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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Well all, FYI* I decided to try and do another update from Catalina on the 2012MBP to OCLP2.2/Sequoia15.2. That did not go well. I don't remember details and didn't take notes as I was a bit upset. Ended up with the weirdest screen I've ever seen.. shoulda taken a pic of it.. I ended up wiping the SSD and loading from scratch to Sequoia again. I set it up with generic admin id and set my settings as I like then attempted to install my printer driver/software(Epson ET-3850). That still crashes on the installer. I then reverted root patches in OCLP and rebooted. Logged back in and reran the printer software install. Went as normal!. It had lots of updates to do once the updater software was updated. I let it do everything, redid the post install root patches and rebooted. Printer works fine! I'm now attempting to do a Migration Assistant of my 2015MBP TM backup. Of course this time I reverted root patches in OCLP and rebooted first. It's currently running the restore. About 2 hrs left.. I'll update if it works or not. I had read/heard from somewhere, I think Mr. Macintosh channel, that reverting root patches is key in doing things of this nature. I've done this several times before with failures. Perhaps doing the reverting will work. I believe he also said that restoring a TM backup in latest Sequoia is broken. Hope I heard wrong.. Anyway, fingers crossed...Update:.. Didn't work. Same thing as the last time I tried this.. Migration Complete screen and it keeps wanting a restart...repeat.. repeat.. annoying.. Cannot restore TM backup with Migration Assistant.. just will NOT work..Update: Reloaded Catalina with generic admin ID then updated to OCLP/Sequoia15.2 and added printer driver/software(Epson ET-3850) with root patches reverted. Worked fine. Will now create my ID and setup iCloud etc. and no TM restore. Just gonna manually load what I need on this machine.
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Same here on a MBP 10,2 (Retina, 2012). Since the TM backup was created with Ventura, I could choose Sonoma instead, which worked flawlessly.
Yeah I did it a couple times on Sonoma.. Too bad really.. Oh well. Not my main anyway. I garbage picked this one, literally.. Intended as a desktop PC replacement for the household, or just a toy to see what can be done...it's syncing my photos library now.. 21000+..Update: Everything setup manually fine that I'm gonna run on this one.. Apple purchased movies run fine with external monitor attached. Xfinity Stream works using Firefox. Safari doesn't work well with that at all. I'd say for a garbage picked 2012MBP household laptop running OCLP2.2/Sequoia15.2, this is gonna work out just fine for a bit..
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After loosing my macOS Sonoma SSD post OCLP 2.2.0 (?) update from OCLP 1.5.0, I struggled getting it back to work with a clean installation of macOS 14.7.2 and using Migrations Assistant along the way. Could not apply the root patches, nor revert them for the Migrations as per Mr. Macintosh video.
Today I managed to install macOS Sonoma 14.7.3 with OCLP 1.5.0 created from within my macOS Ventura installation.
Clean installing my Applications and restoring my Data from backup, to give it in 2025 a fresh start.
interesting... glad you got it going again.. You coulda just done Sequoia at that point...
On my cMP 4,1>5,1 I have Sonoma 14.7.2 installed.
I have 2 problems:
ONE
I was having a problem with a notification popping up repeatedly (every 2 to 3 seconds after booting up and logging in) saying "nsattributedstringagent quit unexpectedly". It is referred to in the Monterey on Unsupported Macs but without any advice as to why or how to stop it from occurring.
I can keep quitting and after ten minutes or so of doing nothing other than quitting the notification it goes away.
Does anyone know how to prevent this?
TWO
My Bluetooth stopped working today so I had to switch to a wired keyboard and wired mouse. Bluetooth was working yesterday.
I have rebooted several times but it will not restart.
I have tried reinstalling macOS Sononma with OCLP 2.2 again - no change - still not working.
I tried redoing the post-install patches yet - no change - and it's still not working.
Helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
I have 2 problems:
ONE
I was having a problem with a notification popping up repeatedly (every 2 to 3 seconds after booting up and logging in) saying "nsattributedstringagent quit unexpectedly". It is referred to in the Monterey on Unsupported Macs but without any advice as to why or how to stop it from occurring.
I can keep quitting and after ten minutes or so of doing nothing other than quitting the notification it goes away.
Does anyone know how to prevent this?
TWO
My Bluetooth stopped working today so I had to switch to a wired keyboard and wired mouse. Bluetooth was working yesterday.
I have rebooted several times but it will not restart.
I have tried reinstalling macOS Sononma with OCLP 2.2 again - no change - still not working.
I tried redoing the post-install patches yet - no change - and it's still not working.
Helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Not sure if it's helpful or not...but I had the same issue on the garbaged picked 2012MBP I have after I had both Sonoma and Sequoia loaded on it and working for a bit...then the BT side of the Airport card quit.. just disappeared like yours.. Wifi still worked but BT dead. I reloaded last official OS(Catalina) back on it and still didn't work. Ended up buying a replacement Airport card from iFixit. Worked fine after replacement. Reloaded OCLP2.2/Sequoia15.2 and works fine. Of course doing all of this I wiped the SSD, totally from scratch install, so no TM data restore as that seems to be broken on Sonoma/Sequoia from what I've seen in my case anyway. Hope you figure something out..
When I restart and boot up into Mojave on this CMP, Bluetooth is working, and I can use the BT trackpad and Keyboard. The hardware is definitely working, but it appears that the OCLP post-install patches are not working or installing. I have reinstalled them twice - without any success.
Oh wow.. ok. Well that's good then.. Yeah, not sure what else to say on it then. Maybe someone else has insight.
I hope so...
It's the "nsattributedstringagent quit unexpectedly" notification that's causing me no end of irritation.
Can anyone run the TV app and playback Apple downloaded and saved locally movies with an External monitor attached at all? I'm trying to find where the cutoff is. It works on my 2012MBP with Sequoia but will not on this 2015 running any OS beyond Monterey. It will NOT playback HDCP content with an external monitor attached in any way. Only on the built in with no others attached. It's a real deal killer for me running a newer OS on this. I NEED to be able to have an external monitor attached...
Update
Bluetooth working again and the "nsattributedstringagent quit unexpectedly" notification have stopped!
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I looked at the system information about Bluetooth on the Sonoma ssd in my cMP 4,1>5,1 and compared it to the system information on my other real macPro 5,1 currently on a stable Monterey (see specs of both below) they were not the same whereas the hardware was. somehow this Mac did not seem to have been patched correctly.
On Sonoma on the cMP 4,1>5,1
I tried removing the patches and reinstalling them: still no change
I used the uninstall utility to remove OCLP 2.2 and I deleted the contents of the EFI where OC was installed.
I redownloaded OCLP 2.2 and reinstalled it in the now empty EFI on one of the HDDs.
I repatched and after rebooting I still had no Bluetooth as well as the problem with “nsattributedstringagent”.
I removed the Sonoma SSD and put it in the other cMP.
The Sonoma SSD on the cMP 5,1 now reported it was unpatched?
I patched it. Rebooted on the cMP 5,1 and Bluetooth worked.
I put it back in the cMP 4,1>5,1 and Bluetooth worked and the "nsattributedstringagent quit unexpectedly" notification had stopped.
It has been stable for the last 24 hours.
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It looks like, for whatever reason, it was not ‘fully’ patched in the cPM 4,1>5,1 but i was able to do that when I put it in the cMP 5,1.
I’d like to know what the reason was but I am not going to investigate further - “if ain't bust don’t fix it!”
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What's the difference between the download sections in OCLP 1.5.0? macOS 14.7.3 not flagged as beta here.
Seems I've installed a beta version of macOS Sonoma (14.7.3) but was not listed as such in the non-beta section of the downloads.
edit: Beta Updates are off
Seems I've installed a beta version of macOS Sonoma (14.7.3) but was not listed as such in the non-beta section of the downloads.
edit: Beta Updates are off
I don't know either, but it's been like that with a previous version, if I remember correctly.
I have to reload it from scratch.. I had an old grub on this SSD from when I was dual booting linux a few years ago that I forgot about.. OCLP wouldn't install right on it..but at least I validated HDCP content will work on it.. Just gotta reload and start over is all.. no biggie.. hopefully I can restore my TM backup of this.. if not I'll have to load Monterey back on it and restore TM backup and update again to Sequoia.
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14.7.3 23H407 is a Release Candidate (RC) version.
14.7.3 23H411 is a Release Candidate (RC2) version.
14.7.3 23H415 is a Release Candidate (RC3) version.
So not a Beta anymore.
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Thank you. I'm not quite sure: How - if at all - do RCs show up in the "Create macOS installer" section of OCLP? Right now I can't see 14.7.3 - neither as Beta or as final version.
You can download the most current versions of either Sonoma (14.7.3) or Ventura (13.7.3), using the Mist app.
Copy the one you want to use to your Applications folder (or you can simply browse to your Applications folder for the download target) , and then you can use that installer app as the source for your OCLP installer. (There's several methods to get what you want...)
Copy the one you want to use to your Applications folder (or you can simply browse to your Applications folder for the download target) , and then you can use that installer app as the source for your OCLP installer. (There's several methods to get what you want...)
