There's probably a nicer way to do it, but I just used some electrical tape to hold the leads down. Worked fine for a while, at least up until the MacBook Air completely stopped booting recently due to an unrelated failure.
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Did you uninstall VMWare properly? (As in, you removed ALL of its components, and didn't simply drag the application into the Trash)? Usually people not uninstalling it properly is the cause of the iSight camera continuing to not function properly.
I cannot believe that Apple decided to eliminate the Faxing capability from the Mac running Sierra. That prompted me to buy an All-in-one printer, however it has proven to me that since the death of S Jobs, the company has continued toward becoming more like Microslop (sic) at warp speed. Shame on you Apple. Your snobbery offends me even if I do love my Mac. You might want to survey your customers before slicing and dicing capabilities.
After updating (Macbook Pro Mid 2009) to 10.12.1 I had no touchpad or keyboard. I had to boot from USB and apply the patch, clearing the cache as well.
Once done it booted and worked as normal
Once done it booted and worked as normal
I don’t think (rather, I don’t want to think) it’s anything more than a matter of procedure. “Oh, these models are Vintage, so we can’t release software for them,” etc. Why they’d let that happen is another question.
Sure does. I can’t understand it. When I see a chart that says “No issues” on at least five models, I get a little confused.
As long as I can get Sierra running on my Mac Pro, they can look as bad as they want to in my eyes.
Stuck as in “hangs a while”, right? Not “throw up the error log full screen and require a forced restart AND complete redo of the USB stick’s software”. Do you have a 2009 Mac Pro as well?
There's two costs that Apple incurs by not dropping older systems off of the supported list:
- regression testing that must be performed with every update on every configuration
- support costs (even though you're out of free support, people still hit the support channels and this costs money)
And, of course, as we see in these forums, even though officially supported, people would still bitch "Why doesn't feature X work on my iMac?! It's only 12 years old!!"
We really can't complain (many of us with 8+ year old systems) that were just dropped off of the supported list. It's likely best that you need to have a bit of technical ability to keep it running the newest builds....you're also not going to need to rely on Apple for support.
Edit: (not counting opportunity cost of course...if we can keep them working, we don't need to buy new ones....that's the obvious one)
- regression testing that must be performed with every update on every configuration
- support costs (even though you're out of free support, people still hit the support channels and this costs money)
And, of course, as we see in these forums, even though officially supported, people would still bitch "Why doesn't feature X work on my iMac?! It's only 12 years old!!"
We really can't complain (many of us with 8+ year old systems) that were just dropped off of the supported list. It's likely best that you need to have a bit of technical ability to keep it running the newest builds....you're also not going to need to rely on Apple for support.
Edit: (not counting opportunity cost of course...if we can keep them working, we don't need to buy new ones....that's the obvious one)
Well, if it’s out of free support, shouldn’t the support costs cover themselves?
Agreed on all. Except I don't want to have to used hacks.I don’t think (rather, I don’t want to think) it’s anything more than a matter of procedure. “Oh, these models are Vintage, so we can’t release software for them,” etc. Why they’d let that happen is another question.
Sure does. I can’t understand it. When I see a chart that says “No issues” on at least five models, I get a little confused.
As long as I can get Sierra running on my Mac Pro, they can look as bad as they want to in my eyes.
Stuck as in “hangs a while”, right? Not “throw up the error log full screen and require a forced restart AND complete redo of the USB stick’s software”. Do you have a 2009 Mac Pro as well?
Stuck as in boot from USB to installer and instead of menu bar having installer options like disk utility, terminal, etc, it still has the language selection menu bar (even though language has been selected). It has happened a few times. I have just rebooted to USB installer again and it operates normally.
@foxlet's server appears to be down right now. Only option right now is to wait for him to get his server back up, or patch the dist file manually.I'm not being able to run AUSEnabler. I'm getting an error everytime (photo attached).
How to fix this?
Ah, yeah, or that. I may see if I can write something similar in C++, just to allow OS X to run it more natively (even though it really doesn't matter all that much).
How do you run the Java thing? Double clicking opens up Xcode but what next?
After updating (Macbook Pro Mid 2009) to 10.12.1 I had no touchpad or keyboard. I had to boot from USB and apply the patch, clearing the cache as well.
Once done it booted and worked as normal
Same thing happened here on my MBP 5,3
I'm not being able to run AUSEnabler. I'm getting an error everytime (photo attached).
How to fix this?
You should be able to use it now.
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Testing it in Sierra, your attempt doesn't seem to work. It's only proxying requests and replacing the catalog's resource URLs, which isn't actually enough to present blocked Sierra updates under SoftwareUpdate (they remain missing).
I tested the local AUS server to make sure there wasn't some conflict in the way:
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Hello!
Can't figured this out. my Mac Pro 3,1 won't fully boot from USB flash-drive - get the progress bar OK, but then it stalls even if left overnight.
I've patched per dosdude1's (carefully followed) instructions.
Have tried different USB ports (with only keyboard connected). Tried everything I can think of really. Same results no matter what - please see pic below. Thanks. Any help greatly appreciated.
Can't figured this out. my Mac Pro 3,1 won't fully boot from USB flash-drive - get the progress bar OK, but then it stalls even if left overnight.
I've patched per dosdude1's (carefully followed) instructions.
Have tried different USB ports (with only keyboard connected). Tried everything I can think of really. Same results no matter what - please see pic below. Thanks. Any help greatly appreciated.
Usually this issue is caused by an incompatible GPU... What graphics card do you have installed in your system?
Thanks for the prompt reply! Ohhh dude.... it's a Dell (literally).
ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5770
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x68b8
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0160C-155
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.436
(Vervet via Netkas - many thanks)
Although I feared this might be the culprit I had no reason to really really suspect it, because it's done very well up till now. Don't suppose there's an easy solution other than to upgrade it. And, to what? (there's probably already been a thread about that, I think)
Thanks again though.
That's odd... That card should work fine. Do you still have the original Radeon HD 2600 or GeForce 8800GT card your machine came with? If so, I'd try installing that, and then give it a try.
Just wanted to chime in… MacBookPro5,5 running great after 10.12.1 update. Used AUSEnabler, downloaded and installed the update, booted and updated fine. Did not require re-running dosdude1's Post-Installer.
Just in the 30 min or so I've been in 10.12.1, everything seems good. Safari seems a bit snappier, although I think I'll REALLY start to figure out if it is better as I comment more places. (And LOTS to comment about in the next few days!) Safari in 10.12 always seemed to start to bog down in comment text fields after a few lines of text/spelling corrects. Seems good so far.
Yet again I want to send a shout-out to dosdude1, foxlet, and parrotgeek1 et al for all the work they put into this, as well as the forum members who have participated. My now-7 year old 13" MacBook Pro is still running great; 8GB of RAM, 256GB 840 Pro, 1TB 850 EVO… who needs a new $1500 MacBook Pro? Schiller, you were SO wrong about how "sad" we users of older Macs are; such a putz. HAPPY MAC!
Just in the 30 min or so I've been in 10.12.1, everything seems good. Safari seems a bit snappier, although I think I'll REALLY start to figure out if it is better as I comment more places. (And LOTS to comment about in the next few days!) Safari in 10.12 always seemed to start to bog down in comment text fields after a few lines of text/spelling corrects. Seems good so far.
Yet again I want to send a shout-out to dosdude1, foxlet, and parrotgeek1 et al for all the work they put into this, as well as the forum members who have participated. My now-7 year old 13" MacBook Pro is still running great; 8GB of RAM, 256GB 840 Pro, 1TB 850 EVO… who needs a new $1500 MacBook Pro? Schiller, you were SO wrong about how "sad" we users of older Macs are; such a putz. HAPPY MAC!
I'd be interested to learn how patching dist file can be done. Any pointers/guides or basically have to set up reposado server?
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