If you can't get enough of me trying to fix Apple laptops here's another video you might enjoy: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWhszLOkf6qyZ8o.html

@RedPillAlways

9 ай бұрын

The only thing I do not like about iFixit is their shipping takes forever. I ordered some upgraded PS5 batteries 2 weeks ago I am still waiting. They use that osm shipping partner whatever it's taken five days just to move from California to Nevada. Other than that I do love their kits. I got that kit that comes with the Bits the lid turns into a tray prys tweezers suction cup all that

@Brad_O_M

9 ай бұрын

Do you sell any of the items you fix to online buyers?

@dalibork

9 ай бұрын

If you want to buy Apple MacBook Retina display early 15" early 2013 model in fenomenal shape, still with original battery and all the parts, reply. I'm from Zagreb, Croatia.

@ElnoraConaway

9 ай бұрын

Can you fix my Xbox series S? The HDMI port it proken

@RedPillAlways

9 ай бұрын

@@ElnoraConaway I would take that as a sign

Replacing a battery is simple, unless it's a MacBook

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

Lol, yep

@Jack-5718

9 ай бұрын

old ones are easy though

@Mommotexx

9 ай бұрын

Some of the newer ones have pull tabs like iPhone. Not sure about all the new models. Hopefully EU will force them

@zUltraXO

9 ай бұрын

Most laptops use screws, some gigachad laptops use a simple slider to pop up the battery

@Jack-5718

9 ай бұрын

@@zUltraXO my 2007 macbook uses a coin turner to open it

Steve, if you want to take any of these to the next-level of repair and fix up those liquid damaged areas ( including other machines ) feel free to reach out. A lot of us out here are doing component level repairs and still fixing up many of these machines, including data recovery of course. A great shame about the Apple lock situation, it's a constant pain to say the least, if nothing else though they do make good parts boards. If you do consider getting in to the component level repairs, I'm the creator of the boardview software that a lot of the repair industry uses ( FlexBV and OpenBoardview ).

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

The real Paul Daniels?! Thanks for stopping by! Yeah, I’ve used your board view software. Brilliant work! I can do some component level repair but unfortunately I don’t have a lot of machines to interchange parts with etc. I’ve got a lot to learn but people like you & Louis Rossmann (of course) are super helpful for people like me.

@robertbuzdea6257

9 ай бұрын

Isn t actually the apple lock removable up to the Apple M chips? i m pretty sure that intel macbooks have a chip that can be replaced, or rewritten so you get past the apple lock

@robertbuzdea6257

9 ай бұрын

It would be very nice to see TronicsFix try this repair, i think the chip is called T2 and you just have to flash a firmware to get rid of the activation lock, just that you need to remove it and put it on some equipment to do it

@rambledogs2012

8 ай бұрын

@@Tronicsfix //The real Paul Daniels?!// = for those of us in the UK of a certain age, that name's magic.

@killerhakie

29 күн бұрын

@@robertbuzdea6257 There is a t2 activation lock removal tool / flasher from china yeah.

This video needs to be combined with a video on changing a battery in a Framework laptop and sent to lawmakers as a very PRACTICAL demonstration on why right to repair, and repairable electronics are good for everyone.

For the dead MacBook because of the account link, Apple should add another option called, contact owner, which allows you to type a short message which is then emailed to the email address of the account holder, where they can choose to let you unlock it. Surely that is not too much to ask.

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

That would be nice

@Wipeout186

9 ай бұрын

Well unlink it so it can be linked to another account I would say. Unless when you say unlock you refer to the same idea.

@animatewithdermot

9 ай бұрын

Nice idea, but I don't think it would "maximise shareholder value", aaaaarghhhh

@darylsonnier658

9 ай бұрын

There's also an option on their website that says if you have proof of purchase, you can get help from Apple directly. Not sure if that counts resale, but it might.

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

It doesn’t count for resale. I’ve tried that before

I have replaced like 50 of these batteries from 2015 to 2018 model years. Saved so many machines with swollen cells and made them as good as new. I use plastic cards without any isopropl or acitone. Requires a little bit of extra force, but worth not having to deal with goopy adhesive. I have had a single iFixIt battery go bad within a year and they took care of me. It is a shame that Apple uses 3M strips instead of simply screwing them in. Their MacBook Airs had them screwed in, so no excuses about thinnest.

@makinamara321654

9 ай бұрын

Maybe they use 3M cause we have separate cells, so it's easy hold all of them and don't shake inside

@Roban554

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I did it myself for the first time. Only took me 15 minutes to remove the glued battery lol. It was so easy, I don't understand why not more people replaces the batteries.

@BenBe

8 ай бұрын

Another option is using waxed thread (or finger knitted floss in a pinch) by working it under the battery and using it to saw the adhesive. This is my go to method, I hate prying on lipos.

@aimanazrie8944

7 ай бұрын

@@Roban554 i think it's more about people not having the tools to do it. also, some people are just clueless with things like this.

@trilexfix

6 ай бұрын

still not the best method use an automotive trim tool.

You’re so inspiring Steve. I started my own reselling/repair business because you inspired me

It’s always a great day when Steve uploads a new video! 👍 Your videos have inspired me to try my hand at electronics repair.

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

Love to hear that!

@beckykerr5829

9 ай бұрын

It usually Means it’s a friend hehe and Friday are good

@123theprodigy5

9 ай бұрын

@@Tronicsfix great video man, is this Apple Silicon or is this Intel

3:00 when you need to replace glued down batteries, then you can use waxed dental floss and get under it. With back and forth movement you can cut through the adhesive. Its my go to for these kind of jobs.

@MrDemi1233

9 ай бұрын

Also I would not recommend to use pryers because it can bend and short the batteries inside that can cause fire.

As ever an informative, well paced and good humoured repair video. Love your videos you are a gentleman.

I never get tired of watching you troubleshoot and (sometimes) fix electronic devices.

re: sticky laptop keyboard, this is going to sound crazy but it works most times, completely strip down the inside untill you have just the midframe with the keyboard. in a sink mix hot water and mild dish soap and soak the keyboard assemble for a while keep tapping the keys to get them loose, Once everthing is loose rince in hot water blow off the excess water and let it sit in a warm place for several days for all the water to evaporate. the water and soap wont damage anything as long as you have stripped the insides, once your sure its 100% dry reaccemble and with luck the keyboard will work.

@Frickolas

9 ай бұрын

I've seen sticky keyboards cleaned with a wide ultrasonic cleaner as well, and rinsing in 99% alcohol drives out the water and dries in a few hours.

@silver60618

5 ай бұрын

@@Frickolas I accidently spilled a bit of ISO on a macbook, and the iso damaged the silicone and membrane to where the keys just fell off with no effort. ISO will kill keyboard membrane

Thanks to you I have fixed and or refurbished all my consoles in my home. Love your work! And I love Ifixit too! Great tools!

Hello :) because of channels like you, I have gotten into what I wanted to do since a child, fix my own things! I've fixed minor issues since a kid, stuck trays etc but now I want to really fix the big stuff, I've went on to reballing, deep end and foolish but I really really love the idea of repair on that level and I have enough scrap to learn if it's something I can do, waste scrap mind you nothing valuable. I reflowed a scrap 360 with my Quick rework station and it worked! now I plan on taking the HANA chip off and reballing it for a REAL fix :D Thanks for your videos while I wait for the solder balls!

i was just thinking about changing my own battery in my Macbook. This is pretty helpful and gives me a little lot more confidence about doing it!! Thank you

Dang man, sucks they couldn't be proper fixed!!! but I guess you got parts my friend lol. love the channel; been watching for a while now. Keep up the amazing work!

Thank you Mr. Fix I love your videos

I love these videos. Been watching this channel for over a year now.

Hi Steve great job, maybe you could hook an usbc dongle jus to check it on external monitor. Keep up the good work ❤

Steve, great content as always. Been repairing my kids macbooks for years but i reckon these news ones are more complicated as you rightly pointed out. Keep up the good work. Regards from Pakistan ! 👍

@eggtarts286

4 ай бұрын

Kudos to you for keeping the machines running! We retire these computers way too early these days and they're stupid expensive in some countries.

As for the Apple keyboards, IIRC you can pop the rivets that hold the keyboard to the chassis (make sure to remove any broken off stubs with needle nose pliers), then get the keyboard screws from the Unibody MacBook Pro and tap them into the aluminum shell...that was how I used to replace spill damage keyboards without a full topcase replacement. Of course that was 90-something rivets and matching screws to source as well...thanks Apple.

I just replaced the keyboard on my 2015 retina MBP. It was quite a PIA since the keyboard is riveted on place and you have to remove the 2 side taped battery also to raplace the keyboard. So maybe you referred "those older Macbooks" as 2012 etc? :D

You need to know 1. Schematics and boardview 2. Power squance on mac 2010-2020 3. Microsoldering tools Parts replacement is very easy

@ImgushetianRussia

2 ай бұрын

And where can you get all of these defect macbooks?

Thanks for also showing the ones that didn’t get fixed. 👊🏾

Great video Steve, Great how you can try to repair all sorts of stuff, it's good to see how you talk through different ways of approaching a problem. I'm glad I have stuck with pc's.

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed this one.

Is it feasible to use a combination of heat and IPA to remove the battery? Or will the heat evaporate the alcohol too fast to make it worth doing?

For those Apple style glued on batteries, I use the rubbing alcohol and then run floss under and saw away at it. It’s always annoying replacing those batteries.

In regards to the battery replacement, I just use a plastic spatula (some batteries come with them) and remove the battery without the need of alcohol. It takes a minute to do and causes minimal to no damage to the battery.

Battery removal - heat them up slightly and use a syringe for alcohol. I use very strong and thin wire to "cut" through the glue strips. Board out, don't risk flipping off a small component. The keyboard can be replaced, but man it is a pain in the arse. That screen on the MBA might be worth money if you can test it.

I appreciate you solidifying my hate for apple further. Great video.

Liquid spill on those MacBook Airs often damages the intermediate board that the keyboard connects to. Try unplugging the flex that goes to the intermediate board from the logic board.

Out of curiosity: comparing ifixit batteries to OEM, what type of battery life would you get over the LONG term life of it?

Hey hi. I have a MBP 15” mid 2015 (the one with the dGPU) which has issues with the original battery. I tried swapping it with a new one from ifixit and it seems to work well as it holds the charge even with fairly demanding tasks but, some months later, I noticed some “random” slowdowns that seem to be less frequent when on charge (the problem shows at any percentage the cpu temperature are really high and it becomes completely unresponsive). At first I thought there must be something wrong with software as opening Activity Monitor the heightest process were “configd and mds_stores”, so I decided to do a complete factory reset (at the time I was on Monterey so I thought to clean install Catalina) but I had the same result. After a bit of digging on some forums I found out the problem is common also with other models and other macOS versions but they all seem to be related to battery changes with ifixit ones. Have you ever experienced that or something similar? Have you got some tips about fixing it or even some tests to do to investigate further this issue. Thanks in advice, great video btw!

For the macbook air… Just asking… Can’t be tried to bath that machine on alcohol on an ultrasonic cleaner/washing machine? It should be able to clean the stickiness… Or there’s something to avoid?

To replace the battery you need to remove the main board. Brilliantly designed by Apple in Cupertino.

I hate taking out Macbook batteries, not sure why they glue them or why authorized repair places don't do battery replacements (well around me). They were gonna charge for just a quick battery replacement like $500+ to move the boards to a new case. The battery replacement was like $70 max, and I was told you cannot change out the battery? Madness! Love that Steve shows everything can and should be able to be repaired!

@rrwholloway

9 ай бұрын

We all know why they glue them. It’s purely to make them harder to repair.

@BartechTV

9 ай бұрын

They won't be gluing them for long, once new EU regulations come into effect - "Portable batteries incorporated in appliances shall be readily removable and replaceable by the end-user or by independent operators during the lifetime of the appliance". I'm sure Apple will delay as long as they can, but eventually, they'll have to make the batteries replaceable again if they want to continue selling products in Europe..

@brandonchutt312

9 ай бұрын

If you look at Apple's official parts store, they don't sell the batteries separately. For example for the 14in MacBook pro, you can only buy the battery with the bottom assembly and keyboard and it costs $527 😂 It's $440 if you give them your old assembly. That's apple for you

14:50 I used to work IT at a college and this reset fixed so many issues with wifi for me

Strip the MacBook Air down to the lower assembly keyboard and throw it into an ultrasonic cleaner with hot, soapy water or straight ipa. I have had great success with soda/sticky substance removal that way. Keep up the good work!

I’m a MacBook geek and I’m impressed of him fixing these!

love your content, are you selling those laptops? or giving them away?

For battery removal I'd recommend you using a thin hard plastic (something like plastic card) and sliding it under the battery while applying alcohol to it. It makes the battery removal so much easier and faster.

@Tronicsfix its not possible to do a try soaking the whole keyboard in alcohol ?(removing battery and every component that you can first)

there is a way around the activation lock, on another mac use an application called superduper to make a bootable image of that macbook, then boot the mac with the activation lock using the external drive with the image,( hold down the option key when you turn it on will give you a choice which drive to boot from) then run super duper from the external and copy to the internal drive on the activation lock mac. Hint use disk utilities to erase the drive on the activation locked mac. once complete shut down, disconnect the external and boot normally.

In this scenario, what is a good alternative to purchase? I'm looking for a portable laptop solution that would work with the same performance plugged and unplugged, need it for video editing 4K footage in Davinci Resolve as welll as photo editing in Photoshop/Lightroom. Everyone is screaming buy Macbook Pro with M2 chip, add as much RAM and SSD as you can, and it will be the best choice. Can someone recommend alternatives that would provide a similar performance? I've reviewed some Windows machines and it seems like a gaming segment is what I'd be aiming at but they are very bulky as well. Any thoughts or recommendations would be much appreciated!

If the battery is tyuly E-waste some people just cut the cable with rubber handled scissors. It's not good practice but it saves a lot of time. Makes it so simple and no prying is involved.

You may have a chance with that Mac with pass lock. I had a Mac with a lock on it and I changed the hard drive and installed Mac OS from usb. It cleared that. Just a thought.

Had the same -2003F error for one user. The internet recovery is just bad. User tried multiple times and multiple networks and it just did not want to work. Always failed. User kept trying however for like 10+ times until it finally was able to load from internet recovery. This was a M1 Mac so resetting NVRAM was not an option. So I am sure you just got lucky that it worked the 3rd time. :D

You can remove icloud lock if your macbook has the t2 chip. Also the keyboard could be washed underwater with soap and then having it air dry before using.

could you of plugged in the macbook with a faulty display to an external monitor?

Apple work always sounds like it's tough! Brave work here

Great job! But why you are removing any mentions of Linux?

This is probably the most painful laptop battery install I've ever seen. Apple really decided "How best can we punish them for trying this?" when they were designing it. Geez.

Pro tip cut the cotton off the end of the stock then when you that end into your iso it wicks it up and tap it down around the edge of battery to apply the iso.

I have a MacBook pro power on correctly, and after a moment(after I see the desktop and try to work on) it will shutdown directly with the sound of the fans, have you got this problem before

*Great video, always learn something new!* ▶️

I briefly worked on this generation of Apple product after they went away from more practical designs (2015 MBP is awesome, 2016 not so much). One of the tricks for glued components we used was gently applying heat and using the iFixit credit card scraper. You badly want to avoid poking or bending lithium ion batteries, so the wide, flat scraper helps.

With the third Macbook. How about removing everything from the bottom case (thats removable) and then dip the bottom case into isopropanol?

Recently refurbished a 2011 MacBook pro for my sister. Battery charging chip fried a hole in the motherboard so I had to replace the whole thing. Always fun to see how much easier apple products were to work with not even 10+ years ago compared to nowadays.

Hey Steve, ya'll should flood the gunky keyboard with isopropyl alcohol. Make sure the isopropyl will not seep into or on the lower board and one should be able to possibly put the keyboard in a shallow tray of isopropyl flooding the keyboard totally without the main board on it.

@TheBoboTheIceMan

9 ай бұрын

if you use 91% or higher, it wouldn't matter if it soaked all the way in. It'll dry. I had a PC mobo that my cats marked, and I had to soak it in IPA. after taking it out and letting it airdry, there wasn't much of an issue.

Really enjoyed the Video and I agree I wish that Apple would get one the train about being able to repair their devices. I have worked in IT my whole life and built PCs from scratch since I was 14 years old. Keep up the great content!

@Tronicsfix

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, that would be nice. Sounds like you've got some experience!

@6581punk

9 ай бұрын

They're getting worse and worse, it's been driven by profit. Apple simply can't bear the thought of someone other than them getting some money to fix or upgrade one of their products. Tim Cook is a bean counter, he's completely focussed on the money. For example, in the new ARM machines if the SSD fails that's it, the computer is bricked as the Mac equivalent of the BIOS is on the SSD. This just shows how these computers are now just scaled up tablet computers without the touchscreen. That's how you would design a smartphone or tablet. Except people do a lot more work on a computer, especially if they're writing software, recording audio/video and so on. So if you get an ARM Mac definitely invest in a Thunderbolt SSD and write to that to prolong the life of the internal drive.

@309electronics5

9 ай бұрын

I also wish, thats why i hate them and their fans are anoying. But this is the trick apple uses to get max profit by forcing users who are to far into their eco system to buy a new one

@animatewithdermot

9 ай бұрын

@@Tronicsfix you have the patience of a SAINT. If it were me encountering this malevolent design I'd be hopping around the room like a maniac with frustration. The thousands of machines that have ended up in landfills because of this. Some ethical system they have. BTW, my wife got locked out of her Mac last year, some pw madness, she had to do a bizarre reset, and was relieved to get back into HER OWN COMPUTER! Cold day in hell before I ever use a mac, watching this makes me even more against them! That control freakery of theirs is scary.

Prying the battery out while the lid is open is a better choice. Doing it with the lid closed runs the risk o putting pressure on the LCD and damaging it. Also, alcohol may drip inside the dispay and stain the backlight layers.

Unless its a unibody pro or pre 2018 air then its either 12 or 14 screws

where do you order the resistors, regulators, capacitors etc... ??

If Windows laptop comes with 30-80 MB/s SD card reader, can you rewire it into faster header or install faster card reader. Or is there Bios hack, that can make it faster? Card readers today are usuallu UHS-II, UHS-III, Express 7.1, but China is still stuck at USB 2 speeds.

Now that Microsoft supply replacement parts kits for their controllers and such on the official site, perhaps you should order some and have a look. I think Xbox and Surface have replacement parts officially sold to help self-repair.

Greetings, I have a macbook air 2018 A1932, which turns on, I can click on the touch pad and the keyboard leds turn on but I don't see anything on the screen, according to a "technician" it is an SSD problem, but I did not trust his diagnosis too much, It seems that the screen is not as I tried it on another mac and it works, what could it be? could I recover with DFU? thank you.

Do IFixit supply new adhesive strips with a battery?

Hey Steve, can‘t you flood the keyboard with BD100 ? Maybe it cleans it, maybe not but worth a try.

check the last one for flexgate problem maybe its repaireble if it is the flexgate you can swapp the flex and make it a little bit longer then the problem dosent come again

A scalpel is a great tool for removing adhesive strips.

Personally I have found Apple's Internet Recovery to be hit or miss. I'd recommend creating a bootable MacOS usb. tends to install faster and more reliably.

For the macbook air 2020 you can just buy a new top case and transfer the main board to it. Try first to power on the machine without keyboard flat connected.

May I ask do you sell this that you repair and if yes, where do you sell them?

Macbook 2, if you have that error, use a usb ethernet adapter. Works better than wifi

16:20 There is a way to flash a certain controller on the logic board that will unlock the iCloud activation lock. Luke Miani has a video on how to do it.

I've been trying to figure out why apple configurator shows a lock after "flashing". I haven't been able to "restore" or "revive" a good known working macbook that I just want to factory reset. It always ends showing the Lock you saw.

For that first MacBook he installed a new battery with the perfect amount of battery juice!

Use zippo lighter fluid. It is way stronger on adhesives and evaporates way faster than ipa.

16:22 Could Linux be installed on a Mac locked to an Apple ID or is it prevented by the hardware? 🤔

25:35 it has changed! you can purchase a original keyboard only for like 27 bucks. and it comes with hundreds of screws. you need to pull the rivets out of the chassis one by one. which then get replaced by a screw mechanism.

new keyboard flavor just dropped, extra crunchy

Spilt coffee on a dell laptop I was given. It didn’t make it past the keyboard so I took it out, washed and rinsed it well. I attached to the intake for my heat pump for 3 days. Works perfectly to this day

The sound of the battery adhesive lifting is the same sound my joints make when I get up from the couch! lol

I assume the lock has to be removed from the machine locally and not via an Apple account? If so, doesn’t that mean that if the machine dies during use, the chances of it not being locked is low?

I did the "faster" method once, making a garrote from pens and twine soaked in 90%. Took me 20 minutes of a sawing motion but eventually it came free

Maybe an stupid question, but is not possible to install a linux distribution on the blocked Macbook??

I have a question. I have a Macbook air 2015 or 2016. The problem with it is that it doesnt turn on even though its charging (the light on the charger is orange). And even more concerning, the ssd in it becomes super hot when i try to turn on my mac. Does anyone know what is the problem with it ??? (i sent the mac to a repair shop they said the problem was from the motherboard and it was irreparable)

I will say that I love that Apple has maintained that startup chime across the years.

Pardon my ignorance but couldn't you install Linux or Windows on the second MacBook (The iCloud locked one) And use it?

get a usb-c to hdmi adapter and try plugging the one with the bad screen and see if it is fully working and not icloud locked

You can soak it in water and simple green solution and rinse with water. Put it in front of a fan for 3 days to dry. Take the battery out.

Apple could fix the iCloud lock issue simply by sending a pop-up to the owners phone in similar fashion to the pop-up when your iCloud is signed into on a new device. The pop-up could ask if the device was sold or traded in. Then could ask the owner to allow access. I feel as though this would solve this issue perfectly while still not allowing people into stolen devices.

Where do you buy these broken electronics?

I'm surprised that Apple has "allowed" iFixit to provide replacement parts.

I used a plastic credit card and ipa to get under the battery modules. Slid underneath much easier.

Important note: an activation locked device will someday eventually be removed from the original owners account and be usable again, unless that person died and the account is never accessed again. Reason being, software updates and new features will eventually require the user to remove old devices that cannot update anymore in order to proceed, or the owner will just realize they have old devices in their list and remove them.

I just saw a video where they use rosin flux atoniser to detect shorts...maybe you give that a try...makes life easier

You should connect the last one to an external screen to discard video issues inside he LB.

You can always try giving the liquid damage computer a bath and warm water but without the key components on it only thing you need is just the keyboard by itself to soak and itch should actually loosen up the stickiness

Russian engineers use a thin plastic from protective glasses. It does not damage the case and the battery. It is very flexible and comfortable. And the glue is dissolved with alcohol.🤝