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Hi there,
Back here after several months, I've tried to understand something about CatalinaOTAswufix, USBOpenCoreAPFSloader2... but I don't understand anythingIt seems to let me be able to make a classic software update instead of create a new bootable 10.15.5 USB drive using Catalina Patcher ? (I just managed to show that there is an update available in the system preferences. But I have too few multiple reboots to do with everything I did not understand ...)
Well, too complicated for me.
So, my MP5.1 is running Catalina 15.3. Do you confirm that simply create a bootable 10.15.5 USB drive using Catalina Patcher 1.4.3 will work ? Without erase all my data ?
Thanks
Catalina Patcher 1.4.3 d/l the Apple 10.15.5 installer and builds the USB installer smoothly but fails to complete the dot5 install at 4 minutes remaining. The USB installer writes a TMP file on the target partition which is removed at next reboot leaving it undamaged after the failed install. Rebuilt another USB after re-d/l the 10.15.5 Apple installer via the patcher. Same result. The FAQ sez the Apple installer is corrupt "somehow." Will wait for updated patcher coming in a "couple of days."
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Hi! i read that dosdude1 is working on a new version of his patch (great news!). Could you point me on a guide on how to do a system update with his patch (i'm on 10.15.4 now), to be ready when it will be out?
Thank you! is there a way to update without doing a "fresh install" like in this video?
Yes, of course. You can keep all your setup/config/user accounts etc. by just installing from the installer (USB stick) that you will have prepared by the suitable patcher when dosdude1 is ready and has it on his DL page.
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Got my MBP 4,1 updated to 10.15.5 manually and by using the old/current patcher. It´s a bit of a dance of single user booting, disabling NVDA kexts (by renaming i.e. to *.old), rebooting into Finder completing the upgrade-welcome-settings on the way and then re-applying all patches except i.e. APFS (have it in Flash on my machine). Rebooting again to Finder. Rebooting a last time, renaming the NVDA kexts back to *.kext
Viola, MBP4,1 up and humming along under 10.15.5 build 19F96.
I guess the new patcher will be a matter of hours instead of days if no obstacles are present on other machines (which I doubt).
10.15.5 (19F96) is up on my MBP5,2, using the full installer and patcher 1.4.3. It wasn't fully automatic: seems that only the transition into the post-install didn't happen automatically.
I did as follows:
Starting point for installation is an external SSD with 10.15.5 Beta5, installed OTA before, and 1.4.3 patches applied.
Downloaded 10.15.5 with patcher 1.4.3 and made a bootable USB installer from it.
Booted into this installer (using OpenCore just for convenience as I can distinguish the several Catalina versions on my USB installer disk more easily with it).
Installation seems to hang with the progress bar filled and 9 more minutes indicated. No more activity visible on the LED of my SATA-USB interface. No error message either. Apparently installation had succeeded anyway:
After 1hr, powered off and booted again into the USB installer.
Ran post-install patches manually, with forced cache rebuild.
Boots fine into 10.15.5... transparency OK.
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Hey, @jackluke is it possible to AirDrop and Continuity for my system? I have compatible dongle btw.
Hi, i have installed 10.15.4 in a macbook pro mid 2009, how do to actualize??
sorry for my bad english
sorry for my bad english
For continuity features since Yosemite if I don't get wrong apple required the bluetooth 4.0 BLE anyway.
Starting from HighSierra apple chosen to support only Broadcom Wifi cards (with enough recent hardware and firmware aka the AirPortBrcm4360 driver) even if the "0x14E4" is the broadcom vendor id, "0x8E" in your case is the product id, but after some tests seems that minimum Broadcom wifi cards with product id "0x93" (and later product id example 0xA, 0xB, 0xC, 0xD, 0xE and so on) if patched allow AirDrop and continuity too.
So older Broadcom wifi cards I guess can't use any apple continuity, but for Airdrop there are many workaround based on web browsers protocols example:
Snapdrop
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snapdrop.net
A bluetooth 4.0 dongle is anyway useful to support BLE devices, but continuity really needs a certain Broadcom Wifi card as explained before.
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@jackluke thanks for the explanation. Is this a hard limitation (i.e. non-metal will never support VDADecoder), or that it just hasn't been implemented yet? If the latter, is there anything I can do to help?
Before I saw this reply I tried your suggestion in post #7232 and copied both AppleVADriver.bundle and AppleGVA.framework over from a (dosdude1-patched) High Sierra installation. The VDAChecker tool now reports
Hardware Acceleration is fully supported, but attempting to play a 1080p60 video in Quicktime or VLC just results in >90% skipped frames with my 9400M GPU.
Yes, that was an attempt to enable a kind of hardware video decode acceleration on Catalina, upon @ASentientBot tips, who developed the non-metal Catalina video patches (and Mojave too) tried to enable fully video accel, but I guess this is not feasible, probably because there are many functions related to 10.15 SkyLight and CoreDisplay frameworks, you could try a third-party video player maybe IINA, but I guess 1080p at 60fps is too much for a Core2Duo.
In Mojave instead even with non-metal only replacing the AppleGVA.framework from HighSierra worked for VDADecoder to increase video framerate.
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I see. It looks like replacing Catalina with Mojave is the only way to get full video acceleration for my Mid-2009 MBP then. Is that right?
Hi all, I'm running a MacBook 5,2 on High Sierra. I know this isn't the "High Sierra on unsupported Macs" thread but things are pretty dead over there so I thought I would ask my question here.
I've installed and have been successfully using 10.13 on my MacBook for several months now. I am using 6GB of OWC ram and a 250GB OWC SSD.
My question is: Is there a keyboard patch available for this system? My keyboard works but NONE of the function keys seem to work (such as the brightness, sound, or eject keys). It's not hardware, it worked before the install. Any ideas? Thanks.
I've installed and have been successfully using 10.13 on my MacBook for several months now. I am using 6GB of OWC ram and a 250GB OWC SSD.
My question is: Is there a keyboard patch available for this system? My keyboard works but NONE of the function keys seem to work (such as the brightness, sound, or eject keys). It's not hardware, it worked before the install. Any ideas? Thanks.
I just ran the DOSDude patcher/process like I always do and it did not update to 10.15.5. Rebooted to install and it just booted up to 10.15.4.
There is a set of scripts to force an update, but they are more complicated.
I actually like a periodic clean install, it cleans up some things and does not remove user settings.
I always do a Carbon Copy Clone beforehand.
Dr. Oakly has just published this - https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/27/what-has-changed-in-catalina-10-15-5/ and updated SilentKnight to v.1.7, here - https://eclecticlightdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/silentknight17.zip
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You need to wait for an updated Catalina Patcher
Thanks.
Actually the graphics card is supported, using the same drivers as HD 7950/70, and D700 in MP6,1. It's Intel being the culprit here, for not delivering microcode updates for Nehalem- and Westmere-CPUs anymore.
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I had the same problem, waiting for a new patcher.
Thanks, I usually see some text from him on the page when it is not ready, so I assumed it was good to go.
I had the same problem, after boot, install again all drivers and then reboot, everything works! For the video and multitouch of the trackpad look back on this thread in posts that have answered me and use the file they give. Everything works great after
Hi there,
I'm getting nuts with my mbpro late 2011 (8,1) with Catalina 15.4.
My fans are almost all the time spining hard, the computer becomes to hot.
Activity Monitor says WindowServer is always at 65%, 70%, 80% CU usage.
Anyone facing the same issue? Is there a workaround to this?
Will upgrade to 10.15.15 fix this?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
2,4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 2048 MB - it is 512 from factory
Thanks!
I'm getting nuts with my mbpro late 2011 (8,1) with Catalina 15.4.
My fans are almost all the time spining hard, the computer becomes to hot.
Activity Monitor says WindowServer is always at 65%, 70%, 80% CU usage.
Anyone facing the same issue? Is there a workaround to this?
Will upgrade to 10.15.15 fix this?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
2,4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 2048 MB - it is 512 from factory
Thanks!