MacBook Pro Crash / Kernel Panic on Wake Fix (Thunderbolt 3, 2017)

[rikitikitavi]

Wanted to share a possible fix for anyone who might have experienced:

- random crashes/kernel panic when trying to wake up their MBPs, both plugged (power/dongles) and unplugged

- inability to turn it off when plugged to power (restarts instead)

 

Disconnecting the battery for a bit, and then performing SMC and NVRAM reset - worked on my 2017 15" MBP.

 

Local Apple store identified it as a problem with tb3 dongles/devices, but didn't really propose any viable solution ;(

Was solved for a while after battery replacement, until I plugged in one of the old dangles and it started glitching again.

Moral of the story - don't skimp on quality dongles lol