Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 7.6

Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 7.6: smooth update screens. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

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

Changed

• The update screens run smoothly. Downloading and checking an update now draw at the screen's full frame rate (they used to draw at most 29 times a second). The percentage counts up with the bar instead of jumping, and the light running along the bar no longer jumps back.
• A step tracker: Download · Check · Install at the top of the update screens (finished steps get a tick), also on the restart screen. The bar is a little thicker and has a bright head where it grows.
• The processor speed is left to the download; the screens only draw more often while they are visible.

You will see the new screens from the update after this one: an update is shown by the version you are updating from. Everything from Beta 7.5 (the larger status bar, Settings → Skin) and earlier is included.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.7.6-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 smoother update screens were built and checked on the computer; their frame rate on the player is measured with the next update.
• Now Playing redraws continuously while music plays and the screen is on (for the wave), at the lowest processor speed.
• The 12- or 24-hour clock follows the time zone; there is no switch yet.
• FM radio is planned for the next beta.
• Battery life in sleep is not yet stock-like (about 8 mA vs stock 1.3 mA). The player cannot detect wired headphones yet.

Files

• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.7.6-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 6100).
• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.7.6-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-67.
• SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis or MediaTek. Details: Beta 7.6 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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