macbook air won't charge & no light on charger

@John Galt - that did it for me!

My symptoms were:

• System had unexpectedly shut down. On restart, all of the following symptoms appeared.
• Battery not recognized
• When connected to my AC adapter, the LED light did not show.
• CPU fan was spinning like crazy.

Thank goodness! Not sure what would have caused the problem in the first place, but glad it's solved!

Wow. Heat was the answer! I tried the previous suggestions repeatedly, and no luck. While sitting at my desk, I took the power adapter unit and put it under my leg - basically like trying to hatch an egg.... Within 1 minute, the charge light finally came on! Wierd, but it worked. Thanks JohnnyCotia! Voodoo was my next recourse.....

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Seriously?! This is such a high tech computer but it won't charge when the charger is cold??? I believe this also fixed my issue. I noticed it would not charge when I was downstairs where the cord is on the cold floor between the sofas but did charge upstairs where the power strip in my office is on the floor in front of the heat vent. I was sitting down here on the couch and trying all different things to get the light to come on - it seemed to be a connection issue. I even tried downloading and installing a software update - which of couse used more power. I took it upstairs and plugged it in, came back down here and read this tip on my husband's pc. When I went back upstairs, the heat was blowing out of the heat vent onto the power cord and the charging light was on! Unbelievable!!

JohnnyCotia is a GENIUS!! Good find on heating up the power adapter. Who'd a thunk it. I sat on my wife's for about 5 minutes while I was eating my ice cream and it worked great!!! Apple needs to seriously rework their power cables and adapters. 😟

I am not sure but I think JohnnyCotia's solution may have worked for me too. I left my mac book air off the charger for about two months, battery went to absolute zero. When I tried to plug it in and turn it on nothing happened. The light on the charger was not green or orange it was not any color, it was off. I plugged it into several different sockets nothing happened. I plugged it in and put the entire adapter under my hoodie next to my skin, waited for about 5 minutes and sure enough the light came on and it started charging, and the macbook air turned on and tried to restore my last internet session. I think it probably would have eventually turned on by itself but who knows.

Oh my gosh. I worked on this problem for the last 4 hours and got no results. So I figured, what have I got to lose. So I sat on my charger!

Thank you, Johnro.

http://www.johnro.net/2012/12/28/help-my-macbook-airpro-wont-charge/

Did it work? You bet your bippee!

Well second time in 2 years that after a week of not charging my Macbook Air when I plug it in no sign of life from the amber / green charge light. A broken MacBook or charger I start thinking.

Plug in / unplug, cleaned it etc....... sat on it for 5 mins and its started working again ***??

Apple, surely you can do better than this?

Does anyone know if apple are replacing for fixing this issue for macbook just out of warratty customers?

mine is 2 years old.

theres a bit about uk cosmner law on apples website that products should be fit for purpose for 5 or 6 years etc.

any know if they will replace / fix under this consumer law?

No freaking way! This actually worked for me!! Thank you!!!!! <3333

Well, here is my story to help support this method reviews and others out there.

Recently, my Mac would stop charging when I wanted and would charge randomly. Last night, it would not charge at all. Woke up this morning and still, nothing. Was pretty frustrated as I had to write a 6 page paper due this week and had no time for this ********. After cleaning the input and taking it apart looking for anything wrong, it came back clear my Mac was good and not damaged.

The charger I currently have was a third party charger from China, as my original one from Apple, the wire broke off to the point of the coils being exposed and it wouldn't charge anymore. I assumed that since it was a cheap $15 charger, I expected that I needed a new one after 6 months. So, I looked for chargers, but at the same time looked for answers. I first came across this topic and looked through. I tried all the methods and it didn't work.

Then, Johnny's post with that article about heating it up caught my attention. I read that you had to sit on it... That seemed to good to be true, but it was my LAST option before I went and bought another charger. So, I sat on the charger like a fool and waited laughing at myself, oh yeah this will work. After sitting and moving my *** on the charger for about 3 minutes, I was going to give up, and as I got up, the orange light came on. I flipped out in excitement! It's been charging since then. Couldn't believe it.

Hope this story helped someone else. It dumbfounded me at how this works. It also is not only for the chargers by Apple, but even the cheaper ones from China this method worked. Thank you so much once again. You helped me save a lot of frustration!!!

I don't believe it either. 3 mins warming by hair drier didn't appear to work... Left for a showe and as luckily I'd left the power on and connected I get a red light on the charger saying charging... Yahoo! But why?

JohnnyCotia's advice about sitting on the brick (or at least warming it up) worked perfectly for me. After about 10 minutes of sitting on the brick, the orange light came on. This would explain the apparent randomness of the charging.

Wow, thanks JohnnyCotia. This morning the adapter that was replaced by Apple less than a month ago started doing the same thing (which was why the other one was replaced). I tucked it under my fluffy sleeping cat and connected it to the laptop and... well, what do ya know, it's charging. AMAZING!

I personally cannot believe that sitting on my charger for nearly 5 mins just fixed my solution. Seriously this is the strangest thing I have ever seen. It works and thats all you need to know! Thank you to everyone who did this and replied and thanks to the original idea!

My Macair same symptoms, and it was cold in the house, but instead of warming the charger I just unplugged it for about 30 minutes as it had been plugged into the same outlet for days...Must have been the "noise" for after plugging back into the same outlet it, behold, it worked. Must be a "Union" charger...had to have a coffee break.