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Hey Guys! I have been recently more interested in how display technology works after I started to see display issues and that costing us a price which is equivalent of buying a good iPad Pro. Context: On Jan 2021, My MacBook Pro fell down. It’s pretty much a new laptop and thankfully when I opened it, it was working fine. I felt happy but for few minutes my heartbeat was pumping up. I know it’s a material thing, but I really love that than any thing else I possess. Then after a month, it start to have one issue where it will show black screen but if I close it and open again, this will go away. So I was following that method for near 3 weeks. Then last week it started showing different colors of flickerness. It was worrying and then it started to show half of the screen and the rest was flickering. And now it sort of black and today the situation may be different. When I went to authorized service center, they said it cost me around $700-800 to replace and without even diagnosis it’s confirmed by them it’s a display issue. Maybe they are right but I like to think alternatives ways to fix this. Have any of you cracked a solution for this?
Well you can try some of the non invasive fixing tactics in this Apple thread or you can try to get your hands on a new flex cable or display. I would probably go to a few different places to get a second opinion on your screen issue and if they agree then you gotta decide if you want that laptop anymore. That model is very hard to fix. I wish you good luck! Link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251…
Sadly, you do have a flex cable issue. There are four cables from the lid which connect up with the T-CON board
So when your system fell the hinge area (black cover) was hit which pressed against these cables. From your description your backlight cable and one of the display cables got damaged and as you used your system things got worse. There is no options to fix this other than replacing the full lid assembly. Here’s the guide to replace it MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Late 2016 Display Assembly Replacement and here’s the needed part MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Late 2016-2017) Display Assembly
