Comments on: How to disassemble MacBook Pro 15″ (Mid 2010) and replace the keyboard

By: Wayne Antony Johnson

Wayne Antony Johnson — Tue, 03 May 2022 05:33:43 +0000

Good morning,
Thank you for the very informative guide, i currently have my MacBook 2010 90% disassembled, using the camera on my iPhone on zoom i was able to closely examine the board and found two small spots of corrosion, one on a small square contact, barely visible to the naked eye and the other on one of the ic’s near the fan cutout, i was able to clean both with a small amount of electrical cleaner, i am looking forward to reassembling the machine tonight and hopefully it will come back to life, i have not removed the keyboard as yet but other pics you have showing the power tabs will help a great deal should it not power on by itself after this “service” it has had i will be very interested to see if the small tabs can help, another thing, as the machine simply died one day (i have no idea what caused this), it has had no liquid spill that i am aware of, that being said i did purchase the machine second hand and there is a good chance there was moisture present which caused the problem through movement or heat creating further precipitation etc, thanks for the guide & i will definitely be bookmarking your site !!

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:19:59 +0000

Hey, I replaced my keyboard + backlight on my MBP 15″ 2010 laptop with new components from ebay. Unfortunately the backlighting is very uneven and only in middle as bright as it should be.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:48:29 +0000

How do you remove and reinstall the black backing sheet? It looks like it is attached with adhesive.

By: Nathaniel Bannister

Nathaniel Bannister — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:10:12 +0000

This helped me replace the keyboard in my 2010, THANKS 😀

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:00:04 +0000

Hey.

I just wanted to thank you for this awesome guide.
It was very helpful for me and I replaced my keyboard no problem, and I’m typing from it now 🙂

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:29:38 +0000

In reply to Alok. @ Alok, Can you run Apple Hardware Test?

By: Alok

Alok — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:34:47 +0000

Can you help? My keyboard is typing blank spaces or nothing at all, after an upgrade to Mavericks. I tried to rollback to Mountain Lion and even Lion but it did not help. I opened and cleaned up the MacBook 2009 of all the dust, but after reassembling it stopped starting properly. I have to repeatedly press the power button a few times to get it working. I can’t figure out what I did wrong. Do you think I could have damaged something while removing the motherboard? or is it the Mac firmware corrupted (BTW could the corrupted firmware be the cause of keyboard problem too since with KeyRemap4MacBook it works much better except for a few keys)..??

Your’s is the only tutorial I have found which shows the disassembly of just the keyboard… SUPERB…!! I have hopr that you’d be able to guide me too.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:38:00 +0000

This is an OUTSTANDING tutorial. No-where else could I learn how to open those flat ribbon connectors which rotate 90 degrees. (it was not obvious merely from looking, and I didn’t want to force anything.)
Thank you!

By: david

david — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:15:52 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial! Worked out great!

By: J. Z.

J. Z. — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 07:06:31 +0000

I think I damaged the keyboard cable, what I screwed up is I didn’t think about the tab you pull away to take the ribbon cable out and I sort of bent it so than I used tweezers to make it straighter so I put it back into the connecter and now the keyboard doesn’t work at all. At the moment I am using an external keyboard, its a 2010 15inch MacBook pro.