Loose replacement battery causing random sleep (+glue recommendation)
Hi all
I am writing this question with two purposes in mind. The first is to provide an example of an issue I have myself not been able to find online. The second is to ask for advice on acquiring a good adhesive for replacement MacBook Pro batteries?
So basically, I bought the ifixit battery replacement kit and swapped my rundown battery on my macbook pro 13’ early 2015 model. Everything went smooth, but after about a month I started having trouble with intermittent and random sleep behaviour. My mac would go into sleep mode or power down the screen in the middle of work, sometimes disabling the trackpad. This would happen more and more often, sometimes 2 hours would go by, sometimes 2 seconds. (In the end less than 0.5 seconds, even during startup mode). I tried everything, resetting SMC, resetting PRAM, reinstalling macOS, installing insomnia etc.. In the end it made me suspect a hardware issue.
I then read that some people were having issues with their lid/hall sensors interfering with magnets and/or misbehaving because of faulty connectors. Since these descriptions mirrored the observed sleep behavior exactly, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to disconnect or ignore the lid/hall sensor. There are not many good questions on this, but it seems that such a fix is either very hard to do, or not recommended at all - either way, beyond my skills.
However, by re-opening my mac I realized that the furthest left and right cells of the replacement batteries had moved slightly out of place towards the speakers, due to having lost some of their adhesive strength (which was not great to begin with). When I move these cells back to their intended position, the faulty behavior stops, leading me to believe that the cells somehow interfere with the lid sensor when they are out of place. Another explanation would be that the battery can somehow detect that a cell is not fixed in place?
Anyways, my intermediate fix is has been to place small pieces of paper to keep the battery cells away from the left and right speaker sections. This solution is not permanent, and means I have open the macbook once in a while when I observe the behavior again (things move slightly). Overall, I would really prefer to be able to glue the batteries properly in place - what kind of glue can/should I use?
Any comments on whether the diagnosis sounds plausible and/or glue recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Jakob