[ROM][A5/A7 2017][Unofficial] Sailfish OS 4.5

Ayman_sp24 · Mar 10, 2023

Unofficial Sailfish OS port for the Samsung Galaxy A5 2017

Code:

Your warranty is now void. I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM before flashing it!

Source code:

Releases: https://github.com/Exynos7880-Linux/a5y17lte-ci
WayDroid: https://github.com/Exynos7880-Linux/waydroid

Installation:

Flash the ZIP through recovery. Additionally, you may backup your current android installation's boot partition for dualbooting.

What works:

Pretty much everything unless stated below.

What doesn't work:

Saving videos from the camera app after recording

Extras:

If you want to enable double tap to wake, you can run this command inside the terminal

mcetool --set-doubletap-mode=show-unlock-screen
mcetool -i disabled
mcetool -z proximity
mcetool --set-doubletap-wakeup=proximity

Waydroid:

Follow the instructions https://github.com/Exynos7880-Linux/waydroid

Credits:

Ayman_sp24 - Main developer (github profile)
Sailfish OS Team and Sailfish OS HADK porting telegram

Downloads:

4.5.0.16:

A5

4.5.0.18:

A5
A7 - not tested - installer fixed

@irtime · Mar 13, 2023

I have tested this ROM and noticed that the browser was slow to handle demanding websites. On the same device running lineageOS 20 unofficial i didn't have these issue with the same websites running the Fennec browser. Hope this helps. Nice to see other ROMs for this device.

AA1383ali · Mar 15, 2023

Hello, can it be used for a7 2017?

thomaskemper · Mar 18, 2023

Installation of waydroid doesNot start. It worked fine in 4.4

Aman gee · Mar 19, 2023

Plz make this Rom for A7...

thomaskemper · Mar 22, 2023

thomaskemper said:
Installation of waydroid doesNot start. It worked fine in 4.4

Works now. Sorry, misunderstood vanilla/gapps option

thomaskemper · Mar 22, 2023

Does GPS work?
I also had issues about html-video in Browser

ellion23 · Mar 23, 2023

It's very interesting ROM, i'm happy that these kind of unusual roms exist for my smartphone.
I have problem, how can i turn on all cores? Default CPU have 4 cores enabled and 4 cores sleep, how to enable all cores?
I've tried to edit files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/, but that isn't working

MNdev · Mar 24, 2023

Hey.. why is there only showing 8gb as storage? Please let me know if there is any way to increase it to a5's normal 32 gb!

Ayman_sp24 · Mar 31, 2023

MNdev said:
Hey.. why is there only showing 8gb as storage? Please let me know if there is any way to increase it to a5's normal 32 gb!

From recovery terminal run

Code:

e2fsck -fy /data/.stowaways/images/rootfs.img
resize2fs -f /data/.stowaways/images/rootfs.img 32G

Ayman_sp24 · Mar 31, 2023

ellion23 said:
It's very interesting ROM, i'm happy that these kind of unusual roms exist for my smartphone.
I have problem, how can i turn on all cores? Default CPU have 4 cores enabled and 4 cores sleep, how to enable all cores?
I've tried to edit files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/, but that isn't working

Kernel are detects and enables all cores at boot time, and then schedules threads and process to each core as necessary to maximize the performance of the system.

Ayman_sp24 · Mar 31, 2023

thomaskemper said:
Does GPS work?
I also had issues about html-video in Browser

GPS didn't tested
HTML-Video was an upstream issue and it fixed

MNdev · Mar 31, 2023

Ayman_sp24 said:
From recovery terminal run

Code:

e2fsck -fy /data/.stowaways/images/rootfs.img resize2fs -f /data/.stowaways/images/rootfs.img 32G

oh hey thanks.. also is there any way to unroot the waydrid container? My apps are detecting it as rooted and are showing error on start

Ayman_sp24 · Apr 10, 2023

AA1383ali said:
Hello, can it be used for a7 2017?

i'll build it for A7

Ayman_sp24 · Apr 10, 2023

Aman gee said:
Plz make this Rom for A7...

okay can you test it if i did

Ayman_sp24 · Apr 10, 2023

AA1383ali Aman A7 added but need to be tested

Aman gee · Apr 11, 2023

Ayman_sp24 said:
AA1383ali Aman A7 added but need to be tested

Ok i check today ....you tell me its installation method is same other Rom or different means goes to twrp and run the zip file only ...no need extra file to boot...

Ayman_sp24 · Apr 11, 2023

Aman gee said:
Ok i check today ....you tell me its installation method is same other Rom or different means goes to twrp and run the zip file only ...no need extra file to boot...

just the zip file only

Aman gee · Apr 11, 2023

Ayman_sp24 said:
just the zip file only

i tried but getting error ...see the picture...

Ayman_sp24 · Apr 11, 2023

Aman gee said:
i tried but getting error ...see the picture...

sorry about that, can you edit the zip file on the pc ?

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Source code:​

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Extras:​

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Downloads:​

4.5.0.16:​

A5​

4.5.0.18:​

Unofficial Sailfish OS port for the Samsung Galaxy A5 2017

Source code:

Installation:

What works:

What doesn't work:

Extras:

Waydroid:

Credits:

Downloads:

4.5.0.16:

A5

4.5.0.18:

Unofficial Sailfish OS port for the Samsung Galaxy A5 2017

Source code:

Installation:

What works:

What doesn't work:

Extras:

Waydroid:

Credits:

Downloads:

4.5.0.16:

A5

4.5.0.18: