⟐ Commented July 24, 2022 at 19:09 MST

Anyone has something like that? How they solved your problem?

⟐ Commented February 05, 2023 at 20:51 MST

In this picture you will find some of the horizontal lines

In this picture you will find the big vertical stripe that appears when i open or close the lid

In this one it shows more of the lines like the ones of the first picture but this appear on black background which it is very weird

And in this video you are going to notice some random green and pink dots that flashes very fast in the same place of the big vertical stripe.

Note: I already reset PRAM and SMC, and started safe mode with no luck. I connected the macbook pro to an external display and it works great so GPU is good.

Please help me, thanks in advance.

UPDATE: So the stripe is not appearing anymore but the horizontal lines still appear in certain backgrounds it really depend on the colors that are being shown in the screen being black and white the ones that provoke the lines most.

⟐ Answered June 25, 2023 at 18:32 MST

I found some annoy Screen issue when I shut down may MBP

Nov 23: I went to Apple Authorized Shop to check AR Coating issue, They accepted my case to change screen part.

Nov 27 noon: I got my MBP back with new screen.

Nov 27 night: I found this issue when I shut down. So I restarted many times, found this problem shown 9 in 10 times shut down.

Nov 28 noon: I went back to Authorized Shop again to show this problem to staff. They have check and said this issue can not found when Shut down by Safe Mode. It may cause of some software problem. So they suggested to me to format MBP and reinstall OS. So, I Agreed to do that. After 1 Hour for it to finish. I’ve checked many time by shut down at shop. This problem didn’t show again in that time or I came back and use MBP at home. their was no problem in that night Shut down.

Nov 29 night: This Issue came back again!!! I can claim Screen from Authorized Shop because still have 90 days replacing-part warranty but still concern that may damage from other part. My MBP has no Apple Care. and this issue never show before replace new screen.

This is my Screen when I shoot clip and capture shut down moment.

⟐ Commented August 04, 2022 at 11:29 MST

⟐ Commented February 01, 2024 at 6:59 MST

Pictures or videos proving it would be appreciated.

I know it is possible for MacBook Pro 2016 13" without the touch bar.

Thanks!

⟐ Commented July 08, 2022 at 5:53 MST

if i put it to sleep for 5mins and open again, everything look likes okey. but after around 15mins again that line blow up

help me if there is any solution. isn’t there any solution without replacing display?

i have no warrenty left from apple

Macbook Pro 13” 2017

⟐ Commented September 12, 2020 at 6:27 MST

However when I try and put it back into place, I can’t get it to “click” in. Has the butterfly mechanism broken? It’d be great if I can try fix this myself as it’s currently lockdown in the UK so can’t get to an Apple store - I also fear it’s an expensive fix otherwise.

⟐ Commented May 08, 2024 at 1:40 MST

Hence, I was thinking if I could replace the 256 SDD in MacBook Pro 2017 (function keys) model with 512 GB SDD in MacBook Pro early 2015 model.

Please give me solution, if there is any, for upgrading my SDD to 512 GB, or perhaps more, in the 2017 function keys model.

Thank you so much!

⟐ Answered January 01, 2023 at 14:55 MST

A few days ago I swapped the factory-installed 128GB SSD for a Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2242 SSD on my 2017 MacBook Pro without a touchbar. The installation itself went without any problems and the new SSD was recognized immediately.

With the help of an external recovery stick, I first formatted the new SSD as APFS and in the GUID partition scheme and then installed Big Sur. During the installation where the MacBook had to restart several times, I noticed that the MacBook shuts down, but then I had to restart it manually because it didn't do this by itself. Big Sur is now fully installed and I have all my data back via a Time Machine backup, but it still seems to have a problem when restarting:

It switches off, takes about 15 seconds, then switches on again and then shows the folder symbol with the question mark - it does not seem to recognize the hard drive.

If I then manually shut it down again and then boot into recovery mode with cmd + R (sometimes it is the Internet recovery and sometimes the system-internal recovery, booting into recovery mode from usb drive works as well) and then shutdown the macbook in this mode and then start it again, the macbook booted without exception and without any problems always normal to MacOS.

After this procedure when I am in the operating system, the following appears in the error report:

MCA Error Report CPU Machine Check Architecture Error Dump (CPU: Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-7360U CPU @ 2.30GHz, CPUID: 0x806E9) CATERR detected! No MCA data found.

Strangely, if I shut down the macbook normally and then turn it on again, this problem does not occur, so that the mac then boots normally into MacOS.

Things I've already tried to solve the problem:

• SSD completely erased again, reformatted, installed the factory-installed MacOS Mojave and updated from there up to BigSur
• PRAM / NVRAM & SMC reset
• deactivated FileVault and restarted
• started in safe and verbose mode
• rapaired the ssd in disk utility tool several times
• with 'bless -mount "/ Volumes / Macintosh HD" -setBoot' set the hard disk again as the start volume and restarted, here I have deactivated SIP beforehand, because this command otherwise failed with "Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc"
• tested MacBook with apple diagnosis (held D key at startup), ended with ADP000 - No issues found.
• adjusted power management settings with pmset command to counteract the rapid discharge of the battery

All of these attempts were unfortunately unsuccessfull.

I'm really desperate. Does anyone know a solution?

⟐ Answer edited May 25, 2023 at 23:39 MST

First of all, I’ve done all the software related checks (External display, Invert colors check, SVRAM-NVRAM reset, Hard Format etc.). The problem is definitely hardware related.

After 3-4 months past of my warranty end, out of nowhere, my MacBook screen started to display the colors weirdly;

At first, the colors were normal until I open the lid to 30 degrees, but it was going weird if I opened more.

After 1 week like this, the display went completely crazy and showed the colors weirdly the moment I opened the lid.

I brought it to Authorized Apple Service and they checked my device. After that, they called me and told that the problem was not in the flex cables or any other cable from the motherboard side. They suspected that the problem was in the cables from the display area but in cases like this, they directly change the display and charge the customer, according to their procedure.

The funny part is, even they could not define the root cause for this issue. They said that they are also experiencing this issue for the first time.

Actually, I am very disappointed to see that if your warranty has ended, Apple does not do anything if your computer stops working out of the blue.

It is approx. 450€ to change the display here in Turkey, but I am wondering if there are any ways that I could open up the display connection part in my device by myself.

I just want to check the cables (in the display side) and make sure they are connected properly.

Thank you all in advance!

Can

⟐ Commented April 19, 2024 at 3:44 MST

According to my research this issue can stem from 3 things:

1) a faulty LED-Backlit display in which case will need to have the whole display replaced

OR

2) LVDS 'graphic cable' issue, either it needs to be

--replaced

--or just repositioned

At this point in time I'm leaning more towards bringing it to an accredited Apple center for repair.

My question is, can anyone tell me the range for fees and for how long the repairs would be for each scenario mentioned above? Just a minimum/estimate would be fine so that I won't be quite shocked when I do bring it over to the center ><

And is this an issue that I can just ignore, practically speaking? Would it get worse if I leave it as is(like bigger shadows or whatnot overtime)?

On a side note, I also noted keyboard issues popping up after this. Sometimes the letter 's' would have a lag, won't be functional or would double type. Same with the no. 2 key. I'm not sure if this is related or an entirely different problem with the display -- no other functions seem affected

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)

Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory: 8 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3

Graphics: Intel Iris Graphics 540 1536 MB

- picture taken at the lowest screen brightness

- increasing it appears to lessen the shadows but they're still visible even at maximum brightness

⟐ Commented August 27, 2024 at 1:14 MST

Long story short- I share my laptop with my room mate. My room mate confessed to me that she was using the laptop on her bed, over the sheets with the power adapter plugged in. She said that the machine got really loud (I guess the fans or whatever were going off)

It overheated.

Later that day I noticed that there was a black line below the app menu on the bottom. It was weird because I would move the cursor over it and you could see the cursor. I have ran NVRAM and SMC and it hasn’t fixed the issue.

However, we left it shut down over night and it was ALMOST completely faded in the morning (though with use the lines would eventually come creeping somewhat back but not as bad as the first day.)

I don’t want to be super hasty and assume I am in for a $500 repair. I have seen similar posts on here where people had the same issue and they said that the lines eventually went away, or that after a week of not using the laptop they got lucky.

Has anyone gone through this? Is this something that will get worse over time?

Is it possible the over heating caused one of the cables to come loose inside the computer? I was thinking of opening up the laptop and reseating the display cables.

Does it ACTUALLY need a replacement or is this something that will go away with time/can be solved by opening up the macbook or leaving it off for a while.

As is the case with most people, I don’t have the money at the moment to handle what would probably be an expensive repair.

I would complain about how the computer is only two years old but I am pretty sure its my room mates fault for the overheating lol.

If any of you have any suggestions or similar experiences I would really appreciate it.

Thank you for your time.

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your quick response!

These are the before pics:

(Day of the heating issue)

https://imgur.com/a/NAI2zs4

After

(Today)

https://imgur.com/a/4ZOl6q9

You can barely see it. Its just a bit brighter down there than the rest of the screen.

Though I am sure they will probably get stronger with usage. I think it was on another forum but a few people had said they left it alone for a couple of days and it got better.

Thanks again for your time with this.

⟐ Answered January 06, 2025 at 6:44 MST

⟐ Answered August 23, 2023 at 7:12 MST

Recently out of nowhere my MBP 13” (function keys, 2017, no Apple Care, out of warranty) started acting out in the following combination of ways.

THE LIST OF ISSUES:

• Both ports stopped recognizing external display using the usb-c to hdmi adapter I used reliably a while before
• Around the same time my battery started reporting “Service Battery“ state
• The USB-C port closest to user (front) is only taking ~5V when charging, while the other USB-C port (back) is charging at ~19V (I have current measuring USB-C device)
• If I want to use external SSD for backup/data transfer it works on both ports but sometimes I need to plug the other port for charging for device to be recognized
• Up until recently, I also noticed that sometimes MBP would shut down when I would close the laptop instead of going to sleep (though after resetting SMC/NVRAM I never experienced this again)

WHAT I TRIED:

1. resetting SMC/NVRAM
2. updating system to the latest MacOS version
3. running diagnostics (only service battery was reported, which later on disappeared)
4. plugging/unplugging cords in different combinations
5. using different usb-c hub with direct power-in that used to work before as well

Here is the charging report from CoconutBattery

For back USB-C port:

For front USB-C port:

QUESTION:

Is there any chance this issue will be resolved (especially the one about recognizing external display) if I would just replace MBP battery?

Or is this almost definitely characteristic of logic board issue?

I was thinking about taking up a task of buying a replacement kit and replacing the battery myself while in self-isolation due to pandemic, but would not attempt replacing logic board myself.

Thank you in advance for your help!

⟐ Answer edited March 10, 2023 at 11:20 MST

⟐ Commented January 13, 2025 at 3:30 MST

I upgraded the storage of my Macbook Pro mid 2017 with sintech adapter (A1708) and Sabrent SSD. Since that I feel like I’m having a faster battery drain in idle than before.

Can someone tell me how long their MacBook Pros from 2017 (with original storage) are staying alive without using it? Maybe I’m just wrong but I dont think so.

Before some asks: I already did some changes to the system power settings. Are these right?

System-wide power settings:

Currently in use:

• lidwake 1
• autopoweroff 1
• standbydelayhigh 60
• autopoweroffdelay 259200
• proximitywake 1
• standby 1
• standbydelaylow 60
• ttyskeepawake 1
• hibernatemode 25
• powernap 1
• gpuswitch 2

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

• highstandbythreshold 50
• womp 1
• displaysleep 5
• networkoversleep 0
• sleep 1
• tcpkeepalive 1
• halfdim 1
• acwake 0
• disksleep 10

I installed SSDPmEnabler and terminal says it’s running correctly, but battery is still draining while MacBook ist closed.

Rebooting is still not working. It shuts down but doesn’t boot up again. I have to press the power button myself. Afterwards macOS is showing a message that the system wasn’t shut down correctly.

⟐ Commented July 11, 2022 at 7:03 MST

Thanks.

⟐ Commented June 22, 2022 at 15:18 MST

I have replaced with a new battery, and it now turns on just fine (after an OS re-install), but is still saying that the battery is not charging. It now lists the following:

• Fully charged: No
• Charging: No
• Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4698
• State of Charge (%): 1
• Cycle Count: 0

Could it be the new battery has an issue? Any advice would be kindly received.

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Update - CoconutBattery image as requested -

⟐ Answer accepted December 26, 2020 at 7:48 MST

The other port seems to be working just fine, however I do recall once or twice where I had to take the plug out and try it again.

I know that this version has the ports soldered to the motherboard so I’m not going for that repair myself. But does the problem come from the ports themselves or could it be the chip ‘behind’ them? How can I determine this?

⟐ Answer edited April 20, 2020 at 3:57 MST