I took off MagSafe and shutdown my laptop properly.
My desktop showed a cross on my battery icon which confused me for a second. I plugged in the MagSafe adapter and the laptop started normally. I worked last night and put my laptop in sleep mode on 90% and very next day it was not turning on or coming out of sleep mode. This message is not aiming at trying to determine who's right and who's wrong, I only want to share my experience. It looks like the battery needed a "hard reset" SMC couldn't offer.Īnyway, I hope this trick will help some of you. I finally reinstalled the battery in the MBP and powered it without any power supply: AND IT WORKED !
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I started the mac on power supply without no battery fitted: booted up fine. I couldn't swap battery like Andreas did, but I tried to remove it from the mac (without any pentalobe screwdrivers - that's a challenge). Hope came back when I read Andreas' contribution. I've tried all the resets you could imagine (SMC, PRAM & NVRAM & so on.) and all the fingers/keyboard combinations the guys at Apple came up with, without any success!Īll my little "mac world" was about to collapse when I read Dan's answer > Logic board problem (no offense Dan) - but I kept reading. It would shut down instantly when removing Magsafe.Ĭoconut battery was pretty confident regarding the good condition of my battery, but still it wasn't operational at all! I've just had the exact same problem as Dirk had, on my MBP and its genuine battery: no charge, magsafe LED always green, battery stuck 40% & MBP would only start with the power cord connected. Maybe the recent problem was caused by this cheap third-party battery?Īnyway, maybe this is of help: Don´t trust coconut, check the battery physically. One more thing: The dead battery was not orginial Apple, I had bought a cheap battery on ebay when the original part showed the well-known problems like swelling up and not fitting any longer. MacBook is up and running without any problem since then. I got a new battery in the local Apple-Store for far less money than the logic-board would have cost. What can I say: We changed the battery, instantly the magsafe went orange, the battery-symbol on the desktop stated "Charging", and the MAcBook went on running without magsafe attached. We started talking about my problems and my search for a logic board, when he suggested to put his working battery into my MacBook to make sure it was really no battery problem. I travelled by train, working with the MacBook, when a stranger with the exact same model sat on the same table. Meanwhile, only by strange coincidence, I found out that Dans answer is - in my case - wrong. I found this page when trying to find help, thanks to Google, and found the answers of Dan quiet logic, so I tried to get my hands on a new logic board - which is not easy here in Germany, so I started thinking about getting a new MacBook and dumping the 17". I had the exact same problem - magsafe always wih a green light, no charging, Coconut told me the battery is working fine, SMC reset without result, MacBook only running with attached magsafe.
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MacBook Pro 17" (Models A1212/A1229) Battery ConnectorĬan anybody help - or had the same problem - and do you know, how to fix it?.MacBook Pro 17" (Model A1229) Left I/O Board.I tried: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - did not resolve the problem. Mac works fine without Battery in body case - only with MagSafe power supply attached. Mac will not power on without MagSafe power supply. Mac shuts down when only used with battery power although it is at 83% load. Mac works with MagSafe adapter cable attached to computer. The LED of the MagSafe adapter (original) remains green. Model: Macbook Pro 17 (A 1229), 2,4 GHz - 2007īattery: Replacement Battery (not original) 11.1 V, 6600mAh (73 Wh)Īfter some heavy workload I did with the MacBook Pro (heating up quite well), next day I found the following problem:īattery will not charge.