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I just had one of my old hand-me-down phones returned by my offspring in a great condition (junior is very careful with his equipment - well done young man !). This doesn't happen all too often shows that the Nexus S is a decently built phone. This is also a good example of breaking the built-in obsolescence of modern phones. This particular unit has served me well for nearly 2 years (my average is one year) and served 2 kids after that. These instructions have been compiled on Ubuntu 13.10 64bit to allow me to re-do this process in future. It should work on any Linux based distro (see pre-requisites) - if you are using another Operating System it might be time to switch. Hopefully it might be useful for other people as well. Installing pre-requisites As per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites wget https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py python bootstrap.py Ubuntu 13.10 additions As per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Ubuntu_13.10. sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends autoconf2.13 bison bzip2 ccache curl flex gawk gcc g++ g++-multilib gcc-4.6 g++-4.6 g++-4.6-multilib git lib32ncurses5-dev lib32z1-dev zlib1g:amd64 zlib1g-dev:amd64 zlib1g:i386 zlib1g-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev make zip libxml2-utils sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 1 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 2 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.6 1 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 2 sudo update-alternatives --set gcc "/usr/bin/gcc-4.6" sudo update-alternatives --set g++ "/usr/bin/g++-4.6" Check out & build Firefox OS git clone git://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G.git cd B2G echo "export HIDPI=1" > .userconfig ./config.sh nexus-s ./build.sh -j3 The config script will take quite some time depending on your internet connection as…