Since I started using ThinkPad R500 in 2008, I immediately felt in love with Lenovo’s trackpoint which I think is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel (I had had Dell Latitude for four years prior to that and I hated their trackpoint as it was utter sh*t). So when I was about to replace R500 with a new X240 after six years, I was a bit skeptical about the idea to merge the buttons and touchpad into a single touchpad/button thingy. But I really wanted to ditch the heavy brick and have a small lightweight laptop (wish I had gotten X61 instead of R500) so I went with X240.
X240’s sore – trackpad
After I got my X240 and turned off touchpad functionality and all the gestures, I thought that it ain’t so bad and I can still use the trackpoint as before. But whenever I took the old R500 off the shelf for some lab work, I realized, how much I miss the old trackpoint with proper left/middle/right buttons instead of that one loud piece of sheet on X240. Sadly, after about a year of usage, I suddenly missed even more the sturdiness and build quality of the old R500.
To my surprise Lenovo refused to replace the bezel (I guess most of you saw that coming). Luckily, as I was shopping for a new bezel on eBay, among the search results I noticed a few new touchpads WITH REAL BUTTONS! After a bit of googling and reading I found out that Lenovo in the meantime came to senses and for X250/T450/X1 3rd gen. series they ditched the frugal shitty touchpad and brought back one with the hardware buttons. Since X240 and X250 share much of the same hardware, it is possible to replace X240 one-piece-of-sheet touchpad with an awesome-with-real-buttons one from X250.
Shopping
Once I was on a shopping spree, besides a new bezel and a touchpad I also bought a new backlit keyboard (again, I did not realize Lenovo removed the illumination light found on every ThinkPad before and started offering backlit keyboards when I bought my X240 – as an extra). My old keyboard was one with Slovak layout but I use US layout most of the time so I was constantly looking for the correct buttons to press. Therefore I wanted the new backlit keyboard to have standard US layout. However, as I found out, the US layout is featuring small horizontal ENTER key, not a big vertical one as found on my old keyboard. As a compromise I bought UK layout, which is probably the closest one to US layout featuring big ENTER key.
List of hardware
| FRU number | Description | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 04X5180 | X240 keyboard bezel with touchpad and fingerprint reader | 7.50€ |
| Does not have sepparate FRU (00HT390 for bezel w/ touchpad) | X250 touchpad | 18.50€ |
| 04X0244 | X240/X250 CS13X keyboard, UK layout, LiteOn, backlit | 45.99€ |
| Total | 71.99€ |
Replacing the touchpad
Since I bought a new X250 touchpad and X240 bezel as well, I could start replacing the touchpad without dismantling the laptop, first. After removing the black tape and exposing the connector, I opened it and removed the ribbon cable. Then I pried off the top of the touchpad, revealing the base (the top is snapped on the steel wires by plastic clips). After that, I lifted the base from the bezel (it’s glued on by a double-sided tape).
Once I had removed the touchpad, I flipped it over and compared the base of both touchpads.
As you can see, the X250 touchpad (on the right) has differently molded the recessed part and won’t slide into the X240 bezel fully. It can be fitted, but it will not touch with the bezel along the edges, as the recessed base is constraining the touchpad to sink into the opening. The result is the touchpad will stand out a bit higher as it’s supposed to.
Update: as reported by user thnikk in the comments, it seems that Lenovo updated the touchpad base design to match with x250. The late x240 models (his touchpad manufacture date is 02-12-2014) will have the same touchpad base and fitting bezel as the new x250 touchpad, making the swap a piece of cake. So check your touchpad bottom after removing it and compare it to the images in the guide to see, whether you need to cut anything or not. Here are the images provided by thnikk of his x240 touchpad. The model number is B146020CS1 and revision RS4. I also found images of the new x240 palmrest on eBay, showing that the palmrest is shaped accordingly to fit the new touchpad.
New x240 touchpad with redesigned base.
Bottom of the new x240 touchpad.
New x240 bezel/palmrest.
Bottom of the new bezel.
The following part is not for the faint-hearted. You need to modify the bezel so the opening will fit the new X250 touchpad. I used a cutting knife for this task (the plastic is quite thin so the knife will do the job nicely). You also need to remove the metal latches from the touchpad’s base (with a Dremel or metal cutting scissors). If you’re not up to the task, I suggest you buy the whole X250 bezel with assembled touchpad (FRU 00HT390 for version with finger-print reader, 00HT391 without finger-print reader).
Once the excess plastic edge and metal latches are cut off, the touchpad will fit in nicely. You can reapply double-sided tape and attach the touchpad. The result can bee seen on the following pictures.
Replacing the keyboard
Procedure for replacing the keyboard is a bit of a hassle, because you need to remove the whole mainboard and there’s a lot of double-sided tape involved. Luckily, there are no special requirements or restrictions on upgrading the keyboard with backlight, you simply switch the keyboards, reconnect the ribbon cables and you are done (no need to reinstall drivers or change values in BIOS/Windows settings).
Here is a nice youtube video by TechSolvers guiding you through opening up X240 and replacing the keyboard.
One addition to the video – when disconnecting ribbon cable from finger-print reader (at 14:02), do not pull out the cable as instructed in the video. There is a black latch that needs to be released, first.
Installing drivers for touchpad
When you have everything back in place, you need to downgrade the Windows drivers to version 18.0.7.57 (the latest version as of today is 18.0.7.120), as 18.0.7.57 is the latest version the touchpad with hardware buttons is fully supported (I am not sure why Lenovo removed the support from the newer drivers, but maybe it’s a business decision to boost the sales of X250 models 🙂 ). Otherwise, the hardware buttons do not work in Windows. To proceed with the downgrade, uninstall Synaptics ThinkPad UltraNav Driver through control panel and install package UltraNav[n10gx25w].exe from Lenovo (or you can use local mirror). Once you have the new driver installed, disable automatic updates for Synaptics UltraNav Driver in Lenovo System Update (by clicking Do not show this update link).
Under the mouse properties in control panel you can then control and adjust all the features of the new touchpad along with the trackpoint (I have disabled the touchpad completely and use only hardware buttons along with the trackpoint).
For the reference, here is the version information for the UltraNav Driver after version 18.0.7.57:
VERSION INFORMATION The following versions have been released to date. Package Rev. Issue Date ---------- ---- ---------- 18.0.7.109 01 2016/08/15 18.0.7.103 01 2015/02/17 18.0.7.100 02 2015/02/05 18.0.7.100 01 2015/01/26 18.0.7.98 01 2014/11/07 18.0.7.57 02 2014/10/28 18.0.7.57 01 2014/09/19 Note: Revision number (Rev.) is for administrative purpose of this README document and is not related to software version. There is no need to upgrade this software when the revision number changes. To check the version of software, refer to the Determining which version is installed section. Summary of Changes Where: < > Package version number [Important] Important update (New) New function or enhancement (Fix) Correction to existing function <18.0.7.109> - (Fix) Fixed security vulnerability issue caused by version of libpng package used. <18.0.7.103> - (Fix) Fixed an issue where TouchPad/TrackPoint might be enabled when Lid was closed. <18.0.7.100> - [Important] Ended support for ThinkPad Helix 2nd Gen (Machine types: 20CG, 20CH). Note: For ThinkPad Helix 2nd Gen (Machine types: 20CG, 20CH), use the Synaptics ThinkPad UltraNav Driver version 18.1.27.14 (N10GW15W) or higher. - (Fix) Removed ThinkPad W541 from the support models (typo). <18.0.7.100> - (New) Added support for switching scroll direction in Metro Applications. - (New) Renamed the Device Name. - (New) All 3 finger and 4 finger gestures are disabled by default (Added Win7). - (New) 2 finger rotate and edge swipes gestures are disabled by default (Added Win7). <18.0.7.98> - (New) Edge Tap Filtering enabled by default. - (New) Gesture Filtering disabled by default. - (New) 2 finger rotate disabled by default. (Win8.1 only) - (New) All 3/4 finger gestures disabled by default. (Win8.1 only) - (New) Edge swipe gesture disabled by default. (Win8.1 only) <18.0.7.57> - (New) Added support for ThinkPad Helix 2nd Gen (Machine types: 20CG, 20CH). <18.0.7.57> - (New) Added new multi-language support to help Win8 search for Mouse properties - (New) Added top right button zone for Touchpad mode. - (Fix) Fixed an issue on broken translations in GUI - (Fix) Fixed "Click Anywhere" label in Mouse Properties Not Aligned in Japanese OS - (Fix) Fixed "Button Size" label missing issue Mouse Properties in Japanese OS - (Fix) Fixed an issue on click function not working until system restart right after the overwrite installation from driver version 18.0.7.34
From what I can tell, the new drivers do not bring any new functionality except enabling/disabling some setting defaults. I have been using the new touchpad with 18.0.7.57 driver for over two months, now, and I had zero issues so far, so I am certainly not missing anything having older drivers (I don’t think there could be an issue big enough to force me to move back to the old button-less touchpad, anyway).
Showcase
Here are a few images after the whole procedure along with a video showing the trackpad buttons and backlit keyboard really work 🙂
No backlight
Backlight vol.1
Backlight vol.2
Many thanks for your tutorial. I need to replace the keyboard bezel (i.e. the palmrest). The video you linked shows how to replace the keyboard, but how do you proceed to replace the bezel?
Hi George,
follow the video to the point where you flip the mainboard over and remove keyboard. Once you do that, just remove three screws holding the left hinge
and three screws holding the right hinge
Then you pull the hinges up and back and free the cables that go from the mainboard to the display. Now you should be able to slide the palmrest towards you.
Hi,
where did you buy the parts?
Hello Chris, I bought the parts on eBay. Try searching by FRU number (04X5180, 04X0244, or 00HT390) or by phrase “thinkpad x240 touchpad buttons”.
Many thanks for this. But to confirm, and help to avoid disaster, the X250 palmrest and touchpad will fit unto the X240 base? (This, really, is something Lenovo should do for everyone suffering with the X240.
Hi Keith. Yes, X250 palmrest with touchpad will fit into X240 without problems. See the following pictures depicting X250 bezel.
I’m looking at installing a fingerprint scanner to my X240, which doesn’t have one. Is the sensor on the X250 the same as on the X240? as I found a X250 palmrest that has both the scanner and the touchpad.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/NEW-Original-Keyboard-Bezel-Palmrest-for-IBM-Lenovo-ThinkPad-X250-X250i-With-Touchpad-and-Fingerprint-00HT390/32522873792.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.15f22e0eaEvXTj
According to my knowledge the scanner is the same.
Hey,
Something I have really big problems with is removing the ribbon that’s under the black tape directly connected to the trackpad-is the white connector also to flip up`? Do I just pull the ribbon with force? Is there any trick to this? I really don’t want to destroy anything!
Would be super helpful if you could answer me! Thanks!
Hello, disconnecting the ribbon cable from the trackpad is super easy. You need to release the black latch (flip it up) on the white connector and then you can pull out the cable.
Hi There,
I upgraded my touchpad with success but however after approximately 1 hour of use my trackpoint move alone to the top of my screen.
Please how to solve this problem?
Lenovo X240 / Product: 20AMS0880C / Bios: GIET89WW (2.39)
Windows 7 64bits SP1 / 18.0.7.57 ultranav driver.
Please i need help…. many thanks.
Hi,
do you mean your mouse pointer moves on the screen without touching anything? This is what has been happening to me occasionally since I bought the laptop. It was the same with the old trackpoint/touchpad/keyboard as well as on the replaced one regardless of FW/SW used. I just leave the trackpoint for a few seconds alone and the movement stops and then I can resume working. I think it’s some problem with the calibration of the sensors or something and kinda got used to it.
Hi,
Yes my mouse pointer moved alone to the top of my screen without touching anything. I reinstalled the 18.0.7.57 ultranav driver and this problem stopped.
Now my touchpad and trackpad works perfectly !
Some useful info here, and you gave me the strength and confidence to attempt to replace my touchpad.
But for anyone who attempts to replace JUST the touchpad —
I DIDN’T HAVE TO DISASSEMBLE MUCH OF ANYTHING.
Following your instructions, I tore down the whole computer, only to see finally that only the keyboard replacement required all that dismantling. I put it all together again, and then I found on a Reddit post that you can just POP OFF THE TOUCHPAD. It’s held on with double-sided tape. I pried a screwdriver under the button, and it easily popped off, revealing that arrangement with the cross wire etc, that allows it to move and click. I had to pry with a knife underneath all that, and then the whole mechanism came free.
The only challenge I encountered was the ribbon cable. As you instruct, pry up the black release and the cable comes free. Placing it into the connector on the replacement touchpad was delicate and frustrating. I finally used a tweezers to provide more force, and it finally went in far enough to clip the black clamp back down to hold it. You MIGHT need to remove the laptop bottom case and peel off the black tape covering the ribbon cable in order to have enough slack to pull off this maneuver. But you certainly don’t have to start removing the hard drive, speaker, CMOS battery, etc, no flipping of the mother board, etc.
The link to the driver was invaluable, as my trackpoint buttons didn’t work until I installed the driver from your link. Note, I did not uninstall my current driver, just ran the software at the link and it installed the new driver. Now everything works fine.
I appreciate your help in getting me started, and hope to never do this again. Whew!
Yes, you can replace the touchpad without dismantling anything else, but without modifications to the bezel (which are easier done if you have access to the bottom of the bezel), the touchpad will be not flush with the surface and might be pressing against the LCD when the lid is closed. I suggest removing the back cover (without need to remove HDD, socondary battery, or speaker), which can be easily done, while providing an easy access to the touchpad’s connector.
hello mate, super thanks to your tutorial and experience sharing here, super helpfull.
by the way, can we just replace the X240 touch and palmrest with the X250 touchpad and palmrest plug and play?
i mean, do both of them are fits?
i really really need to change the touchpad of my x240, but since i read on your post that the X250 will not fit properly without “custom”, i was thinking just buy whole X250 touchpad and palmrest to make it easier to assembly.
what do you think about that mate? thanks a lot.
Hello Adi,
please see my previous reply to the same question:
http://diy.mironto.sk/thinkpad-x240-replacing-touchpad-and-keyboard/#comment-74
Yes, you can replace the whole palmrest with touchpad from X250 (or even with X250 keyboard) without need for modification.
Hi Mironto,
Have you tried the touchpad/trackpoint under Linux? If not, Could you try it (at least with a liveCD if you don’t want to install it) please? It would be much appreciate.
Oh and thanks for that awesome tutorial!
Hello Danny, I have not tried the touchpad/trackpoint under Linux but I believe the support should be the same as for x250. Please see the following links discussing the topic:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/586648/how-to-enable-physical-trackpoint-buttons-in-lenovo-x250
http://vimtips.org/2015/02/20/ubuntu-1410-and-lenovo-thinkpad-x250/
Thanks for the links.
I also read on the Linux Kernel mailinglist that a patch have been issued for the x250. So I’m prettry confident it should works.
I’ll buy my new bezel during january and I’ll post again when I’ll have it installed. 🙂
How did it go? I’m considering buying a used X240 and replace the palmrest and touchpad, using an Arch-based linux distro (Antergos). How did it go for you?
Hello,i poured my last x240 touchpad so i bought that:
https://aliexpress.com/item/New-original-Three-Keys-Touchpad-with-cable-set-For-ThinkPad-X270-X260-X250-X240-Series/32814060398.html?spm=a2g17.search0104.3.23.13172863SaWW3m&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_5_10152_10151_10065_10344_10068_10342_10343_10340_10341_10084_10083_10618_10304_10307_10301_10313_10059_10534_100031_10103_10627_10626_10624_10623_10622_10621_10620,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_3&algo_expid=e87958f5-349b-4897-9b05-70c6f951a42b-3&algo_pvid=e87958f5-349b-4897-9b05-70c6f951a42b&transAbTest=ae803_5&priceBeautifyAB=0
and at first if connect it with the included cable, the system doesnt start. i press the power button, it beeps, screen is black and nothing happens. When i use my old cable, it just doesnt work. Do you have any ideas?
Thank you,
Szymon.
Hello Szymon,
the part number B149320A2 printed on the touchpad is the same as mine. The other (revision?) number RS3 is one higher than mine RS2, but I have no idea if there is some real difference in the HW and it won’t work with x240. Maybe when you spilled liquid over the old touchpad, there was a short circuit which burned some components and the touchpad cannot be recognized anymore?
If you start with the old touchpad, does the laptop start and boots into OS ok? Is it he same with the new touchpad and the old cable? When you fitted the new cable, did you double-check that everything is well connected and in the right order/polarity?
Regards,
Miro
Thank you so much mironto! you rock! you are the only one post detail instruction for x240 trackpad replacement.
I just replaced the trackpad yesterday. BTW, I am lazy and super glue it. I replaced the screen too, from 780p TN to 1080p IPS. Now, I love my x240 model 20am.
my upgraded list:
1. 1080p IPS screen
2. Samsung 256 SSD
3. 48wh battery
4. real 3 buttons trackpad.!!!!!
Hiya 🙂
That’s a really good write up you’ve done there! I really want to swap out the touchpad on my X240 also but ONLY the touchpad, I don’t want to replace the palm rest etc. I’ve found quite a few trackpads on eBay with the 3 buttons but how do I know if it’s the correct type? e.g. the Synaptics version?
This is the one I was looking at:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Three-Keys-Buttons-Trackpad-Touchpad-For-Thinkpad-X230S-X240-X240S-X250-YOGA-S1/201491105763?hash=item2ee9ce47e3:g:~tAAAOSwNphWXCCf
Any idea if this is the same or similar to yours?
Cheers
I mean this one!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Lenovo-Thinkpad-X240-X240S-X250-X260-Touchpad-Trackpad-Left-Right-3-Keys/332467130293?hash=item4d6895cfb5:g:CWcAAOSwzppaH8Gr
Sorry, the one in my first post isn’t genuine
As I wrote, there is no FRU from Lenovo for the touchpad alone, so you have to try your luck I guess. You can start your search using phrases 8SSM10G or B149320A2 and compare images of the bottom of the touchpad with the one I bought:
http://diy.mironto.sk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015_12_25__20_30_03.jpg
Okay thank you and sorry for asking something that was already covered.
I used the info you gave me to source a trackpad seller who has the RS3 model and also a second type, they will allow me to swap the RS3 one for the second type if the RS3 one doesn’t work.
One final question, the original trackpad has 2 ribbon cables going into it whereas the new button trackpad only requires 1 ribbon cable from what I can tell, what do we do with the second cable? And which of the two coming from the motherboard do we use in the new trackpad?
Thanks
Ignore this! I panicked when I saw the 2 wires but it appears that the smaller of the two is a part of the bezel and doesn’t go into the motherboard so when I prise up the surround which is glued into the palm rest, I guess I’ll be left with 1 ribbon cable 🙂
Yes, only one ribbon cable goes into the trackpad. The other goes into fingerprint reader and the third one is unused/not connected.
FYI, I followed your tutorial to assist with my trackpad upgrade and made a post here with some of my observations, thanks a lot for the time and effort you put into this tutorial and for replying to me 🙂
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/8copmd/another_successful_x240_trackpad_upgrade/
Hi Dayle, I am glad everything worked out. Regarding the trimming of plastic – as I wrote, the trackpad can be installed without cutting anything (double-sided tape is the best thing on earth and very forgiving), but it’s not how it’s supposed to be installed. If you compare the base of x240 and x250 trackpad, it’s clearly visible, that the contact surfaces are very different. The buttons are supposed to be flush with the bezel and the touchpad should be recessed a bit. Your’s flush and the buttons stick out. It’s just a fraction of a millimeter. It would bother ME but hey, as long as YOU are happy… 🙂
Aha! I see what you mean, thr trackpad is flush but I guess if it’s supposed to be recessed then no, it’s not as it should be.
For me though, as long as it’s not causing issues e.g. Pressing against the screen when the lid is closed etc. Then I’m happy 🙂
Anywhooo! Thanks again! Your tutorial was super helpful! The ONLY issue I can find is that in some apps like MS Edge and the Lenovo Companion, two finger scrolling is a bit jittery when it used to be fine. Weird though as it’s fine in FireFox and Chrome…I’m using same drivers as you too.
Well, for me, the main goal was to get rid of the touchpad and never use it anymore 😀 Therefore I have touchpad and gestures disabled completely and use only the buttons and trackpoint. I’ve tried to enable it for a test, but for some reason the option to turn it on is grayed out in the settings panel.
Thanks for the excellent guide! I’m not sure if I have a later revision of the x240, but I didn’t need to make any modification to the palmrest or touchpad for the new one. The original used the same exact mounting as the x250’s, so I just had to take the bottom cover off, remove the battery, remove the two screws that screw into the touchpad, unplug the flex cable, slide it out, slide the new one in, plug the cable in, and screw everything back in. Nobody mentioned anything like this in the comments, so I just wanted to mention it as a PSA (though I think it’d be pretty hard to not notice.)
Since I saw someone else ask, I’m using Arch and didn’t have to do anything to get it to work. However, disabling the touchpad didn’t work through the BIOS as it did for the original. Instead, I did this which worked perfectly: https://askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
Thank you for the comment. Could you please take a picture of the bottom of your old x240 touchpad to compare it to my old touchpad to confirm that there really is a difference in mounting surface, please? Thanks.
Sure, here it is along with the front side just to show that it’s actually an x240 touchpad. https://imgur.com/a/hH1U6zq
Pretty bizarre, but the palmrest and frame also match, so I can’t think of any other explanation.
Thank you very much for your report and pictures! I’ve updated the guide to mention this new design from Lenovo.
I also upgraded my trackpad, and it is great! It makes the X240 a 100% better machine!
But I am having a little problem: I can’t get my trackpad gestures to work. I have uninstalled the current driver and installed the one you recommended. But my gestures are not working and I also don’t have that extra thinkpad tab in my mouse properties, that you show in one of the pictures. I just have the standard windows tabs only.
So now I have to choose between the newest driver with which the trackpoint buttons don’t work, but gestures do, or the driver you recommend, but then the gestures won’t work.
Do you know what I am doing wrong?
Hello Mauz, that’s a strange issue. If you display device manager, do you see ThinkPad UltraNav Pointing Device under Mice and other pointing devices? Is it using Synaptics driver?
It works now! Yesterday I have been trying all day, and I couldn’t get it to work, but today, it worked in one go! I am not sure what I’ve done differently, probably restarted one more time at the correct moment. But gestures work and I have the extra ThinkPad tab.
So what I have done:
Under the newest driver, I saw a “Synaptics pointing device”. Then I uninstalled the device there, restart, install the driver you mentioned above, and restart again.
Hi, thank you for your guide. Just a little question: what could be a cheap and suitable tool to remove the metal latches from the trackpad? I’d like to do that but i don’t have the right tools. Dremels are way too expensive: i don’t want to spend that much when i’ll use that just for this little operation. Also i can’t find any metal cutting scissors of the right size.
Also, you suggested changing the entire bezel as an alternative. Wouldn’t that be more challenging than this? Just like the keyboard replacement, replacing the bezel involves a lot of double tape. Is it really worth it? Or should i stick with just changing the trackpad?
Hi Antonio, there are some more or less cheap alternatives to Dremel you could use (e.g. Extol, Proxxon, or some Chinese knockoff). For the scissors, I used Stanley Fatmax Snip https://www.stanleytools.com/en-us/products/hand-tools/cutting-tools/snips/3-pc-fatmax-aviation-snip-set/fmht73558 but any big-size scissors with sharp tip will do.
Regarding changing the bezel vs. trackpad, depends on your skill level and confidence.
Hey, just want to pile on to the folks saying thanks for this great guide. I just replaced my touchpad/palmrest – I found a listing on ebay that included the keyboard too, so it turned out to even be a bit simpler. Really improves the machine!
Hi there!
Has anyone the Sha256 Checksum of this n10gx25w Ultranav File?
Just to check out that it is really original Lenovo File…
For example, suche checksums are given on actal lenovo drivers..
README for Synaptics ThinkPad UltraNav Driver
Prüfsumme
15.6 KB
Recommended
SHA256:3abe8233c238a11217a2dacaa54b477c0461c7846a7de8fb469b4480298cf3a7
SHA1:704ac0acc101bb21e01f90f8f5f7751a14ad895c
MD5:c6c326c0248ac20423e04d7d01464dfd
So if anyone can help out with that, feel free to answer, thanks!!
Hi Oliver, my first link for the driver is from Lenovo webpage. I could not find the original download page for 18.0.7.57 on Lenovo website with checksums (like is this one for version 18.0.7.116), but if you find it, please share.
Hi mironto!
Thanks for answer…so i hope that this driver will be safe…
i am acually waiting for my touchpad of the X250 that will be send from china…
Does anyone can give an good advise which tool should be used to lift up the clickpad of the X240?
I won’t harm the palm rest which is running under the pad, the corner there.
So the tool should be thin and stable plastic….i guess…
And yes, when i am able to find the checksums i will post them here…
Kindly,
Oliver
Hi mironto! I have an X250 with a bad trackpad. If I want to replace the bezel + trackpad combo (FRU 00HT390), is it easy? How do I go about it? I cannot find any videos or resources on this. Thanks so much.
Hi Paul. When replacing the bezel, you have to dismantle everything (open the bottom, detach the screen, remove mainboard and keyboard and then install everything back into the new bezel). Just follow the Youtube video regarding keyboard replacement I posted.
Touchpad of X250 from China has arrived and i started to project…..
the Clickpad of the X240 wasnt’ that good to get out, got it just in “two pieces” out, the Touchpad just shown here in a picture..
and then the cable, i think after i build in the X250 Touchpad i tortured the cable end which has to put in this connector….so now either the Trackpoint of the keyboard isn’t working nor the Touchpad and i have to use an USB Mouse to use the X240…
I hope with the ordered new Touchpad Cable i will get Trackpoint and Touchpad workiing, because the only thing i guess is the cause of the problem is the cable which end i didn’t get in the conncetor and so i pushed it with a screwdriver so that the cable might got broken,….
The question is, does the possibly broken cable cause the now working trackpoint, too, or what else could be the cause of this??
Thanks for any help in here….
Kind regards,
Olver
You’ve probably damaged the traces on the ribbon cable. A new cable should fix it.
now not working trackpoint
Hi there!
Thanks for the answer, and this was my first thought, too….bought an complete palmrest of an X250 which was sold to an very good price via ebay, took the new cable out of the complete new palmrest….
And now everything works as it should word…
Another question, if i damaged one screw (it doesn’t hold in anymore) of the plastic plate over the keyboard, is there a way to fix this, for example using a longer screw of the same thickness?
By the way, this is now a very tine and nice machine, the only fault is the limitation of 8GB Ram. My X240 is one with I7, 8GB Ram, 256GB SSD and FHD Display….
Nice greetings,
Oliver
I am not sure about the damaged thread of the screw, you could probably fix it with a thicker screw or a drop of a superglue. Longer screw will probably not fit in.
Ah, well, thanks again….maybe sometime i have to open the bottom again i will try this out. For now and for the moment i have already often enough opened this machine, now as it runs as it should run i will not open it again until anything would make need to open it…put the screw into an glass so that i will not forget thats this may be a need to…….some day 😉
And nothing new about the checksums, found none until now…
So if you still use an X240, special greets from one happy user of an X240 to another,
Oliver
Hi, i replaced de touchpad but doesnt work trackpad but physicall buttons are ok, i downgrade drivers, the options of synaptics are disable (grey color), is posible broken ribon? fru problem? configuration problem? thanks
I mean, cant enable touch pad, but point track and the three physical buttons are ok.
Check if you do not have touch pad disabled in BIOS.
hello, thanks for this tutorial, as a user of x240, i dont scared anymore with the touchpad being broken