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An Usual, day before yesterday morning, while I opened my 2.5 year old MBA 13’ A1466 (Early-2014) (Opened in the sense, I opened the lid. I usually don’t shut it down, ). It wasn’t turning on. In those 2.5 years, I never had a single problem, be it battery life or performance. My Mac’s condition: 98 cycles completed. Battery health 98-100% (istat menus’ reading)It’s always kept on charge and at 100 %. (This is how its been from past 2 years, except for once a month , intended battery drain to below 50%)Neither has the mac ever been dropped nor has water spilled on or in it. It has been handled with utmost care, and also, it hasn’t traveled much.It’s up to date (macOS 12.2.2) So, day before yesterday I kept trying by pressing the power button again and again, tried doing SMC reset, then after a while like an half-hour so, It started. I used it the whole day, no problems at all and before I went to bed I just closed the lid (as usual). Next day when I opened (Like after, 8 hours or so) It didn’t turn on. I tried everything present on this and other forums, apple communities etc.., no matter how ridiculous they were (banging, shaking), it all went in vain. Problem: Mac isn’t turning on. Appears to be “dead”.Neither does the fan start and nor does it make any noise when I press the power button. (I in fact, used a stethoscope to check, if it makes any teeny-tiny squeaky noise and NO, it doesn’t). Here are the things I tried: Did SMC reset.Even discharged it a bit by charging mobile device through Mac’s usb port. and did SMC reset again.Sightly banged its four cornersShake mac, like I mean it Finally, in the evening decided to open it up and disconnect the battery. The moment I started to unscrew it, I removed one screw, and just thought of checking once more, before I unscrew all. I pressed power button and BAM! it turned on. I instantly did SMC and PRAM reset, ran the diagnostic tool (no problems were found). There were slight hiccups though, while doing resets, at time it was not turning on after reset, but may be after 5-10 min or so it turned on. I then restarted and shut down mac several times, and it went all smooth. There was an OS update to 12.2.2 and I updated. Same thing I did yesterday night, closed the lid and today morning when I opened it, It isn’t turning on. Do you think there may be any sort of hardware issue? Please tell me is there anything else I should try. I’m not in a state to goto apple store, as the nearest one is 160 miles away and I have exams to study for and all my notes are in it. Please Help!! P.S : Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to make everything clear.
my macbook air stops powering on suddenly so what i did was visit a local tech who opened my mac, jumpstart the battery and it started working again. however it was again not powering on after a week so what i did was i bought tools and opened it myself. i disconnect and reconnect the battery, which fixed it temporarily. this is what i do every time it wont power on.
I have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with the similar issues described here. Wouldn’t power on at all. Took it to a authorised repair centre. They opened it up, blew some air in, dis/reconnected a few things (unfortunately not sure exactly what), and it started working again. I took it home, worked perfectly. The next day, dead again. Took it back to the store, they couldn’t get it working for several hours, about to give up then it came to life again. They ran diagnostics on it for 24 hours and could find nothing wrong. They said when it wasn’t working, they tried booting via the onboard power terminals and that still didn’t work, so they thing it’s logic board related rater than the top case. Kept it in the store a few more days. I’ve just picked up again, and ‘seems’ to be fine. Will see what happens next… would love to know if anyone found out the cause.
Its not operating system related because I blew away the Mac OS and installed a new one (Linux). It still is doing the same thing. Sometimes it will power on right away, usually right after its shut down or it wont power on at all and could take minutes hours or days before it starts again. This is only happening on Mac book air. Never had a laptop do this before and no liquids have ever been spilled on it. Update (07/26/2019) Battery health 1 of 2: upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 native-path: BAT0 vendor: SMP model: bq20z451 power supply: yes updated: Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:19:58 AM EDT (81 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes battery present: yes rechargeable: yes state: discharging warning-level: none energy: 25.1636 Wh energy-empty: 0 Wh energy-full: 52.2728 Wh energy-full-design: 54.34 Wh energy-rate: 13.5964 W voltage: 7.53 V time to empty: 1.9 hours percentage: 47% temperature: 34.8 degrees C capacity: 94.7972% technology: lithium-ion icon-name: ‘battery-good-symbolic’
Hello! I’ve had this issue multiple times!! I disassembled my entire MacBook Pro and cleaned it with 99.9% alcohol (including the logic board) there is zero corrosion or water damage, no dust and i had brought a brand new battery with 0 charge cycles! Always seems to happen when streaming videos on Disney+, Youtube or Netflix. I have a Macbook Pro Early 2015 13” and only in the past 1.5 years this has occurred. My macbook will stay dead for about 2 days and then boot back up like nothing happened for about 2 months before it happens again!
Been chasing this beast of a problem for a few months now, myself. Been working on my desktop (PC) since the pandemic moved me to work remotely and my mac hasn’t seen as much love.
I know replacing the logic board will likely resolve the problem, but a $300+ repair on a 6 year old laptop seems rather foolish when that money could be put toward a newer one. But then the rub is, do I want to get another Air (which I love) if this is the type of issues it’ll have after that long.
No liquid damage, no rhyme or reason…replaced the battery about a year ago with one from iFixit as the old one stopped holding a charge. Been perfect between then and now.
End of the day, I’d just like to know WHAT is going south here as it doesn’t seem coincidental that so many people have the identical issue. Unless we all just have haunted laptops in which case a support group and eventual TV show is really our only path forward.
If you need to disconnect the battery and replug it to power on the macbook air, replace the trackpad… Had a few MacBook airs with the same problem. Changing the trackpad did the trick every time.
