macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[K two]

You have to boot the installer.

Whoops! Thank you for the reminder.

 

[0403979]

@0403979
Installing 10.14.4 via Software Updates. Showed THIS UPDATE CANNOT BE VERIFIED. YOU NEED TO REBOOT AND TRY TO REINSTALL...

I have to download the update again (Worried if I will late for school)

I've never seen that error anywhere. Interesting. Good luck for the update and good luck for school.

 

[Sedulous]

@0403979
Installing 10.14.4 via Software Updates. Showed THIS UPDATE CANNOT BE VERIFIED. YOU NEED TO REBOOT AND TRY TO REINSTALL...

I have to download the update again (Worried if I will late for school)

Could be system time is wrong. Boot USB installer, start terminal, type “date” and hit enter. If date is wrong, can cause weird errors.
[doublepost=1553582221][/doublepost]I also ran into a different problem using dosdude Mojave patcher for 10.14.4 with MacBookPro5,2. Booting and initial install appear to work, then display went black soon after install starts. Although battery was charged, it appears this install requires AC adapter to be connected. Also, after forced restart, system clock was reset and had to use terminal to set date/time before installing (while connected to power).

EDIT: hmm, after trying clean install and post-install patches, system hangs at loading bar, spins until kernel panic then reboots. Still no joy here.

EDIT: Problem is that I was unable to download patcher 1.3.0 and the Mojave 10.14.4 installer did not contain updated patcher (likely for legacy video card).

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I'm seeing odd version/timestamp differences between the version of the Mojave 10.14.4 installer I downloaded tonight using @dosdude1 's MacOS Mojave Patcher v1.3.0, versus the version of the 10.14.4 installer I downloaded tonight through the App Store/Software Update:

MacOS Mojave Patcher 1.3.0 version:
Get Info says:
Version: 14.4.08
Size: 6,041,505,576 bytes
Created: March 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm [Pacific Daylight Time; this is when I downloaded it]
Modified: March 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Copyright: 2007–2019

App Store/Software Update version:
Get Info says:
Version: 14.4.10
Size: 6,048,742,022 bytes
Created: March 14, 2019 at 10:19 pm
Modified: March 25, 2019 at 5:57 PM [Pacific Daylight Time; this is when I downloaded it]
Copyright: 2007–2018

I know that the Created and Modified dates for some downloaded items will be whatever day/time you download the item, instead of their original Created and Modified dates, so that's fine, but why are there these differences between the Version strings, the size, and the copyright year? Obviously the URL that Mojave Patcher is using is different from the one the App Store/Software Update is using, but why? I guess I could assume the version I downloaded from the App Store/Software Update is the more recent version since its version string is actually more recent, but is the mismatch in the Copyright year just someone's oversight at Apple?

I looked at some of the files a few levels deep inside each installer application, opening some of the plist files, but I found nothing that confirmed which installer is the more recent. I also found that many of the files inside the version downloaded by Mojave Patcher were modified on March 20 2019, but the corresponding items in the installer downloaded through the App Store/Software Update were modified on March 14 2019. But in a few cases, some items in the installer downloaded by the App Store/Software Update were modified two or three days later than the version downloaded by Mojave Patcher. This is another confirmation that the URLs for these two downloads are different, but it still doesn't tell me for sure which version is the most recent.

 

[ford.tonthat]

I've never seen that error anywhere. Interesting. Good luck for the update and good luck for school.

Got updated really fast though (not worried about late for school anymore haha) But had anyone saw the 3 ios apps crash on 10.14.4 especially News app. May be it's a IOS framework-related problems or something else??

 

[K two]

Whoops! Thank you for the reminder.

After getting it together (Thanks to Julian) the Installer process and Post-install process went perfectly and 14.4.08 in-place installed on a 14.3 HFS+ SSD in this early Mini3,1. The Screenshot app and System Preferences crashed the Mini, immediately. Ran the Maintenance app from Titanium, rebooted and the Mini now runs flawlessly.

 

[gosvamih]

I updated macbook 6.1 using the old dosedude patcher for 10.14.3 and my script. I wrote it earlier when updated on 10.14.4 beta 6. In the script there is also a fix for Siri, AppleGVA from 10.13.6 to fix hardware acceleration freezes, and most importantly, fix issues with the weired side bar, which was fixed earlier by the transutil script, but after the update becomes gray again and the rerun of the transutil script has not been fixed it again.
Now a dosedude patcher has been released, I don’t urge to use my own script, I just want to show if someone after the upgrade cannot fix these issues with the weired gui by the transutil script with video cards without metal support, as I fixed them.


I downloaded the latest release from this project, renamed CoreUIHybrid-18C54-v1.4.1 and HIToolboxHybrid-18C54 to CoreUI and HIToolbox, and in my script these commands put these files in places.

cp /Volumes/OSX/GPU/HIToolbox /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/
cp /Volumes/OSX/GPU/CoreUI /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/

chmod 755 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/HIToolbox
chown 0:0 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/HIToolbox
chmod 755 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/CoreUI
chown 0:0 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/CoreUI

As you can see on the screenshots above - it worked.
do not use these commands as is - this is just for example

 

[jerrycoffman47]

can I install the update then reinstall patchs or do I need to start over

 

[jhowarth]

Re-apply Legacy Audio Patch, and you should be good. Also, force cache rebuild.

Doesn't that imply that your table of hardware that requires the legacy audio patch is missing his particular model? I assume that must be a...

2009, 24" iMac 9,1, 2.93 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 640 GB HD, ATI Radeon 4850!

 

[DuncanGarp]

Successfully updated to 10.14.4 GM on my unsupported MacBookAir4,2

1. OTA
2. Post Install Patch using @dosdude1's 1.3.0 Mojave Patcher app
3. Rebuilt Caches
4. Reboot

As always, thanks to the excellent/awesome patcher app by @dosdude1.

 

[avz]

Updated 10.14.3 to 10.14.4 through the Software Updates in System Preferences.
Then enjoyed the challenge of getting the system to boot and applying the 10.14.4accel patch. Thanks to a very helpful previous posts by jackluke and dosdude1 I managed to successfully complete the installation.
Now to the boring part of updating a supported system.

 

[telepati]

Last week @dosdude1 shared full acceleration patch for non-metal graphics. is this patch will fix grey top bar transparency issue?

 

[avz]

Last week @dosdude1 shared full acceleration patch for non-metal graphics. is this patch will fix grey top bar transparency issue?

No.

 

[bbfc]

Successfully updated to 10.14.4 GM on my unsupported MacBookAir4,2

1. OTA
2. Post Install Patch using @dosdude1's 1.3.0 Mojave Patcher app
3. Rebuilt Caches
4. Reboot

View attachment 828478

As always, thanks to the excellent/awesome patcher app by @dosdude1.

So did you updated OTA and also download and create the bootable installer using Dosdude1's patcher tool, and ran the patches?

 

[figyu]

I updated 10.14.2 to 10.14.4 just before with dosdude1's patch tool v. 1.3.0.
I think that my machine works well now.
I always thank to his work.

I found that isight, built-in camera, doesn't work.
Is there any way of solving this issue?
I am using mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13 inch(5,5) now.

 

[gosvamih]

I had tried to create "custom Recovery" here are my observations:

- Any Recovery is a hidden bootable partition with CMD+R, contains the BaseSystem.dmg (about 500-700 MB) that is completely expanded in RAM so it's real size is around 1,3 GB (but is allocated in 2,01 GB in DiskUtility) and in-fact Recovery requires at least 2 GB RAM to be used;
- APFS Recovery is very particular, requires an Unique ID and can't be customized since its BaseSystem.dmg has a unique DMG signature that when changed it won't boot more;
- HFS Recovery almost the same, when you "edit" the BaseSystem.dmg it won't boot more with CMD+R because has a DMG signature checking too;

The only way, valid both for APFS scheme or HFS+, is to create a separate HFS partition (outside the APFS container) at least 2-3 GB free space, and restore on that partition an untouched BaseSystem.dmg , you can customize that partition content as you want, in this way "custom Recovery" will work holding alt-option key as a bootable emergency Volume.

Otherwise clone the dosdude1's USB Installer to a spare 9 GB HFS partition, if you want that smaller (before resizing) just delete from there the content (the pkgs especially the Core.pkg) in this folder /System/Installation/

By your example, I made myself such an improvised partition Rescue. Thank you for the idea. Now I don’t need to insert a flash drive, and all dosedude patches can be run from HDD.

 

[DaVroX]

Does Mojave Patcher 1.3.0 have been pulled? Can't find it on your website and the latest version downloaded says 1.2.3 in "about macOS Mojave Patcher"

UPDATE : Forget that apparently I was looking for it while you were update the site... Sorry

 

[hhsk]

Hey, first of all thanks for great unsupported mac support on mojave.

But i have few problems, i think that from last USBOHCI support patch my backlight on keyboard stoped working as well as bluetooth sometimes works and other times not, and as mentioned above, my webcam doesnt work either.
Im running 10.14.4 with 1.3.0 patcher on macbook pro 7,1 (13", 2010), will appreciate any help.

Thank You

edit: ups, backlight was all my fault. thanks dosdude1, i even found your yt video to see witch is backlight connector on 2010 13" mbp. peace.

 

[0403979]

I updated macbook 6.1 using the old dosedude patcher for 10.14.3 and my script. I wrote it earlier when updated on 10.14.4 beta 6. In the script there is also a fix for Siri, AppleGVA from 10.13.6 to fix hardware acceleration freezes, and most importantly, fix issues with the weired side bar, which was fixed earlier by the transutil script, but after the update becomes gray again and the rerun of the transutil script has not been fixed it again.
Now a dosedude patcher has been released, I don’t urge to use my own script, I just want to show if someone after the upgrade cannot fix these issues on the weired gui transutil script on video cards without metal support, as I fixed them.
View attachment 828466 View attachment 828464

I downloaded the latest release from this project, renamed CoreUIHybrid-18C54-v1.4.1 and HIToolboxHybrid-18C54 to CoreUI and HIToolbox, and in my script these commands put these files in places.

cp /Volumes/OSX/GPU/HIToolbox /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/
cp /Volumes/OSX/GPU/CoreUI /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/

chmod 755 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/HIToolbox
chown 0:0 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/Current/HIToolbox
chmod 755 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/CoreUI
chown 0:0 /Volumes/OSX/S*/L*/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/Current/CoreUI

As you can see on the screenshots above - it worked.
do not use these commands as is - this is just for example

I’m the dev of transutil (part of macOS Patcher) but not the actual fixes. I will test it on 10.14.4 and report back when I’ve come up with a fix.
[doublepost=1553600102][/doublepost]

Got updated really fast though (not worried about late for school anymore haha) But had anyone saw the 3 ios apps crash on 10.14.4 especially News app. May be it's a IOS framework-related problems or something else??

I don’t know. You could try using OnyX and running the maintenance. I don’t have 10.14.4 yet so I’m not aware of any bugs.
[doublepost=1553600173][/doublepost]

After getting it together (Thanks to Julian) the Installer process and Post-install process went perfectly and 14.4.08 in-place installed on a 14.3 HFS+ SSD in this early Mini3,1. The Screenshot app and System Preferences crashed the Mini, immediately. Ran the Maintenance app from Titanium, rebooted and the Mini now runs flawlessly. View attachment 828460 View attachment 828463

It’s lovely to see a case of it working correctly on real hardware. I can only test that the files were copied on my MacBook7,1. I can’t test the actual functionality since it’s a MacBook7,1. I don’t have any other models either.

 

[jhowarth]

I'm seeing odd version/timestamp differences between the version of the Mojave 10.14.4 installer I downloaded tonight using @dosdude1 's MacOS Mojave Patcher v1.3.0, versus the version of the 10.14.4 installer I downloaded tonight through the App Store/Software Update:

MacOS Mojave Patcher 1.3.0 version:
Get Info says:
Version: 14.4.08
Size: 6,041,505,576 bytes
Created: March 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm [Pacific Daylight Time; this is when I downloaded it]
Modified: March 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Copyright: 2007–2019

App Store/Software Update version:
Get Info says:
Version: 14.4.10
Size: 6,048,742,022 bytes
Created: March 14, 2019 at 10:19 pm
Modified: March 25, 2019 at 5:57 PM [Pacific Daylight Time; this is when I downloaded it]
Copyright: 2007–2018

I know that the Created and Modified dates for some downloaded items will be whatever day/time you download the item, instead of their original Created and Modified dates, so that's fine, but why are there these differences between the Version strings, the size, and the copyright year? Obviously the URL that Mojave Patcher is using is different from the one the App Store/Software Update is using, but why? I guess I could assume the version I downloaded from the App Store/Software Update is the more recent version since its version string is actually more recent, but is the mismatch in the Copyright year just someone's oversight at Apple?

I looked at some of the files a few levels deep inside each installer application, opening some of the plist files, but I found nothing that confirmed which installer is the more recent. I also found that many of the files inside the version downloaded by Mojave Patcher were modified on March 20 2019, but the corresponding items in the installer downloaded through the App Store/Software Update were modified on March 14 2019. But in a few cases, some items in the installer downloaded by the App Store/Software Update were modified two or three days later than the version downloaded by Mojave Patcher. This is another confirmation that the URLs for these two downloads are different, but it still doesn't tell me for sure which version is the most recent.

Mojave Patcher downloads all of the full installer components and combines them together whereas the App Store just downloads a complete copy of the full installer.

 

[avz]

Happy to report that APFS Recovery is still bootable after the 10.14.4 update.

 

[Lancsyboy]

New to this forum but I have been reading through awaiting for the latest patch updater.
First thanks to everyone who has contributed.
I am going to try Dosdude 1's patcher soon once the is has downloaded.

 

[telepati]

I found that isight, built-in camera, doesn't work.
Is there any way of solving this issue?
I am using mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13 inch(5,5) now.

My iSight does not work either.

 

[KitsuHS]

Hi all,
I'm trying to get the bootable drive created and no matter what I'm trying to use (flash, hdd, ssd) I end up here during the usb creation process. Any tips on what might've been wrong? (trying to create it for my Mac Pro, creating on MBP 2018 10.14.4 .

EDIT: Seems like some problem in 10.14.4, when I tried to create USB on Mini with 10.14.1, everything went flawlessly.

 

[flygbuss]

I use timemachine but i’m not going back to high sierra.

That wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to make sure that your system boots at least with a supported os. I asked about time machine because that way you could go back to your last known system configuration before it stopped working.
Since 14.4 is released now I suggest you download the new installer and try the new patcher.