Macbook Air Early 2015 heats after SSD Upgrade

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Macbook Air Early 2015 heats after SSD Upgrade

Help Please, I have macbook air early 2015 Model A1466, i have recently upgraded to Samsung Evo 970 Nvme SSD from 128Gb apple SSD, but after upgrading to new SSD, my Macbook Air starts heating and major battery drain, i read about spotlight reindexing and done that but after that its still heating, although i have already checked battery status, battery is good. down here sharing some screenshots of hardware. please help if someone know about this

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Aug 21, 2020 3:58 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 22, 2020 1:44 AM in response to Community User

my macbook is working like it was before in just after 2 days of upgradation of SSD, Re-Indexing of Spotlight and uninstalling chrome, clean my mac etc etc and other third party softwares. some where on internet i read that after upgradation the macbook consumes energy more than usual for few days and after that it will start working normal. it was like from 100% to 65% in half hour, this is exactly happened in my case, after few hours of upgrade my macbook was draining battery very fast and heating up, but now after all the things i have done, its working fine. Thanks to you.

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Aug 21, 2020 5:50 AM in response to John Galt

I have uninstalled clean my Mac and several more third party applications, the heating and battery both recovering. I think I should wait for sometime to gain more information how this method is performing. let me send you the screenshot

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John Galt

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Aug 21, 2020 4:38 AM in response to rahularora_07

Uninstall "CleanMyMac". Rule 1 of Macs is don't install junk.

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John Galt

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Aug 21, 2020 4:57 AM in response to rahularora_07

Perhaps. Uninstalling non-Apple "cleaning" garbage is the first step. There may be more, up to and including erasing the Mac completely so be prepared to do that.

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John Galt

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Aug 21, 2020 5:10 AM in response to rahularora_07

The first step in diagnosing a broken Mac is to remove the junk, but it has been my experience it's not worth the effort. Erasing the affected Mac and reconfiguring it from the ground up generally saves time.

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John Galt

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Aug 21, 2020 5:36 AM in response to rahularora_07

The most likely reason is that using "CleanMyMac" corrupted your Mac. That's why I wrote erasing the affected Mac generally saves time.

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John Galt

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Aug 21, 2020 6:58 AM in response to rahularora_07

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Resist the temptation to override the Mac's cooling system with "Macs Fan Control" or anything like it. It's ok if you want to simply observe its behavior but you can do that just as easily by listening. It's yet another third party application that conveys no benefit while imposing additional needless CPU burden.

Also, I presume you are aware of the risks of running a torrent client.

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Aug 21, 2020 7:24 AM in response to John Galt

torrent was just for educational purposes, I later uninstalled it. and the Macs Fan Control Software I uninstalled it too, thanks for helping me out. I'll observe the battery drain few days and will write back to you. Again Thanks For the help.

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Aug 21, 2020 4:41 AM in response to John Galt

will this resolve my problem?

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Answer 10

Aug 21, 2020 4:48 AM in response to Community User

okay, will it resolve the heating problem i am facing when ever i use my macbook or just resolve the battery problem only?

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Answer 11

Aug 21, 2020 5:05 AM in response to John Galt

you serious? or just kidding

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Answer 12

Aug 21, 2020 5:15 AM in response to John Galt

but can you tell me what's the reason my MacBook is heating and draining battery, and moreover I have uninstalled all the just like cleanmymac, chrome etc etc. please help

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Answer 13

Aug 21, 2020 4:44 AM in response to rahularora_07

Hello,

I have had:

– same MacBook Air;

– same SSD upgrade;

– same problems with battery drain…

My solution:

– removing Google Chrome;

– removing all junk soft like CleanMyMac etc;

– using only Apple software until it is possible…

Result: up to 8 hours video in YouTube.

On the screenshot: Safari – 1 tab YouTube active video and 1 tab this forum…

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Answer 14

Aug 21, 2020 4:52 AM in response to rahularora_07

Just try and you will see… :-)

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Macbook Air Early 2015 heats after SSD Upgrade

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