Dear all,
my trackad is slightly sunken into the body of my mid 2014 15" macbook pro. i had to replace the swollen batteries and during the process i bent the grey metallic trackpad cover plate between the trackpad and the 2 middle battery cells. i tried to even the plate out but it was not possible. as far as i understand the trackpad is mounted to the plate with a torx screw and the plate is/was glued to the aluminium laptop body.
the trackpad works fine except for not being clickable.
Would it would be sufficient to replace the plate so the trackpad could sit on it firmly or the plate has no connection to the sunken state? I looked but i cant find the plate as a spare part online. a new trackpad would also not include such a plate.
any ideas how to proceed?
thanks in advance and greetings from Budapest
the cable of the trackpad seems to be slightly bent/damaged on the right side but its not the reason why the trackpad is not clickable i guess
my trackad is slightly sunken into the body of my mid 2014 15" macbook pro. i had to replace the swollen batteries and during the process i bent the grey metallic trackpad cover plate between the trackpad and the 2 middle battery cells. i tried to even the plate out but it was not possible. as far as i understand the trackpad is mounted to the plate with a torx screw and the plate is/was glued to the aluminium laptop body.
the trackpad works fine except for not being clickable.
Would it would be sufficient to replace the plate so the trackpad could sit on it firmly or the plate has no connection to the sunken state? I looked but i cant find the plate as a spare part online. a new trackpad would also not include such a plate.
any ideas how to proceed?
thanks in advance and greetings from Budapest
the cable of the trackpad seems to be slightly bent/damaged on the right side but its not the reason why the trackpad is not clickable i guess
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