Does this only install DP1, or will it automatically link to the latest release?
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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Dees it work for you unlock screen with Apple Watch?
Awesome info, working on trying that this morning (this is just an old work computer, my home computer boots APFS natively and didn't have a problem going to 10.15.3). Have everything set, just not sure how to disable that overlay. I'll do some more reading into to this morning.
Confirmed. We used several MacBooks and an iMac in our office with Mojave and had to deal a couple of months with the effects of wrong rendering in light mode before -finally- the updated patch came out for correct display of windows sidebar and menu bar.
It might still be necessary to run the patch updater after the patches done with the installer to get it right, though. No big deal at all for the gain of eye-candiness ;-)
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Semi: The panel to turn it on in system settings recognizes the watch (again, after phases during Mojave and Catalina up to 10.15.3). On first login it says despite the watch the pwd is needed. Subsequent logins (after sleep etc.) wait a while, try to connect to the watch and then fall back to pwd entry.
But I´m on beta versions on all sides, so that is no stable basis. All I see atm is that it is very close to working - and other aspects do work, like the shown admin/root pwd in finder usage.
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That´s why some effort has been put into the tool retroactive to get old apps to run with the 64bit requirement of Catalina. One of them is iPhoto.
The effect of too dark rendering in Maps (Catalina, unsupported machines, no OpenGL) is evidently there and annoying. I have several machines that display too dark there, but on one machine all is perfect. And this is also the no-OpenGL type of GPU there... so some other factor determines the outcome, too. Perhaps screen calibration? Will have to investigate. Also: Does perhaps the Mojave version of Maps run on Catalina as well?
We all had a similar situation back then with some screen savers, the chess app and a few more during Mojave patching. Has been all solved... Feel free to go back to Mojave if really needed, but the bandwagon moves on and is named Catalina now. ;-)
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Yes, same here. It´s odd, cause in Mojave I have unlock screen with apple watch. In Catalina, just unlock passwords. I hope someone sorts it out.
Just the same here with my MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2009 5,5 after update to Catalina using Dosdude's excellent website. Generally the computer is much better on Catalina and everything I need works very well except for extensions in Safari. I tried installing several adblockers and none got past the checkbox stage.
MacOS Mojave using Patcher 1.3.7 with Photos and iPhoto working@Larsvonhier
Just to double check before me installing Mojave. You stated "the video patch to get rid of grey Menu Bar and Finder Sidebar issues is included in the patch".
It would be great if you could please confirm this statement.
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Successfully installed macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Dev Beta 2 using the swupatch and jackluke's Catalina swufix patch 4 at first I tried without the legacy video patch but it was slow finder would crash I tried replacing Asentientbot's Catalina wrappers but it would crash so I rebooted into my Catalina usb patcher and just applied the legacy video patch skipped the amd metal patch and viola no need to replace the wrappers Photos work iTunes gives me an error at start up but still works and iPhoto launches with no issues no work around yet to link it to iCloud
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Successfully installed macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Dev Beta 2 using the swupatch and jackluke's Catalina swufix patch 4 at first I tried without the legacy video patch but it was slow finder would crash I tried replacing Asentientbot's Catalina wrappers but it would crash so I rebooted into my Catalina usb patcher and just applied the legacy video patch skipped the amd metal patch and viola no need to replace the wrappers Photos work iTunes gives me an error at start up but still works and iPhoto launches with no issues no work around yet to link it to iCloud
Even if previous wrappers (I guess from 10.15.2) worked, I advise to use the @ASentientBot .4b1 wrappers because they are more updated and stable.
On your iMac 10.15.4 beta2 do you have also an empty Displays.prefpane with only "Colour" tab working ?
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Yup, almost everything is better coming from Mojave, except my bloody extensions. Just rocking Firefox at the moment until there's a fix, but I'm missing my iCloud tabs.
Come on guys, adblock technology has been changed by Apple with introducing Mojave years ago. Forget everything you know and start over. AdGuard is one solution...
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I still can not get the trackpad to work correctly on MacBook 5,2. Installed newest updated patch that thanked parrotgeek1 and trackpad icon changed back to silver from white picture on MacBook, but when clicked it is searching for bluetooth trackpad again. Went back to recovery and made sure SIP is disabled and even tried installing patch manually. What am I doing wrong?
Got it reinstalled 10.15.4 Dev Beta 4 on my mid 2009 iMac
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@jackluke this is what shows if you replace the Display.PreferencePane from 10.15.3 if you can
can you sent me a copy of the Display.Preference.Pane from 10.15.4 Dev Beta2 as I accidentally deleted mine Thanks
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Great to know you have managed to update to beta. I would like to stick to the 10.15.3 for timebeing. Since I have the Metal card upgraded on my unsupported 2011 iMac do I need to go with the legacy video patch or un tick it while applying the post patch.
With a Metal GPU just untick the "legacy video patch".
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However you're right I've also tested the previous ASentientBot wrappers and they worked on 4b2, but with some UI lags, so I preferred to replace them with the 4b1 wrappers.
I also have a blank Display prefpane, but since I use a fixed resolution I don't need it, colour display profile, calibrate, projector are correctly showed and working, also an external display with "show mirroring options in menu bar" ticked worked, if eventually I need to change the internal LCD resolution I use this app:
EasyRes
The only Mac quick resolution switcher with fully animated previews. Quickly and easily select resolutions for any connected screen from the menu bar or from the Yosemite Notification Center. See live animated previews of screen resolutions before selecting them, making it even easier to choose...
apps.apple.com
Here is attached the stock 10.15.4 beta 2 Displays.prefpane
remove first your one and replace it here /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
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Tks @jackluke .With a Metal GPU just untick the "legacy video patch".
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However you're right I've also tested the previous ASentientBot wrappers and they worked on 4b2, but with some UI lags, so I preferred to replace them with the 4b1 wrappers.
I also have a blank Display prefpane, but since I use a fixed resolution I don't need it, colour display profile, calibrate, projection are correctly showed, also external display with "show mirroring option" ticked worked, if eventually I need to change the internal LCD resolution, I use this app:
EasyRes
The only Mac quick resolution switcher with fully animated previews. Quickly and easily select resolutions for any connected screen from the menu bar or from the Yosemite Notification Center. See live animated previews of screen resolutions before selecting them, making it even easier to choose...apps.apple.com
Here is attached the stock 10.15.4 beta 2 Displays.prefpane
remove first your one and replace it here /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
Hey boys. After disabling dead dGPD using @dosdude1 's method ("Permanently Disabling the Defective GPU on a 2011 15" MacBook Pro - Hardware Mod Overview" on YouTube ) i lose brightness control. Is there any fix for this?
Is there any warnings i should pay attention to after this procedure? I mean, can i use "reset SMC", "NVRAM" etc.
Is there any warnings i should pay attention to after this procedure? I mean, can i use "reset SMC", "NVRAM" etc.
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Thank you. I installed "DyingLight Backlight Controller Module" before i read your post, but it's not working. Maybe you know how can i uninstall this app? I can't find it in my system.
Brightness Slider is the only one that works. I don't know that "DyingLight..." you mention. Don't you have it in your Applications Folder?Thank you. I installed "DyingLight Backlight Controller Module" before i read your post, but it's not working. Maybe you know how can i uninstall this app? I can't find it in my system.
Still haven't had any luck finding a way to disable the APFS boot overlay for machine that don't support native booting to APFS that doesn't involve reformatting. Anyone else have any thoughts? The issue is that you can't select the HPS volume on boot up to finish the install of a Catalina update (10.15.1 currently, trying to load 10.15.3).
After/during downloading of the OTA update have you applied the catalinaswufix4amfi script ?
Because this through Pinarek method whitelist the machine for OTA installing.
These are the OTA phases:
- OTA download complete, then "restart" to install followed by an apple logo (without reboot)
- apple logo short loading bar followed by auto reboot (OTA packages preparing the "macOS Installer" temporary volume)
- apple logo long loading bar followed by Catalina logo installing (OTA stage2 installation on your APFS volume)
- apple logo long loading bar followed by direct boot to Catalina or a bootloop (because post-install patches are required)
If you applied the catalinaswufix then, right after the reboot during the OTA pre-installing with apple logo short bar (it takes about 5 minutes), if you after the reboot hold alt-option key (even till 15 seconds) this I guess overcome the APFS overlay loader, and you can then select the "macOS Installer" as temporary target volume, that should continue automatically the OTA stage 2 installer, after it completes you have to re-apply the post-install patches.
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