DroidDeck/docs/releases/0.1.4.md

# SteamDeck 0.1.4

**The main screen got its shape, the desktop can see the phone, the logs survive a crash, and the
file manager is Bannerlator's.** Install it over 0.1.3; same key, same runtime, nothing to
re-download.

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##  The desktop can see your files - and a ROMs folder

A file dialog inside the desktop (RPCS3's "Select Game Folder", say) showed only the runtime's own
tree. The phone's storage *was* mounted the whole time, at `/storage/emulated/0`; the dialogs
just could not show it - they list "Computer" from the mount table, where a proot bind never
appears, and open in the home folder, where nothing pointed at the phone.

The home folder now carries two entries every session: **`Storage`**, all of internal storage, and
**`ROMs`**, the folder chosen with the new **ROMs folder** tile - anywhere on the device, an SD
card included (it is a bind, not a link). Point an emulator at `/root/ROMs` once. Both are the
live folders: a save written next to a ROM lands on the phone.

##  Files - Bannerlator's File Manager, whole

The **Files** tile is Bannerlator's File Manager carried over as it is: grid and list, sort,
search, multi-select, copy / cut / paste with conflict handling and a cancellable progress bar,
rename, delete, new folder, properties (read-only, hidden), favourites, and a locations rail with
every mounted card, Downloads, the ROMs folder and the session logs. Its pick mode is what chooses
the ROMs folder and imports a driver, in place of Android's document picker. Left out, because
they have no meaning without a Wine container: run, add to shortcuts, the C: / Z: drives and the
archive unpacker.

##  A cog beside Play and beside Desktop

Everything that only matters for one mode moved behind that mode's cog - a settings window with
a rail of sections: **Display** (resolution up to 1080p by default, 900p, 720p or the panel's own;
the shape), **HDR**, the **runtime driver** for that mode, the **display driver**, **touch**, and
for Steam the on-screen controls and audio, for the desktop its renderer. The Graphics drivers and
Audio tiles are gone into them, and the main screen is a two-column grid: Play, Desktop and Start
offline on top, then Runtime · Desktop & apps · Frame generation · Compatibility tools ·
Performance · ROMs folder · Files · Session logs.

**HDR10 output** is a switch that is greyed out, with the reason, on a panel that does not list
HDR10. On, the compositor offers `wp_color_manager_v1` with BT.2020 + PQ and 10-bit buffers,
gamescope starts with `--hdr-enabled` and games get `DXVK_HDR=1`. The compositor decides this once,
when it starts, so like the display driver it applies after the app is fully closed and opened
again.  Wired end to end; not yet seen on a device from this app.

##  Logs that survive a crash, and a session that always starts

A session's folder used to be finished only at a clean stop; an app crash or an Android kill left
it half-written - a user saw the toast name a log that was not there. The folder is now finished
three ways: the ordinary stop; the app's own crash handler, which writes `crash-app.txt` and
finishes the folder before the process dies; and a sweep at the next app start for any folder
without its `.complete` marker (a native crash, a kill), which gets `ended-without-teardown.txt`
and Android's crash buffer. **Session logs** on the main screen turns the folder off (it then
lives in the cache and is deleted with the session).

The same user had to force-stop the app before every launch or nothing started: when the app dies,
proot, gamescope and Steam outlive it, holding the rootfs, the GPU and Steam's lock. Every session
start now kills whatever of ours is still running from before, and `app.log` lists it.

##  Steam menu from the drawer

The in-session drawer has **Steam menu ◉** in Steam mode - the Guide button, for a device whose
own home button belongs to Android and a pad the client hides the on-screen controls for. (There is
no Quick Access chord on a non-Deck controller that I could confirm, so none is offered.)

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## Everything from 0.1.3 and before is here

The client's network page · graphics drivers you can import and choose, per mode · Steam's overlay
restored and a competing client asked to stop · DirectAudio and the microphone · client and game
core masks · four session fixes · a folder of logs per session with credentials scrubbed · a path
for Adreno 710 / 720 / 722.

##  If the client dies with nothing in its log

Android 12 and later kill the extra processes an app starts for itself, and a session is made of
dozens. Some phones have a **"restrict child processes"** switch in Developer options - turn it off.
Otherwise, once per device: `adb shell settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs
false`. `device.txt` in every session folder records what your phone reports.

## Credits

- **maxjivi05 (Max)** - the gamescope runtime this is built on, the sandbox shims, the controller
  work and the NetworkManager stand-in, from WinNative.
- **The412Banner** - the app, the Wayland compositor, the runtime plumbing, the Steam session and
  the File Manager (from Bannerlator).
- **Winlator (brunodev85)** - the audio stack, the gamepad model and the shape of a session.
- **Vauzi (Vauzi-17/710)** - the Adreno 710/720/722 device entries the experimental driver carries.

Frame generation: **Win-FG** is built in; **LSFG** uses the shader chain from *your own copy* of
Lossless Scaling, read on device and never redistributed, on groundwork from **lsfg-vk (PancakeTAS)**.

GPL-3.0. gamescope, Mesa, Turnip, Xwayland, labwc, LXQt, PulseAudio, proot and Arch Linux ARM are
their own authors'. **Not affiliated with Valve** - Steam, Proton and Steam Deck are Valve's, and no
Valve software is redistributed here: the client is fetched from Valve's own manifest on your device.

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**APK** `SteamDeck-0.1.4.apk` - 20957823 bytes
`sha256 4b53ce6a937f2b51a5b9d2639ea32b816993e4f7b2dc33dd0f3198b81f21e9d2`
versionCode 5, built from `8e58e8e` by [run 35682844106](https://github.com/The412Banner/SteamDeck/actions/runs/35682844106).
Signed with the AOSP test key (v1 + v2 + v3), so it installs over 0.1.3 in place.