I need to re-D/L the update from Apple first. I think it was corrupted during the D/L.
Not in any hurry after that fiasco.
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I need to re-D/L the update from Apple first. I think it was corrupted during the D/L.
Not in any hurry after that fiasco.
Happy New Year to you too!!
If you cannot download the installer from Apple, I can send you a DMG file contains the installer from Apple.
I've made a tool to do so as well. You can use this if you want. Make sure to make the script executable first. https://github.com/Julian-Marius-Fairfax/macOS/tree/macOS-Downloader
I think APFS ROM Patcher just works on MacPro. Cause I am trying to on iMac 9,1 but no any beep sound or LED flashing when pressing the power button. Anybody knows how does it work on iMac or is it working?
- If your Mac is turned on, power it off.
- Press and hold the Power button on your Mac until either the sleep light blinks three times fast, then three times slow, then three time fast (for Macs with sleep lights), or you hear three rapid tones, then three slow tones, then three rapid tones (for Macs without a sleep light).
- Release the Power button. A long tone indicates that the restoration process has started. After a short delay, you'll see a progress bar.
Yes it is on.
I dont get it.
I follow this thread;
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ed-macs-thread.2121473/page-212#post-26352834
Before the click to Continue button on APFS ROM Patcher I shut down my iMac wait 15 sec then press and hold the power button but no any LEDs or beep sound came.
Should I click the continue first and then shut down iMac and press the power button?
Yes, definitely. I have just updated my same MacAir2011 3,2 - iShare camera works, Night Shift is on and works, WiFi has no problems - look at the list of excluded ID's - but my bluetooth does not exist any more. Before it existed, but I had no working Airdrop. Maybe my bluetooth hardware was already not ok.
Has anyone here used one of the Wireless Mini PCI-e Adapter cards to reuse a MacBook ac-wireless card such as those sold by osxwifi.com in a MacPro 3,1? In particular, I am puzzled by two issues...
1) What exactly is the maximum bandwidth available for the mini PCI-e adapter slot on a MacPro 3,1? Is it 500 mbps or 1Gbps? If the former, it would seem to pretty much kill any performance increase seen from using an ac wifi card.
2) My understanding is that Apple neglected to wire up the usb lines on the mini PCI-e slot on the MacPro 3,1 so that a separate USB connector is used to control the Bluetooth 4.0 support on those cards. Where exactly does the usb connector get plugged in on the MacPro 3,1? Are there actually internally facing USB ports or do you have to thread it outside of the case?
My interest is that I have ordered the following on eBay...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/802-11AC-B...390688?hash=item3afea5ef20:g:qnUAAOSw-RhaY2u5
which has a standard converter card without the additional usb connector. The really confusing thing is that on the osxwifi site several of the comments indicate that users didn't actually have to resort to the usb connector cable to get functional Bluetooth 4.0 support working...
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2015/11/15/installing-80211-nac-bluetooth-40-airport-mac-pro.html
which makes me wonder if the usb control line issues with the mini-PCIe on the MacPro 3,1 was something that got fixed later in software and is a bogus issue.
1) What exactly is the maximum bandwidth available for the mini PCI-e adapter slot on a MacPro 3,1? Is it 500 mbps or 1Gbps? If the former, it would seem to pretty much kill any performance increase seen from using an ac wifi card.
2) My understanding is that Apple neglected to wire up the usb lines on the mini PCI-e slot on the MacPro 3,1 so that a separate USB connector is used to control the Bluetooth 4.0 support on those cards. Where exactly does the usb connector get plugged in on the MacPro 3,1? Are there actually internally facing USB ports or do you have to thread it outside of the case?
My interest is that I have ordered the following on eBay...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/802-11AC-B...390688?hash=item3afea5ef20:g:qnUAAOSw-RhaY2u5
which has a standard converter card without the additional usb connector. The really confusing thing is that on the osxwifi site several of the comments indicate that users didn't actually have to resort to the usb connector cable to get functional Bluetooth 4.0 support working...
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2015/11/15/installing-80211-nac-bluetooth-40-airport-mac-pro.html
which makes me wonder if the usb control line issues with the mini-PCIe on the MacPro 3,1 was something that got fixed later in software and is a bogus issue.
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Happy new year to everyone in Europe, except the British. They have an hour left. Happy new year everyone.
I agree, but I want my memory expansion though.. yes, the 2015's are still out of reach.
Just installed Mojave upgrading from High Sierra on a Macbook Pro 4,1. Had replaced the wifi card to an Atheros 9380 several years back. According to the Mighty Dosdude1 page, it should work in both.
But while it did work in High Sierra with never a problem; no wifi symbol showed up on the menu at all in Mojave. I could not understand why and then saw this YouTube video. Once I implemented the changes, the wifi card reappeared after startup and became available. It's now working perfectly fine.
You have to identify what wifi card you have in your system information first. Then Dosdude1 shows if it will work or not. If the card is not compatible to work on Mojave, you can get one on Ebay for about $10 and not get a SSD.
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I replaced my WiFi card and the Bluetooth module in my MP3.1 with a BCM94360CD mini card. So similar to the one you have ordered but a bit older - I did it in 2016.
1) Not sure how I would find the bandwidth of the mini PCIe adapter slot but the WiFi is connected to the router by 802.11ac at speed of 878 Mbps if that helps.
2) I can confirm that it does not need a separate USB connector
It has been few years since I did this mod so memory a bit hazy (El Capitan days?) and I have had full BT4.0 with Low Energy support with hand off etc working. The card just slots into the old WiFi card connector and I had remove the separate BT module as well as this confused the Mac. The most tricky part was finding the 4th aerial wire in the Mac as the old card only had 3 aerials connected. However the 4th aerial lead is in there, in my case tucked behind the hard drive connectors. The card has worked faultlessly through Sierra and High Sierra. Mojave threw it a wobble though and I am using the kext from HS to get it working properly in Mojave - see my earlier posts. Would be interested to see how your card does.
Thanks, I tried a new usb flash drive and it gets up to the progress bar just level with the right hand side of the apple logo. Eventually the screen goes blank and no mouse or keyboard actions will get it to do anything.
[doublepost=1546351052][/doublepost]I take the same memory requirements from high Sierra apply to Mojave?
I have a Mac mini 3,1 that just gets to the apple logo and the progress bars gets about half way and doesn't get any further, then after an hour or more the display turns off and all I do is Power off via the power button.
I need some help. I'm running into some of the same problems listed above on my mother's MacBook Pro that is one of the odd models that required disabling the dedicated graphics with DosDude's dGPU Graphics Disabler. It's MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011 2.2GHz (MacBook Pro 8,2) and I've installed a 500 GB SSD (APFS) and 16 GB of RAM on this machine with Mojave Patched 10.14.1 running on it.
The problems I'm noticing: The computer doesn't seem to wake from sleep, computer doesn't sleep when lid is closed, brightness buttons do not work, boot into lock screen takes extra time and a black screen is displayed but does get to login screen. If computer is keyed to wake from sleep, the screen appears off and eventually the backlit keyboard comes on but screen stays off and requires a hard shutdown to get the screen to come on again to use the computer.
Fixes Tried: re-installed patches with Mojave Patcher, reset PRAM and SMC, run First Aid from Mojave Patched USB, cleared all caches in the hidden Library. Haven't fixed the problem and my family leaves within the week.
Edit: It appears that the computer never actually fully goes to sleep mode as the led light doesn't "breathe"/slowly brighten and darken as if it's in sleep mode. Also, automatic login should be enabled but it appears disabled so I have to login. Not sure if this is related. A small graphics artifact is noticed on the boot screen but not noticed in regular computer use. Not sure if all of these are related but any advice is greatly appreciated. I will note that I have successfully installed the Patched Mojave to 6 MacBook Pros in my family and this is the only one with these issues! :-/ I plan to donate to DosDude soon!
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You need to disable your MacBook Pro’s dedicated GPU. The built in GPU supports acceleration which is the cause of your missing features, however, the dedicated GPU doesn’t.
Thanks for the quick reply, Julian. I thought I had disabled it through this guide on DosDude's website: http://dosdude1.com/gpudisable/
Is there any way to check if it's still enabled? Should I just run the dGPU Disabler program again?
Edit: Please see the links and images below. I am not sure if there is another way of checking this but it appears that the Integrated graphics is in use even when the computer requires the supposedly higher performance Dedicated graphics to run Google Chrome... at least if I'm reading that correctly. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202053
interestingly, this MacBook Pro is supposed to only have 384 MB of SDRAM even though my system is displaying 512 MB in "About this Mac" and "System Information" about the integrated Graphics Card (see below)... Do you think it may be somehow still using the dedicated graphics?
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/...2-15-late-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html
*This system has dual graphics processors -- an AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512 MB of dedicated GDDR5 SDRAM and Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.
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According to your screenshots, the dedicated GPU should be disabled. You should have acceleration according to the wiki post especially considering that intel acceleration was the easiest to crack. Did you enable increase contrast? You don’t need to if so. If not, does transparency work at all?
Yes, both "reduced transparency" and "increase contrast" are selected in Accessibility. Side note: I found out back in El Capitan that these greatly increase the speed and snappiness of the graphics/system. Also, if these aren't selected then that "weird grayish menu bar" is displayed in Light Mode that DosDude talked about in his guide. Reducing transparency eliminates this completely.
I believe that if you have the weird grey menubar, you definitely have graphical acceleration. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
The fix for that is made by @pkouame and is not part of the patcher. You may want to check that out!
I would recommend against using increase contrast and instead just reduce transparency. Increase contrast makes the system look unnecessarily ugly.
Hi, I have this problem. There is a MacBook Pro 2011 beginning of 2011.
Hi, I have this problem. There is a MacBook Pro 2011 beginning of 2011.
Replaced in it (the beginning of 2011 - mid-2012) AirPort / Bluetooth board for BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX
Bluetooth 4.0 / Wi-Fi.
I decided to install MacOs Mojave from dosdude1, did everything according to the instructions, the system got up without errors, but the bluetooth does not work, Wi-Fi sees, but the bluetooth does not work. What could be the problem?
Hi, I have this problem. There is a MacBook Pro 2011 beginning of 2011.
Replaced in it (the beginning of 2011 - mid-2012) AirPort / Bluetooth board for BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX
Bluetooth 4.0 / Wi-Fi.
I decided to install MacOs Mojave from dosdude1, did everything according to the instructions, the system got up without errors, but the bluetooth does not work, Wi-Fi sees, but the bluetooth does not work. What could be the problem?