diff --git a/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk b/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
index b5f7b22c7f..140acf0f16 100644
--- a/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
+++ b/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ $(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,PRODUCT_INSTALL_DEBUG_POLICY_TO_SYSTEM_EXT)
 # Default behavior for the tree wrt building modules or using prebuilts. This
 # can always be overridden by setting the environment variable
 # MODULE_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE.
-BRANCH_DEFAULT_MODULE_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE := true
+BRANCH_DEFAULT_MODULE_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE := false
 
 ifneq ($(SANITIZE_TARGET)$(EMMA_INSTRUMENT_FRAMEWORK),)
   # Always use sources when building the framework with Java coverage or
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ ifneq ($(SANITIZE_TARGET)$(EMMA_INSTRUMENT_FRAMEWORK),)
   BRANCH_DEFAULT_MODULE_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE := true
 endif
 
+ifneq ($(CLANG_COVERAGE)$(NATIVE_COVERAGE_PATHS),)
+  # Always use sources when building with clang coverage and native coverage.
+  # It is possible that there are certain situations when building with coverage
+  # would work with prebuilts, e.g. when the coverage is not being applied to
+  # modules for which we provide prebuilts. Unfortunately, determining that
+  # would require embedding knowledge of which coverage paths affect which
+  # modules here. That would duplicate a lot of information, add yet another
+  # location  module authors have to update and complicate the logic here.
+  # For nowe we will just always build from sources when doing coverage builds.
+  BRANCH_DEFAULT_MODULE_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE := true
+endif
+
 # ART does not provide linux_bionic variants needed for products that
 # set HOST_CROSS_OS=linux_bionic.
 ifeq (linux_bionic,${HOST_CROSS_OS})