I have mucked around with mods described on this board to enable updates. But I am finding it simpler and safer to just create another USB stick and let it trundle through a reinstall.
In my book the fewer the changes to the OS the better.
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In my book the fewer the changes to the OS the better.
It doesn't seem to work with the supplemental update this time. I'm on 10.15.7 (19H2), the version number after update should be 10.15.7 (19H15). I also created a fresh USB stick with macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.4, but after a new installation my macOS version number is still 10.15.7 (19H2).
That's what I was afraid of. I will wait until it's updated.
As with any @dosdude1 update, you must either do a clean install or full install over the top of the last. Check with him to see if he has updated his installation to include the latest security updates.
I've tried this multiple times and it doesn't work for me. I haven't seen anyone that has said they've got AWatch System Unlock to work after upgrading their BT module. All the other stuff works great, and AWatch System Unlock works in Mojave just fine as well. My hardware ID is Mac-942B59F58194171B. I do both mods and still doesn't work. I also updated to Watch OS 7.1 this morning as well and that didn't make any difference either.
There must be some other piece of the puzzle that we're missing in Catalina.
If anyone has Apple Watch System Unlock working on Catalina, please let us know!
For the 10.15.7 supplemental update, Apple appears to not have created a full update. Due to dosdude's system requiring the full update, there is nothing to be done. Monitor Mr Macintosh's Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update (19H15) Released! blog post to see if one is released.
Just an FYI that once you have macOS installed, when you do an update you do not have to wipe the drive again, you can just select the drive with macOS installed on it and the installer will update it in-place. I've never seen any instructions stating this, they all assume a fresh install not an update. Also, when your drives are formatted as APFS you can select "Install to This Machine" in place of using a USB. This is quicker as it creates the modified installer on a temporary drive volume and runs it from there. The downside is you don't have the current OS on your USB drive (which is you recovery drive.)
Just saw on other forums there is a thread where people are having the same issue. Came across a post from someone that just quoted this: "I did notice, oddly enough, if I remove my graphics card (RX 570) that Apple Watch unlocks as expected. Is anyone else able to see if that works for them?"
Then another post replied with "I also am having similar problems with Watch unlock. However after seeing a post online another person with the problem mentioned that it started working flawlessly when they removed their graphics card. So what the heck I tried that and sure enough my Watch unlock worked great. From sleep and from the lock screen no problems. Reinserted graphics card and unlock failed again. Now I know next to nothing about the inner workings of graphics cards on Hackintosh and how that would affect this issue."
Something else that people are saying is that when they disable the serial ports on their Hackintosh machines that suddenly AWatch System Unlock works for them in Catalina. So maybe something with my video card upgrade is conflicting with something as people above remove the video card and it starts to work.
I have upgraded the video card in my system to a K4100M.. I wonder if that is having something to do with AWatch System Unlock not working.
Then another post replied with "I also am having similar problems with Watch unlock. However after seeing a post online another person with the problem mentioned that it started working flawlessly when they removed their graphics card. So what the heck I tried that and sure enough my Watch unlock worked great. From sleep and from the lock screen no problems. Reinserted graphics card and unlock failed again. Now I know next to nothing about the inner workings of graphics cards on Hackintosh and how that would affect this issue."
Something else that people are saying is that when they disable the serial ports on their Hackintosh machines that suddenly AWatch System Unlock works for them in Catalina. So maybe something with my video card upgrade is conflicting with something as people above remove the video card and it starts to work.
I have upgraded the video card in my system to a K4100M.. I wonder if that is having something to do with AWatch System Unlock not working.
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Windows community already found the solution:
“Despite what Adobe is saying officially, Photoshop 2021 does NOT require support of SSE4.2 to run.
The real problem is that:
- IPP libraries optimized for SSE3 are missing from distribution (they are available from Intel)
- OpenCV library was build with SSE4.2 requirement
To fix this download this pack of libs from any source below (it's the same):
https://www113.zippyshare.com/v/cqtznzt2/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/vh0wjm
Unpack archive and copy libs to Photoshop 2021 installation directory (overwrite opencv_world440.dll when requested).
This fixes the problem and PS runs just fine.
But disclaimer as usual – all this at your own risk.
Please note that this is not a hack or something like this – this is official libraries from official sources.
Intel IPP libraries was taken from Intel Parallels Studio XE 2020.1.0 and contains valid signature from Intel.
OpenCV library was taken from official release of OpenCV 4.4.0 on GitHUB (https://github.com/opencv/opencv, build by VC15)”.
Is there any chance for us? Please, help!
Can't be repeated enough - The v. 1.4.4 USB installer is the Recovery Disk. One should always be made w/ unsupported MacOS installs.
On my macbookpro4,1 I'm using CatalinaOTAswufix:
macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
I have just re-implemented "catalinaswufix5amfi.command" with a GUI to allow, download and install the Catalina Beta Software Update (and public too) on any Catalina unsupported Mac, I have tested it and seems to work enough good. I used the @Czo SUVMMFaker.dylib , @Pinarek method of OTA .dist...
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Never failed with updates and it worked with 19H15.
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Thank you so much. Will try later.On my macbookpro4,1 I'm using CatalinaOTAswufix:
macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
I have just re-implemented "catalinaswufix5amfi.command" with a GUI to allow, download and install the Catalina Beta Software Update (and public too) on any Catalina unsupported Mac, I have tested it and seems to work enough good. I used the @Czo SUVMMFaker.dylib , @Pinarek method of OTA .dist...
Never failed with updates and it worked with 19H15.
Just to clarify, once you run the OTA fix (first step) and you open the update panel, you need to click on more info.., since it will be shown bigsur update in the main panel; once the new window pop up you can select the catalina update.
Then proceed with OTA fix step 2, let the installation to proceed, then apply patches with dosdude tool latest version (If you will have a not bootable system apply again the patches); I needed to apply 2 times the patches and choose the mac os boot disk from the patcher to make it bootable again.
I have two hard drives. The one for my regular use, with Mojave, and the catalina one, booting external. Is it posible that the fix mess up with the Mojave one? Better to remove the Mojave and leave only the Catalina before apply the fix? Thanks.
I really don't know...but if you want to be 100% sure yes, leave only the catalina hd attached.
Using the @jackluke patch the Supplemental Update downloaded and ended up in the Library/Updatesƒ but failed to install. Here are the contents:
You might want to check out the old Continuity Activation Tool and see, what it does for your platform.
Since all the other Continuity works on Catalina, not sure if would do anything but I'll give it a shot.
Does AWatch System Unlock work for you on Catalina on a system installed via a Dos Dudes patch install?