Samsung Series 7 Chronos NP700Z5A: Trackpad Discussion Only

[flying_troubadour]

I've been using this laptop for a week now and applied all updates and changed the settings according to the forum and the trackpad now works fine! I got used to using it and it hasn't jumped at all anymore. However it is sometimes unreliable with slow movements i.e trying to tick a box or something like that.

Hi everyone,

If somebody have it on his computer, can you upload it for me ? It will be very nice !

If not, have you advices to improve the precision of this touchpad ? (i've already try to put the sensitivity at max but it doesn't really change anything.)

By advance, thank you very much for your help, and have a good day everyone !

Adrien

I suggest you update to the lastest version and then enable the advanced touchpad control pannel as earlier described in this forum - there you can change the sensitivity (put it to max!) and that works fine for me.

[ropidon]

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I discovered that my TouchPad acts funy ONLY WHEN A MOUSE IS PLUGGED IN.

When it's the only mouse input device, if functions fine.



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[Luterin]

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I discovered that my TouchPad acts funy ONLY WHEN A MOUSE IS PLUGGED IN.

When it's the only mouse input device, if functions fine.



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I always change the settings so the trackpad gets disabled whenever an external mouse is connected. No need to have two at the same time.

Go to Mouse Properties (Type Mouse in the Windows search box), select the ELAN tab and in the middle you have "Disable when external USB pointing device plug in". Just click the checkbox and apply. All done!

[flying_troubadour]

two days ago, these new elantech touchpad drivers were posted on softpedia:

Download Samsung NP700Z5AH Series 7 Notebook Touchpad Driver 10.7.16.1 for Windows 7 Driver for Windows 7 / Windows 7 x64 - Softpedia

I will give them a try tonight to see if there are any improvements. At the moment I cannot check the current driver version that I have so I hope this one is newer.

I said earlier I had gotten used to the touchpad - but sometimes it is still very annoying!! especially when you move your finger slowly it gets jumpy and imprecise. unacceptable for a laptop of this price...

[sean.e]

I installed 10.7.16.1 via Easy Settings a few days ago. It's the first time I was disappointed by the updated touchpad software. It seemed like each previous update was marginally better than the last.

But 10.7.16.1 has a regression (to me) that makes it hard to drag things - prior to this update drag could be continued with a different finger, but now I have to carefully decide where on the touchpad the drag will start because if I run out of space on the touchpad there is no way to continue the movement.

[yknyong1]

Wonders if Samsung is using Elan for the Z5C...

[flying_troubadour]

what about the possibility of using Synaptics drivers on the Elan?

[yknyong1]

what about the possibility of using Synaptics drivers on the Elan?

It will not work well with wrong drivers anyway.

[DrDJ2]

I installed 10.7.16.1 ... makes it hard to drag things - prior to this update drag could be continued with a different finger, but now I have to carefully decide where on the touchpad the drag will start because if I run out of space on the touchpad there is no way to continue the movement.

I think that this might be a fix for jerky 2-finger scrolling. To me this driver seems to make 2-finger scrolling a little smoother. I think the scrolling jerkiness was due to the 2 fingers moving at slightly different speeds which confused the driver as to which finger it should be tracking (and a movement of one finger upwards relative to the other finger while both are scrolling down would cause the scroll to jump upwards).

Overall, however, I don't generally see much improvement. I still get an aggravating number of accidental click-and-holds when I'm 1-finger swiping, and slow 1-finger mouse movement is still jerky. Still no options to control sensitivity in the default mouse driver control.

I've caved in - the accidental click-and-hold is so annoying I've disabled one-finger tapping on my touchpad. This is a major loss of functionality! I can't believe that Samsung are hobbling an otherwise excellent computer with this crappy touchpad!

[sean.e]

I think the touchpad is perfectly fine - it's the driver (or the layer above it) that is crappy. If I run ETDDeviceInformation.exe, I can see that it knows my second finger came down and it can track it fine. (ETDDeviceInformation.exe is in the Elantech program files directory.)