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Mojave 10.14.1 Beta 4 successfully installed on unsupported MacBookPro5,3

Previously, install/upgrade failed on 10.14.1 beta 1 to 3. Now it worked on beta 4.
Did an OTA and re-patched using @dosdude1's mojave patcher app.

Screen Shot 2018-10-19 at 9.34.56 AM.png

FYI.
 
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DaniloGeekDude said:
Mojave 10.14.1 Beta 4 successfully installed on unsupported MacBookPro5,3

Previously, install/upgrade failed on 10.14.1 beta 1 to 3. Now it worked on beta 4.
Did an OTA and re-patched using @dosdude1's mojave patcher app.

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FYI.
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That being said anyone got an installer dmg with the beta 10.14.1 cause all I have is just the base 10.14

Many thanks
 
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DaniloGeekDude said:
Mojave 10.14.1 Beta 4 successfully installed on unsupported MacBookPro5,3

Previously, install/upgrade failed on 10.14.1 beta 1 to 3. Now it worked on beta 4.
Did an OTA and re-patched using @dosdude1's mojave patcher app.

View attachment 796563

FYI.
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@ASentientBot please read @DaniloGeekDude's post, his machine essentially has a C2D, Nvidia 9600 GT discrete video card (for sure are being used your patches and fixes even for that GPU), and succeeded updating to 10.14.1 beta 4 through OTA so using APFS.

I guess 10.14.1 final full Installer will be released on October 30th, when their special event will took place.

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

edit: funny thing on that event link, refreshing the page will show different apple logos (I counted about 9-10). I've saved a couple of them, very nice.
 
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Hi all.. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if my Early 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 w/ ATI Radeon 4870 is compatible with Mojave? I haven't seen any info on that particular graphics card... If the card doesn't work, can some one tell me one that would please.. I'm new to all of this... Thank you very much in advance!!

Well I took the risk (Did an update vs clean install and so far so good!!)... Have another mac pro same as the pervious but I'm gonna try a clean install, then time machine migration... Does that sound plausible? Or since I'm doing a clean install, just manually download apps, put in info., blah blah blah?! Thank you in advance. :)
 
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@jackluke @dosdude1

same result. I replaced the corebrightness thing with your version and I still have the menu but when I activate it nothing happens. Can I activate nightshift in terminal? I want to see debug output. I know linux but not mac. Help me, I do not know where to look for the problem.
 
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Chris McCorkel said:
Hi all.. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if my Early 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 w/ ATI Radeon 4870 is compatible with Mojave? I haven't seen any info on that particular graphics card... If the card doesn't work, can some one tell me one that would please.. I'm new to all of this... Thank you very much in advance!!
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It will work, just make sure you manually select "Legacy Video Card Patch" when applying the post-install patches.
 
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jackluke said:
@ASentientBot please read @DaniloGeekDude's post, his machine essentially has a C2D, Nvidia 9600 GT discrete video card (for sure are being used your patches and fixes even for that GPU), and succeeded updating to 10.14.1 beta 4 through OTA so using APFS.

I guess 10.14.1 final full Installer will be released on October 30th, when their special event will took place.

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

edit: funny thing on that event link, refreshing the page will show different apple logos (I counted about 9-10). I've saved a couple of them, very nice.
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There are 10 and only 10.
 
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usedthrones said:
That being said anyone got an installer dmg with the beta 10.14.1 cause all I have is just the base 10.14

Many thanks
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@usedthrones, for me, I didn't need the (full) installer dmg as I did the upgrade through OTA (System Preferences | Software Update). You have to have your device (I'm assuming it is an unsupported device since you posted here) enrolled in the Developer's Seed Program.

Screen Shot 2018-10-19 at 9.02.34 PM.png

Just do the OTA upgrade and then use @dosdude1's patcher app to do the post install, reboot. Good luck.
 
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idnovic said:
@jackluke @dosdude1

same result. I replaced the corebrightness thing with your version and I still have the menu but when I activate it nothing happens. Can I activate nightshift in terminal? I want to see debug output. I know linux but not mac. Help me, I do not know where to look for the problem.
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Have you tried to activate from the Notification Center and nor from display's prefpane ?

Yes, like linux they share many Terminal commands, however I don't know how to activate Night Shift from Terminal.

Probably as you said, your mac model iMac7,1 should be added manually with pikeralpha's method to CoreBrightness patching.
DaniloGeekDude said:
@usedthrones, for me, I didn't need the (full) installer dmg as I did the upgrade through OTA (System Preferences | Software Update). You have to have your device (I'm assuming it is an unsupported device since you posted here) enrolled in the Developer's Seed Program.

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Just do the OTA upgrade and then use @dosdude1's patcher app to do the post install, reboot. Good luck.
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Agree, just add that file system must be APFS formatted/converted to use Over-The-Air minor updates. Considering that most who use Mojave with Patcher start from a HFS+ installation, so the only way would be converting simply booting from the USB Installer (or Recovery), launch Disk Utility , highlight the Mojave HFS+ Volume, click on edit (menu) and select "Convert to APFS".
 
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telepati said:
My Model number is iMac9,1 and I am using Unsupported Sierra dosdune1 method for a year. Even with this normally we cant download Mojave from Appstore its always given an error "This model iMac does not support new OS". But couple of minutes ago suddenly Mojave installer appeared on my application folder. What? How the hell this happened?

I opened AppStore for check and Mojave really looks installed. What the F?
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@telepati, I’d be very interested in how that works. I have the same machine.
 
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If you cant install Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 and you're stuck in a continuum looping

I've installed Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 on my macbook 5.1 with no problem
Im doing this method since 10.14.1 Beta 1 and I really hope it works for you too
In order to update and receive updates your Mojave Partition must to be AFPS
Download and install macOSPublicBetaAccessUtility.dmg or macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtility.dmg...(Google it)
After installation gets finished it will be presented with MacOS beta in the Mac App Store.
Download, Install Mojave update and your machine will restart
Press ALT and choose the post-install tool drive from our friend dosdude1
Open Terminal and disable SIP.... csrutil disable and don't restart the machine
Open the "macOS Post Install" application, select your Mac model and immediately patches will be selected for you
click "Patch", select "Force Cache Rebuild" and click "Reboot"

Thanks dosdude1!
 

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MrCrispyBacon said:
If you cant install Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 and you're stuck in a continuum looping

I've installed Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 on my macbook 5.1 with no problem
Im doing this method since 10.14.1 Beta 1 and I really hope it works for you too
In order to update and receive updates your Mojave Partition must to be AFPS
Download and install macOSPublicBetaAccessUtility.dmg or macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtility.dmg...(Google it)
After installation gets finished it will be presented with MacOS beta in the Mac App Store.
Download, Install and Restart pressing ALT and choose the post-install tool drive from our friend dosdude1
Open Terminal and disable SIP.... csrutil disable
Open the "macOS Post Install" application, select your Mac model and immediately patches will be selected for you
click "Patch", select "Force Cache Rebuild" and click "Reboot"

Thanks dosdude1!
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So apply patches just before it installs or afterwards when it reboots?
 
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