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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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dosdude1 said:
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Current Hardware Support Status:
  • Machine Support
    • Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro:
      • MacPro3,1
      • MacPro4,1
      • iMac8,1
      • iMac9,1
      • iMac10,x
      • iMac11,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Current Issues section below.)
      • iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Current Issues section below.)
      • MacBookPro4,1
      • MacBookPro5,x
      • MacBookPro6,x
      • MacBookPro7,1
      • MacBookPro8,x
    • Late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook:
      • MacBookAir2,1
      • MacBookAir3,x
      • MacBookAir4,x
      • MacBook5,1
    • Early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook:
      • Macmini3,1
      • Macmini4,1
      • Macmini5,x
      • MacBook5,2
      • MacBook6,1
      • MacBook7,1
    • Early-2008 or newer Xserve:
      • Xserve2,1
      • Xserve3,1
  • Video Card Support
    • Pre-Metal AMD video cards (Radeon HD 6xxx series and older without acceleration, Radeon HD 4xxx series and older with acceleration.)
    • Pre-Metal Nvidia video cards (GeForce 5xx series and older)
    • Pre-Metal Intel video cards (Intel HD Graphics 3000 and Intel HD Graphics Arrandale)
Current Issues
  • Minor Issues
    • Graphics anomalies: Currently, pre-metal video cards used in Mojave will produce a weird darkish grey Menu Bar and Finder sidebar when using the light theme. In the dark theme, these anomalies are not present, while other, less obvious anomalies are present (window corners may not render properly, bottom part of dock menus may have artifacts). A workaround for graphics anomalies in light mode is to enable Reduce Transparency in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display (this might create additional side effects beside the obvious loss of transparency as some systems with pre-metal AMD graphics render the dock in dark gray).
    • Built-in iSight cameras: Currently, built-in iSight cameras do not work correctly on some machines. It seems to be hit or miss, but when installing, expect your iSight camera to be non-functional.
    • Trackpad (MacBook5,2 affected only). Trackpad multi-finger gestures on the MacBook5,2 not supported in Mojave. While the trackpad works and is fully usable, Mojave detects it as just a standard mouse, preventing you from changing some trackpad-oriented settings.
  • Major Issues
    • AMD Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx series GPU acceleration: Currently, it is not possible to get full graphics acceleration when running Mojave on a system with a Radeon HD 5xxx or 6xxx series GPU. Mojave will be almost UNUSABLE without graphics acceleration. This includes the 15" and 17" MacBook Pro systems (MacBookPro8,2 and 8,3). If you want to enable GPU acceleration on these machines, you'll need to disable the AMD GPU (This will work on MacBook Pro 8,2 and 8,3 systems ONLY. You CANNOT disable the AMD GPU in an iMac.) Weird colors will also be produced when running Mojave with one of these video cards installed/enabled. To disable the AMD GPU on a 2011 MacBook Pro 8,2 or 8,3, follow the guide found here.
    • App Store Crashing: Some users have reported crashing upon opening the App Store. This is caused by App Store videos and can be worked around by disabling video autoplay and not viewing App Store videos. This is not a fix, this is a workaround. Safari may also experience crashes with certain kinds of embedded videos.
    • Early-2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) GPU support: When running Mojave, you CANNOT use a newer AMD video card EVEN IF it is a Metal-compatible card and is supported in Mojave. The newer AMD drivers used in Mojave require the SSE4.2 instruction set, which the MacPro3,1 does not support. There is no way around this at this time. Your only GPU upgrade options for MacPro3,1 systems are Nvidia cards, which work perfectly fine.
    • Unsupported WiFi modules in some systems. Macs that use the Broadcom BCM4321 WiFi module will not have functional WiFi when running Mojave. A fix for this is to open up your machine and install a compatible WiFi card. Machines affected include some MacPro3,1, MacBook5,2, MacBookPro4,1, iMac8,1, Macmini3,1, and MacBookAir2,1 systems. Please note that not all these machines will have an unsupported card, this is just a list of machines known to have shipped with that card in some configurations.
Current Issues by Hardware
  • Minor Issues
    • Graphics anomalies:
      • All machines
    • Built-in iSight camera:
      • All machines, hit or miss
    • Trackpad:
      • MacBook5,2
  • Major Issues
    • AMD GPU acceleration:
      • All machines with a Radeon HD 5xxx or 6xxx series GPUs (these systems will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Current Issues section above.)
    • App Store Crashing:
      • All machines with Radeon HD 4xxx series GPUs
    • AMD GPU support:
      • MacPro3,1
    • Unsupported WiFi modules:
      • All machines with Broadcom BCM4321 WiFi modules
Installation:
To install on your machine, you can download and run the macOS Mojave Patcher application, which will let you download a copy of the latest installer app from Apple and create a bootable installer drive for use on unsupported Macs. It contains all the patches necessary to achieve the hardware support listed above. The installation guide can be found here and an installation guide video here.

APFS ROM Patcher:
Warning: This tool could irreversibly brick your EFI chip. Please exercise caution with machines that have multiple EEPROM definitions. Relevant information can be found here and here. The APFS ROM patcher can be found here. Use the password apfs to decrypt the ZIP.

Mojave Builds and Installer Versions (Developer Preview, Public Beta):
2018/06/04 - 2018/09/12 10.14.0 DP1 - DP11, PB1 - PB10
2018/06/04 DP1, build 18A293u, installer 14.0.08
2018/06/19 DP2, build 18A314h, installer 14.0.11
2018/06/26 PB1, build 18A314k, installer 14.0.11
2018/07/03 DP3, build 18A326g, installer 14.0.12
2018/07/06 PB2, build 18A326h, installer 14.0.12
2018/07/16 DP4, 2018/07/17 PB3, build 18A336e, installer 14.0.14
2018/07/30 DP5, 2018/07/31 PB4, build 18A347e, installer 14.0.15
2018/08/06 DP6, 2018/08/06 PB5, build 18A353d, installer 14.0.16
2018/08/13 DP7, 2018/08/13 PB6, build 18A365a, installer 14.0.17
2018/08/20 DP8, 2018/08/20 PB7, build 18A371a, installer 14.0.18
2018/08/27 DP9, 2018/08/27 PB8, build 18A377a, installer 14.0.20
2018/09/04 DP10, 2018/09/04 PB9, build 18A384a, installer 14.0.21
2018/09/12 DP11, 2018/09/12 PB10, build 18A389, installer 14.0.21​
2018/09/24 10.14.0 Final, build 18A391, installer 14.0.22
2018/09/25 - 2018/10/23 10.14.1 DP1 - DP5, PB1 - PB5
2018/09/25 10.14.1 DP1, 2018/09/27 PB1, build 18B45d
2018/10/02 10.14.1 DP2, 2018/10/02 PB2, build 18B50c
2018/10/08 10.14.1 DP3, 2018/10/08 PB3, build 18B57c
2018/10/17 10.14.1 DP4, 2018/10/17 PB4, build 18B67a
2018/10/23 10.14.1 DP5, 2018/10/23 PB5, build 18B73a​
2018/09/25 - 2018/10/23 10.14.1 Beta Installation Issues
2018/10/30 10.14.1 Final, build 18B75, installer 14.1.0
2018/10/31 - 2018/11/28 10.14.2 DP1 - DP4, PB1 - PB4
2018/10/31 10.14.2 DP1, 2018/11/02 PB1, build 18C31g
2018/11/07 10.14.2 DP2, 2018/11/07 PB2, build 18C38b
2018/11/16 10.14.2 DP3, 2018/11/16 PB3, build 18C48a
2018/11/28 10.14.2 DP4, 2018/11/28 PB4, build 18C52a​
2018/12/05 10.14.2 Final, build 18C54, installer 14.2.2
2018/12/10 - 2018/12/11 10.14.3 DP1, PB1
2018/12/10 10.14.3 DP1, 2018/12/11 PB1 build 18D21c
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Credits:
@dosdude1 - Developed macOS Mojave Patcher.
@parrotgeek1 - Developed LegacyUSBInjector, SIPManager, and NDRVShim. (Source Code)
@Czo - Developed SUVMMFaker. (Source Code)
@Badruzeus - Discovered that Sierra OpenGL drivers work in Mojave.
@ASentientBot - Fixed Nvidia kernel panic, Core 2 Duo kernel panic, and iSight.
@jackluke - Narrowed down cause of Core 2 Duo kernel panic.

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Do y'all think that I should upgrade my 2011 MacBook Pro? My specs are 16Gb RAM with an intel 2.5 GHz processor and an SSD. I don't have any type of advanced graphics processing or anything.
 
cecil444 said:
FYI: I did run into one problem yesterday with my MacBook5,1 (currently running 10.14.1): I inserted a recent DVD into the built-in optical drive, but it wouldn't play. It did recognize the disc as a DVD, and auto-launched the DVD player app, but it didn't start auto-playing the DVD main menu as it usually would, and it didn't respond when I clicked the Play and Menu buttons. I didn't try playing a DVD when I was running the patched version of 10.14.0, so I don't know if this is a new or existing bug. But I did try playing the DVD on an officially supported Mac running Mojave and it worked fine.

Do you have any idea why DVDs might not respond/play under patched versions of Mojave, @dosdude1 ?
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I have the same issue with. MacBook Pro 5,5
 
jackluke said:
Hello everyone owners of Macbook7,1 (and I guess of any C2D Penryn Mac) with Mojave beta 4, I do have a weird issue, everything is working, except into System Preferences when I try to open some elements I got this message:

Preferences Error
"You can’t open File.prefpane because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac."

Where File.prefpane is any of: Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad


I have tried replacing them from a previous HS version but it doesn't worked, I mean they have the same behavior.

edit:
Another weird thing is when using "dark mode", opening System Preferences, the "Users & groups" and "Accessibility" panes after opened (they only) turn back in a "light mode" window, while overall is still in dark mode.

edit2:
It occurs even on a supported Mac booting from the same Mojave beta 4 external SSD, while instead booting from internal SSD Mojave beta 2 it doesn't occur.

Maybe since those are all usb input devices it's something related to the manual IOUSB*** kext patching or to Mojave beta 4? Hoping is beta 4 general issue.
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taranee said:
i just had this same thing happen to me. only on 10,13 i posted about it on that thread the only fix i seen was to do some thing i dont know what. to get it all to work with the catch of no more night shift. that workaround don't work for me as it was working 100% tell i discovered it today.

whats not working

keyboard, trackpad, and mouse preference panes. they all now apparently don't work on Intel macs. just to test any one know if there is a way to remove the nightshift patch ?
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I'm facing the exact same issue on a macPro3,1 but only with macOS 10.13.6 : Keyboard / Mouse / Trackpad pref panes are no more accessible: "You can’t open Keyboard preferences pane because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac." and Accessibility pref pane cannot open: "Could not load Accessibility preference pane."

I tried to reinstall macOS from @dosdude1 freshly created USB Key and it worked, but after few days (with no specific change in my setup) the error came back. I'm not changing keyboard/mouse/trackpad every day so it's not the biggest issue however "Accessibility" panel is mandatory to allow certain app to work...

I also tried to re-apply NightShift patch but it does not solve the issue.

The logs does not show really significant message:

default 10:18:40.733464 +0100 System Preferences [NSPrefPaneBundle instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane): principalClass is nil.
default 10:19:33.738785 +0100 System Preferences ### _currentPrefPaneInstance.mainView ((null)) is NOT NSView com.apple.preference.universalaccess
default 10:19:43.392017 +0100 com.apple.preference.universalaccess.remoteservice LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout.
default 10:19:49.893909 +0100 trustd could not enable test hierarchy: no UAT pinning preferences set

any suggestion is particularly welcome! :)

Note: There is no issue when running Mojave on my macPro, unfortunately Mojave is unusable on my setup (no graphic acceleration available with my NVidia GPU)
 
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I cannot boot after successful update installation on iMac 10,1.

Hi,
using the patcher, I had the Mojave 10.14.1 installed on my iMac 10,1 and everything worked brilliantly. After a thoughtless update to 10.14.2. I could not boot any more and was forced to reinstall the system. Doing so, I proceeded exactly as advised on dosdudes's page, using a 10.14.2 installer. I can install and post-install, but after reboot I constantly get the no-go sign, even after clearing caches.

Please help me to track what went wrong
 
sklein said:
I cannot boot after successful update installation on iMac 10,1.

Hi,
using the patcher, I had the Mojave 10.14.1 installed on my iMac 10,1 and everything worked brilliantly. After a thoughtless update to 10.14.2. I could not boot any more and was forced to reinstall the system. Doing so, I proceeded exactly as advised on dosdudes's page, using a 10.14.2 installer. I can install and post-install, but after reboot I constantly get the no-go sign, even after clearing caches.

Please help me to track what went wrong
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I don't know if this will work in your case, but my solution was to reset the PRAM. Start your iMac and press command-option-p-r (I restarted three times in a row this way). After this I did the post-install procedure again in order to turn off SIP.

Good luck!
 
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I am trying to get my macmini3,1 to boot from a patched usb drive and it’s got the apple logo and the loadin* bar is blank and doesn’t move.
It worked when I did it for High Sierra.
Tried resetting with power plug pulled for 15 seconds and then power for 5 seconds and then turn on. Command option + p&r.
The patched Mojave’s boots on my 2008 unibody MacBook.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Agent006 said:
I am trying to get my macmini3,1 to boot from a patched usb drive and it’s got the apple logo and the loadin* bar is blank and doesn’t move.
It worked when I did it for High Sierra.
Tried resetting with power plug pulled for 15 seconds and then power for 5 seconds and then turn on. Command option + p&r.
The patched Mojave’s boots on my 2008 unibody MacBook.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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Make sure it is a USB Thumb drive or SD card. For some reason my Macmini 3,1 would not allow me to boot off a patched HD or SSD.
 
I am trying to use APFS ROM Patcher with an iMac 8,1.
The problem I'm having is can't get into Firmware Update mode.
No long tone when power button held in, machine just restarts. No flashing lights visible either.

Any suggestions?
 
@dosdude1 The iMac 12,1/12,2 Needs the Intel Sandybridge HD3000 kexts installed in Mojave for the Machine to wake from sleep. Of course we have swapped the AMD card out for a Kepler Nvidia card for acceleration. So can you please modify your patcher to install the "intelsandybridgegraphics" as standard.

I spent hours trying to figure out why one iMac would wake from sleep but the other wouldn't. The working one had an SSD from a 2011 MBP so the HD3000 kexts were installed. Removing the HD3000 kexts would result in the iMac not waking from sleep.
 
highvoltage12v said:
@dosdude1 The iMac 12,1/12,2 Needs the Intel Sandybridge HD3000 kexts installed in Mojave for the Machine to wake from sleep. Of course we have swapped the AMD card out for a Kepler Nvidia card for acceleration. So can you please modify your patcher to install the "intelsandybridgegraphics" as standard.

I spent hours trying to figure out why one iMac would wake from sleep but the other wouldn't. The working one had an SSD from a 2011 MBP so the HD3000 kexts were installed. Removing the HD3000 kexts would result in the iMac not waking from sleep.
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Those kexts actually are installed by default on that model already, so as long as the Legacy Video Card patch is selected, the Intel HD Graphics 3000 kexts will be installed.
 
dosdude1 said:
Those kexts actually are installed by default on that model already, so as long as the Legacy Video Card patch is selected, the Intel HD Graphics 3000 kexts will be installed.
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I just did that option, It leaves me with no acceleration after selecting legacy Video patch. The issue is from the patched IOAcceleratorFamily2 kext also being installed. Then after correcting that, the Nvidia Tesla kexts cause transparency issues on our supported Kelper cards. So on the MXM thread we have been telling everyone not to select the legacy video card patch. I attached an image of the transparency issues.
 

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Hi all,

my Mac Pro 3.1 (with Mojave 10.14.2), have a sleep issue.
When it goes to sleep, after some hours I'm unable to wake it up when I click the mouse or the keyboard.
I can only force the power off and then power on again.
With the first 10.14 release, it does not have sleep issues.

The Mac Pro 3.1 has a GTX 680 2GB, three hard disk and an external UPS.

Exist a fix for this problem?

Thanks
 
Starplayr said:
Apple iMac "Core i5" 2.7 27-Inch (Mid-2011) iMac 12,2

Installed Mojave b2 using USB Dosdude1's patcher
Rebooted to USB Patcher, Ran patches iMac 12,2

Rebooted:
Boots to Gray Apple Logo, light gray screen, progress bar gets about 2/3's of the way through and the machine reboots. It then reboots a second time with a double chime. It's like a full chime with a half chime right afterwards.

Will try again later with verbose output.

This is from memory (last night).

I am guessing its an issue with the AMD Video Card. I have not tried anything outside the patcher. Tried to run it like it is for a good test.

I would like to thank dosdude1 again for his hard work and dedication (and anyone else associated with this project). I will be sending a donation to dosdude1 after my next eBay sale. I used to write donation ware about ten years ago and will be paying it forward. Your HS patches are solid.
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I got it working on the same iMac yesterday but I don’t instal on mane drive I installed on external drive just to test Mojave on it It works but the colors will be off color I used amd kext and used kext installer for it and colors appeared normal but it doesn’t have fully Acceleration Trying to figure out if there is away to take files from the high Sierra to make the graphics work Next test for me is to reinstall and see what happens if I put graphics folder from High Sierra in to Mojave
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highvoltage12v said:
I just did that option, It leaves me with no acceleration after selecting legacy Video patch. The issue is from the patched IOAcceleratorFamily2 kext also being installed. Then after correcting that, the Nvidia Tesla kexts cause transparency issues on our supported Kelper cards. So on the MXM thread we have been telling everyone not to select the legacy video card patch. I attached an image of the transparency issues.
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Have you tried using old kext from High Sierra
 
Nv1990 said:
I got it working on the same iMac yesterday but I don’t instal on mane drive I installed on external drive just to test Mojave on it It works but the colors will be off color I used amd kext and used kext installer for it and colors appeared normal but it doesn’t have fully Acceleration Trying to figure out if there is away to take files from the high Sierra to make the graphics work Next test for me is to reinstall and see what happens if I put graphics folder from High Sierra in to Mojave
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Have you tried using old kext from High Sierra
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No, that wouldn't make sense. I had to reinstall the correct kexts from another 10.14.2 install. Over on the MXM thread we are upgrading our iMacs with cards such as the 765m/770m/780m which are all supported by Mac OS Mojave. Dosdude1 was suggesting to install the legacy video card patch, which breaks otherwise functioning Nvidia cards. I'm just suggesting to @dosdude1 to have the patcher install hd3000 kexts without selecting the legacy video patch because it fixes sleep for us and is not needed for us on the MXM thread. Which is really only the correct way to run Mojave on a 2011 iMac because the 6xxx cards basically don't work at all.
 
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@dosdude1

Upgraded to Mojave finally on my 4,1 17" MBP from HighSierra.
Thanks a lot to all the people here making it possible.
I'm impressed how smooth it went.

I just had to remind to install the legacy WiFi patch from the usb installer manually as I already exchanged the WiFi card from an 2009(?) iMac.
After that I got my WiFi back.

Now I'm trying to find a way to watch Netflix and another Silverlight based streaming service on Mojave.
So far no luck.
What are my options ?
 
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lumos said:
Hi all,

my Mac Pro 3.1 (with Mojave 10.14.2), have a sleep issue.
When it goes to sleep, after some hours I'm unable to wake it up when I click the mouse or the keyboard.
I can only force the power off and then power on again.
With the first 10.14 release, it does not have sleep issues.

The Mac Pro 3.1 has a GTX 680 2GB, three hard disk and an external UPS.

Exist a fix for this problem?

Thanks
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Do you have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse? Have you tried a usb device?
 
philgxxd said:
@dosdude1

Upgraded to Mojave finally on my 4,1 17" MBP from HighSierra.
Thanks a lot to all the people here making it possible.
I'm impressed how smooth it went.

I just had to remind to install the legacy WiFi patch from the usb installer manually as I already exchanged the WiFi card from an 2009(?) iMac.
After that I got my WiFi back.

Now I'm trying to find a way to watch Netflix and another Silverlight based streaming service on Mojave.
So far no luck.
What are my options ?
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Update:After fiddling with it during this afternoon I could watch Netflix with latest Chrome. "chrome://gpu" states webGL enabled by software without HW acceleration but it seems OK.
I also installed Silverlight but I don't know if it was necessary.
 
hello!

First thanks to @dosdude1 and his team for make this patcher!
Yestarday i update my macbook pro 8.1 from 10.14.1 to 10.14.2 and so far all is working pretty well except access to mamp from my tablet or cell phone.
Until 10.14.1 (inclusive) i was able to access my localhost from http://192.161.2:8888, now i just cant, my mobiles always trow an error saying the connection timed out.
Did something change from 14.1 to 14.2 wich could make this happen?
I really need to access my localhost for testing.

Thanks!

Pluda
 
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