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I have a A1286 2.66GHz 15" Unibody MacBook Pro (Mid-2010). While replacing the battery, I guess I seated the connector at a bit of an angle, and I severely bent the right-most pin (#9). I tried to straighten it with a couple of screwdrivers (and did get it to stand upright again), but since the pin had folded over onto itself, there’s a weak spot in the middle that causes it to bend again if I try to plug in a battery. I took it to Apple, and (of course) they say I need a new logic board. I’m not so sure… I found a diagram in another thread on this site that says the battery pinout is as follows: 1 +12V 2 +12V 3 +12V 4 SMBUS_SMC_BSA_SCL 5 SYS_DETECT_L 6 SMBUS_SMC_BSA_SDA 7 GND 8 GND 9 GND Assuming this is correct, the one I bent is a ground pin. Now, on to my questions:

  1. Could I simply break the pin off and plug in the battery with only 8 pins connected? It’s one of 3 ground pins, and I’m thinking there might be some redundancy there.
  2. If No to #1, would it be possible to harvest a battery connector (I’ll make sure it’s the same connector) from another MBP logic board and solder it onto mine? I don’t have experience soldering, but since Apple says the logic board is shot anyway, I’m willing to try. Side question: Will the laptop work under wall power with the battery removed? I’m guessing so, but I haven’t tried to boot it up yet and don’t want to damage anything. Thanks in advance for your help!

Apple are retards as usual, replacing a board because of a THROUGH HOLE SOLDERED CONNECTOR! Just use tweezers to bend the pin back on the weak point. If it breaks it is just a ground pin so who cares, there are other ground pins anyway. You could always cut open the wire that goes to the damaged pin and attach it to another wire that is ground, and then wrap it in something. Anything other than follow Apple’s advice, which, as usual, is complete