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My MBA 2012 spoofed to a 6,2 did not survive the 11.1 update. It bricked when it restarted. I disconnected the battery and am going to give up and drop my 13.6 image on it for now.
 
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As others have said proceed with caution on those OTA updates. Decided to go with the full micropatched install this time around to be safe. I can report however, that my 9,2 MBP (spoofed to 11,1) did recognize the OTA update.
 
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naylom11 said:
As others have said proceed with caution on those OTA updates. Decided to go with the full micropatched install this time around to be safe. I can report however, that my 9,2 MBP (spoofed to 11,1) did recognize the OTA update.
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I have the 9,2. How did you spoof the model number?
 
naylom11 said:
As others have said proceed with caution on those OTA updates. Decided to go with the full micropatched install this time around to be safe. I can report however, that my 9,2 MBP (spoofed to 11,1) did recognize the OTA update.
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My 5,2 spoofed to 6,2 did see the update too. but it borked at restart. No biggie. Not going to give up on the OC path just yet, I will try again in 2021.
 
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Jack Neill said:
My 5,2 spoofed to 6,2 did see the update too. but it borked at restart. No biggie. Not going to give up on the OC path just yet, I will try again in 2021.
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Agreed. Anecdotally, just in the first few hours of using OC, the machine feels smoother. I can't say exactly what it is, but its slightly quicker and more responsive.
 
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naylom11 said:
Agreed. Anecdotally, just in the first few hours of using OC, the machine feels smoother. I can't say exactly what it is, but its slightly quicker and more responsive.
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Yeah, mine too. For a 8 year old Air I was pretty impressed with how well it ran using the OCLP version. My MBP 9,2 has a Patched Sur Install right now and it too feels much faster than Catalina.

Side note. I made sure to deactivate my Music app before it borked since I was using a spoofed SMBIOS. That turned out to be a good idea... lol
 
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Yeah, mine too. For a 8 year old Air I was pretty impressed with how well it ran using the OCLP version. My MBP 9,2 has a Patched Sur Install right now and it too feels much faster than Catalina.

Side note. I made sure to deactivate my Music app before it borked since I was using a spoofed SMBIOS. That turned out to be a good idea... lol
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Why does the Music App need to be deactivated? Do you mean with Apple Music?
 
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I meant deauthorized. My bad.
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I'm going to switch to this vs just using the Micropatcher, because apparently it fixes the EFI sleep bug on the 9,2 that been happening since the beginning of Catalina. Does it need to stay deactivated? Does all the other services work? iCloud and all that?

Sorry for all the questions. This is the first I've learned of this.
 
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I'm going to switch to this vs just using the Micropatcher, because apparently it fixes the EFI sleep bug on the 9,2 that been happening since the beginning of Catalina. Does it need to stay deactivated? Does all the other services work? iCloud and all that?

Sorry for all the questions. This is the first I've learned of this.
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No worries! I can't speak on it in great detail, but just from my use today, I've had no problems with cloud services or continuity (airdrop, airplay, etc)
 
naylom11 said:
No worries! I can't speak on it in great detail, but just from my use today, I've had no problems with cloud services or continuity (airdrop, airplay, etc)
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Awesome! I'm digging around on the Opencore Legacy Patcher's site. You've given me a huge jumping off point.

Thank you!
 
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Sorinut said:
I'm going to switch to this vs just using the Micropatcher, because apparently it fixes the EFI sleep bug on the 9,2 that been happening since the beginning of Catalina. Does it need to stay deactivated? Does all the other services work? iCloud and all that?

Sorry for all the questions. This is the first I've learned of this.
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No it works fine. but Apple only lets you authorize 5 computers at a time and if your spoofing a SMBIOS and the install borks, it will be hard to deauthorize it later. They only let you deauthorize all 5 once a year. Hackintoshing lessons learned for me is to always deauthorize before an update just in case.
 
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n0rt0nthecat said:
Booted from the patched USB and did the "reinstall" option ie: install over existing setup
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That's not a reinstall, it's called an "Install in place", as in over your existing OS, it is not a completely new Install, it leaves all User files/data/settings intact.

I did this for ages, never reinstalled OS X/macOS.
 
Can somebody teach me how to find the installer.pkg using Terminal? I tried the AppStore, but....
 
My 9,1 MBP is stuck to a black screen after I booted Opencore Legacy Patcher v0.0.7 from the USB stick and had the wall of text, am I the only one with this issue? Is there a solution?
 
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