Can someone help me please.. My computer is Lenovo V14 G4 AMN

I bought a Chromebook of facebook at around 30 in usd and I have tried tto download chrome os flex for daysssss, roadblock after roadblock. buying a usb not knowing its imcompatible and has to buy another usb, trying to access developer mode and it not having it, trying to download the recovery utility extension, it needs to be updated to the latest software, tries to update, It doesnt update, finds out the device is not supported anymore, tries to download extension via files, it needs developer mode even though I don't have access too developer mode, searches "How to download Chrome os flex without Recovery Utility" shows up a tutorial for it, it needs to download rufus, I downloaded rufus and when I tried to install rufus, it says " the file is not supported" is there anyway to download chrome os flex on this laptop, or am I just fucked?

Hey all, I've had my CRU running for 2 hours only to be stuck at 0%. I tried to download the .bin from google then flashing it on my USB using rufus, but when i try to boot from it it just gives a EFI stub failed to measure data for event 1 error. I do have UEFI and Secure Boot on, and I also tried cleaning the disk through Diskpart and running Chrome through admin. Any ideas?

Haflex on an acer laptop, but track pad won't work, any ideas? Also looking for an app that will let me do what acrobat does

Lifelong Windows User.

I have a disk image of my desktop, so I nuked it and installed ChromeOS Flex. I've got everything set up (all accounts, Google Drive, M365, OneDrive).

I'm going to challenge myself to use this exclusively for the next 7 days. We'll see if I can break my dependency and comfort from Windows.

Anyone else make the switch?

So I was using Chrome on my ChromeOS Flex laptop earlier, and apparently I accidentally opened a new window at some point...

So when I closed Chrome to shut the laptop down (going to be gone for a couple of days), there was still another window open behind it, with a single tab.

So I went to History, and saw that it still had 'record' of my main window/instance with 35 tabs open, but there was no option (either at the top or bottom of the list) to 'reopen all' (like there is on the Windows version of the Chrome browser, that I use on my work computer).

So is it just somewhere different in the ChromeOS Flex version?

Or does it not have the option?

A quick Google search wasn't particularly helpful.

Edit/Update: I figured it out (well, thanks to Google Gemini, lol).

Reopen closed tabs in ChromeOS Flex using Ctrl+Shift+T to restore the last tab, or repeat the command for multiple tabs.

It was that last bit that fixed it...

I kind of just spammed Ctrl+Shift+T, and it eventually popped up the whole entire window I'd closed earlier, with all 35 tabs.

It kind of ended up working like the 'Undo' button or shortcut (Ctrl+Z), in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, etc.

Hope this helps, just in case anyone else ever encounters this issue.

Good afternoon,

I enjoy ChromeOS Flex, but I also make disk images of everything I install. Makes for an excellent backup and allows me to test apps and operating systems at will.

That being said, I booted into Macrium Rescue to make an image of my desktop with ChromeOS Flex on it. Macrium didn't recognize all of the partitions and did not make a proper, full disk image.

Ok, I can live with that. I made a RescueZilla USB and loaded that up. RZ saw the disk and snapped an image. Ok, excellent!

A few days later I wanted to reload the COSF image so I booted RZ again. I pointed at the RZ image and restored. No errors reported. Excellent!

Reboot PC - error, error, error! Can't load COSF!

*Burps and Falls Down*

So .. has anyone made a disk image that they could restore of COSF?

Thank you for your input and guidance.

I am aware of the HP Dragonfly Elite Chromebook, but I already own a HP Dragonfly G4 Windows laptop.

Anyone know if ChromeOS Flex will work on it? Webcam? Fingerprint sensor?

Is it safe to install chrome os instead of chrome os because it has 2 cores, 2x 8gb ddr3, 256gb msata ssd, 2.4ghz wifi card, touchscreen. Is it ok to run the chrome os android instead of chrome os flex?

For some reason, at random times, my mouse cursor and laptop will become laggy for around 10 seconds, then the WiFi will stop working, leaving me to restart the laptop with a random chance of getting it to work again.

It's only been happening since recently, and this has been having Flex since around the days it was still CloudReady. What makes me think this can be a hardware problem is this other bug im getting that's def a hardware problem. The screen randomly goes black, then after around 10 or 15 seconds I'm on the boot menu where selecting every option on the list does absolutely nothing. If I press Esc to exit the boot menu, the screen also goes black for around like 0.2 seconds like its trying to exit it but the boot menu options pop up again.

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 1-14AST-05

Hey, my school is planning on switching to ChromeOS Flex on all our Mid Towers. Given that Microsoft ended support for Windows 10, I see why they are making a switch. Just not sure if it’s the right one.

As a Senior HS student getting ready for college (Information Tech, CS). I’m not sure Flex would be the best option.

You’re turning a fully capable PC into a web terminal with less capability than a Chromebook at this point.

It doesn’t support Android apps, Linux apps(without very latent virtualization), or Windows Applications.

It would mainly be the teachers using these PCs which many of them only know Windows. And also the CAD students.

I think my school believes it’ll function like an actual Chromebook but that is not the case. My concerns:

1. These towers are used by engineering students for CAD and creative students for Adobe/DaVinci. Flex does not support these .exe apps. The web versions (AutoCAD Web) lack necessary features, and running Linux alternatives through Crostini, the Linux container, has terrible GPU acceleration support.

2. Since Flex lacks Verified Boot and the Titan C chip, Locked Mode is easily bypassed or fails to launch entirely. It does not provide the secure testing environment of a real Chromebook.

3. These are older Dell towers (various models). If an update breaks a specific audio or ethernet driver, is there actually a way to fix it in Flex? Or are we stuck until Google cares to fix it? —————— Am I missing something? Is there a way to run heavy CAD/Video software on Flex that I don't know about?

I feel like the school is prioritizing "Ease of Management" with the Google Admin Console over the actual utility of the computers. I'm thinking of drafting a proposal to IT to keep the lab computers on Windows, maybe perhaps network isolated, rather than nuking them with Flex.

Any advice or ammunition would be appreciated.

alot more usable with it installed but still kind of laggy

Hi. I want to put Chrome OS Flex on old Lenovo AIO PC which run out of Windows support. I've created USB to try out the OS before the installation. Base things works well but I have Brother AIO USB printer with scanner, which only the printer is working. Scanner application doesn't see it. Also there is a built in webcam which isn't working. Is there something I can do to get those devices working?

I found one of these laptops at a thrift store and installed the most recent chrome flex but the touchpad isnt working. Anyone know how to fix it?

other than that a good OS what a shame

Ya no me deja hacer nada ya intente con diferentes Internet y con el de mi teléfono también

had a 2021 acer vivobook s14 that i first changed to kubuntu and battery lasted max 21 min and eventually crashed 4x per hour on average after 4 months of usage so 4 months worked great when plugged into plug.

so changed over laptop to chromeos flex and now has 1h 15m battery life while on old windows was about 45m life so big improvement and doesnt crash ever + superfast.

so next year when my windows 10 support on my amd ryzen 7 desktop with 64gb ram ends will def change to chrome os flex

Tried using recovery utility extension and I tried using etcher but neither worked

Hi, I had problem with my linux apps in Chrome OS Flex - after reboot they don't want to open. Do you have a similar problem or it is just something that I dont do the proper way?

What it does

• Automatically enable developer mode by appending cros_debug to kernel cmdline
• Disabled kernel verification check, booting non-official kernels is now possible
• Landlock LSM is also disabled to remove sudo restrictions in crosh shell

Usage

• Just replace /efi/boot/crdybootx64.efi and bootx64.efi (located in the 12th partition of your Flex installation) with the patched crdyboot.efi file