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macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

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A4orce84 said:
Hey Guys,

As MacOS 11.2 nears final release, is there updated steps / video / guide that tells us how to upgrade to the latest version? I used Barry's patcher tool previously on my 2012 Mac Mini (with no issues), so want to make sure I have everything ready when the new MacOS version drops.

Thanks in advance to everyone who contributed and is helping monitor this thread for helping, it is truly awesome and greatly appreciated!
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I also used 0.5.1 micropatcher on my rMBP. Ordinarily, I'd not hesitate to repeat the same procedure (create installer, run micropatcher, etc). Here's my concern: there's a very slight chance that 0.5.1 may have some unforeseen problem with setting up 11.2. My solution will be to try it first on my external BS 11.1 drive. After less than a day, others will surely report back here on whether 0.5.1 also works perfectly on 11.2 install. Just a day of patient waiting are all that's required.
 
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brucku said:
After reading through this thread, I have a question - Could anything you guys are doing here assist me in reducing any metal graphics related animations in big sur so that my VMware Workstation (windows 10) Big Sur install can run better? The OS runs great, in fact the only issue is that minimizing or restoring windows causes 15 - 20 second delays. If I could speed up or disable that animation, the OS would be great. thanks for any thoughts
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Change the Genie effect to Scale effect in the Dock preferences panel?

Maybe one of these (but I don't know what macOS versions these work for):
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-off-all-animations-on-os-x
https://osxdaily.com/2018/12/17/how-reduce-motion-mac-disable-animations/
https://www.chriswrites.com/turn-off-animations-eye-candy-effects-in-mac-os-x-lion/
https://www.chriswrites.com/boost-your-macs-performance-by-disabling-unnecessary-animations/

you can find more examples or suggestion by googling for disable window animations or similar.
 
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Hi!
I want to install Ben Sova’s Mac OS Big Sur patch on my Late 2009 MacBook. I succesfully created the bootable usb, but when i boot on it, i can’t move my mouse. How to fix this? Thanks in advance.
ogm
 
After install big sur from micropatcher 0.5.1 on my MBP 2012 mid(mbp10,1), there are 2 big issues,
1st, wifi works well with brcm4360 but unfortunately it can not connect to my iPhone12 through personal hotspot, no matter how I try, it just appears the SSID, but always connects fail.
2nd, there are always system panic reboot. Though I rare to reboot my laptop, but it still bothers me, especially while still trying the patched system.
Thanks to the version of OpenCore patcher. (https://github.com/dortania/Opencore-Legacy-Patcher)
I simply zip it's IO80211Family.kext into zip file and replace the file named IO80211Family-18G6032.kext.zip in the kexts folder of micropatcher's USB. And run the ./patch-kexts.sh . It finally connects to the personal hotspot of my iphone12.
But...The airdrop and handover are gone. I can not use them anymore.

Is there any one use MBP 2012 mid 15" and use all the wifi, hotspot, BT, airdrop, handover who can tell me how to fix the problem?

I'll try to replace the AirPortBrcm4360 in micropatcher with OpenCore patcher's one, to see if it could works well.

Besides, it can not connect to iphone12 in BT, even they are paired, the connection fail after few seconds.
And, the panic reboot exists still.

That's what I've done so far.

Is there any better good solution for my problems?

Thanks a lot~
 
andyhone said:
After install big sur from micropatcher 0.5.1 on my MBP 2012 mid(mbp10,1), there are 2 big issues,
1st, wifi works well with brcm4360 but unfortunately it can not connect to my iPhone12 through personal hotspot, no matter how I try, it just appears the SSID, but always connects fail.
2nd, there are always system panic reboot. Though I rare to reboot my laptop, but it still bothers me, especially while still trying the patched system.
Thanks to the version of OpenCore patcher. (https://github.com/dortania/Opencore-Legacy-Patcher)
I simply zip it's IO80211Family.kext into zip file and replace the file named IO80211Family-18G6032.kext.zip in the kexts folder of micropatcher's USB. And run the ./patch-kexts.sh . It finally connects to the personal hotspot of my iphone12.
But...The airdrop and handover are gone. I can not use them anymore.

Is there any one use MBP 2012 mid 15" and use all the wifi, hotspot, BT, airdrop, handover who can tell me how to fix the problem?

I'll try to replace the AirPortBrcm4360 in micropatcher with OpenCore patcher's one, to see if it could works well.

Besides, it can not connect to iphone12 in BT, even they are paired, the connection fail after few seconds.
And, the panic reboot exists still.

That's what I've done so far.

Is there any better good solution for my problems?

Thanks a lot~
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Check this to enable handoff and airdrop with our BCM94311CD card (I guess you have it), put in your micropatcher USB and open a Terminal and enter line by line (without the leading user@myMac %)

Code: 
user@myMac % /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur/remount-sysvol.sh
user@myMac % MYBOARD=`/usr/sbin/ioreg -l | grep board-id | awk -F\" '{ print $4 }' | grep Mac`
user@myMac % echo $MYBOARD
user@myMac % cd ../Frameworks
user@myMac % /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:$MYBOARD:ContinuitySupport true" "IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"
user@myMac % chown -R 0:0 IOBluetooth.framework
user@myMac % chown -R 755 IOBluetooth.framework
user@myMac % cd ../Extensions
user@myMac % /usr/bin/perl -pi -e "s/\Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86/$MYBOARD/" IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcm4360
user@myMac %  /usr/bin/perl -pi -e "s/\Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86/$MYBOARD/" IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcmNIC.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcmNIC
user@myMac % chown -R 0:0 IO80211Family.kext
user@myMac % chown -R 755 IO80211Family.kext
user@myMac % "$REBUILD_KC"

You came in late and missed all the problems with WIFI, the long comment within the README.md of the micropatcher has been added on purpose, I guess.

This code has been added to my fork of the micropatcher and will be called with this command line option of the patch-kext.sh --whitelist.

If you have success I will add the OLCP kext to the micropatcher for your MacBookPro10,1.

Note (the Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86 is the iMac13,1)
 
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furdi said:
Hi guys and a late 'Happy 2021 everyone!'

I guess no word on the full installer of 11.2?

Have. a great one!
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Downloading it now. Use gibMacOS Master. Works pretty well, you need to read the manual once though.

github.com

julianfairfax/macos-downloader

Command line tool for downloading macOS installers and beta updates - End of support/development - 0403979/macos-downloader
github.com github.com
 
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ClassicII said:
Hot off the press!!!!


mrmacintosh.com

macOS Big Sur 11.2 Update (20D64) is Live! What’s New? - Mr. Macintosh

What’s New in macOS Big Sur 11.2 (20D64) Update? The update includes new features & Bluetooth improvements + other fixes more info inside!
mrmacintosh.com mrmacintosh.com
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Edit: It is

Screenshot 2021-02-01 at 20.02.29.png


Are you sure this is the correct link, on your website there's this one:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...gypwunjfl96dza0upa854qgg/InstallAssistant.pkg

Your link from the post is the lower one in downloads, top one is from your site.
One is 12.21 GB, the other 12.2 GB.

And then there's this

Screenshot 2021-02-01 at 19.50.02.png


11.2 (Top)
11.2 (Bottom)
 
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Ausdauersportler said:
So, which one is it? gibMacOS offers only one option... (20D64)...
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justperry said:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...66rj040ekzry97wx2hggfuse/InstallAssistant.pkg

I didn't install it yet, I ran the .pkg, nest I navigated to shared support in the installer, unzipped the 12 GB zip file, then opened info.plist, it says 12.2 as I showed in my earlier post.

I don't know what the other linked file from his site is, it is an pkg installer, 12.2 GB.
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I just did a google search of the other link (the one listed on mrmacintosh.com) and turns out that one is actually 11.1, not 11.2
 
justperry said:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...66rj040ekzry97wx2hggfuse/InstallAssistant.pkg

I didn't install it yet, I ran the .pkg, nest I navigated to shared support in the installer, unzipped the 12 GB zip file, then opened info.plist, it says 12.2 as I showed in my earlier post.

I don't know what the other linked file from his site is, it is an pkg installer, 12.2 GB.
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I just checked again and the 11.2 catalog URL is


Must have had the wrong url on the site, thanks for the eagle eye!
 
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What's difference of using Ausdauersportler's newer forked micopatcher instead of Barry's? I am using a MBP 2012 15".
@Ausdauersportler Will there be an tested update of yours (0.5.4 I guess) soon?
 
cMP mid 2012 successfully installed BS 11.2 (20D64) 12.21 GB with Barry 0.5.1.
If your cMP GPU and BT/WiFi card updated. After boot from USB installer, open Terminal (in the Utilities menu) then run without quote "/Volumes/Image\ Volume/set-vars.sh" and install the BS as normal.
 

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marcel151 said:
What's difference of using Ausdauersportler's newer forked micopatcher instead of Barry's? I am using a MBP 2012 15".
@Ausdauersportler Will there be an tested update of yours (0.5.4 I guess) soon?
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Have just installed the 11.2 (20D64) with the dev-v0.5.4 on one iMac 2011. I can confirm it is working. There are some add-ons worth being tested in 2012 machines having no 802.11ac WiFi. Unfortunately I have no such systems and I rely on feedback from others here.

Additionally I added OpenCore packages and config files needed from iMac 2009 and 2010 systems.
 
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maxsp97 said:
cMP mid 2012 successfully installed BS 11.2 (20D64) 12.21 GB with Barry 0.5.1.
If your cMP GPU and BT/WiFi card updated. After boot from USB installer, open Terminal (in the Utilities menu) then run without quote "/Volumes/Image\ Volume/set-vars.sh" and install the BS as normal.
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Just be aware that the object for this install-setvars.sh Terminal command is simply to run it in Terminal (duh!). The stuff before /install-setvars.sh will vary depending upon where you stored the micropatcher folder.

Also, some of us use BarryKN's various options at this step. I use -e to set SIP, etc. Others shouldn't.
 
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Ausdauersportler said:
Have just installed the 11.2 (20D64) with the dev-v0.5.4 on one iMac 2011. I can confirm it is working. There are some add-ons worth being tested in 2012 machines having no 802.11ac WiFi. Unfortunately I have no such systems and I rely on feedback from others here.

Additionally I added OpenCore packages and config files needed from iMac 2009 and 2010 systems.
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Thanks for letting me know your micropatcher works too! Will install-setvars.sh -e option work in yours too?
 
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