Hello,
For some background, my MBP (13" Early 2011) running macOS High Sierra suddenly stopped charging after I drained it to 0%. When i plugged it in to turn it on, the battery icon stayed at a constant 0% even after charging it overnight. This prompted me to replace the battery due to the message: "Condition: Replace now," which was why I thought that the battery was dead and refusing to charge. After replacing the battery, I left it to charge for a few hours. At that point, the charger lit up orange whereas previously it was only green. When i came back, I was surprised to find that it had only charged from 19% (amount of charge that came with the replacement battery) to 23% with the message: "battery not charging, power source: power adapter." Many SMC and PRAM resets later, checking if the issue still persists in safe boot and recovery mode, discharging the battery until the macbook goes to sleep then trying to charge it, trying another power adapter, and cleaning out the magsafe connections, it still displays the same behavior but now stuck on 2%. This continued until the time I started writing this post, when the light on the magsafe connector suddenly turned orange and the battery menu displaying either: "0:XX Until Full, Power Source: Power Adapter," where the time was between 0:10 to 0:20, (which I found odd as that seems a little too fast to charge it fully) or "Calculating Time Until Full... Power Source: Power Adapter," which it is still stuck on until now, with the battery level still at 2%.
Now I'm wondering if this is a hardware or software problem but I haven't gone forward with trying a fresh install of macOS to try and rule out any possible causes or even fix the issue altogether as it would be pretty tedious to copy all my important files and setup everything again.
Is there anything else I should try that might resolve the issue or should I just wipe everything and go for a fresh install? I'll be sure to update you guys with anything that happens.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: As I'm right about to post this, the battery message has gone back to: "Battery not charging, Power Source: Power Adapter" for a short while then switching to: "More than 10 Hours," power source still the same. The magsafe charger switched from orange to green for a minute, then switched back to orange. According to the system information window, the charge remaining on the battery has increased from 129 mAh to 133 mAh in the last ~20 mins.
For some background, my MBP (13" Early 2011) running macOS High Sierra suddenly stopped charging after I drained it to 0%. When i plugged it in to turn it on, the battery icon stayed at a constant 0% even after charging it overnight. This prompted me to replace the battery due to the message: "Condition: Replace now," which was why I thought that the battery was dead and refusing to charge. After replacing the battery, I left it to charge for a few hours. At that point, the charger lit up orange whereas previously it was only green. When i came back, I was surprised to find that it had only charged from 19% (amount of charge that came with the replacement battery) to 23% with the message: "battery not charging, power source: power adapter." Many SMC and PRAM resets later, checking if the issue still persists in safe boot and recovery mode, discharging the battery until the macbook goes to sleep then trying to charge it, trying another power adapter, and cleaning out the magsafe connections, it still displays the same behavior but now stuck on 2%. This continued until the time I started writing this post, when the light on the magsafe connector suddenly turned orange and the battery menu displaying either: "0:XX Until Full, Power Source: Power Adapter," where the time was between 0:10 to 0:20, (which I found odd as that seems a little too fast to charge it fully) or "Calculating Time Until Full... Power Source: Power Adapter," which it is still stuck on until now, with the battery level still at 2%.
Now I'm wondering if this is a hardware or software problem but I haven't gone forward with trying a fresh install of macOS to try and rule out any possible causes or even fix the issue altogether as it would be pretty tedious to copy all my important files and setup everything again.
Is there anything else I should try that might resolve the issue or should I just wipe everything and go for a fresh install? I'll be sure to update you guys with anything that happens.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: As I'm right about to post this, the battery message has gone back to: "Battery not charging, Power Source: Power Adapter" for a short while then switching to: "More than 10 Hours," power source still the same. The magsafe charger switched from orange to green for a minute, then switched back to orange. According to the system information window, the charge remaining on the battery has increased from 129 mAh to 133 mAh in the last ~20 mins.
