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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 5: a real keyboard, library search and a polish pass. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Download Update → Restart and Install.

What's new

  • Full-screen keyboard for Wi-Fi passwords, radio station search and the new library search, replacing the one-row letter wheel. Driven by the buttons around the wheel:
    • Back / Play-Pause / Previous / Next move up / down / left / right (hold Previous or Next to keep moving),
    • Select types the key, hold Select when you're done, hold Back to cancel.
    • Pages for capitals (Shift once, twice to lock), digits, symbols and accented letters; an eye key shows the Wi-Fi password while you type it.
    • The music keeps playing while you type; the wheel does nothing on the keyboard.
  • Search your music: Home → Search finds artists, albums and songs while you type ("beat" finds The Beatles, "sigur ros" finds Sigur Rós), with a live count of matches.
  • Polish pass over every screen: consistent wording and capitals, notices no longer cover what you're looking at, a clearer turn-off screen.

Everything from Beta 4 and 4.1 (internet radio and its fixes) is included.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.5-first-install.zip below and the Innioasis Y2 firmware package v3.2.0 from Innioasis (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: Y2Linux and Reborn start, music works.
  5. Connect the Y2 to the computer and copy (don't move) system.img from the Innioasis package onto the Firmware drive. The player takes the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth firmware from it and turns the radios on.

Full guide: INSTALL · How updates work: Recovery and updates

Known issues (beta)

  • The keyboard and search were built and checked on the computer; this is their first release on the player.
  • Streaming radio keeps Wi-Fi busy: battery use is higher than for local music, and Bluetooth headphones may drop out more often while streaming.
  • FM radio is planned for the next beta.
  • Battery life in sleep is not yet stock-like (about 9 mA vs stock 1.3 mA).
  • The player cannot detect wired headphones yet. Tested on one hardware revision and one player.

Files

  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.5-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 5450).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.5-sources-buildroot-legal-info.tar (licences, manifests, this project's packages) and the third-party sources and Linux source linked below: corresponding sources. Our own code: Y2Linux and Y2Reborn at tag baseline-55.
  • SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis or MediaTek. Details: Beta 5 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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