#Chrome canary not working update#
#Chrome canary not working software#

Sometimes the issue is board specific and other times it affects a broader range of devices. I would love to compare notes with others on what I have found. I have pleaded for years to get a Canary testing group going.

#Chrome canary not working update#

I may do a recovery to stable, to make sure it isnвЂ™t hardware related, then update to Beta, Dev and then back to Canary. When I find a bug, I may do a powerwash to make sure it is a real error and not something corrupted. I simply drop back to the Dev Channel or to Beta and report the issue. Most are things that you can work around in your daily use but occasionally you find something that makes it unusable.

This may be specific to my hardware but shouldnвЂ™t hurt anything to try.Д¬hmod -R o-r /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/nvm_active* The issue was identified and fixed, What I experienced could be a very different issue to what others are experiencing now but if you are in Developer mode (not developer channel) you can try the following to get the camera to work.

Being on Canary, I see problems before most. I experienced and reported this issue on an Acer Spin 13 (2021) so it has been a problem on other devices. Updated on April 6 at 5:50 pm ET, adding the Pixelbook Go ( due to an open bug report from February 8) and Acer Chromebook Spin 13 from Twitter.

#Chrome canary not working software#

IвЂ™d really like to hear from Google about some process changes in the testing phase to beef up the software quality assurance effort. However, it still speaks to a bigger issue thatвЂ™s becoming a recurring theme: Bugs, sometimes critical, are getting past Chrome OS testing efforts.ДЄnd thatвЂ™s not something I expect to be resolved any time soon. If all goes well then, this problem is expected to be resolved within a few days. We appreciate your patience as we work on resolving this. We will share an update on this thread once the fix has rolled out. Our team anticipates that the fix will be available later this week with a software update and is not related to your device. Hello Chromebook Community, Thank you again for taking time to bring this to our attention and apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing. HereвЂ™s the official response from yesterday: The good news is that Google has not only seen the bug reports but also chimed in on a Chrome OS Reddit thread as people were posting their issues there as well. Powerwashing the devices or upgrading to the Chrome OS 101 Beta Channel hasnвЂ™t resolved the problem as of yet for anyone. Six comments in one of the reports all mention the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook, including one person who has deployed 15 of them at work. These all use ARM chipsets from either Qualcomm or MediaTek. And it only appears in one report, while the others are mentioned several times. The Acer is an odd one in the group because it uses an Intel Celeron processor. So far, these are the reported Chrome OS devices where the Camera has stopped working: Instead, the white indicator light turns on and flashes while the Chromebook makes a clicking sound, almost like a shutter. Each time the camera is accessed by an app, it simply does not work. Regardless of the application using it, after updating to Chrome OS 99/100, the camera has cease to function. ( Update: Make it four as thereвЂ™s this one from February 8, first noticed in Chrome OS 97)Д«ased on the reports, nearly all of the affected Chromebooks use an ARM processor.ДЇrom one of the bug reports, it appears the Camera app opens but doesnвЂ™t actually capture an image: The reported problem has spawned at least three Chrome OS bug reports that I know of. After hearing from several readers that their Chromebook cameras stopped working after a Chrome OS software update, I did a little digging. Here we go again with another Chrome OS update problem.