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I have a MacBookPro 5,5 I'm trying to install Sierra on with this tool, and every time I get "No packages were eligible for Install" Using the latest Sierra installer and patcher tool. Tried formatting the HD and repartitioning to no avail. Any ideas of anything to try?

Edit: Log from Install https://pastebin.com/5hyJxnuB
Edit 2: Set datetime with 'ntpdate time.apple.com' and seems to be working now. Guess it was failing cert validation.
 
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dosdude1 said:
You need to apply the recovery partition patch in the post-install tool with your Sierra Patched USB drive. You can also disable SIP from Terminal in there.
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Thanks for your answer. I have installed macos sierra months ago and applied the post install patches, do you think i should reapply the patch again?
 
miche said:
Thanks for your answer. I have installed macos sierra months ago and applied the post install patches, do you think i should reapply the patch again?
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Only the software update support are updated/changed, so you need to install my software update patches from the post #1.
 
I just put sierra on my MacBook Pro Early 2008. Runs great so far. But I have a USB wifi stick in use and I'd like to change that by upgrading the WiFi Card inside the MacBook. My problem is, I can't seem to find our which specific card I should look for which is sierra compatible and also works with the hardware of my macbook. Does someone can give me a suggestion? I usualy look for parts on eBay.
 
G5-PowerLifter said:
I just put sierra on my MacBook Pro Early 2008. Runs great so far. But I have a USB wifi stick in use and I'd like to change that by upgrading the WiFi Card inside the MacBook. My problem is, I can't seem to find our which specific card I should look for which is sierra compatible and also works with the hardware of my macbook. Does someone can give me a suggestion? I usualy look for parts on eBay.
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You can get any BCM4322 card, just as long as it's a full height card. Here's one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Broadcom-Bcm...d=1491747415&sr=8-3&keywords=broadcom+bcm4322
 
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Is there any point to to installing Sierra to an unsupported Mac (in my case, Early-2009 Mac Mini) if you don't need any of the Sierra features (like Siri) and just want stability and security updates? Sierra was the first OS X not to support my Mini and while I know there are plenty of Mac users with older Macs than my Mini using older OS X versions, I would like to keep the Mini up-to-date. I guess what I'm asking is that are the gimped Wi-Fi (which I don't mind as the wireless router of our household happens to be next to mini enabling me to use a wired connection), possible issues with stability and possible problems with Sierra updates worth it or should I just keep using El Capitan (I've heard that Apple continues security updates for approx. two years meaning I'd have until September of 2018 before El Capitan is completely obsolete).
 
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Is there any point to to installing Sierra to an unsupported Mac (in my case, Early-2009 Mac Mini) if you don't need any of the Sierra features (like Siri) and just want stability and security updates? Sierra was the first OS X not to support my Mini and while I know there are plenty of Mac users with older Macs than my Mini using older OS X versions, I would like to keep the Mini up-to-date. I guess what I'm asking is that are the gimped Wi-Fi (which I don't mind as the wireless router of our household happens to be next to mini enabling me to use a wired connection), possible issues with stability and possible problems with Sierra updates worth it or should I just keep using El Capitan (I've heard that Apple continues security updates for approx. two years meaning I'd have until September of 2018 before El Capitan is completely obsolete).
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I'am upgraded to Sierra because the universal copy paste and the unlock with my watch is a great feature. So, if you had a replaced the wifi card in your mac to utilise newer BT4 features, i'am thinking Sierra is an essential update.
 
Hey All
Quick question, so I have already 10.12.2 from my recently upgraded Macbook Unibody 2008 from these guides and has been working fine and I usually just upgrade everything automatically..So right now I am in the process of grabbing the new up 10.12.4 via the apps store, can I just upgrade to 10.12.4 and then apply the patch after I have installed 10.12.4 or must I do this prior to install?

PEACE
Kosti

EDIT - All good, patched and updated fine..Nice work chaps!
 
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Czo said:
I'am upgraded to Sierra because the universal copy paste and the unlock with my watch is a great feature. So, if you had a replaced the wifi card in your mac to utilise newer BT4 features, i'am thinking Sierra is an essential update.
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I'm sure Sierra has great features for smart devices etc. but I don't use my Mini to anything smart related (just basic browsing, e-mails, videos). That being the case, is it better to stay with officially supported El Capitan or move to the unsupported Sierra (keeping the Mini up-to-date vs. possible issues with stability, compatibility and updates).
 
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I'm sure Sierra has great features for smart devices etc. but I don't use my Mini to anything smart related (just basic browsing, e-mails, videos). That being the case, is it better to stay with officially supported El Capitan or move to the unsupported Sierra (keeping the Mini up-to-date vs. possible issues with stability, compatibility and updates).
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The length of the list of new features in Sierra is very very small when you don't have a supported 802.11ac and a BT4 adapter. In my opinion you don't need Sierra if you don't upgrade the WiFi and BT module.
 
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Czo said:
The length of the list of new features in Sierra is very very small when you don't have a supported 802.11ac and a BT4 adapter. In my opinion you don't need Sierra if you don't upgrade the WiFi and BT module.
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I found a significant number of "little things" bugs that I'd filed from 10.8/9 - 10.11 had gotten addressed in 10.12. Stuff in Mail, with Bluetooth performance generally, network performance, etc. 10.12.4 is MUCH improved IMHO over 10.10/10.11 on my unsupported MacBookPro5,5. I'm still seeing USB3 disconnect issues sporadically, and SMB networking to NAS/servers is just infuriatingly broken.

In a similar vein for unsupported users, I have found that a significant performance issue that affected my 10.12 usage, that got some attention in 10.12.3 but not 100% resolved, seems to be completely fixed in 10.12.4: when Correct Spelling Automatically was enabled in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text, typing in Safari text fields (like into this site's comment box) as well as some text apps like TextEditor would slow to a CRAWL when a misspelled word was entered and the user kept on typing. Character display would lag behind typing by entire words; correcting the incorrect word was painfully slow but they only way to get back full-speed typing. In 10.12.4, that's gone. Completely. It probably wasn't very noticeable for users with newer hardware, but on my 5,5 it was just dreadful. Nice to see some trickle-down performance improvements!

I have been recommending 10.12.4, finally, to all my clients; I had been keeping them on 10.9.5 until now, unless they bought new hardware requiring newer Mac OS X releases. The 10.10/10.11 users have had a wide variety of problematic issues over the past 2 years; aside of some 10.12.0/1 pains, and the PDFKit mess, 10.12 has been much much better. The conspiracy theorist in me posits that Apple KNOWS 10.10 and 10.11 aren't as "refined" as 10.12, and that's why they started cutting older machines… make users "feel the pain" of broken OSes in an attempt to leverage them to upgrade hardware. Apple has a VERY bad habit of doing that.
 
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I'm on 10.12.4 and want to update to 10.12.5 but it says no updates available. My ausenabler is on the seed branch too
 
Hello Everyone,

Never used a Mac but I married my girl and here I am trying to update hers. This is a macbook pro mid 2009. I've followed the steps as indicated, however, when I try and run the installer off of the USB it cannot be verified. Should I be booting the computer via the USB stick? If so, how?

I was good on the steps until then. Please let me know, thanks!
 
dosdude1 said:
Yes, version 4.2.6 and 4.2.7 of my patch have 10.12.4 installer support (and drop support for older installer apps). The Night Shift Patch simply adds the unsupported hardware IDs to the CoreBrightness binary, and it is the only file modified with that patch.
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Thank you very much ! Newest Installer created -> Installed -> Night Shift Pach applied ! Everything "like original". Fantastic, absolutely fantastic job ! Fingers crossed for "your next work" on macOS 11 :D
 
blahzy said:
Hello Everyone,

Never used a Mac but I married my girl and here I am trying to update hers. This is a macbook pro mid 2009. I've followed the steps as indicated, however, when I try and run the installer off of the USB it cannot be verified. Should I be booting the computer via the USB stick? If so, how?

I was good on the steps until then. Please let me know, thanks!
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Yes, you need to boot from the patched USB installer to upgrade to Sierra. You hold down the Option key when booting to bring up Startup Manager, select the USB drive from the available volumes.

And, as it looks like you'll be supporting your wife's Mac, you may want to bookmark this page:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201255

And remember to boot from the USB AGAIN after the Sierra installation is complete to run the post install patcher. (if you boot up to the prohibited symbol, then your system isn't yet patched).

Cheers!
 
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Hello everyone,

I can't manage to load sierra to an early-2008 iMac 8,1. I'm able to remove de SIP but i can't manage to boot to the USB with the patch and sierra. Any suggestions? I've already swapped of usb 2 times. :(
 
fischersd said:
Yes, you need to boot from the patched USB installer to upgrade to Sierra. You hold down the Option key when booting to bring up Startup Manager, select the USB drive from the available volumes.

And, as it looks like you'll be supporting your wife's Mac, you may want to bookmark this page:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201255

And remember to boot from the USB AGAIN after the Sierra installation is complete to run the post install patcher. (if you boot up to the prohibited symbol, then your system isn't yet patched).

Cheers!
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You are a god. Thank you very much just saved me a fist full of cash!!! You and the thread owner of course thank you both!!!!!
 
Czo said:
The length of the list of new features in Sierra is very very small when you don't have a supported 802.11ac and a BT4 adapter. In my opinion you don't need Sierra if you don't upgrade the WiFi and BT module.
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Greetings Czo !
( Udvozollek kolléga :) )

as you mentioned, one of the biggest positivness of Sierra, are the the features which are depending on working WiFi + BT. The only machine im using with patched Sierra is the Mini (Early 2009). The performace compared to El Capitan is also improved, so i would definitely stay on Sierra also with this machine. Regarding to this, i would like to upgrade the Airport Card. Have you maybe some experiences or informations, which card should i search ? It has the factory BCM43 series card inside

Thank you very much !
(Koszike szépen a segítséget, remélem megoldjuk a cuccot :) ! )
 
dwnldr said:
Greetings Czo !
( Udvozollek kolléga :) )

as you mentioned, one of the biggest positivness of Sierra, are the the features which are depending on working WiFi + BT. The only machine im using with patched Sierra is the Mini (Early 2009). The performace compared to El Capitan is also improved, so i would definitely stay on Sierra also with this machine. Regarding to this, i would like to upgrade the Airport Card. Have you maybe some experiences or informations, which card should i search ? It has the factory BCM43 series card inside

Thank you very much !
(Koszike szépen a segítséget, remélem megoldjuk a cuccot :) ! )
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Well I followed dosdudes1's advice by getting "any BCM4322 card" for my MacBook Pro early 2008 and it worked like charm and cost me just 10 bucks of of eBay. I guess the Mac mini users a similar card in a mini PCI-E slot. The only issue I had, after I deinstalled the driver for the WiFi USB adapter which I was using before, Sierra was stuck on the log in screen. Neither trackpad or keyboard was responding, as well as an external keyboard and mouse. So I had to install Sierra (with that patch of course) again. And now everything is perfect, even the continuity features work like charm. And all of that very fast with only 2GB of RAM. I wanted to upgrade to 6GB (the MacBooks Chipset doesn't recognize more then that. But getting just one 4GB so-dimm with 667 MHz would cost me half as much as I payed for the entire Notebook. So I guess I'll just upgrade to 4GB (cost less than 20 bucks) and stick with that. Here is a link with the card I got. Highly recommend for every "unsupported Mac- Sierra user" I guess it would also work in an iMac or Mac mini. But I'm not 100% sure if these models use a different connector
 
dwnldr said:
Greetings Czo !
( Udvozollek kolléga :) )

as you mentioned, one of the biggest positivness of Sierra, are the the features which are depending on working WiFi + BT. The only machine im using with patched Sierra is the Mini (Early 2009). The performace compared to El Capitan is also improved, so i would definitely stay on Sierra also with this machine. Regarding to this, i would like to upgrade the Airport Card. Have you maybe some experiences or informations, which card should i search ? It has the factory BCM43 series card inside

Thank you very much !
(Koszike szépen a segítséget, remélem megoldjuk a cuccot :) ! )
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I'll save Czo some typing. :)

You need to get one of the same era MacBook (A1342) airport cards - see Ultracyclists post here: #3334

You will not get all of the new continuity features in Sierra working with a Broadcom 4322 card. You will have functional Wifi and Bluetooth though.

You would need a newer chipset for those features to work (eg. 4360) - but there isn't one made that will work with the connector in the 2009 Mac Mini.

Lots of the A1342 Airport cards can be had on eBay.
 
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