People said that i should go to disk utility and unlock the locked disk there

But the locked disk wasn’t there

And even if its there, i don’t know the password too. And I can contact the owner anymore

⟐ Commented December 03, 2022 at 9:20 MST

A motherboard model A1502, of the year 2013, is compatible with one of 2015, of the same model A1502? Could you help me?

the photos that you attach are almost similar, the ones that you send me if they change drastically, that's why my doubt .. let me see if I can attach them again ..

⟐ Commented February 20, 2024 at 5:44 MST

I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Early 2013 with the original SSD drive it came with.

I would like to upgrade to the much faster Samsung 970 Pro M.2 drive 256 GB or something similar. But, I can't find out if its possible or how to do it.

Hope someone got an answer for me.

⟐ Answered April 23, 2025 at 7:07 MST

I bought this MBP about 2 years ago and went for a decent specification for the time; its 3.0 GHz with an intel i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB hardrive.

I now want to use my MBP for work, so need to install Windows on Bootcamp. To make the best use of the laptop and all the hardcore programmes i want to run in windows, i want to upgrade certain things, but not sure if i can or not...

Can anyone answer the following?

1) Can i upgrade my 256GB SSD to 1TB SSD?

2) Can i upgrade the RAM at all?

3) Can the new "force touch" trackpad be installed retrospectively?

4) is there any other hardware that can be upgraded? (graphics card, etc..)

Thanks for the help!

⟐ Answered November 09, 2016 at 4:18 MST

⟐ Commented June 11, 2019 at 18:31 MST

I'm assuming I need to replace the entire display, but thought I'd pose this question just in case I could save a couple hundred bucks.

⟐ Answer edited May 24, 2017 at 13:55 MST

It is worth noting that the unit got exposed to minor liquid spill, specifically cough syrup. Not aware of the quantity but few of the keyboard buttons are a little sticky but when I started working on the unit, everything worked fine except for the Trackpad, which seemed to occasionally seize to operate. Also there are no visible traces of liquid damage on the logic board itself (considering cough syrup should leave visible trace)

Anything I might be missing here ?

@captainsnowball

I appreciate your reply. I do realize that liquid damage to circuit boards can result in an unexpected behaviour in functionality but since the computer has been working fine for months after the spill I still find it a bit suspicious that after I disassemble the unit to replace the Trackpad, this problem arises. I'm still curious to swap the new pad for the old one again to see if the battery will start charging again :) ... I remember one time I was dust cleaning a desktop that had the main logic board totally covered with about 1/4 of an inch of dust that I could just take of with my hands in one piece!..... That board never powered back on :P ... like the dust kept the flow of electrons steady lol!

@danj

Thanks Dan, to be honest I hadn't checked the contacts but did so after reading your comment. Contacts were clean and I even gently cleaned them with rubbing alcohol just in case :) ... still no luck

⟐ Answer edited August 26, 2019 at 17:41 MST

⟐ Answer accepted April 26, 2022 at 16:04 MST

I am trying to fix my trackpad not clicking anymore on a refurbished macbook pro 13" retina early 2013. I opened it up without any problem, but I can't seem to find the right screwdriver to unscrew the trackpad's height adjustment screw; a TR6 seem slightly too small and a TR7 too big. Do I need a special tool?

You can see the culprit in this picture, next to the thumb:

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/ig...

⟐ Commented December 02, 2020 at 6:25 MST

Latest steps to replicate issue, consistently:

1. Failure to boot up post shutdown/sleep/close lid.
2. Initiate force shut down by holding power button down.
3. Power up with power button again. Fans will run at full speed. MacBook can be used this way but it runs at full speed constantly.
4. Not wanting to use the computer this way, I force shut down by holding power button down. And then reset SMC by holding CTRL+OPT+SHIFT+POWER buttons down for 10 seconds.
5. Power up with power button again. Fans run at normal speed. At this point if the MacBook goes back into state #1 (i.e. shutdown/sleep/close lid), I won’t be able to “power up” again. I’ll then continue with step #2.

Troubleshooting Summary:

1. Replaced DC-in, ok.

2. Wall socket checked out, ok.

3. Clean installation of latest OS, ok.

4. Charger using original one that came with my MacBook, ok.

Please help!

⟐ Answered September 01, 2020 at 20:36 MST

I already opened the machine back up to reseat the battery connector but not luck.

Can someone please suggest things to try?

Thanks

⟐ Commented May 07, 2020 at 6:02 MST

For some reason, the late 2013, mid 2014 models can go as low as $300 used but I cannot find any one specifically for the early 2015 model less than $700.

Can someone tell me if these are compatible I haven't found anything on the subject.

⟐ Answered February 14, 2019 at 17:44 MST

⟐ Answer accepted August 02, 2015 at 9:41 MST

⟐ Answered April 30, 2015 at 20:54 MST

Need help my MacBook Pro keeps rebooting with a kernel panic.

I have tried as much as I can boot in safe mode repairing disk in disk utility from the recovery partition.

I did try to reinstall the OS but it kept kernel panicking when it was downloading.

I have managed to copy & paste the kernel panic report into a note so I can post it if anyone knows how to decipher it.

Most annoying thing is warranty expired in feb & due to family stuff I didn't have the money to take AppleCare.

Help please

⟐ Commented December 30, 2014 at 5:05 MST

Laptop only boots when you do this:

• Unplug power
• Hold power button down
• Connect reconnect power

After a few seconds it will chime, then let go of power button

Note it will run with fans at 100% the whole time. Also battery is dead, so if you unplug power, it will shut down. I found this tip on here on iFixIt.

Not sure what is wrong with the laptop, had previously thought it was dead and unable to boot, but it can when you do the above. I have tried SMC and PRAM resets to no avail.

⟐ Answer edited May 29, 2023 at 8:48 MST

Thanks!

⟐ Commented December 07, 2022 at 3:35 MST

I reinstalled the operating system through recovery, but it still boots to a black screen with white rectangles and a mouse cursor.

I thought this might be a GPU issue, but it does boot up into recovery and that works perfectly fine, and even when it boots into the OS and displays rectangles, it still displays the mouse cursor (and lets me move it around).

It also takes an abnormally long time to boot up, over 10 minutes before it boots to the black screen with rectangles.

While I was writing this, the computer booted up to a different screen, this time a white background and a black box in the top left.

The mouse cursor disappeared after I clicked on one of the black boxes, but it came back after a few minutes.

After a few minutes the screen returned to the black screen with white rectangles.

Update with image of display working in recovery:

Update 2: Well, I tried booting in Safe Mode, and Safe Mode works? I'm really not sure why.

⟐ Commented March 28, 2022 at 8:29 MST

I just replaced my battery on my MacBook, with a new one, kit from IFIXIT

Battery works fine, lovely kit to do the replacement.

But now it says that the battery manufacture date is 2012-10-24.......

Thats even older than my original! I just replaced.

Can this date be changed?

Regards

Henrik

⟐ Answer accepted June 29, 2019 at 18:54 MST

so I bought a replacement battery here and i switched and everything was ok for a few hours, then, after calibrating, reseting nvram and the smc, coconut battery is giving me weird reading.

Just when I installed the battery, the design capacity was at 100% as it should be, but after only 2 cycles in, and all the calibration and reseting, coconut battery is telling me the battery’s design capacity is at 89%.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? what’s going on? again this is a fresh batty from fixit and I did calibrate it twice, that’s the 2 charge cycles the battery has right now. I can always try again but this seems weird and I don’t know if its normal and it’ll stabilize later or if this battery is defective. Ill attach some screenshots from coconut battery.

Thanks!

⟐ Answer accepted June 02, 2019 at 7:29 MST