[General Questions and Answers] TheGiantHogweed:
I was just having problems quoting other posts correctly so I edited that post, removed this text and thought i may as well post it as a new post.

As I posted a bit earlier, this is my long post about problems with getting a bluetooth touchpad to work with certain tablets.

I am having a great deal of difficulty finding a decent tablet that works with a bluetooth keyboard with a touchpad. The keyboard always works, but the touch pad works on some fine, and others very badly. Basically, it is either good and responsive and can be used as well as one built in to a laptop, or it is slow and sluggish and takes time for the pointer to build up in speed. It also often drops off for a few seconds. While the keyboard (which is the same device) works fine the whole time.

All my old tablets seem to work with this touchpad perfectly. Some are models that are not well known at all as they are just from amazon. A list of what it worked with fine: Fusion5 Q102, Dragon Touch X10, Acer Iconia B1-7A0 and the original Tesco Hudl.

I have two of these keyboards with touchpads.

The most recent one I’ve got is this one: (forum won't let me post links yet so here it the item title in amazon.co.uk) "TECHGEAR [Active Strike Pro Slim Bluetooth Wireless UK QWERTY Keyboard with Mouse Touchpad"

But what I’m really confused about is why I just can’t figure out why the touch pad is s awful to use on certain models. I unfortunately have difficulty with touch screen devices so a touch pad is essential for me. I’ve recently bought a Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite 8. That was my first experience of the touchpad being really difficult to use. This resulted in my not wanting to keep the tablet. I then tried to do some research about why this may be the case. I couldn’t find anythign on the internet relating to this issue. I went to PC world to ask but they didn’t seem to know. I tried the this keyboard and trackpad with nearly 10 different tablets just for testing purposes at the store and it worked fine with many, but a lot also had the same problem as the Huawei M3. A really sluggish response to the track pad. The people at the store though it may be the bluetooth or android version. But my Acer has bluetooth 4.0 and android 7.0 which many in the store had, but they had the issue with the trackpad. There was one Samsung tablet I tried thee that had android 8.1, and that worked fine with the touchpad, but was well above my price limit. What I am baffled by is the reason behind why this trackpad works on some tablets well and badly on others. I tried the Lenovo Tab E8 and that is a pretty budget tablet which has lower spec that I want, but that worked fine. I tried the stores model up from this, Tab4 8 and that for some unknown reason had the issue.

I then asked PC world a lot of questions about this by e-mail and don’t seem to have had a response. So I risked buying another tablet from amazon because of their returns policy and this has perfect spec for what I want, but has the touch pad issue again. It is the Lenovo Tab4 8 Plus. Out of the specifications of this compared to the E8, I can’t understand why the track pad would not work right. I’ve tried going in to language and input and changing the pointer speed but that doesn’t change how responsive it is.

As I’m writing this, I’m getting on well with the keyboard and touch pad using my Acer tablet which I have used for over a year now. But I’m really wanting an upgrade from this tablet as it can’t handle a lot of programs at once.

What I am after really is a small 8 inch laptop with android. But I don’t really know if such a thing is possible. But it pretty much would be if I could find out what this irritating problem is. If Lenovo made a case with a trackpad and keyboard, or any other company for the Lenovo Tab4 8 plus, I would pay however much it costs. But techgear said when I contacted them that this keyboard and touchpad should work fine with all android devices. It does work with all of them, but really badly on a lot. The keyboard always works so it doesn’t seem to be a bluetooth issue. I can’t find a possible reason for this touch pad issue anywhere. If there isn't going to be a way to get one that works properly, then unfortunately, any tablet would have to be returned in my case. There must be something about very specific models of tablets not liking it. As it actually worked well with another Acer tablet in the store I tried. As well as an Amazon kindle fire.

I’ve got a month or two until I will need to return my Lenovo tablet If I don’t figure out a fix so hopefully I will be able to get some advice here.

Many thanks.