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Guys, I have a problem that I don't know how to search for a solution to. My MBP11,4 battery charging circuitry is not working well. When it is plugged into the mains, the battery shows connected, but not charging. And it eventually drains to the end. I thought it was within the battery, but I found out it is not, because I bought a new battery (not original) for the equivalent of $70 (a lot of money in these parts), only to find the problem still there. I would appreciate any help, preferably to point me to where to look. The problem started when I went from Sonoma 14.0 to !4.1. I searched all of MacRumors but couldn't find anything, and none in this thread. Thank you

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I called a friend who fixes computers, and described the problem to him. He thinks it's the charging circuit on the Logic Board. Now to find a logic board to buy here. Sigh.
 
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olad said:
Guys, I have a problem that I don't know how to search for a solution to. My MBP11,4 battery charging circuitry is not working well. When it is plugged into the mains, the battery shows connected, but not charging. And it eventually drains to the end. I thought it was within the battery, but I found out it is not, because I bought a new battery (not original) for the equivalent of $70 (a lot of money in these parts), only to find the problem still there. I would appreciate any help, preferably to point me to where to look. The problem started when I went from Sonoma 14.0 to !4.1. I searched all of MacRumors but couldn't find anything, and none in this thread. Thank you
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Did you cross check using another macOS release? Just to rule out any other hardware problem. A supported version would be optimal.
 
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kucyk said:
Thanks! I'm actually on Ventura, have wired keyboard and I'm aware about the system being slow before patches are applied. I just hit that bug with flickering screen on v1 last time and was dreading to try Sonoma again.

Why would I need a USB hub? Can't I just have my keyboard plugged in to the USB port?
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Anyone running Sonoma on iMac15,1 (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) with AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2 GB?

I tried OCLP v.1.0 with Sonoma and the screen was flickering every 3 seconds or so and I had to reinstall everything, now I'm scared to try again 😅
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Jepp running fine with OCLP 1.2.1 Release and 14.1.1 Final 👍🏻
 
Anyone else facing issues with Recovery mode? If I select it in the OC boot picker, I just get a black screen. Using OCLP 1.2.0 and macOS Sonoma 14.1.1.
 
jshayya0184 said:
Anyone else facing issues with Recovery mode? If I select it in the OC boot picker, I just get a black screen. Using OCLP 1.2.0 and macOS Sonoma 14.1.1.
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All of 14.1.1 and 14.2 beta 2 and 13.6.3 beta seem to break recovery booting on unsupported Macs. Do not know if this happens on supported (Intel) Macs, too.
Had to use an Monterey USB installer to get a working recovery environment. At least you know now why we strongly recommend to keep a properly working USB installer.
 
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olad said:
I called a friend who fixes computers, and described the problem to him. He thinks it's the charging circuit on the Logic Board. Now to find a logic board to buy here. Sigh.
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1. Checking that there is no junk in the charger socket and cleaning with isopropanol and a toothbrush sometimes helps. Make sure the little spring action is not dead on any of the pins. More isopropanol and some pressing with a blunt plastic tool might help then.
2. Can you borrow a Magsafe charger from a friend and check that?
If that is the case you can fairly easily replace the cable on the magsafe charger, There are cheap ones on eBay
and how-to videos on Youtube.
If that fixes it, charge the new battery to 100% and then put it on a shelf and put the old battery back in for another year or whatever. So your money on the new battery is not wasted.
Good luck.
 
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houser said:
1. Checking that there is no junk in the charger socket and cleaning with isopropanol and a toothbrush sometimes helps. Make sure the little spring action is not dead on any of the pins. More isopropanol and some pressing with a blunt plastic tool might help then.
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Did that.
houser said:
2. Can you borrow a Magsafe charger from a friend and check that?
If that is the case you can fairly easily replace the cable on the magsafe charger, There are cheap ones on eBay
and how-to videos on Youtube.
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MagSafe charger is practically brand-new; see below.
houser said:
If that fixes it, charge the new battery to 100% and then put it on a shelf and put the old battery back in for another year or whatever. So your money on the new battery is not wasted.
Good luck.
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Last piece of advice much, much appreciated. I will do that.
Funnily enough, yesterday, when I left the laptop on charge overnight (with the new battery), it woke up in the night and charged the battery to 100% (as you recommended above). But I wanted to use the charge to finish the update to 14.2 beta 2 this morning. No dice - Beta 1 went into a loop downloading the 12 gb of the update - never finishing it! So I am charging the battery now, and tonight, I will take it out and put the old one back and use that. As @Ausdauersportler recommended, I will revert to an older macOS that worked - either Monterey or even Ventura (I shudder at going back to BigSur...). I am lucky I have another laptop to use.

Thank you for weighing in.
 
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Updated to OCLP 1.1.0 Release last night and checking Photos/People just now it still hasn't improved. No crashing just random photos. This is on Sonoma 14.1 RC (23B73) on my iMac late 2012 13,2.
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For me its exactly the same:
First, no scanning/detection... than, after a couple of days (left my MBP 11,3 running over night with photos app running) mixing all the people(faces)... I thought only I have this problem...
than i restored a complete PhotosLibrary (250GB) Backup from TimeMachine.
But now only the faces I marked up are shown on the pictures. And when I import new photos face detection (photoanalysisd) still isn't running/working...
Don't know if this is a OSX Sonoma or OCLP problem...

(14.1 ; OCLP 1.2 ; MacBookPro 11,3)
 
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I updated to 14.2b2 and ran into the login loop. My OCLP version is 1.2.1. I tried to fix it, but had to resort to a full backup from migration assistant. Now I'm running 1.2.1 on 14.1 (23B74). I thought I was the only one with this login loop issue, but just a word of caution, I guess it's real.
 
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roysterdoyster said:
MBP4,1 Early 2008, 6GB RAM, running Ventura 13.6.1.
Q: Is Sonoma 14.1.1 working on this machine?
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Read the first 6 spoilers, under Post #1, of this thread and please let us know what you learn about whether Sonoma 14.1.1 will work on a MBP4,1 Early 2008, 6GB RAM, running Ventura 13.6.1

Thank you
 
olad said:
Guys, I have a problem that I don't know how to search for a solution to. My MBP11,4 battery charging circuitry is not working well. When it is plugged into the mains, the battery shows connected, but not charging. And it eventually drains to the end. I thought it was within the battery, but I found out it is not, because I bought a new battery (not original) for the equivalent of $70 (a lot of money in these parts), only to find the problem still there. I would appreciate any help, preferably to point me to where to look. The problem started when I went from Sonoma 14.0 to !4.1. I searched all of MacRumors but couldn't find anything, and none in this thread. Thank you

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I called a friend who fixes computers, and described the problem to him. He thinks it's the charging circuit on the Logic Board. Now to find a logic board to buy here. Sigh.
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I updated to 14.2b2 and ran into the login loop. My OCLP version is 1.2.1. I tried to fix it, but had to resort to a full backup from migration assistant. Now I'm running 1.2.1 on 14.1 (23B74). I thought I was the only one with this login loop issue, but just a word of caution, I guess it's real.
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Why migration assistant? Full usb installer 14,2 b1 over the broken volume and everything is back.
 
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coolio2004 said:
Why migration assistant? Full usb installer 14,2 b1 over the broken volume and everything is back.
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I used a usb installer to re-install 14.1. But of course when trying to re-image via a time machine backup, that doesn't work from recovery and you must install and boot into macOS to get to your time machine backup, using migration assistant.
 
For those that have the login loop, You will be logged off when you quit the Windowserver process in Activity
Monitor.
Thus, you get a login loop when WindowServer crashes upon login.

Here's the output of the loop on my 2012 Mac Mini:

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