Category: Samsung J500H

This phone is so old and low on storage space, that if it is left to connect to the internet, the storage fills up completely before you get the chance to disable updates !

I have moved to external storage before, but as you might expect, this would have been a great solution if i had slightly more space on the device itself (Original post here)

For development purposes, I would like this phone to have as low an android version as possible, and the lowest android version of LiniageOS itself is 6 (Marshmallow)

CyanogenMod, the name of LiniageOS before Nougat, but it overlaps with LiniageOS at Android version 6, although Android 5 on the phone would have been more useful for my development endeavors, I decided to go with Android 6 anyways. Which happens to be LiniageOS 13.

Allowing Adoptable storage on the Samsung J5 20165 – J500H

There are a few tricks for this particular phone
1- We need to replace the recovery system with TWRP

Enable phone developer mode, then USB debugging and OEM override (Disable protection)
Download ODEN
Download the TWRP .TAR file for your device, for the Samsung J5 2016 (J500H), you should find i here
https://twrp.me/samsung/j53gxx.html

reboot your system into bootloader mode (Vol down, Home and power at the same time for 3 seconds to start the phone)

Open ODEN, chose the tar file for AP, and upload the TWRP

Now, don’t let the phone reboot into the system or it will overwrite the bootloader with the original one, instead
once the phone starts rebooting, hit, Volume UP and home button and power at the same time, and TWRP will patch the
system once it opens in recovery mode so that it won’t overwrite the new TWRP

Reboot system, and boot with Power, Home, And volume down button for bootloader change

From this point on, you can enter into TWRP with the Home, Vol UP and Power button combination at boot time

Now download the patch to enable adoptable storage and store it to the SD card (adoptable_storage_enabler_ashyx) from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3507387

Start the recovery mode (TWRP mode)

Hit install and chose the file you have downloaded

That’s all you need

Now, next thing you will need to do is to format the SD card using the guide here

http://www.tech-g.com/2019/12/01/storing-whatsapp-video-and-photo-to-sd-card-with-no-compromise/