MacBook Pro glitch with chaotic automatic clicking and no control over track pad.

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MacBook Pro glitch with chaotic automatic clicking and no control over track pad.

Basically, the problem is in the heading. My MacBook Pro goes crazy from time to time and I lose the control of the track pad (sticky, jumpy cursor). Also it makes automatic clicking resulting in chaotic opening of windows and programs, resizing windows and what not. In these moments my computer gets a life of its own. I can somewhat get the control of the cursor by connecting mouse with USB cable (this is how I'm able to use this forum now).

I was suggested testing the computer in Safe Mode before. I did it and during Safe Mode cursor was OK. Anything else was impossible to test because of the strobing of the pages and windows in Safe Mode

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), late 2011

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 10:41 PM

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ManSinha

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Oct 11, 2015 10:45 PM in response to Natalya_

It almost sounds like a hardware problem - I would bring it in to a store for further testing

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Natalya_ Author

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Oct 11, 2015 10:47 PM in response to Natalya_

I can hardly type now as the cts of my text.ursor jumps in random par onthe

... cursor jumps to random parts of my text.

I was offered to do another test through the Terminal application (here in forum).

But the problem disappeared and I couldn't do the test during the issue.

Now I was able to run the test.

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Oct 11, 2015 10:51 PM in response to ManSinha

I have no warranty on my laptop and this will be the last resort, of course.

If nothing else I can do, I will have to bring it to the store.

I will post the results of the Terminal application test if necessary. If someone is here who could understand it. I have no idea what all those things mean.

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Natalya_ Author

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Oct 11, 2015 11:02 PM in response to Natalya_

I also found similar topic here, in these discussions:

jerky trackpad and uncontrollable cursor.

As for the advice about battery that might swell, no, my battery is not swelling, I opened the laptop body to see it.

But I have problems with intermittent charging. Sometimes computer while connected will not charge, not showing any light, or showing green light when the charge is still necessary (not full). So I opened the case to reset the battery. It didn't help. The problem still occurs from time to time.

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