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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 9.3.13: Wi-Fi that tries harder, square covers in 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

A small release of fixes from your reports.

  • Joining a Wi-Fi network that "isn't found" tries once more after a Wi-Fi restart (#83). A report showed the player scanning for 34 s after Wi-Fi came on without seeing a network that was right there; switching Wi-Fi off and on found it in 3 s. The player now does that switch itself the first time a join finds nothing. Routers that keep refusing the player (also #83) are a different problem and still open.
  • A network the player can't join says why (#91): WPA3 only, Needs a login (work or school networks) or WEP, instead of only "Unsupported security". The Y2's Wi-Fi chip can't join WPA3 networks at all (its firmware only knows open, WEP, WPA and WPA2), and no update can change that; networks that offer WPA2 and WPA3 together work, with WPA2.
  • Letter scrolling puts the letter's first entry at the top, forwards as backwards (Y2Reborn #91).
  • Covers fit their frames in skins (Y2Reborn #81): no more cut corners in Terminal, Winamp and Paper, Winamp's cover is centred. Cassette's stripe no longer runs through the title (Y2Reborn #82).

Before release: the platform's full check, Reborn's workspace tests (new ones for the Wi-Fi retry, the reasons a network can't be joined and letter scrolling) and the 552 tests of the release images; skins and the Wi-Fi page checked on host renders. This build was not run on a player before release: if anything behaves worse than in 9.3.12, please send an error report.

What changed and why, in plain words: Beta 9.3.13 report.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.3.13-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)

  • After a sleep (a pause longer than 15 minutes, or the Power button) the Bluetooth link ends; the player reconnects within a few seconds of waking. Buds that have gone back to a phone meanwhile must be picked again in Settings → Bluetooth.
  • WPA3-only and Enhanced Open Wi-Fi networks can't be joined (hardware); ask for "WPA2/WPA3 mixed" where you can. A router that keeps refusing the player (#83) is still being worked on.
  • Everything listed for Beta 9.0 still applies. If anything behaves differently from 9.3.12, 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.
  • 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.9.3.13-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 14600).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.3.13-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-221. 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 9.3.13 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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