MacBook Pro A1708 Charger stuck at 5V instead of 20V repair: Difference between revisions

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==Problem description==
==Problem description==
Charging voltage from USB-C charger is stuck at 5V instead of 20V.
Charging voltage from USB-C charger is stuck at 5V instead of 20V.

Revision as of 09:41, 27 October 2023

MacBook Pro A1708 Charger stuck at 5V instead of 20V repair
Device MacBook Pro A1708
Affects part(s) Motherboard
Needs equipment multimeter, soldering iron, soldering station, thermal camera
Difficulty ◉◉◉◌ Hard
Type Soldering, Micro-Soldering"Micro-Soldering" is not in the list (Soldering, Teardown, Part replacement, Cleaning, Software, BGA, General) of allowed values for the "Repair Guide type" property.


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Problem description

Charging voltage from USB-C charger is stuck at 5V instead of 20V.

For more information about this problem, check Charger stuck at 5V instead of 20V on MacBooks

Example image (Figure 1) -- No image yet. Help expand this page by uploading it!

Symptoms

  • Not charging
  • Most likely not turning on
  • Drawing very little current

Solution

  • If 5 V and 0.00 A draw, most likely a 0–1 Ω short to ground on PP3V3_G3H
  • PP3V3_G3H missing due to a short circuit on the input to PP3V3_G3H creation circuit

Example video (board taking 35 mA, 160 Ω short on PPVIN_G3H_P3V3G3H (input PP3V3_G3H creation circuit), fixed by replacing 3 capacitors and 1 diode)

  • 5 V varying slightly around 0.05 A, repaired by reflowing with hot air and flux U2800 (TBT ALPINE RIDGE chip) and components around through the aluminium enclosure
  • Corroded LDO capacitor for PP3V3_G3H around a CD3215
  • PP3V3_G3H missing due to PM_EN_P3V3_G3H missing due to bad ISL9239

Example video (device not turning on, charger taking 0 mA)

  • Bad CD3215
  • Bad CD3215 ROM chip (U2890)
  • Bad solder of R3000 or R3001 resistor (not passing PP3V3_G3H through to one of the CD3215s)
  • Bad / dead ISL9239 — it needs to make the enable for the 3.3 V regulator (U6990), PM_EN_P3V3_G3H
  • Bad / dead SMC — it needs to talk to the CD3215s to tell them to go to 20 V
  • Bad pi3usb32 (USB switch, not present on boardview, located next to usb ports)

Example video (PP3V3_G3H 0.3 V, resistance to ground measured as 380 kΩ, active short caused by pi3usb32, found by using thermal camera)