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  1. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012, Boîtier inférieur: étape 1, image 1 de 1
    • Retirez les dix vis suivantes :

    • Trois vis Phillips #00 14,4 mm

    • Trois vis Phillips #00 3,5 mm

    • Quatre vis à épaulement Phillips #00 3,5 mm

    • Quand vous replacerez les petites vis, alignez-les perpendiculairement à la légère courbe de la coque (elles ne se vissent pas à la verticale).

    How much weight can I save by removing the optical drive?

    gunes314 - Réponse

    You can save a lot of weight if lets say your installing a solid state drive or putting in a second hard drive but if you know that you use the CD/DVD disc drive a lot then you might just want to leave the drive alone.

    Marshall WahlstromHelgren -

    Tip: Use one of those weekday pill holders to have a cheep way to store screws you remove and each day of the week can be for different sizes or parts. It has been handy to have (much less expensive than the magnetic mat.

    Robert Wacker - Réponse

    Hello, where can I buy the screws I need in case I lose one of them?

    taylornya - Réponse

    I have one stripped screw... How opening without drill it?! Any suggestions please?

    rodrigosady - Réponse

    I also stripped a couple screws. I wasn’t able to open it up without drilling. After drilling the heads and removing the cover it was easy to hacksaw the tip and unscrew with a standard driver.

    Michael Wilkens -

    My top tip - make sure you buy good quality Phillips screwdrivers and a magnetic holder. Cheap screwdrivers won’t get the screws undone safely. Without a magnetic holder you have no chance of getting the tiny crews in and out safely.

    jeremyyoung - Réponse

    A good Phillips 00 is your friend here. Also, when reinserting the screws, gently start anticlockwise and you wil feel a click at the start of the thread. This tells you you’re in the right place and less likely to cross-thread through force in the wrong place.

    Iain Boyd - Réponse

    I feel like these are 000 screws. Amazon sales describe them as such and my 000 screwdriver fits better

    cam2000deluxe -

    Before ordering a new Trackpad remove the existing battery and try clicking the Trackpad. If it clicks OK with the battery out the source of problem is likely a swollen battery, which should to be replaced even if it still works to some degree. From the side of the battery you will likely see the soft part of the battery bulging beyond the hard case.

    Patrick Langvardt - Réponse

    That’s absolutely correct as I can testify. With the battery removed I also adjusted the T6 set screw that adjusts the sensitivity of the trackpad click, evidently someone had cranked mine down tighter than the factory setting.

    Gary Register -

    Le quatrième paragraphe dans les instructions en français n’est pas correct : ce ne sont pas les 2 petites vis, mais les 7 petites vis qui sont inclinées. Et les 3 grandes sont bien verticales.

    Degeorges - Réponse

    Bonjour ! Merci de votre observation. J’ai corrigé la traduction. iFixit étant un wiki, n’hésitez pas à modifiez si vous remarquez une erreur :) Encore merci de votre attention et à bientôt !

    Claire Miesch -

    Tip: if you have a magnetic screw mat or similar, lay the macbook over the mat to make sure it catches any screws that may decide to fall of and hide under your table

    Moritz - Réponse

    Funny, it's not her hands that are doing the close ups. :)

    Cinemated Man - Réponse

    What's the difference between the shouldered and non shouldered screws? They look exactly the same to me.

    MLNLRD - Réponse

  2. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 2, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 2, image 2 de 2
    • Faites levier avec vos doigts au niveau de la fente pour sortir le boîtier inférieur de la coque du MacBook.

    • Retirez le boîtier inférieur.

  3. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012, Connexion de la batterie: étape 3, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012, Connexion de la batterie: étape 3, image 2 de 2
    • À l'aide de l'extrémité d'une spatule (spudger), faites levier sur le connecteur de la batterie pour le débrancher de la prise sur la carte mère.

    • Il convient d'appliquer l'effet de levier sur les deux côtés courts du connecteur. Faites attention aux coins des connecteurs, car ils se cassent facilement.

    Is this step of removing the battery connector required?

    manodh - Réponse

    yes - as with disassembly of any electronic component you have to remove any power source. You don't want to accidentally turn the Mac on

    khull -

    Prying the battery connector off does not take much force. I did exactly what the guide suggested (walked it off back and forth) with the spudger without any problems. Just be very gentle, much like with anything inside laptops, they are very fragile and need to be worked with carefully. A+ instructions, battery replacement was a success.

    aekinaka - Réponse

    Be patient on disconnecting this one. It worked for me step by step, little by little.

    Phil Wagner - Réponse

    I used the nails of thumb and pointer finger simultaneously - worked pretty fine

    Reinhard Kaune - Réponse

    I whittled down ends of two wooden strips to use, along with my fingernails to start with. I used halves of a wooden clothespin, but popsicle sticks should work too.

    Mike Baker - Réponse

  4. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 4, image 1 de 1
    • Repliez légèrement le câble de la batterie vers l'arrière pour éviter qu'il ne se reconnecte accidentellement à la prise sur la carte mère pendant que vous travaillez.

    I put some tape between the connector and socket while working on the drive.

    Stephen Smith - Réponse

    That's a good tip

    Anrothan -

    Great tip, I did that too

    Ahmed Mahran -

    One other note: The screw heads fit flush with the curvature of the case -- which means that they aren't exactly horizontal. In other words, they aren't perpendicular to the table that the computer is resting on. Don't try to force them straight in vertically, because you'll risk cross-threading them. (nearly ruined one screw hole myself!)

    lelandjordon - Réponse

    On my MacBook Pro, the connector seems to be an integral part of the battery.

    Jerry South - Réponse

    I suspect it’s just like the special screwdriver required for seatbelts on cars – to discourage regular consumers from attempting repairs. Of course, this only encourages consumers to use the wrong tool to attempt to repairs

    colleenthompson - Réponse

    Dissambling my MacBookPro Premium Mid 2012 (i5-3210M 2.5Ghz) was easily, Careful with the screws, use screwdriver fitting exactly with the screws, you damage them very fast. Work very exactly, relaxed with time, consentration, good Tools and with feelings in your hands. Disconnect the Akku was easy if you take care, remove it to be safe, Two screws more, more space to work & haven`t to think about damaging someting. Apple use diffrent screws, you should have many difffrent scewdrivers. It is also good to clean everything inside, With time everything gets very dusty & dirty, don`t forget the sides and little fittings at the case. Use a pinsel, alcohol, soft peace stuff, it will look like new. If you have knowledge & experience, you can paint it in any colour or airbrushing for individualizing. You can also just polish it with a soft Politure (Sonax car Polish No1, NOT with wax or take an other light Politure you familiar & can do the job, A Laptop should serviced once a year, keeping it good working over years

    Stefan Lindner - Réponse

    First thing i do is open & cleanig everything inside,specially the cooling & fan, renew the thermal paste with an high quality product. Install the Nain System, clean up Bloatware and other unnecessary things, install standard software for daily use, additional change system components against better one (Edge to Firefox, Windows Media Player to VLC , an Office Suite and configuring everything for Data Protection, Privacy- & Indentety Protection, install Drivers from the component Manufactur (incedible effect, disable limitations, more functions, work better & faster, increasing performance, additional change the WiFi & Bluetooth Card to a better one a UMTS WWAN to an LTE Card, increase RAM with two Dual-Channel working SODIMMs, Use M2 or 2,5" SSD if no M2 Slot aviable) as System- and Software iDrive, a FAT32 formatted 32GB Partition to be safe of metaviruses comes with harmless downloads, and a big 2,5 HDD to store the user data. What does you guys think about this? Old Computer become a new life,

    Stefan Lindner - Réponse

    I livein Austria, near Vienna, if someone needs help or anything else, i would be glad to help. I always searching old or broken devices to bring them to new live. I also searching for spare parts, specilly a Bottom & Side Case and a 256GB or higher NGFF Storage Card for a Sony Vaio Tab 11 SVT1144HE (2014), some 14,1" Displays for a HP Probook 440G5 (2016), Elitebook MT 43 Mobile Thin Client, (2011), Dell Vostro 3460 (2012) Lenovo Thinkpad T440s (2014), and a Logic Board for an Lenovo Ideapad 330-15ARR (2017, damaged by Water i think) and a Logic Bord for an Alienware 17R4 with i7-6870HX & Nvidia 1080 (2018, CPU dead, maybe there is a repair Guide or workaround to bring it back to Life). I need always 8GB or 16GB DDR3 and DDR4 RAM Storage (perfectly two ident one for Dual-Channel use for Laptops, M2 SATA 6GB/s and NVMe PCIe SSDs 500GB or more and 2,5"SSD or HDD with 1TB or more and 3,5" HDD with 4GB or above. If you have some of this or other useful parts and doesn`t need them, please make me an offer, maybe

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    Stefan Lindner - Réponse

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    Stefan Lindner - Réponse

  5. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012, Ensemble AirPort/Bluetooth: étape 5, image 1 de 1
    • Avec l'extrémité plate d'une spatule (spudger), soulevez le connecteur de la nappe AirPort/Bluetooth pour le débrancher de sa prise sur la carte mère.

    N.B! Thank you very much all you here on iFixit! Some IMPORTANT notes. Be very careful BEFORE prying the connectors up and down. They are very fragile and the picture could actually be seen as showing a bending loading in their weakest direction, AROUND its slender axis. The connector is slender and inserted on the logic board, so the gentle "walking" up and down should be done ALONG their slender direction and WITHOUT touching the adjacent connectors. If bending is done around its axis the soldering comes apart and the cable is done and gone. Just happened. These flat cables are one of the weakest design spots in my experience. They are a major time, money and geist consuming reason for malfunction like Wi-Fi connection problems, HDD, SSD not found internally but externally from USB issues et al being found on different forums. Thanks again and again.

    Greg - Réponse

  6. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 6, image 1 de 1
    • Tirez soigneusement la nappe de la caméra hors de sa prise sur la carte mère.

    • Tirez sur la nappe parallèlement à la surface de la carte mère. Tirer vers le haut peut endommager la carte mère ou la nappe même.

    Be extremely careful on step 6 with late 2011 model unibody macbooks! The cable is connected very tightly to the board and has a great chance of ripping if you just pull the cable.

    Tim Rauls - Réponse

    My cable is broken, have the part number or code to buy?

    VÍCTOR RIFFO - Réponse

    I found there was plenty of length in the camera cable (as it goes around two sides of the optical drive) so does not need to be disconnected - just ease it out of the slot alongside the drive and lay it diagonally across.

    Nic Blinston - Réponse

  7. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 7, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 7, image 2 de 2
    • Poussez soigneusement la nappe AirPort/Bluetooth de côté lorsque vous décollez la nappe de la caméra de la bande adhésive qui la fixe au caisson de basse et au support AirPort/Bluetooth.

    • Retirez la nappe de la caméra, placée sous un dispositif de retenue moulé dans le support AirPort/Bluetooth.

    Take a few phone close-ups of this corner of your system prior to disassembly. Extra photos really help during reassembly.

    airshack - Réponse

  8. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 8, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 8, image 2 de 2
    • Avec la pointe d'une spatule (spudger), soulevez le connecteur de l'antenne la plus proche de la carte mère pour le débrancher de sa prise sur la carte AirPort/Bluetooth.

    • Retirez le câble d'antenne placé sous un dispositif de retenue moulé dans le support AirPort/Bluetooth.

  9. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 9, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 9, image 2 de 2
    • Appliquez la même méthode que dans l'étape précédente pour déconnecter les trois autres connecteurs d'antenne.

    • Retirez leurs câbles des fentes dans le support AirPort/Bluetooth.

    I found re-attaching these antennae connectors the trickiest bit by far as they appear very delicate and seating them correctly was fiddly. In the end lighting them from the side with a small torch helped to check their position before gently pushing them down. The first one made a clicking sound as it connected, the other two went on silently. MBP wifi working perfectly now. I’m fairly sure that was at least £100 of labour had I taken it in for repair so thanks ifixit for saving me money and for the warm glow of accomplishment!

    Andrew - Réponse

    Actually, on my repair attempt, one antenna cable broke (on the image the bottom right one in the red square), I’m not sure whether it broke already before or was morbid somehow. Fact is. suddenly I had this cable in my fingers, and was sure I completely broke the macbook and need to find a new display now.

    But as it turned out: the Mac is still fully working, including WIFI, BT, Camera etc. So apart from my huge relief, I want to address that these cables may break easily at their connection with the display. And that one antenna might be not mandatory for WIFI to work.

    huedrant - Réponse

    How do I know which of these cables goes in which slot when attaching the new display?

    BellaVulpa - Réponse

  10. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 10, image 1 de 1
    • Dévissez les cinq vis suivantes :

    • Deux vis cruciformes de 10,3 mm

    • Deux vis cruciformes de 3,1 mm

    • Une vis cruciforme de 5 mm

  11. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 11, image 1 de 1
    • Soulevez l'ensemble AirPort/Bluetooth et le caisson de basse au niveau du milieu du côté du lecteur optique jusqu'à qu'ils se séparent l'un de l'autre.

  12. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 12, image 1 de 1
    • Ôtez l'ensemble AirPort/Bluetooth en évitant que le contact fragile de l'antenne ne touche le coin du boîtier supérieur.

  13. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012, Carte AirPort/Bluetooth: étape 13, image 1 de 1
    • Retirez le morceau de ruban EMI qui recouvre le connecteur du câble AirPort/Bluetooth.

    once you peel the emi tape off it you might not be able to put it back on

    Francisco Cortes - Réponse

  14. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 14, image 1 de 2 Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 14, image 2 de 2
    • Utilisez la pointe d'un spudger pour soulever le connecteur de la nappe AirPort/Bluetooth de sa prise sur la carte AirPort/Bluetooth.

    • Retirez la nappe AirPort/Bluetooth.

    Hi, any one know the name or the number part of the female connector of the flex cable? (the one on the card)

    Carlo Barrak - Réponse

  15. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 15, image 1 de 1
    • Continuez à décoller le ruban EMI du bas du support AirPort/Bluetooth et retirez-le de l'ensemble.

  16. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 16, image 1 de 1
    • Retirez les trois vis cruciformes de 3 mm fixant la carte AirPort/Bluetooth à son support.

  17. Remplacement de la carte AirPort/Bluetooth du MacBook Pro 13" Unibody mi-2012: étape 17, image 1 de 1
    • Retirez la carte AirPort/Bluetooth de son support.

    • Veillez à ne pas endommager le tampon thermique rose attaché au support.

    Why doesn't the replacement bracket come with a thermal pad, or maybe I didn't see a hint to buy one too?

    Ralf Häuser - Réponse

    Why doesn't the bracket come with a thermal pad or a hint to buy one?

    Ralf Häuser - Réponse

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Just to say if you only need to replace the cable the from the main logic to the Airport card it is very simple after battery disconnect its just pry up logic board connector carefully then peel back tape at airport card and remove cable.

Thats all there is to the cable replacement and it fixed my No wifi hardware found and intermittent wifi which it would seem is a common fault As always a great guide thank you.

Keith - Réponse

Thanks for the tip Keith. I did the cable replacement too based on your comment, and it worked for me. Worth trying before swapping teh whole assembly.

Karl Price -

My macbook pro 13 2014 version wifi screen holder and the wifi card bluetooth cables are broken , so i went to repair it by my self and i bought the wrong full screen and the wifi card back to macbook pro 13 2010 version , it was shock so i would to know Can i change the wifi card cables and the screen adopted cable to the new cables of 2014 macbook pro 13 2014 version?

ahat2013 - Réponse

what's the difference between the normal "phillips screws" and the "shouldered phillips screws"?

Daniel Rathlef - Réponse

If you look closely with the screws (my eyes needed a magnifying glass) you will see that some of them have heads that are "stepped". hard to describe in words.

perasso -

I just completed this repair successfully thanks to an excellent instruction and some help from iFixit support due to an error I made. A couple of comments that might help someone else:

1) make sure in step 15 that you TURN THE BOARD OVER and remove the tape from the bottom of the board. I "continued" removing tape from the top and then got completely confused when I couldn't find the screws in the next step. Yeah, it was my mistake because i didn't read the instructions carefully.

2) In step 15, leave the tape attached at the end of the bracket. this will make it much easier to replace the tape when reassembling.

perasso - Réponse

one further comment as to whether or not you actually need to replace the board.

I was having intermittent interference problems from other nearby bluetooth enabled computers. So I checked the signal strength and it seemed low. (you can do this by holding down the option key and clicking the bluetooth symbol in the banner, then you click on the device you are interested in). My BT speaker was at -68dbm (considered low) but was at -15dbm when it was at the same distance from my macbook 1.1 (i.e. white, plastic macbook). This is a huge difference (dBm is a log scale) so I replaced the BT board.

But after I replaced the board I measured again I got the same signal strength. I then checked it with another macbook pro and again I got the same signal strength.

So intermittent BT problems and low signal strength don't necessarily mean you need to replace the board. The macbook pro just doesn't have good BT signal strength, at least not compared to the old macbooks.

perasso - Réponse

Notice when you replace the airport card that there is a precaution for handling: electrostatic sensitive devices. This could be why there is an error after replacement. Read up on dangers/handling and be extra careful during cold weather.

Liliana Chavez - Réponse

I replaced the airport card in my Mac following this instruction. At first, it seemed to work fine. Now, it is deactivated every now and then and I am not able to activate it again. As of now, a reboot seems to help but that’s not really a solution. Can someone help me?

Larissa Zech - Réponse

Can this BT be upgraded from 4.0 to 5.0?

jaskiran singh - Réponse

Sorry no ;-{

BroadCom stopped making the Combo board Apple was using. Note the connector to the logic board is on the face. The next generation uses an edge connector system and there is no means to upgrade to it.

The only way is to find a USB-A BT 5.0 dongle

Dan -

This totally fixed my Wifi/Bluetooth issue. Professionals at a certified apple repair shop told me the repair is to expensive , complicated and not worth it I should just buy a USB WIFI stick… so I replaced the airport board and the WIFI cable myself with help of this instruction, in the end it turned out that the board was fine (old board is back inside) and I only had a broken WIFI cable. Total cost 8,40€ WIFI board and 6,18€ for the cable, less than an annoying WLAN stick that doesn’t even support BT. Thanks a lot to the author!

Christopher Baum - Réponse

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