Hello, I have a macbook 6.1 (late 2009) and recently the metal part of the L shaped magsafe fell off.
It happened before so it was not big news for me, I had it glued back with a quick dry very strong logo and it was fine for some time.
Now I did it again, ofc I cleared any remains from the glue and put everything in place
The problem is that now the magsafe didn't fit, like the metal was shorter or something, and when I was pluging in the charger the screen lit but the battery didn't charge (Neither discharge) and the led was a faint green one) so I broke the plastic there (don't freak out, it was already glued there, I dropped the laptop on this side once but without the charger in so the hit was on the plastic shell only) and it did fitted. But still the same thing happens, dim green light, the battery reports no charging but the laptop take power to work.
I turned it off when I was trying to figure out why the magsafe doesn't fit and I left it a bit with the faint green magsafe on, it got 1% of power while I opened again and when I shut down to reset SMC (didn't reset at once, left it for a couple of minutes to do something else) when I returned it was up from 5% to 6%.
System information reported that the battery had 167 mAh at 6% and while I was writing this post here it went up another 1% to 7% (and sys info reported that as well, it got at 239mAh.)
So it seems that it is charging very very slowly.
Now I don't mind if it is charging very slowly, but I'm afraid that this situation may cause some damage in the long run.
Getting it on an apple store is not an option as we don't have here in Greece so I have to go to an authorized repair shop which at the moment is pretty far away from me.
Is there anything I could do myself to fix that situation?
It happened before so it was not big news for me, I had it glued back with a quick dry very strong logo and it was fine for some time.
Now I did it again, ofc I cleared any remains from the glue and put everything in place
The problem is that now the magsafe didn't fit, like the metal was shorter or something, and when I was pluging in the charger the screen lit but the battery didn't charge (Neither discharge) and the led was a faint green one) so I broke the plastic there (don't freak out, it was already glued there, I dropped the laptop on this side once but without the charger in so the hit was on the plastic shell only) and it did fitted. But still the same thing happens, dim green light, the battery reports no charging but the laptop take power to work.
I turned it off when I was trying to figure out why the magsafe doesn't fit and I left it a bit with the faint green magsafe on, it got 1% of power while I opened again and when I shut down to reset SMC (didn't reset at once, left it for a couple of minutes to do something else) when I returned it was up from 5% to 6%.
System information reported that the battery had 167 mAh at 6% and while I was writing this post here it went up another 1% to 7% (and sys info reported that as well, it got at 239mAh.)
So it seems that it is charging very very slowly.
Now I don't mind if it is charging very slowly, but I'm afraid that this situation may cause some damage in the long run.
Getting it on an apple store is not an option as we don't have here in Greece so I have to go to an authorized repair shop which at the moment is pretty far away from me.
Is there anything I could do myself to fix that situation?
