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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 6.2: a clock, every skin up to date, and Bunny Bow. 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

  • A clock in the status bar (Y2Reborn #10, thanks @samanz). Choose your zone under Settings → Display → Time Zone (the default is UTC); daylight saving is included. The time shows as soon as the player's clock is set and appears in every skin, each in its own style.
  • New skin: Bunny Bow. Pastel pink pixel art with a bunny wearing a big red bow, a cloud that holds the clock, sparkles, hearts and a pixel font (Pixelify Sans). Settings → Display → Theme.
  • Every skin now knows the newer screens:
    • Radio: the song and artist the station announces, LIVE instead of a remaining time, the station logo as the cover, logos in station lists.
    • Station Info shows the station's details (country, language, format, genres, homepage).
    • The keyboard sits under the skin's own title bar.
    • Favorites songs get a heart on Now Playing.

Everything from earlier betas (Bluetooth pause fix, playlists, keyboard, search, Radio) is included.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.6.2-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 clock and the skin changes were built and checked on the computer; this is their first release on the player.
  • The 12- or 24-hour clock follows the time zone; there is no switch yet.
  • Jumping to a new place in a song still takes about a second on Bluetooth.
  • 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.

Files

  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.6.2-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 5700).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.6.2-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-59.
  • SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis or MediaTek. Details: Beta 6.2 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

Contributors

samanz
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