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I just updated my MBP4,1 to 19H1309 (Sec. Upd. -004)
As far as I can see, the Zoom non-metal issue has been solved a couple of months ago. I didn't have to patch the most recent versions. Before that your own video wouldn't work at all.
Thanks, this seems to do *something*, but what I'm getting are beta/test updates. Any way I can make sure I only get stable updates? This tool doesn't seem to work properly. Following the instructions works only for the "software update fix" (first step), but "OTA update fix" (second step) only complains that i didn't complete the first step, despite beta updates actually being enabled correctly.
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At the top of the first post of this thread I have added a new spoiler tab including the docs, tools and links needed to update Catalina these days. Check it out and if the real (language and matter) experts have to change or add something, do not be shy.
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To opt-out of Beta, select the (small blue) Details in the Software Updates CP and follow the prompt. 👀
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Everything is working great with dosdude1's patcher and jacklude's OTA app on MacPro 3,1. I have easily been able to update the latest Security Updates without problem. The only thing that has been missing has been to easily use a USB installer due to the graphics card not being Apple EFI flashed. Instead, I have used the EFI of a MacBook Pro 5,1 in combination with Firewire to install the Post-Install patches which has worked without problem.
With the nearing of the end of point releases for Big Sur, I thought it was time to try out the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. It is awesome, the booting and intall of 19H15 to purge dosdude1 patches worked flawlessly. With OpenCore on a USB drive, it will boot with either Catalina or Big Sur installer.
The one problem with OCLP with Catalina is that is refuses to sleep. Remove OpenCore and switch back the dosdude1 patcher then sleep works perfectly. My guess is there is incompatible setting in the OpenCore configuration with a OS 11 target. I haven't tried Big Sur install yet on this machine since I am waiting for final point release so it is difficult to know for sure.
In any case, my install is in a stable state plus I can use OCLP with USB installer which eliminates the need for MacBook 5,1 for Post-Install patches. I am curious if the sleep issue has come up with anyone else and if there is easy fix.
With the nearing of the end of point releases for Big Sur, I thought it was time to try out the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. It is awesome, the booting and intall of 19H15 to purge dosdude1 patches worked flawlessly. With OpenCore on a USB drive, it will boot with either Catalina or Big Sur installer.
The one problem with OCLP with Catalina is that is refuses to sleep. Remove OpenCore and switch back the dosdude1 patcher then sleep works perfectly. My guess is there is incompatible setting in the OpenCore configuration with a OS 11 target. I haven't tried Big Sur install yet on this machine since I am waiting for final point release so it is difficult to know for sure.
In any case, my install is in a stable state plus I can use OCLP with USB installer which eliminates the need for MacBook 5,1 for Post-Install patches. I am curious if the sleep issue has come up with anyone else and if there is easy fix.
Hello @dosdude1 I trust you are fine. I wanted to ask you how much progress have you made with the Legacy Video Card Patch in order to have decent performance in a Mac Mini Mid 2011 with a Radeon HD6630m card if I install Mojave or Catalina on it using your installer. I have no issues with keep using High Sierra if performance will be negatively impacted and the legacy video card patch you developed is not really doing something significant to improve it.
See #10,611 here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-11-big-sur-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2242172/page-425 No mention of Catalina. dosdude1 can be found on Discord, btw. 👀
In fact it was not @dosdude1, it was @ASentientBot who developed the working graphics acceleration patches (and is still working on it). Speaking of the AMD Radeon 6000 series there has been no solution until now. You would have to wait until these new development will leave the labs and enter some semi public alpha or beta state and it will be released with the new @dhinakg and @khronokernel OLCP patcher for Big Sur, only.
@dosdude1 may include those new patches in his patcher or (the more sophisticated approach) would be to enhance the OCLP to support Catalina installations, too. This would solve the upgrade issues with the current solutions.
so the end of the story is, every time when i opened the patcher update in osx, only open and close. after restart the laptop hangs in the bootprocess
so i installed all "over" the old data, after that i disabled the patcher update, after that i run post installtion from the usb stick, now all is fine, case closed
Thanks a lot @Ausdauersportler and @K two for your feedback. I’ll keep monitoring the developments related to OCLP and @dosdude1 patcher.
CatalinaOTAswufix&OCLPv.0.1.6 Boot-picker teamed w/Catalina Patcher v.1.4.4 post-install allows Build 19H1309 to run without issues on Mini3,1. 😎
Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if anyone out there can help with this Catalina issue on unsupported Macs but I'm not sure where else to post.
Here's the issue. I have used the MacOS Catalina patcher from Dosdude1's Personal Web Server on two macs in my house, a 2008 Aluminum MacBook and a 2009 13" MacBook Pro and it installed just fine on both machines. The problem is that my wife is Japanese and the Japanese Language Keyboard preferences "Live Conversion" is broken in Catalina on both of these unsupported machines after moving them to Catalina. Now if you only use English you would never even know about this or understand how it works or know that it's broken, but having a Japanese user it is immediately obvious it isn't working. For a further understanding on how this works you can read here...
redcocoon.org
Here's a video that shows what SHOULD happen when it works correctly...
Watch in the video... as the person types the words are underlined and then will change...this is the live conversion functioning. The "underlining Live Conversion" does not work at all in the patched Catalina.
Essentially in Japanese, or I suppose other languages I don't use probably, as you type in english letters, the japanese symbols automatically replace the english typing in real time. This works perfectly fine in every version of Mac OS X up until I upgrade the unsupported machines to Catalina...then it breaks. To someone who is NOT a foreign language typist it might even appear that the option IS working, as you can type random symbols from the Japanese language, but this isn't working properly and that won't work...the real time conversion has to take place to be able to type on a computer keyboard...it's kind of like the same idea as "auto correct" if you follow me...you start to type the "sounds" of the language in English and the correct symbols automatically replace the english typing.
I had to roll my wife's laptop back to the last supported OS, High Sierra, since it became unusable to her without the live conversion working.
Does anyone have any idea how to get this working again in unsupported Catalina? I read somewhere online that starting in Catalina, Apple changed how the language keyboard input works so obviously this is the crux of the problem...and maybe nobody out there even realizes it's not working under the patcher program due to not a lot of people using this feature? I have left my Son's 2008 Aluminum MacBook updated to Catalina as he doesn't HAVE to type in Japanese on it and I can test potential fixes there before moving my wife's laptop back to Catalina if this is ever addressed.
Anyways, thanks for any help anyone out there can give on this!! Have a nice day!!
I'm not sure if anyone out there can help with this Catalina issue on unsupported Macs but I'm not sure where else to post.
Here's the issue. I have used the MacOS Catalina patcher from Dosdude1's Personal Web Server on two macs in my house, a 2008 Aluminum MacBook and a 2009 13" MacBook Pro and it installed just fine on both machines. The problem is that my wife is Japanese and the Japanese Language Keyboard preferences "Live Conversion" is broken in Catalina on both of these unsupported machines after moving them to Catalina. Now if you only use English you would never even know about this or understand how it works or know that it's broken, but having a Japanese user it is immediately obvious it isn't working. For a further understanding on how this works you can read here...
Japanese for Your Mac: Typing in Japanese
Information about entering Japanese text on a Macintosh computer using the Mac's Japanese input system.
Here's a video that shows what SHOULD happen when it works correctly...
Watch in the video... as the person types the words are underlined and then will change...this is the live conversion functioning. The "underlining Live Conversion" does not work at all in the patched Catalina.
Essentially in Japanese, or I suppose other languages I don't use probably, as you type in english letters, the japanese symbols automatically replace the english typing in real time. This works perfectly fine in every version of Mac OS X up until I upgrade the unsupported machines to Catalina...then it breaks. To someone who is NOT a foreign language typist it might even appear that the option IS working, as you can type random symbols from the Japanese language, but this isn't working properly and that won't work...the real time conversion has to take place to be able to type on a computer keyboard...it's kind of like the same idea as "auto correct" if you follow me...you start to type the "sounds" of the language in English and the correct symbols automatically replace the english typing.
I had to roll my wife's laptop back to the last supported OS, High Sierra, since it became unusable to her without the live conversion working.
Does anyone have any idea how to get this working again in unsupported Catalina? I read somewhere online that starting in Catalina, Apple changed how the language keyboard input works so obviously this is the crux of the problem...and maybe nobody out there even realizes it's not working under the patcher program due to not a lot of people using this feature? I have left my Son's 2008 Aluminum MacBook updated to Catalina as he doesn't HAVE to type in Japanese on it and I can test potential fixes there before moving my wife's laptop back to Catalina if this is ever addressed.
Anyways, thanks for any help anyone out there can give on this!! Have a nice day!!
Unfortunately, this is a known problem. Starting with Catalina, Apple included AVX instructions in the IME code, resulting in the problems you're seeing (when Catalina IME is used on an older Mac).
(EDIT: The cause is as I stated; however, I stand corrected on there being no workaround - I missed that one!)
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Take a look at this post. And check this one on the same page.Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if anyone out there can help with this Catalina issue on unsupported Macs but I'm not sure where else to post.
Here's the issue. I have used the MacOS Catalina patcher from Dosdude1's Personal Web Server on two macs in my house, a 2008 Aluminum MacBook and a 2009 13" MacBook Pro and it installed just fine on both machines. The problem is that my wife is Japanese and the Japanese Language Keyboard preferences "Live Conversion" is broken in Catalina on both of these unsupported machines after moving them to Catalina. Now if you only use English you would never even know about this or understand how it works or know that it's broken, but having a Japanese user it is immediately obvious it isn't working. For a further understanding on how this works you can read here...
Japanese for Your Mac: Typing in Japanese
Information about entering Japanese text on a Macintosh computer using the Mac's Japanese input system.
Here's a video that shows what SHOULD happen when it works correctly...
Watch in the video... as the person types the words are underlined and then will change...this is the live conversion functioning. The "underlining Live Conversion" does not work at all in the patched Catalina.
Essentially in Japanese, or I suppose other languages I don't use probably, as you type in english letters, the japanese symbols automatically replace the english typing in real time. This works perfectly fine in every version of Mac OS X up until I upgrade the unsupported machines to Catalina...then it breaks. To someone who is NOT a foreign language typist it might even appear that the option IS working, as you can type random symbols from the Japanese language, but this isn't working properly and that won't work...the real time conversion has to take place to be able to type on a computer keyboard...it's kind of like the same idea as "auto correct" if you follow me...you start to type the "sounds" of the language in English and the correct symbols automatically replace the english typing.
I had to roll my wife's laptop back to the last supported OS, High Sierra, since it became unusable to her without the live conversion working.
Does anyone have any idea how to get this working again in unsupported Catalina? I read somewhere online that starting in Catalina, Apple changed how the language keyboard input works so obviously this is the crux of the problem...and maybe nobody out there even realizes it's not working under the patcher program due to not a lot of people using this feature? I have left my Son's 2008 Aluminum MacBook updated to Catalina as he doesn't HAVE to type in Japanese on it and I can test potential fixes there before moving my wife's laptop back to Catalina if this is ever addressed.
Anyways, thanks for any help anyone out there can give on this!! Have a nice day!!
no problem with sleep for now and bluetooth/wifi card was upgraded to BCM94360
Did any one fix the Wi-Fi Problem with Catalina 10.15.7 and Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.102.31) ?
To type this command and password in a terminal after each reboot and login is not really an opinion.
with IO80211Family.kext from Mojave it has to be run fine.
But how to copy IO80211Family.kext to /System/Library/Extensions ? (read only)
To type this command and password in a terminal after each reboot and login is not really an opinion.
sudo networksetup -setairportnetwork en1 <wifi_ssid> <wifi_password>with IO80211Family.kext from Mojave it has to be run fine.
But how to copy IO80211Family.kext to /System/Library/Extensions ? (read only)
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I have MacBookPro6,2 (mbp mid-2010 15''), have been using Mojave with dosdude's patches for a couple of years without almost any issues. Now finally switched to Catalina (also used dosdude's patcher, nothing else) and facing a serious problem: my Mac is unable to reboot or shutdown normally. After the point when dock, menubar and all windows disappear it freezes just showing my the wallpaper, mouse cursor can't be moved, the only option is to perform hard shutdown via the power button. As a consequence, I can't install the latest security update (after turning on and pressing Alt there's no Install boot partition), SilentKnight not helping either. Any idea how to fix that?
Not sure if it has anything to do with https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/gpu-kernel-panic-in-mid-2010-whats-the-best-fix.1890097 though. While being on Mojave I started experiencing random GPU freezes, but only after I installed 2021-004 security patch (doesn't look like a coincidence, GPU has been working perfectly for almost 11 years). They were reproducible under Windows 8.1 as well. Also had GPU glitches while running AHT (which surprisingly found no issues) and while installing Catalina (installation wasn't interrupted by them, only some visual distortion), but at the moment they seem to have gone even when I disable Automatic graphics switching (when enabled, NVIDIA GPU doesn't activate when needed, e.g. when VS Code is launched).
P.S. I had installed 10.15.2 (or .4, don't remember exactly) on an external SSD for testing, and back then all had been fine, no reboot/shutdown issue.
FYI wifi works just fine on my side:
Not sure if it has anything to do with https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/gpu-kernel-panic-in-mid-2010-whats-the-best-fix.1890097 though. While being on Mojave I started experiencing random GPU freezes, but only after I installed 2021-004 security patch (doesn't look like a coincidence, GPU has been working perfectly for almost 11 years). They were reproducible under Windows 8.1 as well. Also had GPU glitches while running AHT (which surprisingly found no issues) and while installing Catalina (installation wasn't interrupted by them, only some visual distortion), but at the moment they seem to have gone even when I disable Automatic graphics switching (when enabled, NVIDIA GPU doesn't activate when needed, e.g. when VS Code is launched).
P.S. I had installed 10.15.2 (or .4, don't remember exactly) on an external SSD for testing, and back then all had been fine, no reboot/shutdown issue.
FYI wifi works just fine on my side:
Code:
Software Versions:
CoreWLAN: 13.0 ((null))
CoreWLANKit: 13.0 ((null))
Menu Extra: 13.0 ((null))
System Information: 12.0 (1500)
IO80211 Family: 12.0 (1200.12.2)
Diagnostics: 1.0 (910)
AirPort Utility: Not Installed
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x93)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.102.31)
MAC Address: <redacted>
Locale: FCC
Country Code: US
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165
Wake On Wireless: Supported
Status: Connected
Current Network Information:
MGTS_GPON5_CB2A:
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: 10:50:72:20:ae:b9
Channel: 48
Country Code: US
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal/Noise: -33 dBm / -88 dBm
Transmit Rate: 270
MCS Index: 15
Hello @dosdude1 . Appreciate if you could include an update to your patch to include Firewire devices to be used with Catalina. It would be great help.
As of now If I attached the external HDD through Firewire 800 or using a thunderbolt to firewire apple adapter the disk gets ejected on its on on the iMac 27" mid 2011 12,2
As of now If I attached the external HDD through Firewire 800 or using a thunderbolt to firewire apple adapter the disk gets ejected on its on on the iMac 27" mid 2011 12,2
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Did you check the Broadcom-patch in dosdude1's patcher? This patch wasn't checked automatically with my MBP8,1. For several months I've done that regularly and never had WiFi problems any more.
Hi all,
Due to the fact that my 8,2 MBP graphics chip is supported (at least beta) by OpenCore-Patcher it wanted to try it. Managed to install the USB stick with Catalina (thought at least it will take my data and intalled software) to run somehow smooth through the installing process.
Now OpenCore-Patcher (0.18) fails with a cryptical message. It sais
Any idea what I could do?
Thanks in advance
Due to the fact that my 8,2 MBP graphics chip is supported (at least beta) by OpenCore-Patcher it wanted to try it. Managed to install the USB stick with Catalina (thought at least it will take my data and intalled software) to run somehow smooth through the installing process.
Now OpenCore-Patcher (0.18) fails with a cryptical message. It sais
Code:
Last login: Tue Jun 15 18:09:14 on ttys001
/Applications/OpenCore-Patcher.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenCore-Patcher ; exit;
Macbook15:~ UserMe$ /Applications/OpenCore-Patcher.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenCore-Patcher ; exit;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "OpenCore-Patcher.command", line 276, in <module>
File "OpenCore-Patcher.command", line 29, in __init__
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable
[68782] Failed to execute script OpenCore-Patcher
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
[Prozess beendet]Any idea what I could do?
Thanks in advance