diff --git a/core/Makefile b/core/Makefile
index a98e400e98..d5a2005243 100644
--- a/core/Makefile
+++ b/core/Makefile
@@ -1701,8 +1701,8 @@ INSTALLED_VENDORIMAGE_TARGET := $(BUILT_VENDORIMAGE_TARGET)
 $(INSTALLED_VENDORIMAGE_TARGET): $(INTERNAL_USERIMAGES_DEPS) $(INTERNAL_VENDORIMAGE_FILES) $(INSTALLED_FILES_FILE_VENDOR) $(BUILD_IMAGE_SRCS) $(DEPMOD) $(BOARD_VENDOR_KERNEL_MODULES)
 	$(build-vendorimage-target)
 
-.PHONY: vendorimage-nodeps
-vendorimage-nodeps: | $(INTERNAL_USERIMAGES_DEPS) $(DEPMOD)
+.PHONY: vendorimage-nodeps vnod
+vendorimage-nodeps vnod: | $(INTERNAL_USERIMAGES_DEPS) $(DEPMOD)
 	$(build-vendorimage-target)
 
 else ifdef BOARD_PREBUILT_VENDORIMAGE
diff --git a/core/config.mk b/core/config.mk
index 7709d3c6fe..8645a4c8bd 100644
--- a/core/config.mk
+++ b/core/config.mk
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ dont_bother_goals := clean clobber dataclean installclean \
     userdataimage-nodeps userdatatarball-nodeps \
     cacheimage-nodeps \
     bptimage-nodeps \
-    vendorimage-nodeps \
+    vnod vendorimage-nodeps \
     systemotherimage-nodeps \
     ramdisk-nodeps \
     bootimage-nodeps \
diff --git a/core/help.mk b/core/help.mk
index 6e0b2c02ed..c034e79118 100644
--- a/core/help.mk
+++ b/core/help.mk
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "droid                   Default target"
 	@echo "clean                   (aka clobber) equivalent to rm -rf out/"
 	@echo "snod                    Quickly rebuild the system image from built packages"
+	@echo "vnod                    Quickly rebuild the vendor image from built packages"
 	@echo "offline-sdk-docs        Generate the HTML for the developer SDK docs"
 	@echo "doc-comment-check-docs  Check HTML doc links & validity, without generating HTML"
 	@echo "libandroid_runtime      All the JNI framework stuff"