Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 8.13

Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 8.13: your songs in Strawberry, steadier Wi-Fi. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Update Now.

What's new

• Music apps see your songs over USB. Apps that read a player's song list over MTP, such as Strawberry, found no songs on the Y2, so music on the SD card seemed to be missing. The player now tells them each file's format plus the title, artist, album, track number and length from its library, for Internal Storage and the SD card. A song you have just copied shows its file name until the player has scanned it. File managers (Windows Explorer, Dolphin, Nautilus) work as before, though Windows Explorer may now list music files by song title instead of file name.
• Wi-Fi drops less often. Sometimes the system threw away a connection that had just succeeded, so Wi-Fi kept disconnecting and reconnecting. That no longer happens.
• A harmless error line that appeared in the system log at every start is gone.

Silence after pausing and resuming a song was the same headphone-DAC clock problem as #48. Beta 8.12 already fixed it, and it was checked again for this release with short and long pauses.

Everything from Beta 8.12 is included.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.13-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 · Headphone settings: Headphone output · Error reports

Known issues (beta)

• The highest volume is still lower than stock's, even at High; demanding headphones may want more.
• A headphone profile still uses some extra processor time while it plays; its effect on battery life has not been measured yet.
• The restart fix of Beta 8.4 is not yet confirmed over many restarts. If the screen ever stays dark, hold Power for 10 s and start again.
• Battery life in sleep is not yet stock-like (about 8 mA vs stock 1.3 mA; some players draw more, #42).
• GC9503V players keep the old screen-off behaviour until a GC9503V owner has confirmed the new sequence (#45).
• The charging fix (#47) is not yet confirmed on an affected player; if yours still doesn't charge, please send a report (Send Report Now, or Save Report and attach it).
• The player cannot detect wired headphones yet; the jack plays whenever no Bluetooth headphones are connected.
• The fast copy path has not yet been tested with the cable pulled mid-copy, across sleep, or with Windows Explorer.
• Songs with several artists ("A;B") count as one artist; there is no Album Artist view yet.
• FM radio is in the works for a later beta.

Files

• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.13-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 7701).
• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.13-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-110. 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, Last.fm, AutoEq or Strawberry. Details: Beta 8.13 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

• Y2Linux-sources-third-party-dce38ffdd9e0.tar (attached to baseline-52), SHA-256 dce38ffdd9e0a2b5adf687e95c2a67c22ca355e10c430f879630fbf0d5ea7c1a
• Y2Linux-sources-toolchain-f7cda4c7d213.tar (attached to baseline-75), SHA-256 f7cda4c7d2134bed15dacc7afd7e1687621a57412d60e49c725efc3880bf1bc6
• linux-6.18.56.tar.xz (attached to baseline-52), SHA-256 4633bbda2ab95eaf2a7af4041236451d6759c72e6946265531af4b3aacefbf89