MacBook Pro (13 Zoll, Anfang 2011, Unibody) AirPort/Bluetooth Einheit Austausch

Geschrieben von: Andrew Bookholt

Kommentare: 7

MacBook Pro (13 Zoll, Anfang 2011, Unibody) AirPort/Bluetooth Einheit Austausch

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Schritt 1

Hebe den Verbinder zum Airport/Bluetooth Kabel mit dem flachen Ende des Spudgers aus seinem Sockel auf dem Logic Board.

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 - 16/06/17

Schritt 2

Ziehe vorsichtig das Kamerakabel aus seinem Sockel auf dem Logic Board.
Ziehe das Kabel parallel zur Oberfläche des Logic Boards. Wenn du es nach oben ziehst, kannst du das Logic Board oder das Kabel selbst beschädigen.

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 - 30/08/17

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

VÍCTOR RIFFO - 11/04/21

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 - 09/05/21

Schritt 3

Schiebe das Flachbandkabel von Airport/Bluetooth vorsichtig aus dem Weg und löse das Kamerakabel von der Klebeverbindung mit der es am Subwoofer und der Halteklammer angebracht ist.
Fädle das Kamerakabel aus dem Bügel in der Halteklammer von AirPort/Bluetooth.

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

airshack - 02/01/18

Schritt 4

Hebele den Antennenverbinder, der am nächsten zum Logic Board ist, aus seinem Sockel auf der Airport/Bluetooth Platine hoch.
Fädle das Antennenkabel aus dem Bügel in der Halteklammer von AirPort/Bluetooth.

Schritt 5

Löse mit der eben beschriebenen Methode die restlichen drei Antennenverbinder.
Fädle ihre Kabel aus den Ausschnitten in der Halteklammer von 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 - 18/07/18

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 - 29/03/21