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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 9.2.12: Bluetooth switches off at once, readable grey text in light skins. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → System → Software Update → Update Now (on Beta 9.2.8 and older: Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Update Now).

What changed

  • Bluetooth off at once: while your saved headphones were switched off, turning Bluetooth off could take up to 20 seconds (it waited for the automatic reconnect's try to fail), and pressing again meanwhile turned it back on, so it cycled on and off. Switching off now goes through immediately and stops the try; going to sleep is quicker for the same reason.
  • Grey text in light skins (Y2Reborn #76): since 9.2.3, skins such as Bunny Bow showed the dark design's brighter grey instead of their own, pale on a pale background (Cover Flow's details, hints, values). Every skin's grey text uses the skin's colours again.

Tested on the developer's player (Beta 9.2.11): switching Bluetooth off during a reconnect try took 0.1 s instead of about 20 s. Before release: the platform's full check, Reborn's workspace tests (new: Bluetooth off while a reconnect runs; a light skin's greys) and the tests of the release images.

What changed and why, in plain words: Beta 9.2.12 report. Everything from Beta 9.2.11 is included (Beta 9.2.11 report).

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.12-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 9.2.11, 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.9.2.12-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 12800).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.12-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-203. 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 9.2.12 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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