No battery power, no charging after replacing battery
MacBook Pro 2010. I replaced the battery with the one I received from ifixit. The computer booted.
Two weeks later, there’s no power. The battery indicator shows no lights. If I connect the power supply, it’s light remains green. With the power supply connected, the machine boots but if I disconnect it, it loses all power. Also, with the power connected, the battery indicator blinks all lights five times when the button is pressed.
The battery indicator icon shows 100% charge but also says replace battery. I’m attaching a coconut battery screenshot.
I performed an SMC reset.
What should I do? Any chance to receive a replacement for the brand new battery I purchased from ifixit?
Is this a good question?
4 Comments
This just happened to me! I bought a replacement battery from macbookbatteries.com awhile back and I couldn't replace it at first because the screws were stripped. This morning I swapped out the battery and plugged in the power adapter to charge it. When I saw it go from orange to green I powered on my MBP and the indicator showed it was charged 100%
A few minutes later the notice appeared saying the battery was at 2%.
I plugged it in again, and within 10 min the indicator went from orange to green again.
I heard horror stories about buying batteries from Amazon but apparently they're not the only ones to be wary of.
(correction: first version said I got the battery from ifixit, but I was mistaken)
I'm disappointed in this battery and plan to request a replacement.
by Kevin James
What OS X are you running and did this start after your last system update? @danj
by mayer
@mayer - I'm running 10.13.4 currently, I haven't updated my systems yet. That's one of this weekends chores.
by Dan
@danj I am only running into problems with machines that have had third party hard drives or batteries installed.
by mayer