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[UPDATED][GALAXY J5] Basic informations | Guides | Tips and Tricks | ROMS & KERNELS
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Basic & useful informations | Guides | Tips and Tricks | ROMS & KERNELS list​
This will be the new thread from now on. Before saying that i just copy-pasted from vaserbanix thread, let me tell you that Im the one who wrote almost his whole thread.
It will have more informations and the ROMS/Kernels list will be updated when there is a change or something new.
FEEL FREE TO CONTRIBUTE WITH INFORMATIONS, BUT WRITE THE SOURCE TOO IF IS NOT YOURS.​
What is a Stock ROM?
It's the original operating system provided by the manufacturer of the device.
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What is a Custom ROM?
It's the operating system ported, developed from source or derivated from Stock Rom, created by developers.
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What is KNOX?
"Knox is a new security feature that is being offered with certain Samsung handsets. It helps you to securely separate your personal and professional data. Essentially, you can have the benefits of using a ‘work phone’ without the need to carry, and secure, a separate device." -blog.clove.co.uk
"Normal (unrooted and so..) devices are flaged as KNOX Void Warranty 0x0 right from the factory.
When we flash items which weren’t signed by Samsung, it flags your device as KNOX Void Warranty 0x1.
So, flashing recovery/kernel/custom rom or rooting will set KNOX status to 0x1." - omegadroid.co
Once the KNOX gets voided, you lose the warranty. (there are some cases where people say that Samsung repaired their phone for free while Knox was voided though).
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What does mean ROOT?
Rooting, for those of you that don’t know, means giving yourself root permissions on your phone. It’s similar running programs as administrators in Windows, or running a command with sudo in Linux. With a rooted phone, you can run apps that require access to certain system settings, as well as flash custom ROMs to your phone, which add all sorts of extra features. If you’re on the fence about rooting, check out our top 10 reasons to root your Android phone for some motivation." - Lifehacker
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ROOT ADVANTAGES
Credits @danarama @abaaaabbbb63
"-De-bloat your phone. Uninstall any unwanted system apps.
-More control over how the CPU acts. This can increase performance or battery life, depends on how you configure it.
-More control over power consumption. This implies undervolting your CPU, giving it less power, so it consumes less.
-More control over how apps start up. Prevent apps from starting up when they don't need to.
-Flash custom ROMs. Bored of the stock ROM and look? Then try a custom ROM.
-Improve your privacy
-Backups: The ability to completely backup your phone, and fully restoring it to the time of the backup. This is done with a Nandroid Backup (we'll talk about this later)
-Mods and Inovations. Use many mods, fixes, tweaks or features created by the XDA community!
-Custom Kernels: By using a custom kernel, the performance or battery life can be improved alot.
-Run apps that need Root Permission. These apps can be very useful, like AdAway, Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Terminal Emulator and many others!"
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ROOT DISADVANTAGES
Credits @danarama @abaaaabbbb63
"-Rooting will void your warranty (although reverting root is very easy).
-Your phone might get bricked if you will do system modifications, but usually you can restore your phone by flashing the official stock rom.
-No more over the air official updates. You'll have to update your phone manually, through your recovery. (which isn't that hard)"
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What is a Custom Recovery?
A custom recovery is a third-party recovery environment. Flashing this recovery environment onto your device replaces the default, stock recovery environment with a third-party, customized recovery environment. This is a bit like flashing a custom ROM like CyanogenMod — but, instead of replacing your device’s Android operating system, it replaces the recovery environment.
"A custom recovery environment will do the same things as the stock Android recovery. However, it will also have additional features. Custom recoveries often have the ability to create and restore device backups." - howtogeek.com
On our Galaxy J5, you can enter the recovery by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons.
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What is Download Mode?
"Download mode is for flashing radio firmware/ROM upgrade through official means.
For example, ODIN is commonly used on Samsung devices to flash ROMs, those devices needs to be in download mode prior to flashing. However, ODIN is not the official way to do it, rather Kies, is the official route in upgrading the firmware, this is for Samsung devices for example." - android.stackexchange.com
You can enter the download mode by holding Power + Home + Volume down buttons.
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What is the Xposed Framework?
"The Xposed Framework is a way to make system-level changes to your Android operating system without installing a custom ROM. All you need is root access." - howtogeek.com
For example, you can remap your phone buttons, gain control over apps permissions and some more privacy, customize your phone.
Take a look here.
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What is SELinux?
SELinux, which was introduced in Android 4.3, is a mandatory access control system built into the Linux kernel, in order to help enforce the existing access control rights (i.e.permissions), and to attempt to prevent privilege escalation attacks (i.e. an app trying to gain root access on your device).
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What is a CPU Governor?
"A CPU governor in Android controls how the CPU raises and lowers its frequency in response to the demands the user is placing on their device. Governors are especially important in smartphones and tablets because they have a large impact on the apparent fluidity of the interface and the battery life of the device over a charge.
NOTE: You cannot change your CPU governor unless your phone is rooted and you have a ROM or app that lets you make a change. Also, different kernels (the intermediary software between your phone's hardware and the operating system) offer different sets of governors." - @Saber
[REF][GUIDE]Most up to date guide on CPU governors, I/O schedulers and more!
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What is a Kernel and a custom Kernel?
KERNEL: "The kernel is kinda like the nervous system of the body. It directly interacts with the hardware (which is how it is able to adjust CPU speed) and it is what allows the ROM to function." - @bassmadrigal
CUSTOM KERNEL: A custom kernel is a modified kernel which can have more features like: undervolting, overclocking, more governors, more frequencies, double tap to sleep etc.
A custom kernel can improve the performance and battery of your phone.
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GUIDES
GUIDES
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How to flash / reflash Stock ROM?
Method with ODIN
1) Download and install the proper DRIVERS for your phone (it should be done automatically when you connect the phone to the PC).
2) The phone should have at least 50% battery!
3) Download ODIN program. I'm using v3.09.
4) Download the stock rom for your J500xx model from here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/search/Galaxy j5/ .
You can use SamFirm or Updato to download faster: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647 .
5) Extract ODIN archive and run it (.exe file).
6) Extract the stock rom .zip archive and you will get a xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.tar.md5 file (xxxxxxxxxx= name of the stock rom)
7) Restart the phone in DOWNLOAD MODE, by holding Power + Home + Volume down buttons same time.
A "Warning" window will apear, now press the "vol up" button to get "DOWNLOAD MODE" and conect the phone to the pc
If the ODIN see the phone, on the "ID:COM"line(midle-left) you will see "0:[COMx]"(x= port number)
8) On the ODIN press "AP" button, a window will apear, search in it the location of the xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.tar.md5, select it and open.
9)Now press "START" button and wait until ODIN finish.
When it finish, the phone will boot automatically and in ODIN will apear a big green PASS.
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Method with Samsung Smart Switch
Credits @American_Jesus .
American_Jesus said:
You can flash/restore Stock Rom with Samsung Smart Switch
How to:
Open the Samsung Smart Switch, click on "More" (top-right corner), then click "Emergency software recovery and initialization" (first option), then "Device initialization" (second tab).
Enter model name, to find your phone model name, remove the back cover and battery, and find and type your phone model name on (top of) the sticker, then the serial number ((S/N) bottom of the sticker).
Click OK (3 times), put back your battery and back cover.
Enter in "DOWNLOAD MODE" (press and old Volume Down+Home+Power at same time), them (When "Warning" screen appeas) press Volume Up, connect your USB Cable, and press click OK.
After the update is complete, disconnect the USB cable, and wait, after finish the installation just follow the instructions on your phone.
Video: How to Restore Original Firmware on Samsung Galaxy J7
(It's the same procedure for the J5)
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How to flash a custom recovery (TWRP in our case):
Download the TWRP recovery according to your J5 model and Android version.
TWRP 5.1.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j5-t3468844
TWRP 6.0.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j500f-t3416960
You have installation guide there.
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How to ROOT:
Method with SuperSU by Chainfire
Make sure you've installed the custom recovery presented above.
If you didn't flash it yet, then go and flash it.
Download SuperSU by Chainfire (stable releases).
Go to recovery by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons.
Install SuperSu .zip file ( browse to the directory where is located and choose it).
Now, you can verify if root is working (it should) by installing Root Checker from Google Play.
That's it.
Enjoy a rooted phone!
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How to flash a Custom Rom:
Every Custom Rom has it's own topic (thread) where you can find the instructions to flash it, presented by the developer of the rom.Is recommended to use that instructions.
Make sure you've installed the custom recovery TWRP before flashing a custom rom!
Instructions used to flash custom roms in general:
1)Download the rom and put it on your External SD Card ( make sure you have enough space).
2) Power off the phone and boot it in the recovery by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons.
3) Choose "WIPE" and then "Advanced WIPE", choose /system, /data, /dalvik, /cache, Android_Secure.
4) Go to main menu and choose "INSTALL", then select the rom .zip from the partition internal/external-sdcard (where is located the rom.zip), and then "SWIPE" to install.
5) The install process begin and you'll wait until it finish. Then select "Wipe cache/dalvik".
6) Reboot the phone and enjoy!
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How to do / restore a Nandroid Backup (BACKUP PHONE):
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Nandroid backup
Basically, this so-called Nandroid backup can save you a lot of trouble in case you soft-brick your device. In just a few clicks, your whole system is restored and your device is fully functioning again, as if nothing ever happened. In this short guide, I’ll give you the simple steps so that you can make a backup yourself to be on the safe side. I’ll also show you how you can transfer your backup to your computer so that you don’t need to keep it on your device to save space.
How to do a Nandroid backup
1. Prerequisites
In order to be able to make a Nandroid backup, your Android device has to be rooted and needs to have a custom recovery tool.
2. Go into recovery
To get into your recovery, you first need to boot your device into the bootloader. This can be done by turning it on holding down the Power + Home + Volume UP buttons.
3. Do the nandroid backup
Once you’re inside the recovery it’s a piece of cake.
TWRP:
Go to “Backup”
Choose the partitions you want to back up. If you’re not sure what to choose, simply leave the default selections.
Make the backup by swiping to the right at the bottom.
Your device should now perform the backup process, once that’s done you can reboot your device.
4. Transfer the Nandroid Backup to a computer
Now, depending on how many apps and files you installed, your backup might take away quite some space. To avoid that, you can transfer the whole Nandroid backup to your computer and delete it on your device. Should you ever need to restore your device, you only need to transfer it back.
TWRP:
Connect your device to your computer and go to the TWRP folder on your device. In there, a folder containing your backup can be found. If you have several on your device, they will be separated so that you can choose only the folder you need. After you successfully copied the folder, you can delete the one on your device.
5. Restore your device using your Nandroid backup
That’s an easy one as well. Simply boot into recovery, select “Restore”.
Now you can choose the backup you want to use and restore your device. Once that’s finished, reboot your device and you’re done!
-Source trendblog.net
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You can follow the video, how to backup and restore a Nandroid backup.
How to create a NAndroid Backup
(It's on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, but its the same procedures)
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Galaxy J5 2015
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TWRP recovery
Lollipop 5.1.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j5-t3468844
Marshmallow 6.0.1:
1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j500f-t3416960
2) With AROMA support: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/3-customs-recoverys-galaxy-j5-2015-t3560266
Lollipop 5.1.1
CUSTOM ROMS
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][ALL J500xx MODELS] Unofficial CyanogenMod 12.1 for Samsung Galaxy J5 (2015)
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500xx] Unofficial ResurrectionRemix v5.5.9
[J500H] Light Xperion ROM from Sony Xperia Z5
[ABANDONED]Slim Stock ROM
[ABANDONED][PORT][FN/ F/ H/ M/ G/ 7] Unofficial CyanogenMod-12.1 with Temasec optimization
CUSTOM KERNELS
[TW][J500FN/J500F/J500G/J500M/J500H]Kernel for Stock ROM
[CM12.1][CM13.0][J500xx] Hotplug enabled kernel for Cyanogenmod
[TW][5.1.1/6.0.1] TenseiKernel
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Marshmallow 6.0.1
CUSTOM ROMS
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/F] Cyanogenmod 13
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/F][AOSP] Slim6
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/J500F] Unofficial ResurrectionRemix v5.7.4
[J500x]SkiesROM UX Beta Note7
[AROMA/VOLTE][J500FN/F/G/M/H] PerforLite Speed v2.0
CUSTOM KERNELS
[CM12.1][CM13.0][J500xx] Hotplug enabled kernel for Cyanogenmod
[TW][5.1.1/6.0.1] TenseiKernel
[TW][J500FN/F/G/M/H] hadesKernel
[TW][J500FN/F/M/H] aresKernel [Xtreme Edition]
[ABANDONED][TW][J500H][Sabermod 4.8] The Dark Kernel V1.0
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Nougat 7.1.1
CUSTOM ROMS
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/F] LineageOS 14.1
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/F][SUBSTRATUM] AOKP Nougat
[BUILT FROM SOURCE][J500FN/F] Slim7
CUSTOM KERNELS
- NONE.
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MODS
Lollipop 5.1.1
[J500F] Debloat 5.1.1 and add extra features
[TOOL][TW] Debloat your stock 5.1.1 ROM!
Marshmallow 6.0.1
[TOOL][TW] Debloat your stock 6.0.1 ROM!
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Galaxy J5 2016
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TWRP recovery
Marshmallow 6.0.1:
1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-twrp-3-0-2-samsung-galaxy-t3406889
2) https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/recovery-twrp-3-0-2-samsung-galaxy-t3539649
Marshmallow 6.0.1 CUSTOM ROMS
[J510FN] RetRom
Light Stock ROM v2.0
[J510FN] William's Hybrid Note 7 Rom
Marshmallow 6.0.1 CUSTOM KERNELS
[TW][J510FN/F/GN/MN] Cherry Kernel
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CREDITS
CREDITS
@ All the developers for their ROMS / KERNELS / TWRP . A big thanks to all.
@danarama @abaaaabbbb63 for ROOT advantages / disadvantages.
@Saber for amaxing CPU Governors detailed informations.
@American_Jesus for sharing another way to flash/re-flash stock rom and for Nandroid Backup Tutorial.
@ To everyone who will/would contribute with informations to this thread.
@ XDA
@ Google
@ Samsung for the phone, meh
And the following websites for providing some information:
- blog.clove.co.uk
- omegadroid.co
- Lifehacker.com
- howtogeek.com

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I don't know how true it is, but here you go:
Rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU
Credits to @SoUnd001 for sharing this.

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Is there a kernel for J500F marshmallow update. With which I can Overclock the cpu ?
Please if there is none I request devi to build it if possible.
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LONEWOLF#95 said:
Is there a kernel for J500F marshmallow update. With which I can Overclock the cpu ?
Please if there is none I request devi to build it if possible.
Sent from my SM-J500F using Tapatalk
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There is no custom kernel for Marshmallow.
Furthermore, the overclock has been removed from cm sources to reduce the battery drain and phone heat.
The phone its smooth enough without overclock
I still have to update this thread, but im a bit busy. In any case, at this moment its updated comparing it to the old thread.

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@#Henkate You should update the OP. There has been new things:good:

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paulo boë said:
@#Henkate You should update the OP. There has been new things:good:
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Yeah, i know. Ill try to make time for it today.

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paulo boë said:
@#Henkate You should update the OP. There has been new things:good:
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I have updated the list of roms, kernels and mods for both J5 models.
If there is something missing, please let me know.