Usually the backlight cable gives way first, causing various backlight related faults.
The flex/ribbon contains multiple cables.
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Display stays bright but shows graphic glitches - may start showing negative colours, or a tint of a certain colour throughout the entire screen, with a vertical patch of varying brightness and colour.
Graphic Glitches: This particular behaviour is slightly different.It’s just too dim to be visible - meaning the backlight is not functional. You’ll be able to see the pictures and text on the screen. But if you observe very closely or shine a flashlight into the display, you’ll notice that it is not actually blank. It is easy to confuse this symptom with other faults, because a blank display could mean various different things. Complete backlight failure: This is, sort of, the last stage, wherein the backlight is completely off.It’s a peculiar behavior, and is a clear indicator of a damaged Flex cable. It comes back on again if you reduce the lid angle. Backlight turns off after opening the lid beyond a certain angle: The display works fine when you just open the lid but goes black suddenly when you open it all the way up.This is usually the initial symptom, and may progress into the more serious #2 or #3 symptoms. Stage light effect: The display backlight shows alternatively bright and dim areas along the entire bottom of the screen, creating a distinctive “stage light” effect.Your MacBook may exhibit one or multiple of the following behaviours:
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How to identify which model of MacBook you own? What are the symptoms? Of course, the frequency of such issues is much lower now. But in our experience here at Fixxo, even a few 2018 & 2019 models suffer from it.
Both 13 inch and 15 inch models are affected. This design flaw primarily afflicts the MacBook Pro 20 models. Which models are impacted by the Flexgate issue? Due to a recent design flaw, it now tends to break over time through repeated opening and closing of the lid. This flex cable is what connects the display to its controller logic board (aka T-CON board). Read all about it here: MacBook Pro: Horizontal lines on Screen? 2016-2017 Model What is this "Flexgate" issue?įlexgate is an unofficial term for display backlight related issues caused by a fractured display flex cable. Before we proceed: If you’re facing intermittent horizontal lines at the bottom of your display, it’s not flexgate. Only reason they are still not there is because there haven't been enough people complaining about.If you’ve landed on this page through Google search, you’re probably suffering from a faulty display in your MacBook Pro. I really hope they come around and include other models which most probably have the same defect. And that small thing forces me to shell out yet another ~$600-700 cause Apple way of repairing things it's replacing the whole display. It's simply absurd that a ~3k laptop have such a small but with HUGE consequences design flaw (it's just a small cable that breaks up by opening and closing the display). If you have a similar model-or maybe even if you don't and wouldn't mind helping out- please sign the petition. You can see the whole issue and a link to sign the petition here: There are many people like me with different models suffering with this (I have a 2017 15-inch model). The thing is, those were not the only ones affected. They finally released a service program to replace the monitors of 2016 13-inch macbook pros. Apple admitted last years about the Flexgate issues that Macbook Pro from 2016-2018 were defective.
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