Android community is one big cancerous clusterfuck, it is no wonder that finding a decent guide on how to compile Android from source written in a somewhat comprehensible english is pretty much mission impossible. Cyanogenmod Inc. shutting down their wiki and services overnight surely didn’t help either. Required packages on Fedora 25 are (rpmfusion repo must be previously installed): $ sudo dnf install screen java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel git schedtool ncurses-devel ncurses-libs ncurses-compat-libs ImageMagick-devel libstdc++-devel bison gnupg lzma For some reason the compilation process stores some temporary files in /tmp which, in Fedora 25, is mounted on a tmpfs ramdisk. In case the ramdisk runs out of space for some retarded reason the build process instead of halting will go on like nothing happens and produce borked binaries as output. To keep /tmp mounted on HDD run: …

All Cyanogenmod 13 nightly builds past July 28 seem to be affected by a bug that makes the phone reboot just a few seconds after opening the Gallery application. The issue seems to be related to the newly added support to sdcardfs which obviously isn’t playing well at the moment. A workaround to prevent the phone from crashing and rebooting is to edit the build.prop file located in /system; this can be done either via adb using the command adb shell or more practically directly on the phone using the built in file manager and text editor (provided that in file manager’s settings access mode option is set to Root access mode). …