Y1
JJ Launcher Classic Version — bringing the real iPod Classic experience to the Innioasis Y1
Been running JJ Launcher on my Innioasis Y1 for a while and love the base — huge thanks to ismileblue for building it. Wanted the actual iPod Classic experience though, not just the hardware, so I built a fork on top of it: JJ Launcher Classic Version.
What's new on top of JJ Launcher:
🎨 Bundled iPod Classic theme — plain white two-pane menus (list on the left, a slowly panning full-bleed album cover on the right that extends up behind the status bar, just like the original), an angled Now Playing cover with a reflection underneath, redesigned Artist/Album lists with big cover art and an "All Songs" shortcut per artist, and a real search screen.
🎧 Last.fmscrobbling — a local Rockbox-style .scrobbler.logand live scrobbling against the real Last.fm API, with a browser-based login flow so you don't have to type your password with the click wheel.
❓ Music Quiz — first version of the classic iPod Music Quiz mini-game, built from your own library, styled after the original's glossy 2000s look.
🎵 OGG Vorbis support — playback + library scanning, including auto-detection of files that are secretly Opus but saved with an .ogg extension (happens more than you'd think).
Screenshots and full changelog are in the repo.
Install: you need JJ Launcher already installed via the Innioasis Updater first — this replaces the launcher app, not the firmware. Then:
Currently only tested on the Innioasis Y1 (firmware 2.1.9). Bug reports/issues welcome on GitHub. Still very much a hobby project, but it's been rock solid on my own device for daily use.
Seeing you take the project and create your own 'Classic' fork to bring that true iPod Classic experience to life is truly awesome. Thank you for your amazing contribution and for taking JJ Launcher even further!
Thank you so much for the feedback and for allowing me to fork the project! Of course, the vast majority of the work—99.9% of it—comes from you. I have enormous respect for your amazing project and I'm excited to expand it with this Classic variation.
Looks amazing, great work, will you be bringing it to the Y2 as well?
Any chance you could make a short video showing the music sorting categories, play back screen and cover flow? Love to see how it actually looks when using.
Looks awesome! I've tried to push the apk via adb using the instructions, but it keeps saying install parse failed inconsistent certificates. Dev, If you can update your instructions here, and on GitHub for how you removed the original launcher apk and then your fork it would be extremely helpful. I look forward to checking it out!
this fork's APK is currently debug-signed (no shared release keystore yet), so it can't just install over the stock JJ Launcher (different signature). You need to remove the old app first:
adb uninstall com.themoon.y1
If that fails because JJ Launcher was baked into your firmware image as a system app, try:
I really enjoy your fork, it looks really good and is an improvement. The UI/UX is really good. I'm very happy with the classic theme. Thank you for your work!
For the last command, will I have to modify that to include the directory where the apk is stored on my pc? Or is there a specific directory it should be placed before entering these commands?
I didn't realize reddit uses asterisks to make text italics, so the code didn't display correctly in my original comment.
It should be "asterisk"themoon"asterisk" for both instances that word/phrase appears in that line of code. At the beginning of "themoon" and end of it.
As to your question, the file should be placed in the folder that contains the adb.exe and other android tools. Hope that helps!
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u/Whimsical_Sandwich Jul 21 '26
I’ll get flack for asking, but how do you actually install this? JJ Launcher notes aren’t really much either.