Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN) launched in June 2015. The phone came out of the box with Android 5.1 Lollipop and later upgraded to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. Today we will guide on How to Install crDroid OS on Samsung Galaxy J5. This Custom Firmware is based on Android 9.0 Pie.
To Install this Custom ROM, you need TWRP Recovery. We had already shared the method to install TWRP Recovery on Samsung Galaxy J5. If you already installed TWRP, then you probably want to try new Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy J5.
Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 SM-J500FN Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy J5 features a 5-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 410 humming at 1.2GHz, a gigabyte and half of RAM, 8GB of storage for both the OS and your precious files. Fortunately, a microSD card slot is also a part of the feature mix. At the back, there's a 2,600mAh battery as well as a 13MP camera, complemented by a 5MP one at the front of the Galaxy J5.
What Is Android Stock ROM ?
When you buy a brand new Android device, it comes equipped with a “stock ROM,” also known as the “stock firmware”. The stock ROM is the preinstalled operating system on your device. The stock ROM has limited functionalities that are defined by the phone’s manufacturer. If you wish to have extra features added to your device, then you will have to resort to custom ROM.
What is Custom ROM ?
As you all know Android is an open source platform where a developer can take all the source code from Google and build their own operating system images for Android phones and tablets from scratch. This Custom or Home built an app is known as Custom ROM. Custom ROM replaces your Android Operating system (Stock ROM) which comes with your Phone or Tablet. It comes with a kernel which makes it a fully standalone OS. So some developer in Android Community will customize the Android OS by stripping all the Garbage and makes it a pure Android experience with no carrier-installed app or OEM apps.
This Custom ROM is been updated regularly by the community and developers where they fix all the bugs related reports. Custom ROM also allows you to experience latest Android OS even if the OS has not available to your tablet.
What’s on Android 9.0 Pie ?
Android 9.0 Pie is the 9th iteration and a major update of Google’s Android OS. The new Android Pie brings a couple of design changes to the successor Android Oreo but the most notable one is the gesture-based navigation system. Other features of Android 9 Pie are New Quick Settings UI design, Redesigned volume slider, Advanced Battery with AI Support, Notch Support, Improved Adaptive Brightness, Manual theme selection, Android Dashboard which Google calls Digital Wellbeing, and more other features.
What’s on crDroid Os ?
crDroid OS is a new custom ROM based on AOSP/ Lineage OS built from scratch by adding customization option from AOSPA, Lineage, SlimROM, crDroid OS and many others great ROMs out there. The ROM brings a lot of customization option along with Pure Android Experience.
Yes, you can enjoy the real Pixel smartphone experience by flashing the crDroid OS on your phone. Here we will list all the supported smartphone which can install the crDroid OS. crDroid was first developed for HTC smartphone and later started the same project for many new smartphones.
crDroid OS Features
- Pixel look and feel
- Lineage OS – all mods and features
- 15 New Quick Settings Tiles including Caffeine mode, Expanded Desktop, and Sync
- Settings/Security: Quick PIN/Password Unlock
- Pixel Launcher
- Default sounds from latest Nexus image
- Stability and performance improvements
- And much more
Now download and install crDroid OS on Samsung Galaxy J5 2015. This is an official crDroid OS built from scratch development. This ROM is still under development so expect some bugs and lags. You can anytime revert back to Stock ROM or any other custom ROM on Samsung Galaxy J5.
Pre-Requisites
- This will work on Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN) (Don’t Try this on Any other device):
- Charge your phone up to 80% or 70%.
- Download the latest Samsung USB Drivers.
- You will lose the original ROM or any CUSTOM ROM if you already installed on your phone. So make sure to Backup your phone before doing this step using TWRP or CWM or any Custom Recovery.
- You can also backup all your Data.
- You must install TWRP or any Custom Recovery on your phone.
- Download all the Zip files from below and Place it in your phone’s root of internal memory or to SD Card.
- Rooting your phone will void the warranty.
- Make sure to take the complete backup of your phone before starting this process.
- Rooting your phone can damage your phone permanently.
Warning:
Steps to Be Followed
Step 1: Download crDroid OS Custom ROM packages from downloads section to your PC. Do not unzip the packages.
Step 2: Connect Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN) to PC using an USB cable.
Step 3: Transfer the downloaded packages into the root of phone or SD card memory.
Step 4: Once the transfer is done, disconnect the USB and turn off the Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN).
Step 5: Enter custom recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN).
Turn on the device by holding Volume up+Home Button + Power buttons together until you see the recovery mode.
Step 6: In custom recovery mode, you can view a list of options which are not available in Stock recovery. Among them, find and select wipe data/factory reset.
Step 7: Now perform a complete data wipe by selecting wipe cache partition.
Step 8: Once done, enter advanced options in recovery mode and select wipe dalvik cache.
Step 9: If you are done with all the above steps, you can flash the firmware package now. Select crDroidAndroid-9.0-20190611-j5nlte-v5.5.zip. Confirm the installation and do not interrupt the process.
Step 10: After completion follow Step 9 again and choose open_gapps-arm-9.0-pico-20201203.zip package in this case.
Step 11: Once the packages installation is completed, select reboot system now option.
Download crDroid OS Custom Rom For Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 SM-J500FN
Download the Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 (SM-J500FN) Custom ROM crDroid OS ROM package from the below download links. Transfer them to your device before proceeding with the installation process.
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bro the rom crDroidAndroid-9.0-20190611-j5nlte-v5.5.zip don't work, try clicking the link
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