macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[stiwi]

What GPU do you have?

RX 580 which I installed prior installation of Mojave.

 

[trifero]

RX 580 which I installed prior installation of Mojave.

I have seen some times that with non supported GPU, the firmware update proccess does not start.

 

[Flacko]

RX 580 which I installed prior installation of Mojave.

Your first priority is to get the latest ROM. As Mojave and 144.0.0.0.0 is supported by Apple this is where you need to be to give you the least problems when moving on to a non-supported OS such as Catalina and then probably Big Sur. I got my cMP5.1 from eBay and it was fitted with a RX580 and had an old ROM but was running Mojave! So it is possible to have Mojave running but with no ROM update. I remember going back to High Sierra with an Apple ROM Graphics card (Mac Edition 5870) to trigger the first ROM upgrade and then using a metal card (RX580) to upgrade High Sierra to Mojave. This triggered the ROM update to 144.0.0.0.0. You will need the full installers from the Mac store and you cannot use a USB install. I also carried out clean installs on a fresh drive. The EFI update is quite picky on the graphics card so following the Apple procedure exactly was successful for me. I would suggest you ask for help with this on the Boot upgrade thread if you have problems. An expert there will be able to help.

 

[_Maverick]

I’ve just ran Swift Playgrounds in macOS and found that many of the graphical playground books to not function. The error message was always:


There was a problem running this page. Check your code for problems. If you are stuck, start over to delete all your changes on this page and try again.

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t my code’s problem since I’ve downloaded these and run it without modifications.

These playground books have been tested to not work on a patched Catalina:

• Sonic Workshop (Swift 5.1)
• Sonic Create (Swift 5.1)
• Blu’s Adventure (Swift 5.1)

However these playground books worked:

• Graphing (Swift 5.1)
• Blank (and added a simple “print hello world” statement).

Environment:

• Playgrounds 3.3 (1167.17)
• macOS Catalina 10.15.5 (19F96)
• Catalina Patcher 1.4.4
• MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2011

Is there any tweak I can do to make these playgrounds work?

is there any solution for swift playgrounds ?

 

[trifero]

RX 580 which I installed prior installation of Mojave.

Foolproof way to update the 2010 - 2012 Mac Pro 5,1 to the 144.0.0.0.0 firmware

A video / pictorial guide on how to update a 2010 - 2012 Mac Pro 5,1's firmware.

blog.greggant.com

 

[DerrickO]

I'm using the latest Catalina patcher and macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021) on 2011 13" MBA i5. I can't get My Photo Stream to work in Photos. I've double checked my other iOS and non-patched macOS devices and My Photo Stream is working on those devices. Would this be not working due to my 2011 MBA has a non-Metal graphics card?

 

[TimothyR734]

I'm using the latest Catalina patcher and macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021) on 2011 13" MBA i5. I can't get My Photo Stream to work in Photos. I've double checked my other iOS and non-patched macOS devices and My Photo Stream is working on those devices. Would this be not working due to my 2011 MBA has a non-Metal graphics card?

you might try and hold command-option buttons when opening the photo app and click repair that might fix the photo stream

 

[DerrickO]

you might try and hold command-option buttons when opening the photo app and click repair that might fix the photo stream

That worked! Thank you! ?

 

[Jorge Acosta]

Hmm, the spotlight theory collapsed From the activity monitor I cannot see a reason why the system does not work.
Did you install all the post install patches as planned? Call the patch updater installed by the @dosdude1 patcher and check.

Man, I did a clean installation with MacOS version 10.15.4 and Patcher v1.4.3 and the system is great, everything works correctly, previously I had installed this version but using patcher 1.4.4 and the system ended up lagging. Do you think it could be a problem with Patch 1.4.4?

As you see in the photo, I was able to install all my programs without problem.

 

[Ausdauersportler]

Man, I did a clean installation with MacOS version 10.15.4 and Patcher v1.4.3 and the system is great, everything works correctly, previously I had installed this version but using patcher 1.4.4 and the system ended up lagging. Do you think it could be a problem with Patch 1.4.4?

As you see in the photo, I was able to install all my programs without problem.

During the last months I used all Catalina versions, sometimes an installation failed for some reason, but is was definitely the user causing this

Right now I have installed at least 20 systems with 10.15.6 latest and have no problems - but all were and are iMacs 2009, 2010, and 2011 after installing a metal GPU. So I cannot really comment on your macBook. Happy to see you with a working system!

 

[poiihy]

Can I upgrade directly from 10.11.6?

 

[joevt]

Can I upgrade directly from 10.11.6?

You should start from at least the latest macOS that is supported by your Mac. And you should keep the old macOS as a fallback.

Macs By Maximum Supported Version of macOS/Mac OS X: EveryMac.com

Macs compatible with macOS Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina and more. Macs by maximum compatible Mac OS X version.

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Mac OS Compatibility Guide by Mac Model

Easily check which versions of mac OS, iOS, iPadOS, or watchOS are compatible with your Mac model or iDevice.

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[poiihy]

You should start from at least the latest macOS that is supported by your Mac. And you should keep the old macOS as a fallback.

Macs By Maximum Supported Version of macOS/Mac OS X: EveryMac.com

Macs compatible with macOS Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina and more. Macs by maximum compatible Mac OS X version.

everymac.com

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Yea 10.11.6 is the latest

 

[poiihy]

The patched installer app doesn't respond I'll try installing from usb instead

 

[poiihy]

Ok so installation with USB worked; after installation it got stuck at white startup screen with full progress bar for several hours so I powered off and restarted and it booted successfully to login screen. Had some weird glitchyness with display brightness but it seems not too bad and need more time to figure out what's going on with that. Unfortunately, Google Chrome does not work...? Here is what I think is the relevant information from one of the crash reports:
```
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: Namespace CODESIGNING, Code 0x1
```

 

[poiihy]

I ran the Google Chrome binary in terminal; macOS prompted that this Unix binary was downloaded from the internet; I accepted and it worked. Now the app works when launching the bundle as usual. So everything looks good now, mostly

 

[poiihy]

So yeah there's just something weird with brightness. When the computer starts, and whenever I login or switch users, amongst other things like switching calibration profiles (also waking the display from sleep, unlocking the session), the screen dims. Also the brightness slider in system preferences is wonky; when I change the brightness with it the slider then slides iteslf back to the point where it was at when the preference pane was opened (without actually changing the brightness). Exiting and re-opening the display preference pane makes it show the actual position but then same thing happens when I slide it again.

Besides that I am satisfied with this upgrade; the patches are working well; thanks for this!

 

[TimothyR734]

So yeah there's just something weird with brightness. When the computer starts, and whenever I login or switch users, amongst other things like switching calibration profiles (also waking the display from sleep, unlocking the session), the screen dims. Also the brightness slider in system preferences is wonky; when I change the brightness with it the slider then slides iteslf back to the point where it was at when the preference pane was opened (without actually changing the brightness). Exiting and re-opening the display preference pane makes it show the actual position but then same thing happens when I slide it again.

Besides that I am satisfied with this upgrade; the patches are working well; thanks for this!

You can download Brightness Slider from the App store its free, Then from Softpedia for the light to dark mode I use NightOwl and if you have issues Night Shift I use Shifty

 

[poiihy]

Google Chrome stopped working again, I had to go into its contents and run its MacOS binary directly to make it work again

Edit: this seems to happen after every boot. This time I ran the binary first but it crashed, then running the app worked. So I'm not sure what's going on but it's disappointing

 

[treee111]

Google Chrome stopped working again, I had to go into its contents and run its MacOS binary directly to make it work again

Edit: this seems to happen after every boot. This time I ran the binary first but it crashed, then running the app worked. So I'm not sure what's going on but it's disappointing

I'm not quite sure if it is the same problem but I also have sometimes trouble to get some apps starting.
Running "sudo nvram boot-args=amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1" in Terminal and then reboot does the trick for me.

Have you tried this already?

 

[Ausdauersportler]

Google Chrome stopped working again, I had to go into its contents and run its MacOS binary directly to make it work again

Edit: this seems to happen after every boot. This time I ran the binary first but it crashed, then running the app worked. So I'm not sure what's going on but it's disappointing

You may search this thread for "google chrome" or just "chrome" using the search button on top limiting the results to "this thread" - this problem is not new and several workarounds have been posted. This is more effective than waiting for the single user joining here to solve your problem. Others proposed the change of some access settings...I do not use Chrome and cannot really comment on the solutions.

 

[poiihy]

Now the screen keeps dimming while I'm using the computer ?
Edit: ah I think it's because night shift is gradually changing the color of my display now, I turned it off and it stopped.

Yeah I did a quick search about chrome but didn't immediately find anything obvious, I'll search more, and maybe try @treee111's suggestion.

 

[ctyc]

Hi, I have NO AIRDROP listed in my Finder. Please help me enable my Airdrop and get an Airdrop patch for my iMac11,2 (iMac 12.5 Mid 2010 Dual-Core Intel Core i3 8GB RAM). I just installed dosdude1 / macos-catalina-patcher and I am now on Catalina 10.15.6. Wifi is using Atheros card.

Thanks you.
CT

I ran the commands below and showing their results:

—— ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk '{print $4}' ——
<"Mac-F2238AC8">

—— ioreg -r -n ARPT | grep IOName ——
| "IOName" = "pci168c,2a"

—— system_profiler -detailLevel mini | grep "Card Type" ——
2020-09-24 15:10:23.106 system_profiler[969:30811] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW from dict - charles’s Keyboard = 0x0050
2020-09-24 15:10:23.114 system_profiler[969:30811] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW - 30-39-26-fc-db-e3: no firmware version info available
2020-09-24 15:10:23.114 system_profiler[969:30811] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW from dict - charles’s mouse = 0x0084
2020-09-24 15:10:23.115 system_profiler[969:30811] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW - YST-175: no firmware version info available
2020-09-24 15:11:48.741 system_profiler[1002:31819] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
2020-09-24 15:11:48.742 system_profiler[1002:31819] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x8F)

—— system_profiler -detailLevel basic | grep "Model Identifier" ——
2020-09-24 15:13:55.094 system_profiler[1020:32942] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW from dict - charles’s Keyboard = 0x0050
2020-09-24 15:13:55.102 system_profiler[1020:32942] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW - 30-39-26-fc-db-e3: no firmware version info available
2020-09-24 15:13:55.103 system_profiler[1020:32942] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW from dict - charles’s mouse = 0x0084
2020-09-24 15:13:55.103 system_profiler[1020:32942] SystemInfo-AccessoryFW - YST-175: no firmware version info available
Model Identifier: iMac11,2
2020-09-24 15:14:44.768 system_profiler[1054:33959] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be
2020-09-24 15:14:44.768 system_profiler[1054:33959] SPUSBDevice: IOCreatePlugInInterfaceForService failed 0xe00002be

 

[Lucky736]

Anyone else having missing Audio and wonky Wifi issues after the latest Dev Beta from the other day?

Seems my audio is missing even after reinstalling drivers/kexts, Late 2011 MBP.

 

[Enthuser]

I am running Catalina 10.15.6 on my cMP5,1 2010 well. Having made a homemade fusion drive out of 480gb PCIe SSD and a 4tb Hardrive, disk checkers (Blackmagic and one other) tell me it is read only so they can't check it. Any ideas. Tried a few things found online but still stuck