macbook air won't charge & no light on charger

I have to admit, I had this problem since I bought my Macbook Pro 13" 2011. Five years and suddenly I could not charge my Mac anymore.

I sat on my power adapter for 2 minutes and it worked haha. Unbelievable!

To everyone 🙂

Thank you very much for all the excellent posts on what to do, when one´s Mac Book charger suddenly doesn´t charge anymore. I read through all your comments, and having checked that everything was clean and properly connected + having tried to re-start my Mac, I thought that I might as well give it a go with heating up the charger. My charger stopped working, after I had travelled with on an a/c train for more than 24 hours. I thus figured that heating up the charger might be the answer. And anyway, I was far away from any kind of technical assistance when this happened. I had no access to hair dryers or heaters at the time. But desperately needed my Mac for charity work. So I tried sitting on it for several minutes, in direct contact with the skin, to try to heat it up as much as possible. And it worked:) !

Next time it needed charging, again it didn´t work. So I tried the same method, and again after a few attempts, it worked. I had this trouble with the charger for around 4 days. Eventually, I decided to simply leave the charger plugged in, despite the computer being fully charged, so that it would keep charging for a longer period and the charger would become nicely warm for a longer period of time. I figured, maybe there was somehow some moisture inside it. I don´t know, but it worked, and I haven´t had this problem for the last month.

Thanks everyone 🙂

I had this problem too. I reset the SMC and it didn't do anything. I flipped the charger at the outlet and it did nothing either. Finally, I flipped the adapter plugged into my Mac. Boom! Started charging immediately.

Not sure if I'm the anomaly there or if all chargers are like that. But hey, it's charging and working now, and as long as it's doing that, this girl has no complaints.

Hello all,

After you reset the SMC and log back in, give your Mac a second to realize that it's been reset- mine didn't begin charging immediately after I reset it. It took a good ten, fifteen, maybe more, minutes. Now it is charging as usual. Second time I've had to do this, and, while mildly inconveniencing, it's much better than buying a new unit entirely. 🙂

Cheers!

UPDATE AGAIN

I don't think resetting the SMC is the solution all the time. I woke up today to find my Mac not charging again. Then I remembered that it's the middle of summer and I have slept in AC all night long, with the AC still running. My Macbook itself wasn't cold, but the charger was. I put it under my arm for a few minutes (about 10), and then plugged it in again. Voila, problem solved!

If this happens again, I'll run through all the solutions I tried so far to see which one works again, and I'll continue to update here!

Good - when you recover from this make sure you retrieve your data.

I am having the same issue. And it's happened twice. There seems to be some configuration where it won't charge, I don't know what it is. Very annoying.

Yes, I tossed my Apple power adapter (saving its Mag plug & cord) and have been using my Kensington AC/DC travel adapter with no problems. Seems it was the adapter, not my MacBook Air.

Thank you - Fixed my problem - Mac Book AIr 13 inch n o power/ not charging - completly dead.- This procedure from " no power" worked perfectly.

Great tip.

Thanks. Fixed my problem.

Brilliant. Put the power block under my armpit for 10 minutes and now it's working. Wife thinks I'm a mad scientist ... thanks!

After heating the charger a couple of times, I finally called Apple since I have the extended warranty and they replaced it. The new charger works fine.

Thank you!

Warming up the power brick fixed my problem as well!

Take it to an Apple Store and ask.