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I am on a MBP 5,4 and I made sure the APFS Patch was checked on post install, and even did it again with force cache rebuild. It would reboot to a grey screen and then boot into the USB installer after the grey screen...even holding down option key at boot wouldn't show my SSD.
I've got the 5,2; it runs a bit better for me, just no light theme and Mojave *might* break your webcam
All unsupported Macs come stock with non-Metal GPUs, unless it's a Mac Pro or potentially iMac with an upgraded video card.
I don´t understand why you do not migrate to APFS then. And the old style font smoothing (sub-pixel antialiasing) can be turned back on with tools like TinkerTool or Onyx.
Yes of course. I am not used firmware patch.
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Why did the iSight camera stop working after 10.14.4 and v1.3.0? With your earlier version 1.2.3 it was working.
I upgraded my iMac 7,1 to 10.4.4 but after completing the installation, restarting and running the post install patch it just boots up after the loading bar to a grey screen and hangs there, it doesn't show the desktop.
Does anyone know what the issue may be. I had to do a Time Machine system restore back to 10.4.3 to get my Mac working again. I do have the SpiraMira Hybrid CoreUI installed, would that be a factor. Usually always able to upgrade, first time ran into this issue.
Does anyone know what the issue may be. I had to do a Time Machine system restore back to 10.4.3 to get my Mac working again. I do have the SpiraMira Hybrid CoreUI installed, would that be a factor. Usually always able to upgrade, first time ran into this issue.
@dosdude1,
I have a question related to the BCM4321 Wifi Patch.
I have this on my system report regarding wifi
Do I need this patch although my wifi is working? Many Thanks.
My script will work in any cases, and I explain why:
- When you know the exact label of a mount point you don't need to know its diskXsY position;
- Previously apple Recoveries were labelled "Recovery HD", so having more than a MacOSX installation external and internal made any mounted Recovery label progress with this criteria "Recovery HD 1", "Recovery HD 2" and so on.
With the APFS Scheme all the Recoveries converge inside one only common label "Recovery", inside this folder there are the drives respective UUID folder (UUID1, UUID2 and so on).
In my script using the trivial wildcard character * will fix all the UUID* (assuming they contain a valid Recovery) in one hit. It works as expected.
I did the processor hack last year, flashed the chip a bit later. I had swapped out the video card and WiFi card last year. Last night I saw there was an OS upgrade available. SO, I did the download, and again, the upgrades just happen.
It all works marvelously! Last night's update was PAINLESS. I started the update, waited for the reboot, watched it as the updates started - andI headed to bed, this morning it was at the login prompt, I logged in and it was all painless!
Thanks again!
Hello Dosdude1 iSight does not work on my MBP 5.3 since the update to 10.14.4
I just see that in your new patch 1.3.0 there is no longer the file "legacyiSight.sh" while he was present in version 1.2.3 the file "IOUSBFamily.kext" is not replaced in 10.14.4
I checked the version under 10.14.4 is still 900.4.2 while in your patch the version is 900.4. 1 (under 10.14.3 patched the version is also 900.4.1 which seems normal to me)
Thanks for finding that. But when I first launched News after updating to 10.14.4, I didn't select News+, and News still crashed after a few seconds, and continued to crash each time I launched it. Since then, I've run the "Maintenance" app (from the developer of OnyX), and now News is stable, except for the News+ bug--clicking on that still causes News to crash immediately. I don't know if the Maintenance app did the trick though, or something else.
No, you do not, as that system does not have a Broadcom BCM4321 WiFi card.
If someone experience Siri sound problems (no input device,...) try this:
sudo kill -9 `ps ax|grep 'coreaudio[a-z]' | awk '{print $1}'`
It will work perfectly.
I will be looking into that later today, and release a patch update as necessary.
Am I the only one that cannot find Mojave Patcher 1.3.0?
EDIT: For others who are looking for Mojave Patcher 1.3.0 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmT7r7bnuXqkx93voJZJwQeXMVa9zZPTakcWHZp1rsRsVN/macOS Mojave Patcher.dmg
EDIT: For others who are looking for Mojave Patcher 1.3.0 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmT7r7bnuXqkx93voJZJwQeXMVa9zZPTakcWHZp1rsRsVN/macOS Mojave Patcher.dmg
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Ok Thank You. The "Broadcom BCM43xx" indicated on the firmware confused me a bit.
Apparently, News is crashing supported Macs and iOS 12. The changes in 10.14.4 are significant with regards to iOS-ish apps on Mojave. Read this - https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/26/what-has-changed-in-the-mojave-10-14-4-update/
Thank you. It seems I lost my iSight (MacBookPro 5.1) as well as others.
I've successfully fixed Siri using the @Larsvonhier patch.
Cheers
Hugh
I use two scripts to repair Siri
The first SiriUI - replaces SiriUI from 10.14.4 to 10.14.3 and, if necessary, recompiles the cache of system frameworks. In general, this substitution is better done from Recover or from the installation flash drive - and you do not need to rebuild anything. This is the most painless way. But if we are already in the system - it can be so. After running the script and rebooting, the Siri window stops dying, but Siri may stop hearing the microphone. (while the microphone is working). This situation is treated with a restart of coreaudio, the second script (SiriGO) is usually a permanent effect and does not disappear after a reboot. Can be used several times.
If interested - these are the scripts. I checked them only on my MacBook6.1
The first SiriUI - replaces SiriUI from 10.14.4 to 10.14.3 and, if necessary, recompiles the cache of system frameworks. In general, this substitution is better done from Recover or from the installation flash drive - and you do not need to rebuild anything. This is the most painless way. But if we are already in the system - it can be so. After running the script and rebooting, the Siri window stops dying, but Siri may stop hearing the microphone. (while the microphone is working). This situation is treated with a restart of coreaudio, the second script (SiriGO) is usually a permanent effect and does not disappear after a reboot. Can be used several times.
If interested - these are the scripts. I checked them only on my MacBook6.1