macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[roronl]

One more question. I now have an APFS formatted drive and flashed macbook pro firmware.

is it safe to update the OS through OS X or still need to be done by USB?

thanks for your help

-Updating via the store, will work, but you always will need the USB to Patch the updated OS after.

 

[madmaxpayne]

Hey folks! Having a problem with sleep. When my MBP 5.3 falls into sleep mode, it switches off and I have to click the power button to get it back. Does anybody have similar behavior and knows possible solutions?

Stackshot Reason: Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while entering darkwake on way to sleep. Suspected bundle: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily. Thread 0x74.
Failure code:: 0xd5f2a20d 00000031

================================================================
Date/Time: 2019-05-26 13:51:04 +0300
OS Version: ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 28

Data Source: Stackshots
Shared Cache: 0x14c14000 ABFC60A6-5B3D-3D61-9FAB-39981B88C8C7

Event: Sleep Wake Failure
Duration: 0.00s
Steps: 1

Boot args: -no_compat_check

Time Awake Since Boot: 1300s

 

[jasoncarle]

I have experienced Safari Technology Preview 12.2 crashes when closing tabs on Mojave and High Sierra. It might actually related to the AdGuard for Safari. Not sure if its relates to your issue though.

interesting, I am using Adguard as well...
[doublepost=1558897039][/doublepost]The code to ignore the supplemental update did not work for me. I ran it, terminal said it ignored the update, I restarted and it is still there.

 

[avz]

interesting, I am using Adguard as well...
[doublepost=1558897039][/doublepost]The code to ignore the supplemental update did not work for me. I ran it, terminal said it ignored the update, I restarted and it is still there.

I restarted the system just to check and can confirm that an update is definitely gone.

 

[DuncanGarp]

Still no luck. I guess I just have to wait for the final release of 10.14.6. Any speculation on when this will be out?

Well, I finally was able to install 10.14.6 beta 1 into my unsupported MacBookAir4,2.



Thank you to @Sedulous for the "softwareupdate --ignore" info, @pkouame for the hybrid patch 1.5 pre-release (works on this beta), @jackluke for his various tests, @TimothyR734 for his tests and suggestions, and of course, to @dosdude1 for his tools and efforts on this subject matter. Apologies to those I failed to mention.

 

[honglong1976]

-Updating via the store, will work, but you always will need the USB to Patch the updated OS after.

Thanks for the quick reply

 

[hvds]

If you before used this zip package/script that I did specifically for dualGPUs 2010 machines
"Mojave10145DualGpuFix.zip", and you have launched the "command file" to install it with all the content of "Ext" folder, then I guess to settle down the intensive cpu usage you'd had followed that pdf I wrote inside, I mean replace also the "PrivateFramework" GPUWrangler.framework the same way of CoreDisplay, but only if you installed the entire zip package/script through the ".command" because GPUWrangler.framework is strictly dependent from AppleGraphicsControl.kext .

From my other tests using a previous GPUWrangler.framework seems to settle down cpu% temperature calming fans rpm.

edit:
those files I uploaded before (CoreDisplay included) belong to HighSierra 17G6030 , and I'll align them maybe on final 10.14.6 release with those more updated from HS 17G7024 that in an ideal time-line are much closer to the Mojave ones.

My dGPU machine is running very well with your Mojave10145DualGpuFix (#post 15045, pg 602).
I just went on to try your suggestion and use components of a newer HS 10.13.6 - used the one that dosdude's HS patcher 2.7.0 downloads. It has version 13.6.02 (don't know how to find out the build number without installing it). I've replaced the contents of your Ext folder with the ones from 13.6.02, also including the AppleUSBACM.kext for sake of Arduino. Ext contents in attachment. I've picked all these from my 10.13.6 dosdude USB installer.
Applied those replacements with your .command. Now also running very well... thanks.

Seems indeed faster than without Mojave10145DualGpuFix. GPU switching (though I don't really use it often) works better: systems settings/energy saver change then logout+login work immediately and reliably.

(MBP5,2 17" 2.8GHz mid 2009, APFS ROM patch applied, Samsung SSD 860 EVO with APFS.)

 

[jackluke]

My dGPU machine is running very well with your Mojave10145DualGpuFix (#post 15045, pg 602).
I just went on to try your suggestion and use components of a newer HS 10.13.6 - used the one that dosdude's HS patcher 2.7.0 downloads. It has version 13.6.02 (don't know how to find out the build number without installing it). I've replaced the contents of your Ext folder with the ones from 13.6.02, also including the AppleUSBACM.kext for sake of Arduino. Ext contents in attachment. I've picked all these from my 10.13.6 dosdude USB installer.
Applied those replacements with your .command. Now also running very well... thanks.

Seems indeed faster than without Mojave10145DualGpuFix. GPU switching (though I don't really use it often) works better: systems settings/energy saver change then logout+login work immediately and reliably.

(MBP5,2 17" 2.8GHz mid 2009, APFS ROM patch applied, Samsung SSD 860 EVO with APFS.)

Only thing is that you are not using the latest HS ones, since the last 10.13.6 17G7024 binaries have a date modified of May 8th 2019 , while the ones in my zip package were from 17G6030 date modified March 28th 2019, so you are surely using older 2018 HS kext, it's not an issue, but if you have taken them from an HS USB Installer, even if they worked, those are smaller in byte size (fork'ed version), and are as I call them "incomplete kexts and frameworks" since they only contain the 64 bit architecture coding, and maybe for some 32 bit applications they could cause unpredicted incompatibilities, so you should take those kexts/frameworks from a complete HS installation rather than from an USB Installer, because the ones taken from a full installation contain both 32+64 bit architectures, and are a little bigger in byte size of course. Just an advise.

 

[jasoncarle]

I restarted the system just to check and can confirm that an update is definitely gone.

View attachment 839094

Turns out my computer just had to think about it for a while...

 

[hvds]

Only thing is that you are not using the latest HS ones, since those 10.13.6 17G7024 have a date modified of May 8th 2019 , while the ones in my zip package were from 17G6030 date modified March 28th 2019, so you are surely using older 2018 HS kext, it's not an issue, but if you have taken them from an USB Installer, even if they worked, those are smaller in byte size, and are as I call them "incomplete kexts and frameworks" since they only contain the 64 bit architecture coding, and maybe for some 32 bit applications they could cause unpredicted incompatibilities, so you should take those kexts/frameworks from a complete HS installation rather than from an USB Installer, because the ones taken from a full installation contain both 32+64 bit architectures, and are a little bigger in byte size of course. Just an advise.

Thank you jackluke. I‘m learning a lot this way.
In that case I‘ll happily stick for now to the components you provided.

 

[tchek]

In case anyone else wants their unsupported Mac to avoid the T2 update, you can use terminal to ignore the update.

softwareupdate --ignore "MacBook Pro Supplemental Update"

This work perfectly on 2 iMac (27 inch, late 2009) 10.14.5 (18F132) and (21,5 inch, late 2009) 10.14.5 (18F132)
Thanks !

The question I ask myself is where is this package (T2 update) that has already been downloaded to my machines but not installed ?

Cheers folks!

 

[jackluke]

Thank you jackluke. I‘m learning a lot this way.
In that case I‘ll happily stick for now to the components you provided.

Even if the ones you used worked, are much more reliable using the 32+64 bit kext/framework/binaries that are present only on a full OSX installation, while on an USB Installer or Recovery they are "incomplete/fork versions" used just for emergency purpose, I guess apple fork'ed them to reduce the Recovery HD and BaseSystem.dmg sizes.
[doublepost=1558903935][/doublepost]

This work perfectly on 2 iMac (27 inch, late 2009) 10.14.5 (18F132) and (21,5 inch, late 2009) 10.14.5 (18F132)
Thanks !

The question I ask myself is where is this package (T2 update) that has already been downloaded to my machines but not installed ?

Cheers folks!

here: /Library/Updates/

 

[tchek]

Even if the ones you used worked, are much more reliable using the 32+64 bit kext/framework/binaries that are present only on a full OSX installation, while on an USB Installer or Recovery they are "incomplete/fork versions" used just for emergency purpose, I guess apple fork'ed them to reduce the Recovery HD and BaseSystem.dmg sizes.
[doublepost=1558903935][/doublepost]

here: /Library/Updates/

Thanks jackluke

I have

"macOSUpd10.14.5Supplemental.RecoveryHDUpdate"

and

"macOSUpd10.14.5Supplemental"

Is this this one?

 

[jackluke]

Thanks jackluke

I have

"macOSUpd10.14.5Supplemental.RecoveryHDUpdate"

and

"macOSUpd10.14.5Supplemental"

Is this this one?

Both, I guess you can delete the entire 0xx-xxxxx folder where they are.

 

[tchek]

Both, I guess you can delete the entire 0xx-xxxxx folder where they are.

Done and so far so good!
Thx jackluke

 

[Leon2707]

View attachment 838542 View attachment 838540 View attachment 838541 Wouldnt you agree this is nuts memory usage? Normally, before todays supplemental update, which is the only change, I would hover around 30-50% memory usage. That was with multiple tabs open, a music player going with the entire song loaded into ram, etc... Now I have one tab open in Safari and that's it, nothing. My RAM is FULL.

Exact same thing here. Decided to upgrade my Macmini3,1 from 10.13.6 to 10.14.5 and now it keeps using almost all of my memory, even when nothing is running or just Safari with 1 Tab (like in this case). I've tried booting into safe mode, using OnyX etc. but it won't stop filling up my ram.. My macOS build is 18F132 (without the supplemental update)

Any ideas?

 

[saudor]

View attachment 839110

Exact same thing here. Decided to upgrade my Macmini3,1 from 10.13.6 to 10.14.5 and now it keeps using almost all of my memory, even when nothing is running or just Safari with 1 Tab (like in this case). I've tried booting into safe mode, using OnyX etc. but it won't stop filling up my ram.. My macOS build is 18F132 (without the supplemental update)

Any ideas?

Some of us, including myself experience this. This started with the supplemental update in 10.14.3 (the February build). 10.14.5 is indeed better than 10.14.4 but seems to have a bunch of glitches - especially on my 2010 (laggy trackpad/mouse, memory use, etc)

10.14.2 and 10.14.3 (the first initial january build) runs best for me so im just gonna stay on those

 

[kaidelorenzo]

I'm having issues signing into iMessage on my Mid 2009 iMac. It is doing the customer code error, and I've already had Apple Support use the code. However, iMessage still doesn't work. Does anyone think that the fact that I'm running this unsupported version could be the reason it's not working? And I guess I'll also ask if anyone has any ideas of other things to try to get iMessage working.

 

[ASentientBot]

Hey folks! Having a problem with sleep. When my MBP 5.3 falls into sleep mode, it switches off and I have to click the power button to get it back. Does anybody have similar behavior and knows possible solutions?

Stackshot Reason: Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while entering darkwake on way to sleep. Suspected bundle: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily. Thread 0x74.
Failure code:: 0xd5f2a20d 00000031

================================================================
Date/Time: 2019-05-26 13:51:04 +0300
OS Version: ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 28

Data Source: Stackshots
Shared Cache: 0x14c14000 ABFC60A6-5B3D-3D61-9FAB-39981B88C8C7

Event: Sleep Wake Failure
Duration: 0.00s
Steps: 1

Boot args: -no_compat_check

Time Awake Since Boot: 1300s

I haven't had this issue, but for sleep/wake failures, I feel that these may be relevant:
- pmset variable
- boot argument

A total shot in the dark(wake) based on a few mentions I've seen on Hackintosh forums, but maybe give one or the other a try and see if they fix it?

Sleep stuff is also very tied to graphics stuff. Do you have working acceleration? Maybe try re-apply the graphics patches?

 

[pkouame]

Hey folks! Having a problem with sleep. When my MBP 5.3 falls into sleep mode, it switches off and I have to click the power button to get it back. Does anybody have similar behavior and knows possible solutions?

Stackshot Reason: Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while entering darkwake on way to sleep. Suspected bundle: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily. Thread 0x74.
Failure code:: 0xd5f2a20d 00000031

================================================================
Date/Time: 2019-05-26 13:51:04 +0300
OS Version: ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 28

Data Source: Stackshots
Shared Cache: 0x14c14000 ABFC60A6-5B3D-3D61-9FAB-39981B88C8C7

Event: Sleep Wake Failure
Duration: 0.00s
Steps: 1

Boot args: -no_compat_check

Time Awake Since Boot: 1300s

I had the same problem on my mbp 5,3. Disappeared after I migrated from .4. What release are you on?

 

[Sedulous]

I'm having issues signing into iMessage on my Mid 2009 iMac. It is doing the customer code error, and I've already had Apple Support use the code. However, iMessage still doesn't work. Does anyone think that the fact that I'm running this unsupported version could be the reason it's not working? And I guess I'll also ask if anyone has any ideas of other things to try to get iMessage working.

Maybe it is bad network connection or something unique to your system. Not had any significant issues with iMessage on any unsupported Mac.

 

[madmaxpayne]

I haven't had this issue, but for sleep/wake failures, I feel that these may be relevant:
- pmset variable
- boot argument

A total shot in the dark(wake) based on a few mentions I've seen on Hackintosh forums, but maybe give one or the other a try and see if they fix it?

Sleep stuff is also very tied to graphics stuff. Do you have working acceleration? Maybe try re-apply the graphics patches?

I have re-applied patches and seems it has fixed the issue. Thanks!

 

[MBP83]

Is it possible to enable sleep mode and brightness control after disabling dedicated gpu on MBP 8.2. I used Dosdude patcher and I run Mojave 10.14.5

I would suggest removing the dedicated GPU disabling patch and use gfxCardStatus 2.4.4i to switch to the integrated GPU after fully booting. This will work if your dedicated GPU is still functional to allow normal bootup.

 

[16v]

Imac 27" 3.33ghz 8gb and 256mb ati/amd gpu.
Good or bad?
For mojave?

 

[K two]

Imac 27" 3.33ghz 8gb and 256mb ati/amd gpu.
Good or bad?
For mojave?

Tried booting a 27" iMac11,3, 16GB, 1TB SSD with the dreaded ATI Radeon HD5670 GPU into 10.14.3 and it ran just fine, all functions seemed to work. There was no video acceleration but the screen displayed at full resolution and the color tables appeared scrambled with green missing altogether. The display looks great in High Sierra which boots natively. The 21.5" iMac11,2 with the ATI Radeon HD 4670 is on 10.14.6b1, runs like a champ. Seems like the iMac11,3 could join the effort?

Any suggestions?