Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

can't install ff on ZTE Grand X in

  • 4 replies
  • 4 have this problem
  • 2 views
  • Last reply by pinero

more options

Whenever i try to install firefox on my phone i get the error: package file error, my phone runs on android 4.0.4 and its noy rooted. Please help me, i need a solution without rooting my phone

Whenever i try to install firefox on my phone i get the error: package file error, my phone runs on android 4.0.4 and its noy rooted. Please help me, i need a solution without rooting my phone

All Replies (4)

more options

hello, i don't think that intel powered android phones are supported by firefox as of yet (however there is some work done to get firefox onto a broad range of devices).

more options

The current mobile Firefox 19.0 is for devices with ARMv7 and more recently ARMv6 if they also meet minimum requirements for RAM and resolution for version.


Mozilla has very experimental builds of Firefox for Android-x86 (it will show up as Nighty in the app list)

http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2012/11/firefox-for-android-running-on-android-x86/

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-x86/

Note that the Nightly channel builds get checkins pretty much every day so sometimes it can vary in stability each day.


edit: changed Fennec to Nightly for app list part.

Modified by James

more options

It shows up as Nightly in the application list. Otherwise Jame's answer is correct. We don't have support for Intel x86 phones on our release or beta products in the Play Store.

Note: don't install the package from the starkravingfinkle.org site. It is quite old. Use the second ftp.mozilla.org site to get Firefox for your phone.

more options

James' answer was the most useful one, tnx to everyone for the replies.