Acer Chromebook Spin 713 Bugs & Possible Fixes (2020 i5 2W)

Harpoon10
Harpoon10 Member Posts: 2 New User
1. Bluetooth (regardless of type) will drop randomly for a number of devices including external displays, storage hubs, headphones, smartphones, and smartwatches (if supported).
2. Bluetooth may not turn on at all or the option is grayed out.
3. Chromebook resets to factory defaults every time it is powered off and back on again.
4. When connected to an older external display (older than about 2015), well, I hope you like red.
5. When downloading APK's for Android-based apps, Chromebook will try to Nearby Share the ISO version of the file with connected smartphone, regardless of whether the ISO file actually exists.
6. The Linux environment will reject virtual machines that do not have 32 bit file versions attached, as some VM's only support 64 bit now, this can be sometimes an inconvenience.
7. Attempting to unseat Chrome as the default browser in the dev track results in device bricking, same with stable track, but works in beta with provided options by Google.
8. Palm suppression with stylus turned on results in display turning off and becoming unresponsive.
9. When folded into tablet mode, gestures made on touchpad and keys pressed on keyboard are still picked up.

1. fixed by switching to beta track of ChromeOS and restarting, use Bluetooth 4+ devices, couldn't find perma fix on stable, except for Bluetooth 5+ devices, restart works for those
2. fixed with restart, no further issues when it happened once
3. fixed by switching to dev track and restarting, system refresh, no further issues
4. couldn't find a way to fix, tried display options in chrome://flags
5. fixed by disabling nearby share completely on connected smartphone (I don't need it anyway), couldn't find permanent fix
6. fixed by deleting and reinstalling Intel graphics drivers via Windows 10 Pro Enterprise Recovery Environment, switch to dev track and restart (requires Android Studio beta too) STAY IN STABLE
7, couldn't find a fix
8. couldn't find a fix
9. fixed somehow with battery replacement (still figuring out why)

Device: Acer Chromebook Spin 713 i5 8GB 2020 2w
ChromeOS Version: (6/9/2021) 91.0.4472.81 (Official Build(64-bit) Stable
(device is currently running ChromeOS 93 on dev track)

These are just bugs I've found messing with stuff across all 3 versions of ChromeOS, not including Enterprise. If anyone has any solutions or is looking for a fix, feel free to comment. Mods, if this is in the wrong spot, feel free to swing the ban hammer and cast me out to the wastelands.

Also, I really would like to mess with the Enterprise version of ChromeOS, if anyone has a slightly cheaper way of getting ahold of a license, though dev plus Linux tends to do the trick anyway, at least with networking. But, I wanna break Enterprise if possible, just to freak them out at Google.

Answers

  • Harpoon10
    Harpoon10 Member Posts: 2 New User
    Bricked 2W model with Android settings, moved to 3W model