[HOWTO] ✏ Compiling Fairphone Open OS / Rooting

When I try to sync the repo, it only fetches 3 or 4 of the 515 projects… happens both on ssh and html connection.
Does anyone have any idea why that would be?

Nevermind, now it seems like it is downloading properly. I only had to wait much longer than I expected…


make completed successfully (03:14:09 (hh:mm:ss))

Hurray! For those of you who have problems, here is what I did:

  1. Took an old harddrive, wiped it and installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
  2. Accepted automated updates that Ubuntu wanted to do
  3. Followed the official guide step by step.

Here is the output of gcc --version, in case it helps anyone:
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 4.8.4


I will not try flashing my phone until there is a way to install openGAPPS. I’m afraid I just cannot live without the Play Store. If anyone can help, please check out this thread: