This addresses the problem of silent failures. The current set of warnings include, “Cable may not support display”, “Cable doesn’t support UBS4/Thunderbolt,” and “Your device supports a higher data rate than your cable.”Īll USB-C cables, even those without logos, identify themselves to the computer precisely (using USB PD), and my team reads that info now, and we eliminate a silent failure when the user uses a USB 2.0-only cable with a DP Dock or Monitor. The feature is available for Chromebooks with 11th- or 12th-generation Intel Core CPUs with USB4 or Thunderbolt capability, with wider device compatibility coming soon. Chrome OS now displays notifications about USB-C cables. If you’re using a Chromebook, you’ll now get a pop-up if you plug in a USB-C cable that’s not compatible with monitors, or has a slower data transfer rate than your device.įor instance, if your Chromebook supports USB4, and if you’re using a cable that doesn’t support the standard for quick data transfers, the device’s OS will notify you about it.
Last week, Google announced a new feature in ChromeOS 102 that’ll help you identify non-compatible USB-C cables.
