MacBook Unibody (A1278) Replacement Battery

Sorunum

Old battery (original) had gotten swollen (interfered with trackpad) and it didn't hold a charge.

Tamirim

I opened the back (push on the simple lever/tab, pull off the panel) and inserted the new battery. I replaced the panel and it was done. Easy!

Battery was partly charged. I let it charge fully overnight without using the laptop.

I've been using the laptop daily for a few days and everything seems to working just fine.

Önerim

Just make sure the battery type matches your laptop model.

Sorunum

My cat walked on my Mac-book and it crashed on the floor.

The screen broke in the meddle and the Apple store didn't want to repair it because too old (for them).

Tamirim

I fixed it easily following the photo-sequence of iFixit web site,

However I suggest two improvements:

1. It's not necessary to use the Heating device and the suction cups, the screen can be removed with your plastic tool.

2. Be more SPECIFIC and CLEAR when describing how to remove cables: they are very fragile and a wrong movement may distroy them.

Önerim

Thank you. It works!

Sorunum

My battery was dying. After 6 years of loyal service.

Tamirim

So easy. The early MacBook made it easy for the battery to be replaced. Happy and I think this MacBook can last me one or two more years. Time to start saving up for the next one =)

Önerim

Take care of your electronics equipment (name it!). It'll save you money and it'll give you happiness.

Sorunum

My Macbook unibody alu, late 2008, has a good 6 year on the back. A few years ago, i changes the HDD and screen unit, since it was going bad. Now the fan was started to sound like a jet engine and it was running slow, plus the battery only lasted an our.

Tamirim

I Ordered a new SSD, plus a dummy for my Superdrive, so I could installe the SSD there, the SATA keep the spot for easy instalation. Only trouble was the DUMMY install, The fan was easy enough to change.

Önerim

Instead of buying the dummy switch, would i rather just do the SSD, witch gave a lot of speed, the extra RAM helps doing hard task i FInalcut, Adobe otherwize hard to tell. The battery has doubleed in effectiveness, so wait with the change of that. Nice guide buy I fix it. And when im richer will i change the HDD on my Imac to SDD aswell, its really does a lot!!

Sorunum

Basically, because I was bored with the old system so I upgraded everything and I finally had the time - literally jumped from snow leopard to yosemite! It started with installing higher ram then figured out it was easy enough to install not just a new hard drive but a dual one. Thanks to you guys with your clear cut instructions it made everything possible.

Tamirim

Everything went well. My only problem was I found a stripped screw in the primary hard drive slot panel and I don't know how to fix that. It must have happened from the last time I installed a new hard drive to replace the old one. Now I can't put an SSD in there so I just placed the SSD into the optical drive bay instead. The actual repair only took me less then an hour ( I'm a beginner at this). Installing the OS X took longer :)

Önerim

If you feel like you can do it , you can.

Sorunum

Cracked screen of course

Tamirim

The repair went well all the way until I tried to use the home button on the new display assembly only to find that it wouldn't depress, which made me depressed.

So I opened it up and the button would depress. Clicked it back in and it would work with needing to be depressed, but when I put the two case screws in it stopped working again.

So I took the Home button of the old assembly and put in on the new, reassembled and it worked! And now I'm the only person I know with a phone that matches any Tux (black assembly, white home button).

Önerim

I found the best way to remove the home button ribbon cable was with a razor blade or box cutter. Gotta be careful that the blade is aimed slightly down toward the display assembly and not up into the cable. Start in the middle between the two contacts, take one contact off, then the other. It's a strong adhesive for a delicate cable, but if you cut through the glue, you're home free. Or free of home (button).