Even something as simple as replacing the battery in
the newest line of
macbooks is a real PITA and might or might not include replacing part of
the case or trackpad and/or some gluing and/or ungluing....
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
you may have merely shorted out the little
'brain' in the battery
have you tried another battery?
On 2/26/15, Akwerius <akwerius(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for all the responses ya'll!!! really
appreci-love it.
I will give another try to the genius bar with a smile this time :)
bless
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Julio Rios <julio.rios(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I was going to recommend InHomeMac, which was a
repair shop on Mandela
and
10th St, but I can't find it online any more, so they may no longer
exist.... but they may have just moved or renamed. Anyway, going to a
shop
is a good source of last resort. Hope it doesn't get to that if it's
just
the charging module.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:15 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com
<danarauz(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> MAYBE IT IS NOT, BUT...
>> If the computer works, and only the charging part is not happening...
>> i
>> would make sure the contacts are clean, using a dry toothbrush
>> wouldn't
>> hurt. The power connector has a magnet property, a staple or
>> something
>> like
>> that could have gotten there; or simple some dirt.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:27 PM, max b <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> eeesh I'm sorry to hear that. I would be a little hesitant to let
>>> just
>>> anyone work on that one, unless you really trusted them and their
>>> abilities.
>>>
>>> I don't know how successful it would be, but if you took it to the
>>> apple
>>> store and told them it wasn't charging and conveniently left out the
>>> part
>>> where there was any water involved, you might have some luck....
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Akwerius <akwerius(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> right. it's a macbook pro retina (late 2013)... apparently one of
>>>> the
>>>> worst in terms of repairability.
>>>> thank you for forwarding the message to the larger list.
>>>> kwe
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:18 PM, max b <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've copied sudo-discuss on this email so that all of the sudo
>>>>> folks
>>>>> get this message. I think a lot of them aren't subscribed to the
onmi
>>>>> emails.
>>>>>
>>>>> One useful thing to know would be what year/model macbook it is.
>>>>> It
>>>>> makes a really big difference in terms of how easy it is to open
>>>>> it
up
>>>>> and
>>>>> dig around.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Akwerius
<akwerius(a)gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hi everyone,
>>>>>> just wondering if anybody in sudo room knows how to fix
macbooks?
>>>>>> i
>>>>>> accidentally spilled water on mine and it is not charging
>>>>>> anymore.
>>>>>> everything else seems to work fine but i'm on 5% batt. life
left.
>>>>>> tried the
>>>>>> rice trick, didn't work. any help would truly be
appreci-loved.
give
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> kwe
>>>>>
>>>>>
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