armada-os/armada 20260926

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Install

See the wiki for flashing instructions.

Changelog

• Improved sleep behavior

  • Lower power consumption on SM8550/SM8650/SM8750 during sleep. Most devices should see around a 50% reduction in battery drain.
  • Faster Wi-Fi reconnection after waking from sleep, avoiding unnecessary full network scans. Also fixed WPA3 automatic connection issues.

• New Armada Tools desktop app and command line interface:

  • View device information, storage, IP addresses, and installed OS and Steam versions
  • Enable SSH, select Stable/Beta/Preview update channels, install OS updates, and roll back to the previous version without Steam running
  • Repair Steam by restoring the bundled client while preserving games, saves, accounts, and settings

• Device and controller improvements:

  • Increased Retroid Pocket 6 touchscreen sampling from approximately 28 Hz to 119 Hz (thanks @diogotr7)
  • Improved analog input responsiveness and increased reporting to 250 Hz on RSInput controllers, including Retroid Pocket 6 and AYN Odin 3 (thanks @diogotr7)
  • Removed the built-in Odin 3 stick deadzone so Steam Input and games can control it (thanks @diogotr7)
  • Fixed DisplayPort detection with reversed USB-C plug orientation on SM8250 Retroid devices (thanks @Tom42-eu)
  • Fixed brief input freezes for devices connected through USB hubs and docks (thanks @keks2293)

• Graphics and game compatibility improvements:

  • Fixed the Quick Access Menu appearing behind games during hardware scanout
  • Fixed bottom screen Gamescope startup during display handoff on dual screen devices
  • Added kernel support for FEX’s unaligned atomic emulation and backpatching
  • Added dependencies needed by EmuDeck

• Waydroid improvements:

  • Restored controller input, including handling hotplug and Android restarts without duplicate controllers appearing in Steam
  • Made Armada’s Android Mesa drivers available during first initialization

• Armada Control improvements:

  • Added Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and European Portuguese translations (thanks @mydanyi and @Raxcoms)
  • Added conservative CPU governor support (thanks @dsancalm)
  • Updated default power profiles: Eco and Balanced use the conservative CPU governor
  • Removed the CPU realtime scheduling option because it caused stability problems
  • Fixed controller calibration and system commands when using native ARM64 Decky Loader
  • Added optional automatic sleep logs under Documents/sleep-logs, with detailed kernel tracing to help diagnose suspend and wake problems (thanks @xXJSONDeruloXx)

• Armada Store improvements:

  • Fixed startup failures caused by an unavailable Python module in Decky Loader (thanks @Janleyx)
  • Pinned the Lossless Scaling plugin to version 0.12.8 (thanks @Raxcoms)

• Initial device support for MANGMI Pocket Max and MANGMI Air Y Pro (thanks ROCKNIX)

  • Known issue: Audio is not working

• System and build improvements:

  • Added Armada OS identification
  • Added an armada-rebase helper for switching image tags or testing forks
  • Consolidated package sources into the main repository

• Updated Linux to 7.2.6, Mesa to 26.2.3, FEX to 2609, Gamescope to 3.16.29-ogc2, and NetworkManager to 1.58.1