LineageOS (Project site)

LineageOS is the most popular Android custom ROM.

LOS 17.0 (All Galaxy A5 variants)

The newest version of LineageOS (Android 10), ported to Galaxy A5.

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LOS 16.0 (All Galaxy A5 variants)

It's recommended to always use the latest LineageOS ported ROM, but if you want to try 9.0, you can use this one.

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LOS 15.1 (SM-A500FU only)

It's recommended to always use the latest LineageOS ported ROM, but if you want to try 8.1, you can use this one.

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LOS 14.1 (All Galaxy A5 variants)

For those who prefer Android 7/LOS 14.1, there's another port:

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SailfishOS (Project site)

SailfishOS is a linux mobile OS that has nothing to do with android. However android has to be installed because libhybris needs its libs to comunicate with glibc.

Therefore if you are tired of android, you must try Sailfish!

SailfishOS (All variants)

SailfishOS ported to Galaxy A5

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OmniRom 7.1 (Project site)

OmniRom is another custom rom, and it's a good alternative to LineageOS.

Omnirom 14.1/7.1 (SM-A500FU only)

A port of OmniRom 14.1/7.1 for Galaxy A5.

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PAC-ROM 6.0

PAC-ROM is a custom ROM that picks the best features from CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android and AOSP.
If you don't like Android 7, 8 or 9 this is your best choice.

PAC-ROM 6.0 (All variants)

PAC-ROM 6.0, ported for the Galaxy A5.

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TWRP (Project site)

TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) is a popular custom touch recovery that supports many modern ROMs.

TWRP

TWRP ported for the Galaxy A5, available from the LineageOS 16.0 releases page.

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CTR

CTR (Carliv Touch Recovery) is an old-styled custom touch recovery.
I also modified CTR sources to build a recovery that is simmilar to CWM.

CTR Recovery

CTR, ported for the Galaxy A5. If you want the versions that are simmilar to CWM, download the "[CWM]" builds.

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Kali NetHunter (Learn more)

Kali NetHunter is a mod that adds several hacking utilities to your device.

Kernel for CM 14.1

Kernel for TouchWiz (Stock) 6.0 MM

Kali NetHunter installer with rootfs

MultiROM (Learn more)

MultiROM is a mod that makes it possible to boot multiple roms, both Android-based and Linux-based.

MultiROM for Galaxy A5

Note: To manage MultiROM roms, you need the MultiROM TWRP recovery (download it using the Recovery button below).

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Recovery

Uninstaller

Sources

You can build all my projects yourself with my sources

Source code

Source code of my projects

DeadSquirrel01 Github page