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This is a guide for building LineageOS 14.1 for Wileyfox Swift.
The intention of this post is to give interested users a step-by-step guide to build LineageOS for Swift on their own.
It's seems to me that nowadays many contributors on XDA are not willing to share their expertise but they seem to forget that building a ROM is a collaboration of many people. While I was trying to build this ROM I experienced the lack of willingness to help so I am posting this guide to prevent other users to go through the same time-consuming trial-and-error processes.
Of course, some preconditions apply:
You need enough RAM to build the ROM
You need to set up a build environment (either by setting up a virtual machine or better by using Linux)
For building my own ROM, I was using Ubuntu 16.10 and 8GB of memory.
Let's go through the process step by step.
1. Setting up the building environment:
2. Make a folder where you put the android source and change to that folder:
3. Download the repo-script from google and put it to /usr/bin:
4. Make it executable:
5. Set up git:
6. Fetch the sources:
7. Modify the roomservice.xml (find it here: .repo/local_manifests/) to get a working ROM for Wileyfox Swift:
8. Update the sources:
9. Start the build process
10. Finish
11. Optional: If you want to have root access with your ROM, also execute this in your terminal (before brunch):
12. Troubles: If you have 8GB RAM or less, the building process might stop and complain about jack-server.
The intention of this post is to give interested users a step-by-step guide to build LineageOS for Swift on their own.
It's seems to me that nowadays many contributors on XDA are not willing to share their expertise but they seem to forget that building a ROM is a collaboration of many people. While I was trying to build this ROM I experienced the lack of willingness to help so I am posting this guide to prevent other users to go through the same time-consuming trial-and-error processes.
Of course, some preconditions apply:
You need enough RAM to build the ROM
You need to set up a build environment (either by setting up a virtual machine or better by using Linux)
For building my own ROM, I was using Ubuntu 16.10 and 8GB of memory.
Let's go through the process step by step.
1. Setting up the building environment:
2. Make a folder where you put the android source and change to that folder:
3. Download the repo-script from google and put it to /usr/bin:
4. Make it executable:
5. Set up git:
6. Fetch the sources:
7. Modify the roomservice.xml (find it here: .repo/local_manifests/) to get a working ROM for Wileyfox Swift:
8. Update the sources:
9. Start the build process
10. Finish
11. Optional: If you want to have root access with your ROM, also execute this in your terminal (before brunch):
12. Troubles: If you have 8GB RAM or less, the building process might stop and complain about jack-server.
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