Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 9.2.13: one song from search, quick audiobook resume, letter scrolling you can reach. 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
- One song from search (Y2Reborn #79): picking a song in the search results played every song found. Now it plays just that song; Play All plays them all.
- Long MP3 and AAC files continue at once (Y2Reborn #80): after the player had slept, audiobooks and long recordings in these formats took seconds to continue, longer the further in you were, because the player read the file from the start to find your place. It now remembers the places it passed and starts just before yours (the first resume after a restart still reads once). M4A, M4B and Opus were never affected.
- Letter scrolling you can reach (Y2Linux #64): since 9.2.2 the letter jumps needed the wheel's very fastest speed, which a hard spin did not reach. They start at a real spin again; a quick, steady turn still moves row by row.
- Why Bluetooth disconnected: error reports now say whether the link was lost, the headphones ended it or the player did. If your headphones drop often, send a report right after it happens (Settings → System → Error Reports).
Before release: the platform's full check, Reborn's workspace tests (new, each failing without its change: one song from search; a reopened AAC file lands on its place without reading from the start; letter scrolling at a spin; Bluetooth disconnect reasons) and the tests of the release images. Still to check on a player: resume time after sleep and how the letter speed feels.
What changed and why, in plain words: Beta 9.2.13 report. Everything from Beta 9.2.12 is included (Beta 9.2.12 report).
Install (from stock)
You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.13-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).
- Unpack both.
- SP Flash Tool → Download Only → load
MT6582_Android_scatter.txtfrom the Y2Linux zip. Exactly BOOTIMG, RECOVERY, ANDROID and USRDATA are ticked. - Click Download and connect the switched-off Y2; wait for the green tick.
- Unplug and press Power: the player sets up its Internal Storage (a few seconds), then Y2Linux and Reborn start, music works.
- Connect the Y2 to the computer and copy (don't move)
system.imgfrom 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)
- Everything listed for Beta 9.0 still applies. If anything behaves differently from 9.2.12, 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.
- How loud the wheel click should be is a first guess; tell us if it is too loud or too soft.
- 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.9.2.13-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 keyplatform-v1-release-20261015, sequence 12900).Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.9.2.13-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 tagbaseline-204. 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.SHA256SUMSfor 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 9.2.13 report.
Sources unchanged since an earlier release
Y2Linux-sources-third-party-a6aaa039273c.tar(attached tobaseline-186), SHA-256a6aaa039273c141a32e9c392305e2c3f75a4b48077ec78576b8f2c2a735551fdY2Linux-sources-toolchain-f7cda4c7d213.tar(attached tobaseline-120), SHA-256f7cda4c7d2134bed15dacc7afd7e1687621a57412d60e49c725efc3880bf1bc6linux-6.18.56.tar.xz(attached tobaseline-120), SHA-2564633bbda2ab95eaf2a7af4041236451d6759c72e6946265531af4b3aacefbf89