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    Is it designed to fail ? Trackpad M2 and M3 MacBook Air

    Hello dear forum friends, We all know that Apple hasn't always been perfect when it comes to Mac design, and that many failures could have been avoided — and often even seem intentional. I'm thinking in particular of the screen connectors, with the backlight placed right next to the internal...
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    MacBook A2442 Hinge Sensor

    Hi mates ! I received a MacBook 14" A2442 at the shop this week that is not able to stay on, when you press the power button you can see the screen for 2 seconds, no trackpad neither keyboard activity, and screen goes black again. When the hinge sensor is unplugged, it works fine. After further...
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    820-02016-A - Crash Loop

    I have a MacBook that turn on fine, it is able to log in session sometimes, and instantly after it does pink screen for a second and restart, does it in loop. Sometimes it restart before the OS is fully loaded, and sometimes it is able to stay on several hours. Historic : the MacBook fell flat...
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    820-00850-A - No Power - 20V 0.02A

    Hi people ! I have a very clean board there, no liquid damage, that doesn't turn on. It seems it overheated around T2 Chip, on the back of it some resistors are kind of brownish (maybe it's just baked dust, IDK). I tried to restore T2 Chip but it is not enable to complete the process, always...
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    820-00923-A - Boot Loop

    Hi ! This board come from a A1706, not turning on, that has been lightly liquid damaged, but at the wrong spot. Indeed, oxydation was on right side of U7210 (pin 1 to 5), and also on C7433, nothing too big here. The rest of the board was in good condition. I replaced U7210 and C7433, then the...
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    MacBook A1990 - 820-01814 Board - Works but no battery detect

    Hi people, Here I have a strange case from this A1990. It came from an other shop, and was initially took in charge for battery replacement because it was inflated. When I took it in charge, The Mac run fine on battery and also on charger when battery unplugged, but It has a charging issue...
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    820-01041-A - Works only when battery disconnected

    Hi there, Historic : it has been liquid damaged on the very right side, only the tests points near U8800, U8700, U8600 and U8900 were corroded, some of them are gone. Nothing more seems to be damaged, but liquid could have been through more components. Behavior : the board works fine when...
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    820-00165-A - Troubles to stays on - Artefacts on screen

    Hello, I have here a 820-00165-A from a MacBook Air A1466 with a strange issue to me. At the beginning, the board was not powering on, no liquid damage. After further mesurement, I replaced the SMC and since this, the board powered on, can boot, but artefacts come very quickly after boot...
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    A1708 820-00840 - Not powering on

    Hi Rossmann's repair group crew, Here is the behavior of the board : when I plug the charger, it ramp to 20V 150mA, stay there for 10 sec, then 20V 0A for a few seconds, and finally goes back to 20V 150mA and stay there. There is obviously no image, no CPU activity, just the fan spin for 3-4...
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    820-00165-A No fan spin

    Hello, I have light on charger, but no fan spin. Historic : Macbook was find in a dump, no fan spin but after cleaning the backlight keyboard connector it worked fine. I ultrasonic the board even if it looked clean, but 2 months later I have this problem. PPBUS_G3H = 8,6V PPDCIN_G3H_ISOL =...
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    820-00244 - A1534 2016 Running Slow

    Hi ! I hate to work on this board, no fan spin = no fun. The board was liquid damaged, came here with no image. I refurbished the LCD connector that had minor corrosion and replaced the flex, LCD came back. When LCD went back, I discovered there was no KB no TP, the TP flex was damaged so I...
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    820-3437-B PP3V3_S5 shorted

    Hello there ! I have a 3437-B from a MBA 2013. At the beginning I had no light on charger and no fan spin, no more historic. I found corrosion on PP3V42_G3H supply, I replaced the bad components and still no light on charger. I tried reflow SMC without success, and I finally had a light on...
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    820-4924-A - Work fine but no image on LCD

    Hello, I have a A1502 with a 820-4924-A that is working well when plugged in Display Port on external display. With internal display plugged in I have no image on it (but still on external display). The Apple Logo on the back cover is ON when the OS boot is over and I have PPVOUT_S0_LCDBKLT =...
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    820-00281-A Critical Update and Touchbar doesn't work

    Boot fine in safe mode but touchbar and backlight keyboard doesn't work (I assume it's normal bc of safe mode). With normal boot the macbook ask me for a critical uptade, tried with wifi, wired cable and I also tried what this guy say on a forum...
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