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Hello. My battery says it is not charging. The green light on the charger is on basically all the time. Sometimes it turns orange for a short while, particularly when the laptop is off, or just after it has turned on, but the battery hardly increases in charge and it always reverts to being green even when the battery is not charged. It is currently plugged in and on, and it is discharging (battery level is decreasing) . Coconut battery normally reports it as charging with between 0.5 and 2.5 watts. I have tried: Resetting the SMC by disconnecting the battery and holding the power button down for a while and this didn’t help. Replacing the battery with a brand new one (bought from ). I Replacing the 85W magsafe charger (bought direct from Apple). Replacing the magsafe DC-in board (bought from this site). It still behaves the same…! Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance! EDIT: Added pictures from coconut battery
EDIT2: pictures of logic board
EDIT3: images of a fried component on underside of logic board
EDIT4: image of cleaned splodge of unidentified matter on logic board
Well… Whatever is on your logic board its not part of it! Here’s a boardview of the area with the components laid out. You’ll need to clean it off carefully so as not to disturb the SMT devices.
