Exist any "trick" to get root rights or hammer is only weapon aginst slavery? My phone is Alcatel OneTouch Fire E with FirefoxOS 1.3

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I BOUGHT FirefoxOS phone, why don´t have root rights? I think Mozilla/Firefox is about freedom, but this is slavery. Exist any "trick" to get root rights or hammer is only weapon aginst slavery? My phone is Alcatel OneTouch Fire E with FirefoxOS 1.3 Thanks

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Ralph Daub
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Hi dizzcz,

I understand your frustration with the realization that your Alcatel OneTouch Fire E device does not come rooted.

Unfortunately, that device is not one of our developer devices, and because of this, it is not guaranteed to come rooted. It seems that no one has been able to root this device as of yet, and there is an ongoing discussion on the mozilla.dev.b2g mailing list:

There are other Firefox OS devices that are available which come with root access. For more information, please view this MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) page:

I hope you find this information useful. Please let us know if you have any other questions about your Firefox OS device.

Thanks,

- Ralph

dizzcz
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Hi Ralph, Thank you for reply, but i am not sure if you understand me. Why "non-devel" devices come crippled, non-developers don't have rights for manipulating with own device? Why Mozilla participating on delivery crippled device? Or why Mozilla recommended crippled devices on their websites?

The main problem isn't "my phone isn't rooted" but "Devices are sold crippled"

For example I have stored lot of sms/mms in my Firefox OS "non-devel" phone, how can backup it? (to SD card, to Computer ...) I read some how-tos but all failed, I Thinks all failed on non-root right, any tricks?

Thanks Lukas (slave this time)