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Omg pulled the Plastic Tab off the battery!!

sukanas

sukanas

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Nov 15, 2007
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i was trying to do a SMC reset so therefore i was going to have to pull out the battery..

well for some reason i couldnt get the battery to come out!! i tried pulling it at various angle and it wouldnt work! and yeah.. the plastic tab came off

do you think apple will fix this? or is it still possible to take the battery out w/out the tab?
 
wow why couldnt apple mention this

i found out what it was.. the problem was that the latch was still in
the latch as to be 'open' inorder to unlock the thing locking the battery in place...

thanks apple for making me pull off my tab.. now my mbp is inferior
 
sukanas said:
wow why couldnt apple mention this

i found out what it was.. the problem was that the latch was still in
the latch as to be 'open' inorder to unlock the thing locking the battery in place...

thanks apple for making me pull off my tab.. now my mbp is inferior
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Oh well... don't worry about the plastic film thing, it's only a plastic film thing, doesn't and shouldn't affect the operations of the physical machine... so you warranty should be safe, at least!
 
rychencop said:
how exactly did apple "make" you pull the tab off? you screwed up, now deal with it.
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lol im not genuinely pissed off or anything
i just wish i knew about the latch locking the battery

oh well, its not like it affects the performance or anything so im fine
 
Same thing happened to me, except I didn't force it. I kind of figured it shouldn't be this hard, took a sec to look at it and realized (about the latch). So I still got a plastic tab :p
 
I did the same thing this week on my new MBP. Realized after the fact I forgot to flip the latch.

My fix
Flip the latch and use a screw driver to gently flip out the battery.
 
rychencop said:
how exactly did apple "make" you pull the tab off? you screwed up, now deal with it.
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Why do people say things like this?

I understand the original poster expressing frustration at Apple's confusing instructions for removing the battery; it is not made abundantly clear that the latch which removes the battery case also needs to be flipped to remove the battery itself. I too pulled off my battery's plastic tab, and had trouble figuring out why my dang battery was so hard to get out.

You could say it's because I "screwed up," I guess... but that's not very helpful. I thought I was following the instructions, but in fact I wasn't, which may mean the instructions are not very clear.

(I know this is an old thread, but it was the first hit to solve my problem)
 
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nelsonroehl said:
Why do people say things like this?

I understand the original poster expressing frustration at Apple's confusing instructions for removing the battery; it is not made abundantly clear that the latch which removes the battery case also needs to be flipped to remove the battery itself. I too pulled off my battery's plastic tab, and had trouble figuring out why my dang battery was so hard to get out.

You could say it's because I "screwed up," I guess... but that's not very helpful. I thought I was following the instructions, but in fact I wasn't, which may mean the instructions are not very clear.

(I know this is an old thread, but it was the first hit to solve my problem)
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A lot of people lurking here have a chip on their shoulder or a superiority (read: intellectual) complex.
 
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