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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 9.2.10: tidier Settings, menus that scroll properly. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Update Now (from now on: Settings → System → Software Update).

What's new

  • Settings in eight places, all on one screen: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Sound, Display, Skin, Customize, Library and System. Customize opens Home Menu, Browsing and Wheel & Buttons; Gapless and Crossfade are in Sound → Playback; Library holds Scan for Music, Storage and Last.fm; System (was About & Updates) holds Software Update, the clock, Error Reports, Reset & Maintenance and About.
  • Clearer settings: names say what they change, values say what is set, on/off settings are switches, three-choice settings open a short list that explains each choice, and Customize's pages say what the setting in focus does.
  • Menus scroll like lists (#74): settings pages, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scroll on the screen with a scroll bar instead of inside a box; the Music page scrolls to its last lists.
  • Cover Flow (#73) shows the album's year once.

Your settings stay as they were; only their places changed. Tested on the developer's player: installed over the air and confirmed by the player itself; all services and Reborn running, health OK, the saved session carried over. Before release: the platform's full check, Reborn's workspace tests (new: the settings pages, choice lists, hints and scrolling) and the tests of the release images; every page drawn on the computer in the standard look and the Classic skin.

What changed and why, in plain words: Beta 9.2.10 report. Everything from Beta 9.2.8 is included (Beta 9.2.8 report).

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.10-first-install.zip below and the Innioasis Y2 firmware package v3.2.0 from Innioasis (only this version works; it is also your way back to stock).

  1. Unpack both.
  2. SP Flash Tool → Download Only → load MT6582_Android_scatter.txt from the Y2Linux zip. Exactly BOOTIMG, RECOVERY, ANDROID and USRDATA are ticked.
  3. Click Download and connect the switched-off Y2; wait for the green tick.
  4. Unplug and press Power: the player sets up its Internal Storage (a few seconds), then Y2Linux and Reborn start, music works.
  5. Connect the Y2 to the computer and copy (don't move) system.img from the Innioasis package into the Firmware folder on Internal Storage. The player takes the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth firmware from it and turns the radios on.

Full guide: INSTALL · How updates work: Recovery and updates · Storage: Storage · Audiobooks · Headphone settings: Headphone output · Error reports · Skins: skin guide

Known issues (beta)

  • Everything listed for Beta 9.0 still applies. If anything behaves differently from 9.2.8, send an error report (Settings → System → Error Reports); Restore Previous System (Settings → System → About, tap Version seven times, then Diagnostics) goes back to the version you had, with your data kept.
  • Battery life in sleep: about 2 mA overnight on the developer's player (estimated from the battery voltage); stock is about 1.3 mA.
  • Some players turned off by themselves during playback; the cause is not found yet. If yours does, start it again and send a report.
  • The speaker uses the same volume as the headphones; its loudest step is the stock speaker's. Start low the first time.
  • How loud the wheel click should be is a first guess; tell us if it is too loud or too soft.
  • BBC radio stations stream only in HLS, which the player does not play yet. FM radio is in the works for a later beta.

Files

  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.10-first-install.zip: images, scatter files and checksums for SP Flash Tool. The data image has no SSH key (developers: tools/production/first_owner.py).
  • manifest.json, manifest.sig, rootfs.ext4.gz, bootimg.img.gz, recovery.img.gz: the signed over-the-air update (Ed25519 key platform-v1-release-20261015, sequence 12600).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.10-sources-buildroot-legal-info.tar (licences, manifests, this project's packages) and the third-party, toolchain and Linux sources linked below: corresponding sources. Our own code: Y2Linux and Y2Reborn at tag baseline-201. The speaker amplifier driver is Chris Hendrickson's GPL-2.0 AW87559 driver. The headphone profiles are AutoEq results (MIT, Jaakko Pasanen); their licence ships with them.
  • SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis, MediaTek, Awinic, Last.fm, AutoEq, Strawberry or Google. Noto Sans CJK is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Details: Beta 9.2.10 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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