macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread

[Czo]

Anyone have any issues with Air Drop not working? I tried transferring some photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro, and the MBP could NOT detect my iPhone. Tried restarting both phone and computer, radios (wifi and BT), etc.

I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro, and help or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I found two things that cause the non working AirDrop/Continuity.
- Did u removed the old BT Card, or if you replaced only the WiFi? Both 94360CD and 94331CD comes with BT so u need to remove or disconnect the original module.
- U need to repatch the WiFi.kext and a BT plist every time when Apple overwrites it.

 

[craigtheguru]

So against my better will, I upgraded from my Mac Pro 3,1 to an iMac Pro via Migration Assistant. I don’t think it caused too much weirdness, but now I get a “SIP enabled” warning after boot up and login. Any thoughts on disabling any of the hacks that might have carried over?

 

[Pressure]

Anyone tried running a VEGA FRONTIER EDITION in 10.13.4 beta on their Mac Pro 3,1?

 

[Sedulous]

So against my better will, I upgraded from my Mac Pro 3,1 to an iMac Pro via Migration Assistant. I don’t think it caused too much weirdness, but now I get a “SIP enabled” warning after boot up and login. Any thoughts on disabling any of the hacks that might have carried over?

I think there is a SIP disabling daemon that was installed by the patch updater. Dosdude1 kindly mentioned where it is located earlier in this thread (I think it is in /Library/extensions but I could be wrong). Once removed, you should be able to manually re-enable SIP by booting into recovery partition and using the terminal utility to execute “sudo csrutil enable”

 

[gwoog]

Follow CZOs instructions for reinstalling the Patch Updater.

I am not going to post a 2GB update file, when you can do the work to modify it yourself in 5 minutes.
As each Mac has its own identifier and Board ID I would need to post several, better to give you the tools
and then you can use your noggin to work a way for yourself.
Teach a man to fish etc.
Stop being so lazy!
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Great that you got it working, just wish I knew why it was giving the error towards the end, it never did this in Sierra, but then High Sierra is terribly flaky.

Thanks for that. Motivating Reinstalled the OS. Problem solved.
[doublepost=1517740355][/doublepost]Not able to get my Mac Pro 3.1 to wake after "sleep". The machine wakes, but only shows a black screen. Keyboard and mouse is non responsiv. Only way to get it startet is to hard boot.

I'm currently on 10.13.3. Had the same problem on 10.13.1. I have googled it, but haven't found a solution. Tried disable "put hardisk to sleep...". I have tried other "energy saver" settings, but no luck. Any suggestions?

 

[jbarley]

I think there is a SIP disabling daemon that was installed by the patch updater. Dosdude1 kindly mentioned where it is located earlier in this thread (I think it is in /Library/extensions but I could be wrong). Once removed, you should be able to manually re-enable SIP by booting into recovery partition and using the terminal utility to execute “sudo csrutil enable”

Advice I received from dosdude1 to remove the SIP patch.
In a terminal window, execute the following...
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sudo rm -R /Library/Extensions/SIPManager.kext
sudo kextcache -system-caches
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
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[Phil T]

I am using a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 5.4 and have been running Sierra and High Sierra for a couple of years now using Dosdude’s tools. Everything worked great up until 10.13.2 and 3. 10.13.2 required me to run Onyx to get it stable. 3 won’t load at all.

I am thinking I need to revert back to El Capitan to get this machine back to where it can live out the rest of its life happy and not have to worry about updates. I am not a techie and just know enough to be dangerous.

My major hang up is my 23000 photos and videos all originzed in albums in photos. If I understand right I will have to upload them to iCloud and then back to Photos in El Capitan. I do have iCloud backups back to El Capitan (2016) but would lose 2 years worth of photo if I restored that way.

Any advise from someone who has done this?

 

[roronl]

I am using a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 5.4 and have been running Sierra and High Sierra for a couple of years now using Dosdude’s tools. Everything worked great up until 10.13.2 and 3. 10.13.2 required me to run Onyx to get it stable. 3 won’t load at all.

I am thinking I need to revert back to El Capitan to get this machine back to where it can live out the rest of its life happy and not have to worry about updates. I am not a techie and just know enough to be dangerous.

My major hang up is my 23000 photos and videos all originzed in albums in photos. If I understand right I will have to upload them to iCloud and then back to Photos in El Capitan. I do have iCloud backups back to El Capitan (2016) but would lose 2 years worth of photo if I restored that way.

Any advise from someone who has done this?

Maybe you can make a Time Machine backup? In that case you can use the back up to manually inport your photos to El Capitan OS. You can use the Time Machine disk just like any other disk and browse the folders.

 

[craigtheguru]

Advice I received from dosdude1 to remove the SIP patch.
In a terminal window, execute the following...
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sudo rm -R /Library/Extensions/SIPManager.kext
sudo kextcache -system-caches
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
-------------------------------------------------------

I tired these steps and had SIP enabled from the get go on the iMac Pro. However I'm still getting the prompt on boot. Will clear the ketcache again now that I've rebooted after removing the kext and will see if it fixes it.

Overall this iMac Pro is bonkers great, but I'm struggling to figure out how to manage all the storage I used to cram inside my Mac Pro tower.

 

[slooksterPSV]

10.3 runs great with an ssd on a MacBook 5,2. However it’s more stable and similar in speed on a HDD with El Capitan. I think High Sierra is power hungry. I’m surprised a regular HDD works great with El Capitan. The glitches even with the patches were really causing performance hits. Thank you Dosdude1. I think my MacBook is okay on 10.11 .

 

[jbarley]

I tired these steps and had SIP enabled from the get go on the iMac Pro. However I'm still getting the prompt on boot. Will clear the ketcache again now that I've rebooted after removing the kext and will see if it fixes it.

Overall this iMac Pro is bonkers great, but I'm struggling to figure out how to manage all the storage I used to cram inside my Mac Pro tower.

Seeing as how you migrated from a system that was hacked to run on an unsupported mac over to a fully supported mac there might by many leftover modified files.
Downloading and running the 10.13.3 combo update might help correct these files and it certainly would not hurt anything.
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1953?locale=en_US

 

[Doblesecure]

Hi everybody

Did anyone manage to install windows 10 (or win7) on an MacBook 5,1with APFS on a ssd disk?

My patched macbook is working like a charm (thanks @dosdude1) but i need windows for work.

I am a newbie and this is my first patch intent, so any help would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[antibolo]

Lately I just noticed my patched MBP 5,1 (encrypted HFS+) appears to boot "twice" before reaching the FileVault login, is this a normal side-effect of the patching?

 

[craigtheguru]

Seeing as how you migrated from a system that was hacked to run on an unsupported mac over to a fully supported mac there might by many leftover modified files.
Downloading and running the 10.13.3 combo update might help correct these files and it certainly would not hurt anything.
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1953?locale=en_US

I agree completely. That said, at this point, I'll just hold out for the official 10.13.4 update and leave it at that.

 

[Neptitude]

I'm running an old mid-2009 MacBook (MacBook5,2 white unibody A1181) that just I just let take the 10.13.3 update from the App Store. After it finished rebooting my special keys (brightness, volume, etc) have all stopped working. I tried repatching with those options selected but that didn't help. Thoughts?

 

[dosdude1]

I'm running an old mid-2009 MacBook (MacBook5,2 white unibody A1181) that just I just let take the 10.13.3 update from the App Store. After it finished rebooting my special keys (brightness, volume, etc) have all stopped working. I tried repatching with those options selected but that didn't help. Thoughts?

Re-install all patches using the Patch Updater application, that will fix your issue. You can highlight all of them, then right click and select "re-install" to do it all at once.

 

[Neptitude]

Re-install all patches using the Patch Updater application, that will fix your issue. You can highlight all of them, then right click and select "re-install" to do it all at once.

Worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

 

[Arnold2018]

I am running an MacBook Pro 5.3, after update 10.13.4 1 Public Beta from App Store the Preview and Photos application crashed any picture files (*.png, *.jpg. After one click all pictures were pixelated and impossible for further work. Installed Patch Updater didn't solve problem. Re-install 10.13.2 is solved all troubles. Is it correct for future update from App Store my MacBook Pro 5.3. is not compatible?

 

[roronl]

I am running an MacBook Pro 5.3, after update 10.13.4 1 Public Beta from App Store the Preview and Photos application crashed any picture files (*.png, *.jpg. After one click all pictures were pixelated and impossible for further work. Installed Patch Updater didn't solve problem. Re-install 10.13.2 is solved all troubles. Is it correct for future update from App Store my MacBook Pro 5.3. is not compatible?

Just stay in the non-beta feed and then you will be fine. The last official version is: 10.13.3 (17D47).

 

[Arnold2018]

Just stay in the non-beta feed and then you will be fine. The last official version is: 10.13.3 (17D47).

Thank you!

 

[dosdude1]

For those interested, I've just released a new update to macOS High Sierra Patcher. In this update, I've revised the built-in macOS Installer downloading feature, now allowing you to resume the download if it has an error or is cancelled. This should help people with less stable Internet connections. Download here as always.

 

[gages]

@dosdude1, So if we have a USB drive setup with an earlier version of the Patcher say 2.51 and with an older version of HS say 10.13, how does one update the drive to latest?

 

[dosdude1]

@dosdude1, So if we have a USB drive setup with an earlier version of the Patcher say 2.51 and with an older version of HS say 10.13, how does one update the drive to latest?

Just download the latest version of High Sierra Patcher, use it to download a copy of macOS (it always downloads the latest one), and then re-create your USB drive with it.

 

[gages]

Just download the latest version of High Sierra Patcher, use it to download a copy of macOS (it always downloads the latest one), and then re-create your USB drive with it.

OK, so basically recreate every time, a small price to pay for such goodness....

 

[Hal9008]

Hi everybody

Did anyone manage to install windows 10 (or win7) on an MacBook 5,1with APFS on a ssd disk?

My patched macbook is working like a charm (thanks @dosdude1) but i need windows for work.

I am a newbie and this is my first patch intent, so any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Hey... i have got the same macbook 5.1. I have installed windows following this tutorial

https://www.flopy.es/instalacion-de-windows-10-en-ordenadores-apple-no-admitidos/

See the video at the end of the webpage to see this macbook working with high sierra.

Windows 10 is running in this laptop without issues (all is working). And it runs really well. Not as fast as i can run it in an alu macbook 5.0, but it works and it is usable. All the hardware is detected and working.

Now i have high sierra and windows 10 in this macbook in a 256 Gb SSD. But i had to change the trackpad of the macbook to a multitouch one to use it with high sierra. With this change now all works really fine.