macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[LuisN]

Do you use mojave on macbook 5.2?

Yes, if the kext doesn't work, try to erase "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist", reboot and try to connect. That will reset all your wifi configurations, maybe the preferences file is corrupted
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Do you use mojave on macbook 5.2?

Yes, I do.
If that doesn't help, try to delete "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist"
Maybe the Preferences file is corrupted. By deleting it you'll reset all wifi configurations

 

[flygbuss]

Will most certainly go to the store and buy a cable or an adapter tomorrow.
Have to do some tests since I'm really curious about it now. Will let you know how it goes

 

[Sveto]

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[webg3]

[doublepost=1542368094][/doublepost]Hello! I'm experiencing a strange behavior of my Mac mini 2010 (macmini4,1) with Mojave 10.14.1 patched with @dosdude1 patcher v1.2.3 after months of perfect working. Suddenly, after reboot, macOS 10.14.1 loading bar is stucked endlessly. I have tried installing on external and Macintosh HD drives, also reinstalling patches, forcing cache clearing, resetting the PRAM with command-option-P-R. After working well for some time soon suddenly on reboots again the loading bar is stucked >50% endlessly. PS: How can I try unpached recovery on a patched system? If I try to start it, system stops immediately with the forbidden sign.
[doublepost=1542368454][/doublepost]Hello! I'm experiencing a strange behavior of my Mac mini 2010 (macmini4,1) with Mojave 10.14.1 patched with @dosdude1 patcher v1.2.3 after months of perfect working. Suddenly, after reboot, macOS 10.14.1 loading bar is stucked endlessly. I have tried installing on external and Macintosh HD drives, also reinstalling patches, forcing cache clearing, resetting the PRAM with command-option-P-R. After working well for some time soon suddenly on reboots again the loading bar is stucked >50% endlessly. PS: How can I try unpached recovery on a patched system? If I try to start it, system stops immediately with the forbidden sign.

Boot on Single User: cmd + S

/sbin/mount -uw /

mv /usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist /usr/standalone/bootcaches.bkp

reboot

Nice!

 

[taranee]

Can someone make me an apfs rom for my mbp mid 2009?
Thx

apfs works on my mid 09 mbp. just dose the code thing as stated in dose dudes vid.

you guys rock thanks. i just installed 10,14 on my mid 09 mbp last night to try it out. using a Small repeat partitions and other then the as stated glitched with light and dark modes it seems to be working like it should. but again i did this as a test not ready to jump ship to it untell you all work more out on it. ps liking dark mode

also just to throw this out there optical audio appears to be working on mine if that counts for any thing.

whats up with the code thing on apfs boot any how ?

 

[Starplayr]

Running the latest 10.14.1 and dosdude1 patches.

I must say the system is faster than 10.14. Apple did the great job on the update and the team here did a great job making it so seamless to install. I've been doing a fresh install each time. Hope to install on top next time as I am finally settling down.

I don't know why Apple however is using some sub-windows without Dark mode on them or a modded light mode. However 10.14.1 did fix the Camera Raw plugin in Photoshop CC 2019.

Photoshop CC 2019 is actually usable now in 10.14.1, it was SO slow in 10.14 and often had refresh issues and lag. Illustrator CC 2019 is very zippy and was not bad either in 10.14.

Running on 2008 Mac Pro, 8-core. 4GB GTX 680 Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce card, flashed for Mac, 48 GB RAM, 2TB SSD RAID0. 4TB for Time Machine and 4TB for extra storage. ASUS 4k display. Dell 21" display for boot screen. iMac Pro Keyboard and mouse (dark color), and it works flawlessly. It feels like I am on an iMac Pro without the price tag.

Not using APFS and I think the system is actually faster not being on it. I'm using a SSD RAID 0 too and its a mixture of two hardware RAIDs and one software RAID. It's darn fast but AFPS is not bootable from it. It can be installed which is weird that it does not boot on the Mac Pro 3,1. I also like not using AFPS as I don't have all the EFI partitions that show up even if that partition does not have anything bootable on it.

Add a PlusTek OptiSlim $50 scanner and it works with Mojave and Photoshop. + The plusTek scanner can scan things up to 2 inches thick (more if you don't mind the lid slightly raised. that was a big plug for me on the work on I plan on doing with it, cutting dies for stickers for various parts.
Also adding a CriCut Air 2 Plotter this weekend $197 off Amazon. First time I ever got into the plotting and craft work. Getting back to my Graphic Arts and Design roots and also into Xcode 10 / iOS Development on the same system.

I'm very pleased with the system. And sold off my last Mac Mini. I like being able to swap out video cards at will. I think Apple needs to rethink their next Mac Pro design and get back to what Woz did on the Apple II and create systems that are not only fun to use but fun to configure. They have MacBook Pro's, Minis and iMacs for Mainstream users. It's time Apple wised up and designed for the Mac Geeks out there! If they don't I don't think the MacPro 2008-2012's will go away any time soon and we may keep running them even after Tim Cook moves away from Intel. Mac Pro FTW

Will be sending dosdude another PayPal donation on Dec. 1st. If it was not for him and this team, I would not be so happy getting all this old and new technology blended seamlessly together.

 

[OGNerd]

I created a fresh 10.14.1 installation on an external APFS formatted SSD, to see if I could duplicate the seamless OTA update to 10.14.2 Beta 3 on my mid-2009 13" MB 5,2 that I had achieved with my Early-2011 15" MBP 8,2.

Installation from System Preferences Software Update completed without incident, but booting initially failed, completing the verbose software APFS boot steps before falling back to boot into the 10.11.6 installation on the internal SSD.

Applying the relevant post-install patches from @dosdude1's v1.2.3 patcher for the 5,2 rectified the boot problem, and it is now running 10.14.2 Beta (18C48a).

 

[16v]

apfs works on my mid 09 mbp. just dose the code thing as stated in dose dudes vid.

you guys rock thanks. i just installed 10,14 on my mid 09 mbp last night to try it out. using a Small repeat partitions and other then the as stated glitched with light and dark modes it seems to be working like it should. but again i did this as a test not ready to jump ship to it untell you all work more out on it. ps liking dark mode

also just to throw this out there optical audio appears to be working on mine if that counts for any thing.

whats up with the code thing on apfs boot any how ?


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O.k.
No new boot chip?
Just flash it?

 

[Granaten82]

I recently installed Mojave on an 17 inch MacBook Pro 2011. And dgpu is disabled through the software patch. However the screen is very dark. Maybe 40% of max brightness. The brightness controls are not working (known problem). While using the brightness slider software Im able to make the screen even more dark, but the max brightness is still 40%. Is it possible to set max brightness through software, maybe through a terminal command?

 

[Kevbasscat]

Interesting. System report is not showing the Intel Audio section at all on my MBP 2012.
On my cMP 1,1 and 5,1 it's excactly as you say. S/PDIF is shown in audio system settings and the system report. I can't find a mini Toslink cable to check if the behaviour on the MBP is driver related (broken installation) or supposed to be like that. I just remembered that it only shows up if connected (like it does with headphones connected)

EDIT: My nMP 6,1 is not showing any S/PDIF either and it's suppose to support mini Toslink as well..

I could be way off here, but I think that may be the default for Mojave. Mine only showed, microphone, system audio out, and headphones. Can you copy the drivers or kexts from whatever operating system you're using and paste them to it?

 

[Alex Crane]

Hello. Please, fix the "gpudisable" link in the first post.

 

[flygbuss]

To bring some light (literally) into the digital I/O discussion within Mojave.
I bought a mini Toslink cable and did some testing.
As soon as you connect the cable to your headphone jack it's recognized within the 'sound' tab in system preferences.

1. Select the digital output (no red light on the other side of the cable yet)
2. Start iTunes or any Player you would like to listen to
3. Hit play (red light turns on, meaning it's automatically syncing with the connected device)
4. Depending on your setup you should hear whatever you're playing (don't listen to bad music)

Btw. it's not shown as Intel Audio Device within system report anymore though the output source says 'Digital Out' when connected..

 

[flygbuss]

Can anyone tell me where Mojave keeps the apple Mail accounts? I know all the mails are stored in ~/Library/Mail/
But unfortunately I deleted the account and it's not coming back by just replacing the 'Mail' folder..

 

[taranee]

O.k.
No new boot chip?
Just flash it?

no flashing just make the installer boot to it formate the drive to apfs and install. then boot back to the installer and run the post patches that is in the same menu as disk utility bottom left of the screen. may have to scroll to find it
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O.k.
No new boot chip?
Just flash it?

hear this might help

 

[Starplayr]

To bring some light (literally) into the digital I/O discussion within Mojave.
I bought a mini Toslink cable and did some testing.
As soon as you connect the cable to your headphone jack it's recognized within the 'sound' tab in system preferences.

1. Select the digital output (no red light on the other side of the cable yet)
2. Start iTunes or any Player you would like to listen to
3. Hit play (red light turns on, meaning it's automatically syncing with the connected device)
4. Depending on your setup you should hear whatever you're playing (don't listen to bad music)

Btw. it's not shown as Intel Audio Device within system report anymore though the output source says 'Digital Out' when connected..

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I need to get my Digital Out working again. Lost my cable or I sold it and forgot about it. But I have this large Samsung speaker bar that my neighbor was throwing out the window and its has Digital Out, HDMI out, Analog Out, and I forget what else, but it's awesome I picked it up for free and its works great.

 

[flygbuss]

I need to get my Digital Out working again. Lost my cable or I sold it and forgot about it. But I have this large Samsung speaker bar that my neighbor was throwing out the window and its has Digital Out, HDMI out, Analog Out, and I forget what else, but it's awesome I picked it up for free. I would image this bar costing at least 100 dollars.

Should work as soon as you connect the mini Toslink cable to your computer.
Otherwise you could use a miniDP to HDMI cable to connect the speaker. Depends on your Mac if audio via miniDP is supported.
I assume you mean 'In' when you wrote about the Samsung speaker?

 

[Larsvonhier]

Another thought: Perhaps in this S/PDIF case some voodoo might help? (I´m absolutely no fan of mixing hackintosh and vintag

apfs works on my mid 09 mbp. just dose the code thing as stated in dose dudes vid.

you guys rock thanks. i just installed 10,14 on my mid 09 mbp last night to try it out. using a Small repeat partitions and other then the as stated glitched with light and dark modes it seems to be working like it should. but again i did this as a test not ready to jump ship to it untell you all work more out on it. ps liking dark mode

also just to throw this out there optical audio appears to be working on mine if that counts for any thing.

whats up with the code thing on apfs boot any how ?


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The "code thing" at startup is the workaround for booting APFS as long as you have not patched the boot ROM.
Could you send a screenshot of the system info about audio, I´d like to see how S/PDIF digital audio is represented there... thanks!
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To bring some light (literally) into the digital I/O discussion within Mojave.
I bought a mini Toslink cable and did some testing.
As soon as you connect the cable to your headphone jack it's recognized within the 'sound' tab in system preferences.

1. Select the digital output (no red light on the other side of the cable yet)
2. Start iTunes or any Player you would like to listen to
3. Hit play (red light turns on, meaning it's automatically syncing with the connected device)
4. Depending on your setup you should hear whatever you're playing (don't listen to bad music)

Btw. it's not shown as Intel Audio Device within system report anymore though the output source says 'Digital Out' when connected..

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THAT is great news - thank you! Then I´m looking forward to receiving my bunch of cables for the office work next week. Will post my results here...
Nota bene: I´m relieved that we don´t have to mess around with the voodoo kexts ;-)

 

[flygbuss]

THAT is great news - thank you! Then I´m looking forward to receiving my bunch of cables for the office work next week. Will post my results here...
Nota bene: I´m relieved that we don´t have to mess around with the voodoo kexts ;-)

Just double checked on my nMP - same behavior. Digitial output appears as soon as you plug in the mini Toslink cable.

So you should be fine with whatever you're planning

 

[taranee]

Another thought: Perhaps in this S/PDIF case some voodoo might help? (I´m absolutely no fan of mixing hackintosh and vintag

The "code thing" at startup is the workaround for booting APFS as long as you have not patched the boot ROM.
Could you send a screenshot of the system info about audio, I´d like to see how S/PDIF digital audio is represented there... thanks!
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THAT is great news - thank you! Then I´m looking forward to receiving my bunch of cables for the office work next week. Will post my results here...
Nota bene: I´m relieved that we don´t have to mess around with the voodoo kexts ;-)

this what you need ?

also hear is a photo of the optical adapter in the head phone port

uploaded one more screen shot

 

[Loyd-01a]

Here is a zip file with (I think all) the kexts requested - it's from El Capitan 11.6
There are several that have that others have requested for fixing various problems - select those that you need to try this. If you need anything else just ask. I have most OS X and MacOS.

@David403
@ASentientBot
@jackluke

Could you please share the HighSierra version of AppleUSBMultitouch.kext ?

I just tested El Capitan one for my eratic trackpad, but it "breaks" some of my french Keybord touches !!!

Even if I re-installed the Mojave version of this kext, some touches still don’t work (all numbers and the letters : o,i,u,j,k and l.)

I also tested Apple BT keybord but no succes.

Thank you

 

[taranee]

so if using journaled format stops it from updating. then how do we update it ?

also i just read a post stating that fusion drives or hyper drive are not supported with apfs. my mid 09 mbp has a 1 tb hyper drive installed and apfs works on it just fine. so unless that was fixed at some point. just throwing that out there as will

 

[vsbalint70]

What SSD have you been running on? An OCZ Vertex by any means? If so, this would be the second incident of this SSD dying, although mine died upon updating my unsupported MacBook Pro 8,1 to 10.14.1. Until I read your post I did not suspect Mojave to be the culprit but rather thought it is coincidental. It could still be, as a friends unsupported 17’’ did upgrade just fine on a Samsung SSD.

Both drives were parts of custom fusion drive configurations using the APFS Apple file system.

Could you provide additional information?

No. it was a Corsair...

 

[roronl]

Can anyone tell me where Mojave keeps the apple Mail accounts? I know all the mails are stored in ~/Library/Mail/
But unfortunately I deleted the account and it's not coming back by just replacing the 'Mail' folder..

I would recommend to restore this account via a Time Machine backup. Please report.

 

[flygbuss]

I would recommend to restore this account via a Time Machine backup. Please report.

Thank you, that’s exactly what I did. First I tried to restore just the folders I thought where included but it never brought back the deleted account, so I started with cmd+r and set the whole system back. Should have done that in the first place because it just took 30 seconds..

 

[David403]

@David403
@ASentientBot
@jackluke

Could you please share the HighSierra version of AppleUSBMultitouch.kext ?

I just tested El Capitan one for my eratic trackpad, but it "breaks" some of my french Keybord touches !!!

Even if I re-installed the Mojave version of this kext, some touches still don’t work (all numbers and the letters : o,i,u,j,k and l.)

I also tested Apple BT keybord but no succes.

Thank you

Here it is from High Sierra 10.13.6

@David403
@ASentientBot
@jackluke

Could you please share the HighSierra version of AppleUSBMultitouch.kext ?

I just tested El Capitan one for my eratic trackpad, but it "breaks" some of my french Keybord touches !!!

Even if I re-installed the Mojave version of this kext, some touches still don’t work (all numbers and the letters : o,i,u,j,k and l.)

I also tested Apple BT keybord but no succes.

Thank you