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If you have been following the recent developments, this will not come as a surprise to you. The keyboard combination for entering recovery mode might change to that used in Android.

At present, the keyboard combination to enter Chrome OS recovery mode is ESC + RELOAD + POWER.

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The method that Android uses to enter recovery mode is “Volume up button and the Power button at the same time until the device turns on”

Today, I found this code commit in the Chromium OS repository:

Change 428531

poppy: Add support for recovery mode

poppy enters recovery mode by pressing volume up+down keys

BRANCH=none

BUG=chrome-os-partner:61930

TEST=Press Power+Volume Up+Volume Down, poppy enters recovery

This could be specific to the board mentioned in this commit. However, it is highly unlikely for a device to get a unique way to enter the recovery mode. This should be a operating system level change.

As I keep repeating in all speculative posts like this, I am not a developer, so these things may not be accurate. I would love to hear more from you guys, in case you find something interesting within those lines of code.

Few of the changes that Google is bringing to Chrome OS seem to be aiming for consistency between Chrome OS and Android. Google has always said that they don’t have any plans to merge Chrome OS and Android, but they want both operating systems to work better together.

Working together means maintaining consistency. Working together also means reducing things that users will have to learn or remember. Want examples?

So, what do you think? Android Chrome OS marriage?