[UNOFFICIAL][ROM] LineageOS/Go 16.0 for Galaxy J5 [SM-J5008/H/F/FN/G/M/Y] - Samsung Galaxy J5 (2015) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries

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LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 9 (Pie), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.
Code:
** Disclaimer
I am not responsible if flashing this ROM bricks your
phone or causes thermonuclear war and ends the
world as we know it. You have been warned.
ROM Information
ROM Target Device: Samsung Galaxy J5 SM-J5008 | SM-J500H | SM-J500F/G/M/Y | SM-J500FN
ROM Status: Beta
ROM OS: LineageOS/LineageOS Go 16.0
Project GitHub Repositories: https://github.com/Galaxy-MSM8916
Project Gerrit Review site: https://review.msm8916.com/
Telegram Channel (for ROM build/completion notifications): https://telegram.me/Samsung_MSM89XX
Telegram Group (for Q&A): https://telegram.me/joinchat/AJrZvz_pGY7Pvfis9kzMwA
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Device Names
Verify your device codename before downloading any firmwares or recovery images!
Code:
[B]SM-J500F/G/M/Y[/B] - [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"][B]j5lte[/B][/COLOR]
[B]SM-J5008[/B] - [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"][B]j5ltechn[/B][/COLOR]
[B]SM-J500FN[/B] - [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"][B]j5nlte[/B][/COLOR]
[B]SM-J500H[/B] - [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"][B]j53gxx[/B][/COLOR]
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Download
If you are completely new to flashing custom ROMs and have no idea how to begin, start by downloading a TWRP image for your device from the link below and flash it using the ODIN tool (see Instructions below). You cannot flash a custom ROM over stock recovery, so downloading a custom recovery is the first thing you will need to do:
TWRP Builds: https://download.msm8916.com/TWRP/
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ROM Downloads can be found at:
LineageOS builds: https://download.msm8916.com/LineageOS/16.0/
LineageOS GO builds: https://download.msm8916.com/LineageOS_Go/16.0/
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You will probably need to install GApps (Google Apps Suite) as well if you want access to Play Store, and other Google apps. There are two versions:
GApps: https://download.msm8916.com/OpenGApps/
or (recommended for lineage) :
GApps: https://download.msm8916.com/MindTheGapps/
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Instructions
Installation via recovery (TWRP/LineageOS Recovery)
* Download a recent .zip file from the links above for your device.
* Reboot into recovery mode [Press Power+Volume Up+Home].
* Wipe your data and cache partition (equivalent to doing a Factory Reset)
if you are coming from a stock ROM.
* Either: Plug in your phone into your computer, copy the zip file to a location on your Internal or External Storage on a device, click Install on TWRP on your phone and locate the zip file in the phone, or:
* Plug in your phone into your computer, and open Advanced->ADB Sideload on TWRP on your phone and swipe the slider to enter sideload mode.
Then open a command prompt/terminal on your computer in the folder you put the file by Shift-Clicking (Shift+Right Click) and selecting "Open Command Prompt/Terminal Here" (you will need to have adb installed) and type:
adb sideload name_of_zip.zip
to sideload the file. Replace name_of_zip.zip with the name of the file. If you are running Linux you may need to type adb kill-server and use sudo adb sideload if you get an `Insufficient Permissions` error.
* Download and flash GApps in the same way.
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How to provide logcats
Under Windows:
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[B]* Install samsung device drivers and then
the adb utils from here:[/B]
[url]https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979[/url]
[b]* Then enable developer mode, connect your phone to usb,
and from [B]cmd[/B] paste this command:[/b]
[I]adb logcat > %userprofile%/Desktop/logcat.txt[/I]
[b]then try to reproduce the bug.[/b]
[b]* The logcat file will be on your desktop.[/b]
Under Linux:
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[b]* Install the adb utils from your distribution's
package manager and execute the command:[/b]
[I]adb logcat > ~/logcat.txt[/I]
[b]then try to reproduce the bug.[/b]
[b]* The logcat file will be on your home directory.[/b]
* Submit the logcat here on the forums, or on the Telegram group.
* If you cant connect the device through adb on windows because the drivers, connect the device over wifi, enable adb over network on the quick setting tiles, and type:
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adb connect [ip address here]
And then the adb logcat command for windows.
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FAQ
Q: Are you taking device requests?
A: No.
Q: Are you accepting feature requests?
A: No.
Q: Can you make XXX ROM as well as LOS?
A: No.
Q: Can I throw money at you?
A: Most certainly. Donations are always welcome.
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XDA:DevDB Information
[UNOFFICIAL][ROM] LineageOS/Go 16.0 for Galaxy J5 [SM-J5008/H/F/FN/G/M/Y], ROM for the Samsung Galaxy J5
Contributors
vince2678, Zakaryan2004, minz1, deadman96385,Dyneteve,vlwwwwww
Source Code: https://github.com/Galaxy-MSM8916
ROM OS Version: 9.x Pie
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
ROM Firmware Required: >= 6.0.x Marshmallow
Based On: LineageOS
Version Information
Status: Beta
Created 2018-10-06
Last Updated 2019-10-26

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Reserved
If this is your first time flashing P, you will need to install the latest unofficial TWRP image for your device from the links above before flashing a zip image, otherwise installation of a zip will invariably fail.

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What works
Code:
[B]
* RIL (in-call audio, messaging, [I]data possibly[/I])
* Bluetooth (including audio)
* WiFi
* Audio (music, etc)
* Camera (including video recording)
* Flash
* Sensors
* GPS
[/B]
Known Issues
Code:
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]All devices[/B][/COLOR]
* [B][[COLOR="Red"]BUG[/COLOR]][/B] [B] Audio is buggy (music playback through speaker/headphones in particular) [/B]
* [B][[COLOR="Red"]BUG[/COLOR]][/B] [B] RIL (telephony) is broken [/B]
Changelog
Code:
[COLOR="Black"][B]06/10/2018[/B][/COLOR]
* [B][[COLOR="Green"]NOTE[/COLOR]][/B] [B] First working image built. [/B]

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thnank you so much...!!!

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Thanks bro
You are awesome dev

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thats a great news for us , i hope it will be a fully working rom soon as well as RR15

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A review of LineageOS 16.0 for J500H(this review is for the build I made a week ago but the bugs should be the same)
What's working:
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
Camera
Location
Flashlight
Audio(didn't experience any audio bugs as told in the OP thread)
and other minor things(basically the same as told in the OP thread)
What does not work:
RIL(no calling and SMS)
Nearly all of the apps are "incompatible" in Play Store, but installing with APK should work Ok.
As expected, no option to wake the phone with Home key(because not implemented in LineageOS itself yet)
Videos don't play OS wide(Gallery app, YouTube, Settings which have video in it, any file explorer...)
Other things needed to take into considerationn:
Gallery app is very old(KitKat era) not the new one found in LineageOS 15.1
The boot time is more than 5 minutes mostly.(not the first boot)
Digital Wellbeing works if the necessary gapps is installed and signed up to the beta program from Play Store
You can't enable virtual navbar from settings(but you can from build.prop. And if enabled, Swipe Up gestures work perfectly)
I think this should help anyone decide whether or not to install the new LineageOS 16
---------- Post added at 06:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:24 AM ----------
Also there is a typo in both this and Grand Prime's thread. In this thread the ROM Firmware Required is >= 6.0 (Nougat) which is wrong for sure. And in GP's thread it tells 5.0(Marshmallow). I don't know why both of them have the same mistake...

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Zakaryan2004 said:
Also there is a typo in both this and Grand Prime's thread. In this thread the ROM Firmware Required is >= 6.0 (Nougat) which is wrong for sure. And in GP's thread it tells 5.0(Marshmallow). I don't know why both of them have the same mistake...
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That's not a typo on the GP thread. I'll need to fix the J5 ones later. Thanks for pointing that out.
The minimum required firmware corresponds to the firmware provided by that version of stock ROM. By firmware, I mean proprietary code such as modem firmware and bootloader that are flashed onto dedicated partitions on the device that can only be obtained from a stock ROM update, which can not be provided, overwritten or overrriden within the custom ROM and have to be flashed via Odin.
With a lower version, the custom ROM might still work, but probably not as well. In the worst case it might not boot at all.

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vince2678 said:
That's not a typo on the GP thread. I'll need to fix the J5 ones later. Thanks for pointing that out.
The minimum required firmware corresponds to the firmware provided by that version of stock ROM. By firmware, I mean proprietary code such as modem firmware and bootloader that are flashed onto dedicated partitions on the device that can only be obtained from a stock ROM update, which can not be provided, overwritten or overrriden within the custom ROM and have to be flashed via Odin.
With a lower version, the custom ROM might still work, but probably not as well. In the worst case it might not boot at all.
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I think you understood me wrong. 5.0 is Lollipop, not Marshmallow. I meant that.

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Zakaryan2004 said:
I think you understood me wrong. 5.0 is Lollipop, not Marshmallow. I meant that.
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Oh, does it say that? I'll need to fix that as well. Thanks.

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Thanks for this great rom, is there a chance to see a rom which brings us project treble support on our Galaxy j5 ?

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knut2002 said:
Thanks for this great rom, is there a chance to see a rom which brings us project treble support on our Galaxy j5 ?
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Not a chance. Your lucky to even see Oreo and now we have pie on its way aswel

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Pie Just waiting for a build with RIL working. Thanks a lot for your work on this device

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is there any other way to install this rom
is there any other way to install this rom for my j5nlte without adb sideloading

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computeruser2003 said:
is there any other way to install this rom for my j5nlte without adb sideloading
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flash latest unofficial twrp build then flash the rom there
also dont quote the whole op

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Wow. Hurrah another one ????

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nice job, dev. just a question, is it possible to download netflix titles with this rom?

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SorKolapso said:
nice job, dev. just a question, is it possible to download netflix titles with this rom?
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Why no one reads the issues?
Multimedia audio has issues and call don't work, why would you install just to watch Netflix if the audio doesn't work well?

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Thanks for your work sir
Everything but Ril is working fine, audio too even if the post says the opposite
However i hope we can see a GO version soon
Thanks again

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alexelbdmc said:
Thanks for your work sir
Everything but Ril is working fine, audio too even if the post says the opposite
However i hope we can see a GO version soon
Thanks again
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Go version is available.