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TheRdungeon

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 21, 2011
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Hi guys, got a kinda strange one here that I can't figure out. It's a 2011 15", recently it will only run on the power adaptor, as soon as I pull the plug out it will switch off. However, the battery health is showing as fine. I replaced the battery last year (official apple wasn't available, so had to use some third party option) so I'm thinking that is probably OK. I bought a brand new official charger last week, but that hasn't helped. I'm thinking I may need to replace the charging port? It's looking a little charred on both the outer pins.

I understand this is normally a battery issue, but based off the above info do you think the charging port change could be a goer? Any help appreciated
[doublepost=1542400052][/doublepost]Also I have reset SMC and things like that. It's got me a bit stumped
 
For anyone needing help in the future - this turned out to be that third party battery. I swapped the entire logic board of a 2012 into this machine and it only fired up when I also swapped the battery...
 
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