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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

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85iben said:
Hi there

Sorry I got kinda lost in this enormous post...
Here's my iMac details, running on mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G13035)

Will I get in some troubles (some apps not running? slow as a escargot? ...) if I try to update with Mojave patcher? Main reason why I want it is to get Messages in dark mode... Can't stand that white messaging mode anymore, while my FB Messenger & WhatsApp for Mac are in dark...

Big thanks!


iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
500 GB SATA Disk
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http://dosdude1.com/catalina/ known issues

AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series graphics acceleration: Currently, it is not possible to achieve full graphics acceleration under Catalina on any machines that use a Radeon HD 5xxx or 6xxx series GPU. If you have a machine with one of these GPUs installed, I'd advise upgrading it if possible (can be done in 2010/2011 iMacs, iMac11,x-12,x), disabling the dedicated GPU if using a 2011 15" or 17" MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,2/8,3, instructions to do so can be found here), or not installing Catalina. Running Catalina without full graphics acceleration will result in extremely poor system performance.

Same holds true for Mojave.
 
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85iben said:
Hi there

Sorry I got kinda lost in this enormous post...
Here's my iMac details, running on mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G13035)

Will I get in some troubles (some apps not running? slow as a escargot? ...) if I try to update with Mojave patcher? Main reason why I want it is to get Messages in dark mode... Can't stand that white messaging mode anymore, while my FB Messenger & WhatsApp for Mac are in dark...

Big thanks!


iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
500 GB SATA Disk
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The solution is near, just a few clicks away....you can get native metal support using another graphics card.
 
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K two said:
Dot 6 beta 4 is out.
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On MBP5,2 beta 4 installed OTA and running fine, transparency is there.
(usual tools - CatalinaOTAswufix, OpenCore boot for 2nd OTA phase, 1.4.4 post-install patches, patch updater for NightShift)
 

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I have a question for all of you guys?... I wanna begin to learn swift to develop universal apps can I do it on Catalina or I need Big sur and beta xcode for that? (building Universal apps) cause my Mac is a 7,1 whitebook that doesn't run big sur yet so... Can I do swift development for universal apps on Catalina?... And another thing... At the beginning of the year I installed swift playgrounds to try learning swift but it didn't run the code and crashed, this is a problem because of the lack of metal compatible card on my Mac?
 
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CharlieRuiz97 said:
I have a question for all of you guys?... I wanna begin to learn swift to develop universal apps can I do it on Catalina or I need Big sur and beta xcode for that? (building Universal apps) cause my Mac is a 7,1 whitebook that doesn't run big sur yet so... Can I do swift development for universal apps on Catalina?... And another thing... At the beginning of the year I installed swift playgrounds to try learning swift but it didn't run the code and crashed, this is a problem because of the lack of metal compatible card on my Mac?
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Maybe? Xcode 12 for macOS Universal Apps beta 2 (12A8161k)
 
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twinboys said:
I apologize LuisN that I wasn't able to articulate clearer. (1) I put the Crucial SSD in an external case and plug it into the the USB connector. (2) I rebooted from the original HDD to make sure macOS can read the external drive prior to me reformatting it. (3) I then rebooted from the dosdude1 High Sierra USB drive and installed the macOS onto the external Crucial SSD. (4 ) Once done, I shut down and replaced the internal HDD with external SDD which now has a dosdude1 installed High Sierra OS. (5) When I rebooted, it was showing the "Flashing folder with Question mark".

I took your recommendation and purchase another Hard Drive Flex Cable. I'm scheduled to receive it this coming Friday and once putting everything back together, I'm hopefully for a successful macOS install on the SSD. I'll report back on my status. I want to thank you again for your patience in helping me.
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I took your advice and installed High Sierra on the SSD but on the next reboot I recieved the "Flashing folder with Question mark" again. I took LuisN recommendation and purchase another HDD Flex Cable. I'll let you know how it turned out. Thanks
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LuisN and TimothyR734, after finally having time on my hands to replace the HDD Flex Cable, I wanted to touch base with you both to report that this solutioned worked. I was able to replace the cable, upgrade the HDD to SDD, and install macOS High Sierra without any issues. Once that was done, I moved on to installing macOS Catalina via DosDudes1 patch and that worked without a program. I would have placed bets that all the problems I had encountered wasn’t a result of a cable but it was. Thanks for all your help.
 
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twinboys said:
LuisN and TimothyR734, after finally having time on my hands to replace the HDD Flex Cable, I wanted to touch base with you both to report that this solutioned worked. I was able to replace the cable, upgrade the HDD to SDD, and install macOS High Sierra without any issues. Once that was done, I moved on to installing macOS Catalina via DosDudes1 patch and that worked without a program. I would have placed bets that all the problems I had encountered wasn’t a result of a cable but it was. Thanks for all your help.
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Great!
 
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Hi, installed done in MacBook Pro 5.5.
Any application to improve performance ?, There was one tweak app to reduce the graphic load of the system, but I do not remember what it was called.
 
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TimothyR734 said:
github.com

GitHub - minh-ton/Control-Center: A replica of the Big Sur Control Center for macOS 10.12 - 10.15.

A replica of the Big Sur Control Center for macOS 10.12 - 10.15. - minh-ton/Control-Center
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very good thank you Minh works good :)
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Looks really good, but I cannot get it to run: Gatekeeper or Xprotect prohibit execution... "it´s recommended to discard the app to trash" or so. I even tried to self-sign it on my machine, which works without complaint but it still throws the same message and does not start...
(10.15.5 build F101).
Any clue here - or does it have to be compiled for that build of Catalina?
 
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Larsvonhier said:
Looks really good, but I cannot get it to run: Gatekeeper or Xprotect prohibit execution... "it´s recommended to discard the app to trash" or so. I even tried to self-sign it on my machine, which works without complaint but it still throws the same message and does not start...
(10.15.5 build F101).
Any clue here - or does it have to be compiled for that build of Catalina?
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Run in Terminal sudo spctl --master-disable
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koyado said:
Hi, installed done in MacBook Pro 5.5.
Any application to improve performance ?, There was one tweak app to reduce the graphic load of the system, but I do not remember what it was called.
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Wow. In a 2009 mac. Does it run good?
 
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twinboys said:
LuisN and TimothyR734, after finally having time on my hands to replace the HDD Flex Cable, I wanted to touch base with you both to report that this solutioned worked. I was able to replace the cable, upgrade the HDD to SDD, and install macOS High Sierra without any issues. Once that was done, I moved on to installing macOS Catalina via DosDudes1 patch and that worked without a program. I would have placed bets that all the problems I had encountered wasn’t a result of a cable but it was. Thanks for all your help.
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Since the source of the cable failure (vibration from the HDD) has been removed it is unlikely this cable failure will re-occur, SSDs do not vibrate. A strip of smooth electrical tape where the SATA imbilical meets the MB housing is good insurance in any event especially for those with the HDD remaining.
 
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K two said:
Since the source of the cable failure (vibration from the HDD) has been removed it is unlikely this cable failure will re-occur, SSDs do not vibrate. A strip of smooth electrical tape where the SATA imbilical meets the MB housing is good insurance in any event especially for those with the HDD remaining.
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Thanks K two, i will do this.
 
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Flacko said:
I would give Onyx maintenance a try.
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@jackluke I have workarounded it with this simple script
Flacko said:
I would give Onyx maintenance a try.
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@jackluke I have found this workaround that works. I launch a .command automatically after boot:

for i in {1..5}
do
open -g -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app
done

Chrome sings "dong" then opens. Sometimes it returns:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Google Chrome.app with error -10810.

but opens without the need of clicking 20 times, and when opened the first time it continues to work until next reboot, also if I close it, not only when minimized :)
 
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