[Samsung Galaxy J5 (2015) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] captainfaptain:
Hi, I'm Mikey, an enthusiast when it comes to technology. I have used many devices already and tried to exploit each of them: rooted them, changed their rom, modded them, etc. Now, this here is, I can say, the near perfection ROM I've ever applied in my entire life. There's no use of putting that [UNOFFICIAL] tag beside it. This feels like "J5 shouldn't have been released without this as the rom." No lies.

When I installed this for the first time in my J500f, my phone got bootloop-ed. That's because I had to first have the Lollipop (5.0.1) version of the phone and not the new and CRAPPY Marshamallow one. Why I hated Marshmallow? Well, it's a mistake made by the Android developers. Foocking annoying SD card writing permissions, the PERMISSIONS stuff itself, and a lot of other unnecessary stuff. Anyway.. Back to the topic.

So what I did was, I flashed first the Lollipop ROM through ODIN, installed TWRP, then flashed this one. You won't believe how I felt at the moment I saw the LineageOS boot animation cheer me up as it loaded my device. It didn't even take that much time! Around 5 minutes, my new and BETTER Samsung Galaxy J5 is now ready for party!

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Seriously, this ROM sucks!

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That's because I didn't know this EXISTS! And I'll never regret that decision I've made to finally move to another ROM.

DUDE THIS ROM IS PERFECT. There, I said it. It improved my phone and now, I'm not anymore buying myself an iOS phone knwoing that LineageOS is almost available (both official and unofficial) across almlost all devices. Oooh, Apple's sooo gonna get envious of LineageOS.

Anyway.. Too much words, READ THIS PART. THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE TO INSTALL THIS ROM:

1. Samsung stock rom occupies nearly half of your storage space. THIS ROM, occupies only 300+ mb of yur storage out of 8GB. Profit? Not yet.

2. Samsung throws a ****load of unnecessary bloatware into this phone (nearly 50 stock apps, and almost half of those are unnecessary), making your device more power hungry, cluttered, and rip storage. THIS ROM? Haha. Only 10+ stock apps are pre-installed. No Google crap, but if you want that, simply flash GAPPS. No worries at all.

3. DOZE MAN ****ING DOZE. I LOVE DOZE. Nougat's! And not Marshmallow's!

4. Nougat's Privacy Guard. You DON'T anymore need to have Greenify or L-speed or Xposed, or any of those complex stuff. With this thing on Nougat, you can already PREVENT (like 100%, Greenify just hibernates them and causes some of them to still overgo Greenie) your apps from: running in the background, chaning your settings, sending wakelocks, and A LOT MORE! No. This is not the Permissions stuff you can just do at the App Info screen. THIS IS DEEPER. Trust me.

5. Noticed when opening your messages or even UNLOCKING your phone, takes time on the stock rom? I hated that. And it lags sometimes as well. Well, in THIS ROM? Not anymore. Mr. Fabulous Wizard Genius guy, Sound, optimized this phone to the fullest! Faster and lighter than ever! Just try to compare the overpowered liquid-y of this UI to Samsung's stock one.

6. No Smart Manager? Well. Not an issue, AT ALL. You can already clean you cache at the Storage Settings menu. Power saving in this rom is.. SUPERB. Power profiles are in! Power save, Efficiency, Balance, and Performance, gotta catch 'em all! Here's a comparison: on stock ROM, I get around 8-10 hours of texting and watching Youtube, 3-4 hours of Minecraft, 6-8 hours of Facebook. On THIS ROM, I get sround nearly 24 hours of just texting and wifi! 6 hours of MC, 10+ hours of Facebook. Not lying, try this yourself. And also, at stock, I charge my phone 2+ hours. In thus rom, I only do that in more than an hour (1h 30+)

7. Nougat's awesome features WORK HERE. The toggles, the quick reply, everything! Even the Adoptable Storage! Samsung doesn't allow us to do that but with this ROM? Already spacy storage + Adopted SD card = mind blown.

8. THIS ROM IS ALIVE AND UPDATED. Last update was 2 days go, May 28. And I loved every single update this wizard has done. It gets better and better over time.

9. SUBSTRATUM BLACK AMOLED THEME. This is a must have. Battery life x10000000000. Get Swift Black, watch the coolness of your AMOLED phone.

10. MORE AND MORE OF COOL AND NECESSARY STUFF WITH NO BULLSPLIT.

SOUND!?? SOUND CAN YOU HEAR ME!??

Foooock you! You're so AMAZING and Intelligent! You made my life better you asslol. I love you man! #NoHomo You should be working on an Android phone company or somewhere else where you can show them how the real things should be done! Thank you, for this ROM.

Of course, there's some flaws. BUT THEY'RE GETTING FIXED. Like that one where the camera acts like it does Marijuana, suddenly flashes blue. That was on the early versions. But few versions after, IT'S GONE. Here are some of the things I noticed:

1. After a call, the screen is responsive and everything is fine but the touch. You can't touch anything until you lock the screen and leave it for around 3 secs. Then it works fine again.

2. The microphone bug. Sometimes, using the Recorder or the Camera, it doesn't work. But after restaring the phone, it works fine again. It does this randomly.

3. For those who don't like the new Camera app of this thing becauss "bad quality", you're wrong., try turning off Denoise in the menu. Camera quality++

4. Nothing else :) Have more features available.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Samsung Galaxy SM-J500F

May 28, 2017 ROM update.

A technician, student and a geek. Uses phone in a moderate manner everyday. Plays hard-graphics videogames sometimes.