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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 9.3.15: the Quick Menu. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

The Quick Menu on the player

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

Hold Power on any screen and the Quick Menu opens (#85): Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on or off, the screen's brightness, the sleep timer, Restart and Power Off, without going into Settings.

  • A panel of tiles in the middle of the screen; it grows in over the dimmed screen and the focus glides from tile to tile as you turn the wheel. Let go of Power and it stays; Back or a short press of Power closes it.
  • Brightness: Select, turn the wheel, Select. Wi-Fi / Bluetooth: Select switches them; the tile is coloured while on. Restart / Power Off act at once.
  • Still turns off when held: keep holding Power and a ring fills around Power Off; the player turns off after about 4 s (it was 2 s).
  • Every skin shows the panel in its own colours.

Before release: the platform's full check, Reborn's workspace tests (new ones for the menu) and the 552 tests of the release images; the panel checked on host renders in four looks and on the developer's player. Version 9.3.14 was an unpublished test build; everything from Beta 9.3.13 is included.

What changed and why, in plain words: Beta 9.3.15 report.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.3.15-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 9.3.13, 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.9.3.15-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 14800).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.3.15-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-223. 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 9.3.15 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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