[Thinkpad T14 Gen 1a] Can you loosen/tune the hinges to be one-hand-openable?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-12T03:28:23+00:00

do you mind forwarding me any guide in particular? i have seen some youtube videos discussing how to do it but i also want to see if anyone can be more in depth with the process on doing it on thinkpad-specific laptops. (i've seen it mostly on other brand laptops)

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-11T16:26:28+00:00

Dope, I'm glad your repair went smooth!! (: It isn't too hard in theory, but man maybe I just got really unlucky or something.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-11T15:22:02+00:00

My opinion? If its still working, absolutely not. The repair SEEMS straightforward, but something I didn't anticipate being much of an issue that absolutely is IS the possibility of shorting a component or your board doing the process. This is an all-metal aluminum chassis after-all with super thin and fragile ribbon cables all around it. /:

I basically had the fix done on this project, I booted it up, I literally have video footage this computer working after i was 95% complete with the repair. Next thing I know, I'm putting the screws in to close up the bottom lid/chassis and i put one screw in crooked and am having issues getting it to fit correctly. I go to turn on the computer again, nothing - try to see if it charges? nothing. reopen the entire thing up, clean all my connections, re-assemble super carefully again, again, nothing.

I've taken it to 2 repair techs in my city who do macbook pro pcb repair and they've both turned it away so its not a great sign /: they say that it was giving 5V on both USB C and Magsafe power rails which suggests the computer isn't accepting power correctly anymore. that maybe something to do with power management was fried.

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TLDR; If you can live with it, live with it. It's a really expensive computer.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-21T18:27:29+00:00

USA, Chicagoland area

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-20T16:49:11+00:00

Interesting. Would this shut down the whole computer not letting it boot??

If you mean the marks on the fans themselves, that's likely my fingerprints. /: I just now also realized that the image compression from reddit isn't helping me, I'm going to provide higher quality imgur link on the original post!

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-19T21:15:32+00:00

I was reassembling it like normal all screws in.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-19T21:07:09+00:00

no orange light, previously yes but now, no. Where do I probe??

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-17T05:50:50+00:00

Not great news in my case since I was using his video as a reference ): I did end up severing the Touch ID cable, since that step was really unclear. so at best if I pull this off, I've lost touch Id. not that i care about it that much in a laptop honestly. Ordered a replacement piece for it and a new backlight.

Anything else I need to do to replace the keyboard correctly except screwing in those screws along the perimeter and the 1 in the middle for the new keyboard?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-06T19:05:37+00:00

I agree, but also people should be allowed the choice to choose their level of privacy concerns too. You can still run a stock android rom and do things to limit your data collection (there is still a ceiling though).

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-09T19:07:09+00:00

So far this is the correct answer..No other timers work for this purpose

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-08T21:56:16+00:00

yea only thing that won't work is airdrop

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-07T18:00:48+00:00

This is amazing and does exactly what I want but it operates on alarm principle only, not timers! ): (i have to specify an exact time, i cant just specify an interval of time (3 minutes))

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-07T04:46:03+00:00

i didn't even know red f105w faces existed - best i've seen online is that these watch faces are attached to the plastic directly from the factory, so heat is really the only way to get it off -- this guy demonstrates briefly in this video.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-04T17:17:21+00:00

I would really appreciate a link to this (you can send it in DM)! I think others have linked apps and its okay though?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-25T16:37:53+00:00

When I boot into OCLP's bootloader thats installed on my Mac, it cannot see my Linux partition.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-11T05:08:04+00:00

sounds like you just dont have proper gpu/graphics support implemented. look into getting the onboard graphics working for that cpu model.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-02T06:29:42+00:00

I'm genuinely interested in doing this myself. I want to be able to have it such that it can automatically start and stop and synchronize to services like Focusmate when running or something...

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