[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) ROMs, Kernels, Re] Option58:
LineageOS 18.1 Official for Galaxy A5|7 2017 [EOL]

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 11 (r), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

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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.

All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit Gerrit Code Review.​

What's working?

Audio

Calls

Wifi

Hotspot

Mobile data

GPS

Bluetooth

Fingerprint

Hardware composer

OpenMAX (hardware encoding/decoding)

Camera (photos + recording)

NFC

Sensors

Vibration

Double tap to wake

Always on display

Software encryption

Sepolicy

Security

We are shipping with enforced selinux policy.

Supported variants

All variants of Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A7 (2017). Dual SIM is also supported.

How to install

Make sure you had Samsung's Oreo firmware bootloader and modem before installing this.

Make sure you are using the latest official TWRP version.

Download the lineage build and optionally google apps.

In TWRP format data (if you still have stock rom encryption).

In TWRP wipe data and cache.

Flash LineageOS.

Optional: Flash Google apps (rightafter).

Reboot.

LineageOS updater will handle updates automatically (OTA).

If you're flashing manually, it's okay to dirty flash.

Downloads

Unfortunately, Google has stopped providing android 11 with the new security patches, forcing LineageOS team to drop all legacy devices, that were still on android 11. This includes our device, too, as it's simply too old to get any newer android version as official. (old kernel, FDE is old encryption method etc.)

20240305 is the last official build there will be and I have re-uploaded it to several different mirrors.

A5 2017: MEGA | androidfilehost | wiki.lineageos.org | twrp.me

A7 2017: MEGA | androidfilehost | wiki.lineageos.org | twrp.me

Google apps (arm64): wiki.lineageos.org

Old builds:

18.1 beta: mega

17.1 last official: androidfilehost

17.1 alpha/beta: androidfilehost

16.0 last official: mega

15.1 last beta: androidfilehost

Donations

If you find the work I do helpful, you can support me by donating via this link.

Telegram

There's a telegram group made by A5|7 users where we hang out. Feel free to check it out.

Credits

Huge thanks to (a lot of people):

RaymanFX for the original work on lineage 14.1 and thus making this possible.

Forkbomb for contribution to original 14.1 sources.

Simon1511 for contributing to these devices via patches uploaded to lineageos gerrit.

Stricted, Danwood76, Fcuzzocrea, Ivan Meler and others for contribution to exynos platform.

SGTPresticle, Jmackley, Simon1511, Arno and others for doing the testing.

LineageOS Team

Me, for the infinite hours spent on this project. :p

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM][11][A5|7 2017] LineageOS 18.1 Official [WEEKLY], ROM for the Samsung Galaxy A Series 2017 A5 and A7

Contributors

Option58

Source Code: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_samsung_universal7880

ROM OS Version: Android 11

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.18.140

ROM Firmware Required: Samsung oreo firmware

Version Information

Status: Monthly

Created 2018-12-07