[Samsung Galaxy J5 Themes, Apps, and Mods] arildsotra:
Yesterday I was able to install adaptable storage on my daughter's SM-J500FN Non root

Yesterday I was able to install adaptable storage on my daughter's SM-J500FN Non rooted phone.

There are obviously more steps to doing this than describes in this thread so I will make an instruction describing how I did this.

Our phone is in Norwegian so some of my menu references may be wrong.

1.

First of all "developer mode" and "OEM Unlocking" must be enabled. This is in a hidden menu that you first must turn on.

Here you can find instruction for doing that: https://android.gadgethacks.com/new...ting-before-modding-anything-android-0167840/

-In the settings menu go to "About Phone" (at the bottom of the menu).

-Go to Program version info.

-Find "Build-Number" and tap about 6 times until a message appears, saying something about turning on developer mode.

-Tap a few more times until a message saying that it is turned on.

-Go back to the main settings menu, and you should now see a new menu item "Developer mode" below "about phone"

-Open "Developer mode" menu

-Turn on "Developer mode" and "OEM Unlocking".

-This must be done to be able to flash a new recovery

2. Download Recovery TWRP

To be able to install adaptable zip file you need a recovery that allows you to do that.

I installed/flashed TWRP 3.1.1-1 for SM-J500FN, the name of the file is twrp-3.1.1-1-j5nlte.img.tar

I was not able to find it online, so what I did was to install the "Official TWRP App" from App store. You can find this by searching for TWRP in App store.

This app can not be used to flash the recovery if you have not Rooted your phone, but you can use it to download the TWRP tar recovery file.

-In the app Click on "Flash TWRP" it will then tell you to select your phone and flash file and where to store it on your phone. My file was twrp-3.1.1-1-j5nlte.img.tar

-You will get a message that ROOT is required, but the file will be downloaded to the phone.

-Now connect you phone to a PC, find the recovery file and copy it to your PC.

-I chose to remove the App after copying the file to the PC.

3. Install Odin

Samsung Odin 3.12.3 is a PC application that lets you flash the recovery to the phone.

Odin can be downloaded from here: https://odindownload.com/

4. Flash TWRP to the phone using Odin

Follow these instructions:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j5-t3338869

I had to do this twice because I was not able to boot into the new recovery and make the recovery permanent.

Notice that to boot into "download mode" you use "Volume Down" button and when booting to TWRP recovery you use "Volume Up" button.

I had to remove the battery from the phone to shut it off, Power button did not do anything.

5. Install adaptable storage

Boot into the new recovery according to instructions above. You will get the option to make the recovery permanent (slide an arrow to the right).

Now click on install and install the adaptable storage zip file.

The adaptable storage did not work the first time, so I had to do it twice.

After installation, a new message appeared on the phone with the option to format the SD card as internal storage. One option is also to go into the storage menu, click on SD card and format as internal storage.

After formatting you should get a message to move data from internal to the storage card. If not click on internal storage in the storage menu and choose to move data.

Not all data and apps can be moved to the storage card, but we were able to free up about 1gb of internal memory.

It seems like new apps still install on internal memory and must be moved to SD like before. But now it moves the whole app and does not use internal storage.

My conclusion is that this works perfect and does not slow down the phone.

When you connect the phone to a PC, you will now only see internal memory, not SD and internal.

Good luck.