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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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CregoryNootinger said:
I am now having an issue where I fully charge my MacBook Pro, but when I open it after a charge it says what it did before I charged it. I downloaded an app that tells me amperage as well as charge and this is what it said:

Charge Percent: 34%
Current Charge: 4896 mAh
Max Charge: 4941 mAh

(I know you can do it with System Report but this is simpler in my opinion)

It is not giving me that issue now, but a restart fixes it. Is this an issue with the patch or is this just my MacBook Pro? I ran a diagnostics test by booting it up and pressing the "D" key and it said that there are no hardware issues, so I wonder if it is just a minor glitch with Mojave?
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You can safely disregard the charge percentage and just look at the current charge compared to your maximum charge capacity.
 
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redheeler said:
Yes. I had previously used a supported Mac to update it from beta 2 to beta 3 over Target Disk Mode, but would like to know if it's possible to bypass the model check and update without a supported Mac.
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Do you mean with the new built-in preferences based Mojave Software Update? (funny how Apple moved it back to System Preferences again , must have something to do with the App Store overhaul)
 
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pkouame said:
Do you mean with the new built-in preferences based Mojave Software Update? (funny how Apple moved it back to System Preferences again , must have something to do with the App Store overhaul)
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It’s also a move to improve iOS-macOS consistency.
 
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pkouame said:
Do you mean with the new built-in preferences based Mojave Software Update? (funny how Apple moved it back to System Preferences again , must have something to do with the App Store overhaul)
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I totally forgotten about that, there was "Software Update" both prefpane and dock icon in OSX till Mountain Lion, then integrated into App Store from Mavericks to High Sierra.
 
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redheeler said:
Yes. I had previously used a supported Mac to update it from beta 2 to beta 3 over Target Disk Mode, but would like to know if it's possible to bypass the model check and update without a supported Mac.
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If your mac is enrolled (the necessary plist's are exists), the patch that i wrote for High Sierra (it's a part of @dosdude1's patcher, but i mentioned it somewhere in HS's topic long time ago with an URL) is works fine with Mojave.
 
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pkouame said:
Yes - you're right. And it enforces all of the lovely model checks we hate. I'm not aware of a hack to that yet - are you?
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The software update patch from dosdude1's tool works for installing updates. I updated to the reissued developer beta 3/public beta 2 this morning.
 
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0403979 said:
Don’t use the older versions. Download the latest one here. The public version of the developer beta 4 hasn’t been released yet. Wait a couple of days for it to be released or purchase a developer account to download the developer profile. Once you have the profile. install it on Mojave and download beta 4 from the Software Updates pane in System Preferences. After you install the update, boot to your patched usb and run the post install patches again.
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Thank you very much Julian ...Apple releases beta 4 for beta testers so I will try it.
 
Czo said:
If your mac is enrolled (the necessary plist's are exists), the patch that i wrote for High Sierra (it's a part of @dosdude1's patcher, but i mentioned it somewhere in HS's topic long time ago with an URL) is works fine with Mojave.
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Hi @Czo - is the source for the latest Faker available? The last version I remember (a while ago now) "faked" being an iMac 10,1 and VMM. So very old. I don't mind recompiling a new lib myself and I'm not sure which one dosdude1 has.

Thanks.
 
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@dosdude1 the patcher is still crashing after the "choose language" screen during install. I am using 0.1b11 and downloading the latest beta through the patcher. thanks for any/all help!
 
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The software update patch from dosdude1's tool works for installing updates. I updated to the reissued developer beta 3/public beta 2 this morning.
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Can confirm this works as I attempted an Install of the macOS Mojave Beta Access Utility and it wouldn't install, and still software update picked up the developer beta 4 last night
 
I am trying to Install macOS Mojave and it is having an error and is not allowing me to select an install location. Has a pop up saying "macOS Installation could not be completed" so I was wondering if there is a fix for my Mac.

Thanks in advance.
 
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MTYEAGLESCOUT said:
I am trying to Install macOS Mojave and it is having an error and is not allowing me to select an install location. Has a pop up saying "macOS Installation could not be completed" so I was wondering if there is a fix for my Mac.

Thanks in advance.
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Just fixed in the latest Mojave Patcher version, as stated in my previous post.
 
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L Caputo said:
Mmmm tried Patcher 1b11 and Beta 4 installer on two USBs both end up with the unable to install screen, tried saving the log but cannot find it any where.
So booting up from the installer USB get light grey screen with Apple logo and progress bar, then moves to slightly darker grey screen with the Disk Utility, Terminal and Post Install Patch panel which stays for approx 3 seconds, no main installer window appears, now goes to black screen with white Apple ad progress bar, very quick and opens the log page with the message that the OS couldn't be installed.

Let us know when this is resolved.
Thanks.
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Ídem, im too
 
MTYEAGLESCOUT said:
Is says Current Version: 0.1b11
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No it doesn’t...

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indigotheory said:
Can confirm this works as I attempted an Install of the macOS Mojave Beta Access Utility and it wouldn't install, and still software update picked up the developer beta 4 last night
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Nice. But just to be clear: after manually running the HS software update patch (which copies SUVMMFaker etc..) on an unsupported machine running a Mojave beta, Apple's Software Update (in System Preferences) let you download and install a new beta?
 
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