[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
A wee it of info...

Had a wee bit of time to add this...

Since I found issues with stock omx for the latest build, I took time to sort out most of the formatting errors within the omx xml. They had a monkey write up the config. Yikes!

Also, I unrestricted a lot of floating features, as to allow more options or stylized formatting.

If anyone finds issues with connecting to download sites or apps tied heavily into marketing, disable my hosts file in smanager menu.

Phone video player will need some guess and search work for buttons and functions. Nature of the beast, since frame work is different for button icons.

Video player has editor link that cannot detect the new Galaxy store. To use the full version of VE, you must find someone with a J5 that has the downloaded VE, which is about 100MB in size. It shound link with the stock video player, when editor is selected. Since no editor was installed into the rom, it will ask to download. All the editors, I found are for S5 and S6 models, which do not display and FC when backed out of initial page.

This ROM is a lot smoother in long term usage, without having to reboot as much. Most of three inhancements are for power users, which will find having this cheap tablet worth something a lot more that it was before.

Sapa and ANT+ have not been tested, but the system does show them enabled and with out errors when initialized.

USB LAN should also enable when plugged in, but have no clue if kernel allows function.

After rebooting or cold booting, depending on how many or total app size is installed to SD, it may take 10 to 15 minutes to fully loaded and become stable. Some of which may cause lag if running apps promptly from boot.

Once you use the firmware through the day, you will find it smoother than ever before, as it settles in. The main reason is app permissions. Many stand alone TV apps are designed to run from start up, and stay memory resident. Having them being blocked from loading at boot, really makes a difference. This samsung option for phones works better than any other mod available for blocking pemissions on apps. Though it's very limited on how much you can adjust.

As with my past builds on the removal of Samsung's manager, I tried to keep it, but it's too annoying and a memory hog, and totally unnecessary.

All the apps can be left as is, as they are mostly updated. Maps on the other hand is fine for most. YouTube-Vanced, is slightly old, because of the updates are always behind Google.

If language is not included in the language pack, rely in the installed Google TTS. Samsung's Svoice falls back on Google TTS. There are plenty of language options there to support the lack of there of. Since there is limited space on the rom to add language files directly... you may have to remove the US language files, and selectively add the language you want, in its place. I doubt you can have more than one language installed for Samsung Svoice and handwriting.

I tested both Galaxy Store and Themes with the J5 modded build.prop without issues. Even kids mode may run properly. Just there are times when it will ask to update, when it's for the wrong version.

Installing kids mode will install kids store, and may opt to do so after kido mode is downloaded and has been installed.

Wearables may give some funky notice of not having at least 1.5GB of free storage space. It's messed up. I have had 2GB free space, and yet the notice still pops up. I take it as all devices get the message, or the app can't properly detect our free ram space