Hall Effect Sensor Questions
Hey guys,
I’ve got an early 2015 Macbook Pro 13” that is randomly going to sleep. I took it to the Apple store in Syracuse NY and after installing a clean version of Catalina they did a display and LCD replacement for free (the guy working with me is really chill and I think that he did it for the kicks for a free screen.).
They told me that the next step would be to replace the top case. I really have no idea how that is suppose to help but they said it would cost $475 so I walked on that deal.
I did a good amount of research and I have good reason to believe that it is the hall sensor going bad or something. So I took it to a local repair shop and they said they would look at it and tell me how much it would cost. After a whole work week they finally got back to me telling me that it was soldered onto the board and they couldn’t do anything for me besides replace the logic board.
I went to the store while they had it open to see what it looked like. Turns out they never actually took the logic board out so they never actually saw the hall sensor and they refused to take the logic board out because they said that to get it out they would have to take everything else out, like the battery, fan, and what ever else, which I’m going to hit X to doubt that.
So I took it home and I’m thinking I’ll just do the repair myself. I’ve been working on computers since I was 12 so it’s not completely out of my league. Through all of my research it seems to me that it cannot be that hard to replace because it does not look to me like it is soldered to the board, granted as of writing this I have not seen it in person.
That is all to say, is the hall sensor soldered to the board or just connected to it?
EDIT:
Here’s the screen shots from Coconutbattery the first one is with charger the second is without.
EDIT 2:
So I took it do a guy who happened to have a 2015 MacBook Pro 13” around that he could take apart and confirmed that the PCB is glued to the logic board and that the only way to repair it is to unsolder the IC itself and to replace that. I think that I’ll go to iPad Rehab who happens to be actually pretty close to where I live. Here are the photos I took, little did you guys know i’m actually a photographer.
Ist dies eine gute Frage?
4 Kommentare
@oldturkey03 @danj Hey guys, I updated the original post with photos of it.
von William Ewart
@waspenatorjr always good to let somebody else take a look at it. Again, according to the schematic there should be a connector under the sensor. Good repair shop will of course figure out how to replace it.
von oldturkey03
@oldturkey03 Where on the board are you looking on the schematic? I thought I had the hall sensor pinned to be what is pictured but it definitely does not come off without being desoldered. The board that was photographed was also a 2015 13" MBP but was a dead board so the guy actually pried at it with tweezers and it definitely was glued to the main board.
von William Ewart
I am looking at the schematic which refers to it as the J5250 connector. Not saying that it isn't glued into it. Soldering that beast would definitely be a tough job even for Apple. So, if it is not plugged in, it will be glued but most likely not glued directly to the board.
von oldturkey03