02-22-2025, 09:23 PM
Following my most recent post on February 2 in which I discovered that there is a time component to this phenomenon, I have done some extensive logging and further testing to see what light could be shed on this. This is what I have learned:
There are four time windows every day in which this issue of the Chromebook returning to the library screens occurs. So far, It has only occurred during these windows, and if our Chromebooks were on during these windows, it has always occurred, without exception:
Early morning, around 6:56 am
Mid morning, from around 10:35 to 10:41 am
Afternoon, from around 3:55 to 4:05 pm
Early evening from around 5:44 to 5:56 pm
Additional testing: The Chromebook does not need to be awake during these time windows to be affected by the phenomenon. To test this, I powered on both my wife’s Chromebook and my own just prior to one of the time windows and then put mine to sleep. As soon as my wife’s Chromebook experienced the phenomenon, about 10 seconds later I woke my Chromebook up. Every time, my Chromebook resumed to whatever screen I was viewing when I put it to sleep and then about half a second later, my Chromebook switched from showing that screen to going to the MobileSheets library screen. In other words, even when the Chromebook is asleep, whatever causes the Chromebook to return to the library screen will affect the Chromebook immediately after it wakes up. Note, this return to the library screen happens whether I had been in some other screen in MobileSheets or whether I had been in a browser tab prior to putting my Chromebook asleep.
Click here for my log of all the data. Note that there are some time windows that are not on the log. That is not because the phenomenon didn’t occur at that time. It simply means that our Chromebooks weren’t in use during those windows. So far since I started logging, every single time, without exception, if either of the Chromebooks were in use during any of the four windows, then they experienced the phenomenon. (If the link above does not respond to a click, here it is in text form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
I hope that by sharing this data here that it might spark some ideas as to the underlying cause. If anyone has any theories that I can test, please pass them along.
There are four time windows every day in which this issue of the Chromebook returning to the library screens occurs. So far, It has only occurred during these windows, and if our Chromebooks were on during these windows, it has always occurred, without exception:
Early morning, around 6:56 am
Mid morning, from around 10:35 to 10:41 am
Afternoon, from around 3:55 to 4:05 pm
Early evening from around 5:44 to 5:56 pm
Additional testing: The Chromebook does not need to be awake during these time windows to be affected by the phenomenon. To test this, I powered on both my wife’s Chromebook and my own just prior to one of the time windows and then put mine to sleep. As soon as my wife’s Chromebook experienced the phenomenon, about 10 seconds later I woke my Chromebook up. Every time, my Chromebook resumed to whatever screen I was viewing when I put it to sleep and then about half a second later, my Chromebook switched from showing that screen to going to the MobileSheets library screen. In other words, even when the Chromebook is asleep, whatever causes the Chromebook to return to the library screen will affect the Chromebook immediately after it wakes up. Note, this return to the library screen happens whether I had been in some other screen in MobileSheets or whether I had been in a browser tab prior to putting my Chromebook asleep.
Click here for my log of all the data. Note that there are some time windows that are not on the log. That is not because the phenomenon didn’t occur at that time. It simply means that our Chromebooks weren’t in use during those windows. So far since I started logging, every single time, without exception, if either of the Chromebooks were in use during any of the four windows, then they experienced the phenomenon. (If the link above does not respond to a click, here it is in text form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
I hope that by sharing this data here that it might spark some ideas as to the underlying cause. If anyone has any theories that I can test, please pass them along.