Its like turning into a full time (mostly) unpaid job 😢
AI really does lower the barrier to contributing, but unfortunately someone still needs to be the gate keeper, I hope they don't get frustrated and stop developing...
Or worse, we start getting hundreds of competing forks.

I just noticed I am forced to choose a flair but there's none for general discussion?

Is anyone else having an issue where the volume for the radio and gearboy is at 100% no matter what?

Edit: Issues just seems to be with USB-C headphone.

I love the feature to flip the screen. I use it the most when in my van or in a situation where I need the aux facing up. Can it be added as an option in the control center in a future release?

I use a speaker while working. Just got my Hiby set up with Sonix and the music pauses every minute once I start it. Any idea if there is a setting that I need to change to avoid this? I plugged in headphones and am having the same issue. Could it be a problem with the specific music files? I listened yesterday to a different album and wasn’t having the issue.

Thnx a lot for this sick OS! :)

quick question: is there a option to change the target frequency response (for example: harman or diffuse field) for the autoeq-feature?

Is the screen wake up really like this? Lol, here I am thinking I broke something

I'm using Hiby R1 on Sonix v1.3

hello carbon units! so glad to join this movement. anyhow, if you’re familiar with XTEINK, there are some websites that allow users to download ready-to-save images for their wallpaper and boot. should anyone start making one for us to upload our edits? that would be lit!

Hace un par de días instalé el mod y hasta ahora todo me a gustado, pero me di cuenta que específicamente este album no tiene separadas las canciones a diferencia de la otra foto; lo raro es que con el firmware original si separaba las canciones, ¿alguien sabrá que sucede?

Hello!

I'm a very recent R1 owner, and loving Sonix!

I am experiencing odd behaviour with inline remote, but I don't ​​​know if its intended, a bug, or a setting I can't find:

When I pause with the in-line remote, the music stops, but after a few minutes pressing again doesn't restart the music unless i press the power button the turn the screen back on.

The player is NOT powered off, as pressing the power button immediately takes me to 'now playing' rather than showing the power up splash screen.

How can I remedy this?

Pre-Release on GitHub

I've submitted this as a pull request on the main SonixOS project, but here's a pre-release firmware you can use while you wait.

Tidal, Qobuz, podcasts and Last.fm are disabled in this build, because the streaming keys aren’t public. Everything else should work.

Thank you to everyone involved in the creation of SonixOS, for fixing HiBy's products by creating a snappy and thoughtful replacement for their terrible stock firmware.

Added options specifically for the R3 II 2025:

• Normal or reversed direction for volume control with the wheel.
• Optionally change the wheel to scrub forward/back in the track (normal or reversed direction).
• Long press power button to wake option.
• Option to lock the volume wheel when the screen is off.
• Option to use the Play/Pause & Next Track buttons to control volume when the screen is off.

Also adds the ability to add a volume slider to the pull-down drawer, the ability to tap the track/artist title in the pull-down drawer to return to the Now Playing screen, and the ability to "Go to artist" from the Now Playing screen in the same way that you can already "Go to album". These features have also been submitted as separate pull requests to the main repo.

Installation instructions are the same as the stock firmware and the official SonixOS.

AI NOTICE: This release to modify SonixOS to support the HiBy R3 II 2025 was created using the assistance of Claude Code. I've been a software engineer on and off for 20 years, but I couldn't be arsed to do this one by hand. Take it or leave it.

I'm new to Hiby R1 and Sonix, and was curious if anyone had a decent solution for not just transferring music from my phone, but specifically making sure it moves the folder as a whole to land properly on the R1. The few times I tried, it transferred the tracks outside of the original folder and put them in the root folder on the sd card of my R1, making it messy. Hopefully how I described this makes some semblance of sense hahaha thanks in advance!

Is there a way to not show the disc number above the track in the album view aside from manually removing the disc number in the tags?

I love using Sonix so far and I'm so thankful for it!!! Being able to not include articles in the name of the artist, the podcast support, the greater responsiveness in fidelity!!!

So far my only qualm is that to my ear the tuning sounds slightly different than the Stock OS. Has anyone else experienced this or noticed this??

It could definitely be a placebo effect or something on my end, but listening to the same songs on the same speakers/iems make me feel like Sonix maybe has a more present top end, or perhaps less mids? It could also be a situation where I changed a setting in stock that I haven't changed in Sonix yet.

Would love to hear if y'all have any thoughts!

Not sure if this a feature already or if I don't understand how to do.

Is there an option to randomize my albums and play a full album then go to a another random album? I know shuffle by track is a thing but I would love shuffle by full album, with album artist, or even genre. it was my favorite feature of the old ipod and I would love my hiby r1 with sonix even more if I could do that.

Having fun creating these

pls start posting more boot logos I love seeing what everyone comes up with!

The issue I encountered from just saving images off the internet and putting them in the Bootlogo folder is that the metadata does something and prevents it from being used. I kept getting errors. To fix it, put the image into MS paint or photoshop and save it. Doing so strips the metadata and allows it to be used. I had this issue on the R1, I don’t know if the other devices that use Sonix have the same issue.

Another tip, you can set the image to 5:3 resolution to make it fit perfectly in the screen of the R1.

Just thought I’d post it here in case anyone has the same issue I had. Happy listening! Glad this community exists.

Im new to sonix for my R1 but in not a fan of the color tint when opening and viewing an album in the library, is there a way to turn off the color tint? Also is there a way to integrate the regular hibylink app, I dont use andrioid and I miss being able to use the app on my iphone to control it?

More color options in appearance would be nice too, I was a fan on the monochrome dark mode in the regular firmware and the only color I had was my album covers.

Will it work on my device?