macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[ASentientBot]

just installed Mojave on MacBook Pro 6,2 (mid 2010). Everything works fine, but is graphics acceleration working? how can I verify that it just works?

If you have transparent menu bar, Dock, and sidebars, and the system is generally responsive, then you have graphical acceleration.

A system with no acceleration looks like a system with "reduce transparency" turned on, but with 10x more lag.

 

[DuncanGarp]

Untouched / Unpatched CoreBrightness from Mojave

Can someone please provide me the original CoreBrightness* from Mojave or point me to a location that I could download it from? I need to try to experiment on it using Xcode and other development tools.

Thank you.

 

[jackluke]

Thank you – I had no idea that was the cause of that problem on my computer. Is there any chance to update the patch to correct that problem and keep nightshift working?

Edit: replaced the CoreBrightness.framework file on my computer with one from a machine with an original High Sierra installation (right now I'm using High Sierra on an unsupported computer). The Night Shift option disappeared, as expected, but the problems with the Control Panel remain... sigh.

Try this only for Mojave: Mojave patched Corebrightness NightShift

edit:
While I posted HighSierra NightShift patched here: CoreBrightness High Sierra NightShift

Credit for discovered correlation between CoreBrightness/NightShift with input devices prefpanes issues belongs to @Olivia88 .

Patching Corebrightness's technique credit to pikeralpha.

 

[patton76]

Hi,

I’ve been using the patches in the previous years for an old iMac 8.1. They always worked great and really helped extending the iMacs life.

This weekend I finally bought a new MacBook Pro. I migrated the iMac to the MacBook but at the time didn’t realize I was migrating a patched Mac.

Since I did, the MacBook is behaving funky. I also saw references and error messages in console to dosdude patched files.

Is there a way to remove the patch? Or which files at what location are installed so I can manually remove?

Last resort would be to wipe the drive and start all over, but that would be a lot of work...

Thanks in advance!

 

[Banglazed]

Beta 4! Installing the update, the screen went pitched dark for a few minutes. I forced it to restart, login (because I have FileVault enabled) and it continued to install.

dosdude1 is this a normal occurrence?

 

[DaniloGeekDude]

10.14.2 Beta 3 to 10.14.2 Beta 4 update

Successfully updated OTA and Mojave Patcher | MacOS Post Install.



Followed these steps as before.

1. System Preferences | Software Update, then click on "update now". (goes without saying ... must be on developers or public beta program)
2. It will reboot and then show "installing software update ...xx minutes remaining)
3. When finishing step 2, it will again reboot. Now the next step (4) is important.
4. Option-Key and boot to "Mojave Patcher" 1.2.3 thumb drive.
5. run MacOS Post Install. Check on "Force Rebuild Cache" and then reboot.
6. It will boot with the message "Finishing Update" on black screen.
7. Then you are done!

Regards and good luck to all who are planning to update.

 

[lumos]

Hello, I have a MacPro 3.1 with Mojave 10.14.1 and an external powered USB hub.
Into the USB hub, I have connected my iPhone and a USB WiFi Stick.
With the previous 10.14 all work perfectly, the iPhone charge and sync and the WiFi work.
After 10.14.1 update, the WiFi work perfectly but the iPhone does not charge or sync.
If I connect the iPhone to the front MacPro USB port, the charge and sync work again.

How can I fix the external USB hub? I have already tried to reset the PRAM and SMC.

Thank you

 

[Larsvonhier]

10.14.2 Beta 3 to 10.14.2 Beta 4 update

Successfully updated OTA and Mojave Patcher | MacOS Post Install.

View attachment 807231

Followed these steps as before.

1. System Preferences | Software Update, then click on "update now". (goes without saying ... must be on developers or public beta program)
2. It will reboot and then show "installing software update ...xx minutes remaining)
3. When finishing step 2, it will again reboot. Now the next step (4) is important.
4. Option-Key and boot to "Mojave Patcher" 1.2.3 thumb drive.
5. run MacOS Post Install. Check on "Force Rebuild Cache" and then reboot.
6. It will boot with the message "Finishing Update" on black screen.
7. Then you are done!

Regards and good luck to all who are planning to update.

I can confirm this again, still the way to successfully update the betas.
Have done it on my MBP 4,1 17"

 

[StratUk]

Hello, I have a MacPro 3.1 with Mojave 10.14.1 and an external powered USB hub.
Into the USB hub, I have connected my iPhone and a USB WiFi Stick.
With the previous 10.14 all work perfectly, the iPhone charge and sync and the WiFi work.
After 10.14.1 update, the WiFi work perfectly but the iPhone does not charge or sync.
If I connect the iPhone to the front MacPro USB port, the charge and sync work again.

How can I fix the external USB hub? I have already tried to reset the PRAM and SMC.

Thank you

I also have this problem - thought it was just my old kit - be interesting to know if there's a solution

 

[joelw135]

I have updated to 10.14.2 on both a Mac Mini 3,1 and a MacBook Pro 7,1 this was the easiest yet.

 

[Flacko]

Hello, I have a MacPro 3.1 with Mojave 10.14.1 and an external powered USB hub.
Into the USB hub, I have connected my iPhone and a USB WiFi Stick.
With the previous 10.14 all work perfectly, the iPhone charge and sync and the WiFi work.
After 10.14.1 update, the WiFi work perfectly but the iPhone does not charge or sync.
If I connect the iPhone to the front MacPro USB port, the charge and sync work again.

How can I fix the external USB hub? I have already tried to reset the PRAM and SMC.

Thank you

My Mac Pro 3.1 had a similar problem. After update to Mojave 14.1 I found that the apple usb keyboard was unable to select the boot screen or reset pram etc. It was connected to the usb hub in an apple LED Cinema Display. Once Mojave was up and running the keyboard was fine it was just not being recognised during the initial boot up. Connecting the keyboard directly to the Mac solved this but there may be to be a problem with Mac Pro 3.1 and usb hubs when using Mojave 14.1. In my case I have just connected the keyboard directly to the Mac using a usb extension lead.

 

[olad]

Is there any way to tell which installer version is available for download via dosdude1's patcher, other than downloading it and then checking which version came down? For example, I would hate to download the Beta 3 installer, instead of Beta 4's. Just curious.

 

[thewebgal]

Got a Q - i am running Mojave 14.1 on my 2009 MacPro upped to 5.1 firmware.
Its running on the 480GTB I installed it on.
I got a deal on a SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB drive and would like to move my boot drive data to that drive, so I can move the 480 to another macpro and get it running Mojave.

Do I need to do anything special to Format the new drive before using Time machine to restore my data to it?

 

[ivofonseca]

Try this only for Mojave: Mojave patched Corebrightness NightShift

edit:
While I posted HighSierra NightShift patched here: CoreBrightness High Sierra NightShift

Credit for discovered correlation between CoreBrightness/NightShift with input devices prefpanes issues belongs to @Olivia88 .

Patching Corebrightness's technique credit to pikeralpha.

Tried to replace the CoreBrightness file (High Sierra version) as instructed, and the control panel errors returned. Anyway, the culprit is identified, and everything is working well now, even if without the NightShift. Thank you!

 

[LegoNickD]

Hey everyone, I have a weird idea and wanted to check with you guys to see if you think it will work. I have a black MacBook 1,1 (very old with a core duo) and I recently read on a comment here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1342+Logic+Board+Replacement/1675
that a MacBook 5,2 logic board will work inside the MacBook 1,1. I see that I will have to replace a few parts like the heatsink and fan and most likely the wireless card, but do you think I could end up being able to run Mojave on the MacBook? (assuming the board swap works)

 

[zoeloe]

Hi,
I managed to instal 10.14.1 on a MacbookPro8,3 with patched installer.
So far, so good.
I installed the beta developer download enabler (the one when 10.14.2 beta appeared) (Showing this in Software Update),
but I'm not presented with the actual possibility to update to 10.14.2 beta 's
Any ideas ?
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Hi,
I managed to instal 10.14.1 on a MacbookPro8,3 with patched installer.
So far, so good.
I installed the beta developer download enabler (the one when 10.14.2 beta appeared) (Showing this in Software Update),
but I'm not presented with the actual possibility to update to 10.14.2 beta 's
Any ideas ?

Well,.. Up to Beta 3 this didn't work. But now I'm presented with Beta 4. Go figure. Typical.

 

[Sveto]

If you have transparent menu bar, Dock, and sidebars, and the system is generally responsive, then you have graphical acceleration.

A system with no acceleration looks like a system with "reduce transparency" turned on, but with 10x more lag.

That is not true. Granted his question was wrongly formulated, but you are confusing the guy. I also have MacBook Pro 6.2 with Mojave. There may be no full-blown transparency in those unsupported models, but the system is snappier than High Sierra ever was. Also the Hybrid/Flat modes make an excellent approximation to the full-blown transparency.

 

[ASentientBot]

That is not true. Granted his question was wrongly formulated, but you are confusing the guy. I also have MacBook Pro 6.2 with Mojave. There may be no full-blown transparency in those unsupported models, but the system is snappier than High Sierra ever was. Also the Hybrid/Flat modes make an excellent approximation to the full-blown transparency.

Well, that is not at all what I experienced. I used my MB7,1 with no acceleration for a week before I found the patch that enabled acceleration on nVidia Tesla cards. It was hell. Dosdude1 and others have said the same, a system without acceleration is barely usable. It renders all the graphics on the CPU and has no support for transparency or 3D animations at all.

MacBookPro6,1 has an nVidia Tesla GPU. It's not one of the unsupported AMD based models. You most likely have acceleration, in fact.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with Hybrid/Flat modes but those only apply to systems with acceleration anyways. They fix minor graphical glitches, they do not enable transparency on a system with no acceleration.

Edit: I realized the mistake. You are mixing up graphical acceleration and the light mode transparency glitch. Graphical acceleration is enabled by kexts (taken from 10.12 (I think) for Intel and some AMD GPUs, and taken from 10.13 and patched by me for nVidia Tesla GPUs). The light mode glitches (weird grey windows) is an unrelated problem that is caused by lack of Metal but not lack of acceleration. @pkouame and others have developed excellent patches for that.

 

[LightBulbFun]

im pleased to report the Mojave patcher @dosdude1 made works lovely on my Xserve3,1

(im running without any video patches as I have pulled the MXM GT 120 video card and installed a single slot PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 from EVGA which supports metal)

amusingly the patch updater wants to update some sort of audio patch despite the fact the Xserve having no audio outputs

 

[jackluke]

Well, that is not at all what I experienced. I used my MB7,1 with no acceleration for a week before I found the patch that enabled acceleration on nVidia Tesla cards. It was hell. Dosdude1 and others have said the same, a system without acceleration is barely usable. It renders all the graphics on the CPU and has no support for transparency or 3D animations at all.

MacBookPro6,1 has an nVidia Tesla GPU. It's not one of the unsupported AMD based models. You most likely have acceleration, in fact.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with Hybrid/Flat modes but those only apply to systems with acceleration anyways. They fix minor graphical glitches, they do not enable transparency on a system with no acceleration.

Edit: I realized the mistake. You are mixing up graphical acceleration and the light mode transparency glitch. Graphical acceleration is enabled by kexts (taken from 10.12 (I think) for Intel and some AMD GPUs, and taken from 10.13 and patched by me for nVidia Tesla GPUs). The light mode glitches (weird grey windows) is an unrelated problem that is caused by lack of Metal but not lack of acceleration. @pkouame and others have developed excellent patches for that.

Totally agree, graphical acceleration (QE/CI or OpenGL/CL) is needful especially in Mojave and I add that on target machines only with your amazing patches (Nvidia Tesla Legacy and C2D Platform legacy) today we have a perfect stand-alone "dark mode" that is the Mojave's business card. The rest is a plus.

 

[the.burn]

Besides the ongoing discussion, I can only repeat that my MacBook Pro 6,2 (15“, 2010) is running as if it is a supported machine
I would say graphic accelaration is available on both Intel and nVidia card, since everything is smooth and responsive!

 

[saudor]

Hi,

I’ve been using the patches in the previous years for an old iMac 8.1. They always worked great and really helped extending the iMacs life.

This weekend I finally bought a new MacBook Pro. I migrated the iMac to the MacBook but at the time didn’t realize I was migrating a patched Mac.

Since I did, the MacBook is behaving funky. I also saw references and error messages in console to dosdude patched files.

Is there a way to remove the patch? Or which files at what location are installed so I can manually remove?

Last resort would be to wipe the drive and start all over, but that would be a lot of work...

Thanks in advance!

Reinstall macos over the current install and it should reset everything but keep your data

 

[patsio]

Does the facetime cam work on macbook pro 13" early 2011?! I'd chosen to install the legacy iSight cam patch.

Could anyone,pls, help me with this one, is it possible to make it work on this model?

 

[flygbuss]

Could anyone,pls, help me with this one, is it possible to make it work on this model?

It worked well with my MBP 8,1.

EDIT: Sorry, mine is a late 2011..

 

[OGNerd]

Could anyone,pls, help me with this one, is it possible to make it work on this model?

It works flawlessly on my 15" Early-2011 MacBook Pro without the need of any camera patches.