[Samsung Galaxy J5 (2015) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] hodhodtn:
Quality of life changes

First of all, I can't thank you enough for your amazing work ! Using features like night mode and dark mode on my old Samsung J500H...I wouldn't believe it if you told me few weeks ago that it was possible. Also, getting rid of the storage issues I faced with the stock ROM is a big relief. Now I think I spent more than a month (using the last 2 builds) and I wanted to report some "issues". By the way I wouldn't call these bugs but needs of quality of life changes instead because I'm always comparing those new builds with the old android 6 stock ROM.

1 - The timer works in a weird way sometimes. When you set it for 5 minutes for example the phone starts vibrating at 5:30 and sometimes even at the 6th minute mark. It's completely random and sometimes it vibrates on time !

2 - When I turn the phone on, android doesn't start reading the memory card unless I unlock the phone (so half my apps don't start working unless I unlock my phone after turning it on)...I'm not sure if this is normal.

3- When I turn off the phone at night and turn it on in the morning, the phone spends a very long time in night mode (several minutes) until it recognizes the time changes and turns off night mode.

4- Apps like Facebook and Messenger stay in a "hibernated" state when you turn the phone on unless you open them : For example If I turn on my phone, let it for few minutes and then come back I won't find any Facebook or Messenger notifications while apps like Whatsapp and Youtube don't seem to have this issue. Then I open the apps and notifications start to appear.

5- This one happened to me once or twice : while using messenger the mic stops working and i don't hear any sound when I send voice messages. When I restart the app the mic works again.

6- I'm using an alternative cam app since the stock one doesn't give me the possibility to change the "storage".

Then, I have some others remarks, I guess these ones are related to the old hardware and can't be changed :

1 - Multitasking is quite a pain in the a*s specially with heavy apps like messenger and Truecaller. I missed some phone calls because the phone stopped reacting. Sometimes opening more than one app is enough to crash the phone and the trebuchet app stops working.

2- Magisk hide module makes the phone almost unusable (too slow and buggy) so I deleted it.

3- Some apps like myfitnesspal are buggy by nature. I have to restart the app like twice to make it function correctly. Same for Firefox.

Please note that I'm using a 32GO class 10 micro SD card and I use the "shared storage" mode so a lot of apps are put in the external storage (it could explain some crashes I'm not sure).

Overall, it's a good ROM that works relatively smoothly with great new features despite some slows and crashes (specially when 2 or more apps are open).

One last question : It really took me time to install the latest build, root the phone, reinstall all the apps I use and change some settings (like changing the screen turn off time and the lock time etc) so I was wondering if it will be possible just to update the existing android for the next builds or will I have to do a fresh install for every build ?

THANK YOU FOR READING ! THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING ! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING :D

Edit : I wanted also to report a weird interaction between app Truecaller and android that happened to me today : Someone called me, the phone was vibrating correctly. I picked up the phone and the screen turned black. I have to unlock my phone and then open notifications bar so I could find the buttons "accept/refuse the call"...It was a bit awkward that the phone application (Truecaller in my case) went in the background and to answer my phone call, not only I needed to unlock the phone but I needed also to go to notifications to find the call...Meanwhile the phone was running smoothly, no crashes and no slows.