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i was able to measure it, the Hall sensor in this case constatnly outputs 3.3V, and when i put a magnet near to it it cuts off the 3.3V, so when the lid is closed the Hall sensor wont output the voltage, so it was easy, i just desoldered the second chip from the keyboard (iron, not with hot...
I replaced a French keyboard to a UK layout one, customer asked for it, not the laptop wont go to sleep when the lid is closed, than i noticed that on the original keyboard there is only one Hall sensor on the left side, and of course there is only one magnet in the lid on the left side but not...
now i can confirm it works fine with a 2015 macbook pro, , simply that 2eur adapter from aliexpress, and the a 60eur cheap nvme crucial ssd 500gb, works fine with 10.13, the only thing is that it had to be formatted with a usb enclosure in another macbook , than it was recognised in the target...
would any nvme ssd work with a cheap adapter in a retina macbook? the originals are very expensive , even the OWC ssd is not too cheap, we can buy 500gb nvme Crucial ssd for 60eur...
well, yesterday i left it run with an apple ssd, overnight, and now it seems to be installing, maybe it needed that much time to update the EFI in the macbook?
got this ssd
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/...2013-2014-2015
before i installed two of this in macbook air without problems
now i have the 240gb ssd, with A1502 macbook 2015, the original ssd is dead, i have another apple ssd and that works fine so the laptop is good
when i install this...
Macbook did not power on, i see very slight water damaged, actually that could be only just normal humidity and corrosion, not direct water damage
-did not turn on at all, there was no green light,
-3.42V is ok all over the board
-i reflowed SMC, now it works and boots but very slow
-holding...
We got MacBook Pro Keyboard was not responding and trackpad in first place. I replace trackpad cable and trackpad working now fine but keyboard is not, keys need to be pressed 3-4 times to get one symbol. already tried new trackpad other trackpad cable, new keyboards and battery didn't help...
customer accepted it like that, than i just put it back together with all the screws (yesterday the board was just loose in the housing ) and now works fine, speaker and headphone jack too, maybe the board was cracked and it needed the screws to hold it down? anyway, its collected
board was water damaged all over, after ultrasonic bath it looks surprisingly clean, and it works fine, except that the audio is always going to the headphones jack, there it works fine, but never goes to the speaker, except when i turn the laptop on, cause there is chime there trough the...
some keys did not work, i replaced it, and actually even with the original keyboard, and now with new keyboard and new trackpad, when i press the power button right away it restarts... it powers on when i connect the charger after removing the battery, and works fine, all the keys are working...
solved, U5870 and the area looked perfect, but that is the chip doing all weird stuff, cause the temp issue jumping up and down was cpu proximity and around related, so i desoldered the chip, right away 3 pad came off, i did not force it , the chip was lifted after the solder melted, then the...
i took out the board, not water damaged at all
very slow, fans are full speed, otherwise works
with HW monitor it says that 3 values are 33 degrees than 5 sec later it shows 129 degrees, it keeps cycling those values for the cpu related temps
SPI resistors are fine I checked and measured traces they are ok. I tried old bios with clean ME from forum no luck, I have replace bios IC and put same dump into it still no luck. Any more ideas ? I was 100% sure that bios will resolve this issue but it didn't..
Thanks for response, I tested that and mouse flashed once and no more activity I tried with another ssd with preinstalled OSX no luck and I tried boot it up from external USB same no luck.
Hi everyone,
We got an MacBook Air main board 820-3437
laptop was after liquid damage, smc area, bios and Backlight IC
I reball SMC fix all traces, I getting now green orange light but laptop didn't shows image and no chime, fan spinning, cpu gets hot.
Power is on all rails, CPU have Vcore...