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I also have a HiBy R1, and have had it for the majority of 2026. Would definitely recommend it to others. Once you get past the need for a microSD card (and on

I also have a HiBy R1, and have had it for the majority of 2026. Would definitely recommend it to others. Once you get past the need for a microSD card (and once you've bought a good quality one), it becomes a fantastic flac player. And, like OP said, it's great for (scroll based) distraction free listening. I haven't looked into the modding community for it, yet. Thanks for the tip-off on that.

sandreas 27d ago
Just to give you a start: https://github.com/bidhata/Hiby-R1-Mod https://github.com/bidhata/Hiby-R1-Mod https://github.com/yetisoldier/Hiby-R1-Audiobook-Mod https://github.com/yetisoldier/Hiby-R1-Audiobook-Mod The latter also has great documentation in the repo. You can enable developer mode / adb by (this may differ in non 1.6 firmware versions): Go to about Tap 10 times on the version / HiBy Logo (dev options) Tab 10 times on "about" beneath the back arrow (enable adb) After this you can adb devices # list devices, should have the Hiby present adb shell # root shell on the device The root partition is readonly, so to store something, you need access to the micro sd card or use /tmp. As a starting point you could take a look at /etc/init.d/S92_03_start_music_player I managed to compile my WIP Rust / Slint music player app [1] to run on the HiBy framebuffer, but since it is WIP, I did not manage to go further yet. 1: https://github.com/yetisoldier/Hiby-R1-Audiobook-Mod/issues/5#issuecomment-5072136640 https://github.com/yetisoldier/Hiby-R1-Audiobook-Mod/issues/...