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I have a dead 2015 15 inch retina MacBook Pro. The display is fine. The display has the same video connector as well as...

I have LCD panels shipped all the time….with are you talking about? If packaged properly they're fine. Haven't got a cracked or broken one ever

Yeah it stinks Apple has done this and also with their SSD drives in anything (laptops anyway) that is 2016 or newer I believe. Ugh…

I just received my 60GB video! It needed a new battery is all. It was 6.99 for a 900mah that lasts about 6-8 hours on a charge, more if you turn down the brightness and set the screen to dim after 5 secs or so. So happy to have it back. Sure I could've just snagged an old Android cheapie (Android since many support MicroSD cards and a 128gb card is only 18.00 give or take) but the feel of using the old clickwheel iPods us just fun! Sadly Apple dropped support for them so I partitioned my 2015 MBP SSD and I stalled Yosemite so I could plug in the iPod and have it work. I still use a cheapie Android with a 128GB MicroSD in it solely for music and have it USB connected to my car deck and securely locked in my glovebox and it powers off and on with the car which is great. Then I navigate to the USB input on my deck and it pops up showing the phone and all my music. I do the same with my iPod click wheel in my second car. Both work perfectly. Definitely glad I bought a 9.00 battery and resurrected it from my...

The only way is a USB adapter that's MacOS capable. They're out there and there's some very small ones too.

the hard drive name has nothing to do with it. You can name it whatever you want as long as you select it in the system preferences control panel as the startup disk.

I haven't read all the replies but you need to do an “SMU reset" the way to do this varies on every machine so Google that with your machine info and you should be good to go. Also doanother pram reset if you haven't (after the SMU) and then make sure it's all charged up before shutting down again (if it's a laptop). Hope this helps. It should. I've had this happen. Its pretty common. I'm sure most peeps here have had this happen at least once. Cheers

If it's a retina model late 2012 no you cannot upgrade or remove the ram it's soldered to the logic board. If it's a non retina late model 2012 yes you can upgrade it 2 16GB with an 8GB slot in each of the two ram slots. Update (06/24/2019): what's awesome about the SSD, is that it's so fast in most cases it can kind of make up for the lack of ram upgrade ability on the machines that aren't upgradable because programs still open so quick. Also what you can do, is buy a sintech nvme adapter and an nvme style SSD which are three times or so faster than a standard Apple SSD. My stock SSD had a read and write speed average of about 1500 give or take. The nvme drive I swapped it out for has an average read-write speed of 3500 give or take. To do this though, you need a little adapter from sintech which you can buy on Amazon for 12.99 but certain machines when this adapter is installed, can/will hang at shut down and sometimes have a weird sleep issue which there are a few fixes for by running a couple of...

it means provide the error so people can actually help....you've given us ZERO helpful information to start with at all.....

You can only RMA if under warranty, he stated it's 2.5 years old so that doesn't help at all. He was asking how much to fix....

If you have a "one beep" over and over continuously until power off it's a logic board issue.

good point, if you tuck the battery cell you can also firm up the speakers and then install the cell, just a tiny bit tricky since you have to tuck it under the speaker a bit.

My battery came with 86% charge but of course, condition as normal for full charge capacity and longevity. Cheers. Took me 26 minutes for entire job. I’ve done several of these though, prepare for an hour at least your first time and GO SLOW and double check everything as you go.

one more thing, if you install the speakers first (totally do-able) you’ll take off the adhesive on the outer most cell on each side first and you’ll approach it from the top and tuck it under the very edge of speaker…after that’s done press down when happy with alignment.

I actually also, installed the speakers back before adhering new battery down, it was a pretty tight fit. Also one speaker on each side has a smaller screw than the other 2 so be aware to get them back in the correct spot. I also had one of the long screws that wouldn’t fit in the spot so I switched them, so you might be careful of that too…not sure why but it wouldn’t thread in….weird.

I’d recommend once new battery is placed and NOT stuck down, to connect the power and charger to make sure it charges up. I got a bad “new” battery and had to do a second removal and replace….ugh.

yeah DEFINITELY do NOT put the old battery in. Chances are it’s damaged and all bent up and you definitely do not want this back in a working machine. Spend the money and get a new replacement or you’ll regret it.

Again, The adhesive for my old battery was only in strips around the underneath so if you can get the outer edge loose you can GENTLY but firmly pull slowly upwards and prob get it off ok without too much digging. Use a hair dryer for 30 seconds or so and it’ll be just enough to break it loose. (If you don’t have a heat gun).

The adhesive for my old battery was only in strips around the underneath so if you can get the outer edge loose you can GENTLY but firmly pull slowly upwards and prob get it off ok without too much digging. Use a hair dryer for 30 seconds or so and it’ll be just enough to break it loose. (If you don’t have a heat gun).

It doesn't reset the ago, no.

Excellent guide. I got lucky and did this is 30 mins and replaced the battery while it was apart. It was 9.00 online. Great to have my 160GB iPod 5th gen video clickwheel back in action!!