Can't get my head around this one, but my old Macbook (early 2009, white) battery was on it's last legs, I couldn't afford a 'real' replacement so I went for one the cheaper ones (don't shoot me, I'm poor) - usually I have no trouble with these.
The weirdness is that I put in the new one, charged it up fully, switched on, and suddenly I have no way to control the cursor or ability to click anything. At one point it was stuck on dragging and wouldn't deselect. I plugged in a mouse, no change. Several restarts. I attempted to adjust trackpad settings but due to the nature of the issue I was having, couldn't select or deselect anything. It'd open a window but not allow me to click anything or to close it and so on.
Eventually I put the old ('replace soon') battery back in and it all went back to normal, which is how I'm able to write this post.
Anyone come across this before? I've seen mention of a swollen battery affecting the trackpad, but that isn't the case here, the battery is new...
The weirdness is that I put in the new one, charged it up fully, switched on, and suddenly I have no way to control the cursor or ability to click anything. At one point it was stuck on dragging and wouldn't deselect. I plugged in a mouse, no change. Several restarts. I attempted to adjust trackpad settings but due to the nature of the issue I was having, couldn't select or deselect anything. It'd open a window but not allow me to click anything or to close it and so on.
Eventually I put the old ('replace soon') battery back in and it all went back to normal, which is how I'm able to write this post.
Anyone come across this before? I've seen mention of a swollen battery affecting the trackpad, but that isn't the case here, the battery is new...