I did, but didn't do the trick for me.
My MBP4,1 17-inch (early2008) doesn't have the brightness problem, as described here), but seems to be much darker under macOS High Sierra.
Is there a solution to raise the brightness level?
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I did, but didn't do the trick for me.
My MBP4,1 17-inch (early2008) doesn't have the brightness problem, as described here), but seems to be much darker under macOS High Sierra.
Is there a solution to raise the brightness level?
Hi guys
I updated Sierra to High Sierra, on my MacBook Pro 5,2 (unsupported one) using Dosdude Patch. All went well and system updated without problems. When booted, I noticed that my SSD wasn't converted to APFS. So I decided to do it manually. I booted from USB, and converted it to APFS (I had to unmount it first, otherwise the option to covert was greyed out).
Again, it all went well and I got a green checkmark that the conversion was successful. From what I see the main volume is not inside a container...
And from now on, I CANNOT BOOT from this converted to APFS drive. I already tried running post install tools and apply APFS patch, and it sees the drive at least, but the custom bootloader doesn't work either. It says "Boot file not found, exiting..." and then I see "Shell>_"
Could you please tell me what can I do to make it work? I can only boot from patched Recovery partition or from a USB High Sierra installer with DosDude Patch.
Please help, I'm totally stuck...
I updated Sierra to High Sierra, on my MacBook Pro 5,2 (unsupported one) using Dosdude Patch. All went well and system updated without problems. When booted, I noticed that my SSD wasn't converted to APFS. So I decided to do it manually. I booted from USB, and converted it to APFS (I had to unmount it first, otherwise the option to covert was greyed out).
Again, it all went well and I got a green checkmark that the conversion was successful. From what I see the main volume is not inside a container...
And from now on, I CANNOT BOOT from this converted to APFS drive. I already tried running post install tools and apply APFS patch, and it sees the drive at least, but the custom bootloader doesn't work either. It says "Boot file not found, exiting..." and then I see "Shell>_"
Could you please tell me what can I do to make it work? I can only boot from patched Recovery partition or from a USB High Sierra installer with DosDude Patch.
Please help, I'm totally stuck...
Can you boot from your USB drive, open Terminal, run "diskutil list", and send the output?
Just a quick question why does my Mac Pro 3,1 keep on telling me SIP is enabled every single time on boot up? Although I disabled it promptly. Also, I find that my Mac Pro couldn't locate any audio drivers? Although my speakers are working perfectly well in Sierra. Cheers.
Thank you so much for a prompt reply!
Since I didn't know what to do at that point, I decided to install it all again. So I booted from USB, and installed High Sierra again over the previously converted APFS one, rebooted, ran post install patches for my MBPro 5,2 plus manually selected APFS patch. Rebooted > and it ALL WORKS!
I also noticed some differences I'm not quite sure about:
- recovery partition doesn't show up when booted with "Option", but it's listed with command "diskutil list"
- it takes much more time for the system to boot comparing to previous Sierra with the same setup (not sure if this is due to the extra bootloader, or the new file system)
Now, this is "diskutil list" output:
Code:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 249.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Stuff 499.8 GB disk1s2
/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +249.8 GB disk2
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume MacSSD 186.5 GB disk2s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.4 MB disk2s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 518.1 MB disk2s3
4: APFS Volume VM 4.3 GB disk2s4I'm not sure what happened, and why I got into this trouble, and how repeating installation of the system again helped in this case, but really would like to, to me more aware.
Thanks!!!
I ran into this problem also with my MBP 5,1. The fix is to boot from the Mac OS High Sierra USB installer, and re-run the MacOS High Sierra install again on the volume. Don't do anything to the volume using Disk Utility, just re-install MacOS again on the volume. Once this is done, you must again boot from the USB installer and then run the post install utility, select your machine, then apply the patches for your specific machine. Your Mac should boot with the APFS volume.
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edit: I see what you're talking about now. After wake from sleep, I lose the last brightness setting and it goes back to lowest setting. Weird.
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Just updated my MacBook Pro 4,1 to 10.13.1 and lost the Fn keys for brightness / volume / keyboard backlight control. Re-installed the patches etc., but nothing is getting it back. Any other ideas as to what I can do ? Everything else seems to be working OK . . .
Try using Patch Updater to re-install the patches (if you haven't already... Just open the Patch Updater app, click "View Install Updates", highlight all, right click and select re-install).
Running 10.13 just fine on my Mac Pro 3,1, but even tho I patched it for updates,. the App Store app hangs in an endless pinwheel when I go to Updates.
Found and downloaded macosupd10.13.1.dmg to try to manually update it, but it (kinda expectedly) gives an art saying This Software is not supported on your system. ugh. wish there was a patch for the update.dmg.
any thoughts? thanks
Found and downloaded macosupd10.13.1.dmg to try to manually update it, but it (kinda expectedly) gives an art saying This Software is not supported on your system. ugh. wish there was a patch for the update.dmg.
any thoughts? thanks
You need to change the distribution file in the 10.13.1Update.pkg.
Modifying the 10.13.1 Update for High Sierra.
Download 10.13.1 Update.
Open 10.13.1 Update.
Move 10.13.1Update.pkg to Desktop.
Open Terminal.
Enter pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/macOSUpd10.13Update.pkg ~/Desktop/Expanded
Open Expanded folder and then open Distribution file in Text Wrangler
Change Distribution file, change Board iD line 33 to <your Macs boardID> at line 41 remove <your Mac model>
Save As .xml file to the Desktop
In Terminal chmod +x ~/Desktop/distribution.xml
Remove the extension .xml
Move new Distribution file to Expanded folder replacing the original
In Terminal pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/Expanded ~/Desktop/Modified.pkg
Using the .pkg extension is crucial.
The Modified package on your desktop should now allow you to install the latest update
This is only thing I need to fix for a perfect system. My guess is a lack of Metal support in the AMD drivers, which is probably impossible to add. An affordable Nvidia card with web driver support might be the only way (and would lose boot screen video output).
Guys, I'm not sure how it is in your cases, but I noticed dramatical performance drop after converting to APFS - in Sierra, booting time took several seconds, now it takes more than a minute, almost 1.5 min. Is this normal?
Also, very weird battery behaviour. My battery had around 75% of designed capacity (13000mAh), that means around 9600mAh. Yesterda, after 1 day of using High Sierra, this number dropped to 52% (6800mAh), but today it's only 31% (4077mAh)! Here is a screenshot from CoconutBattery. What's going on? Is something really killing my battery? Or is it a bug or something?
I tried resetting SMC and PRam, it didn't help...
Any ideas?
PS. I'm using MacBook Pro 5,2 17-inch Mid 2009, Samsung 850 EVO SSD, 8GB RAM
Also, very weird battery behaviour. My battery had around 75% of designed capacity (13000mAh), that means around 9600mAh. Yesterda, after 1 day of using High Sierra, this number dropped to 52% (6800mAh), but today it's only 31% (4077mAh)! Here is a screenshot from CoconutBattery. What's going on? Is something really killing my battery? Or is it a bug or something?
I tried resetting SMC and PRam, it didn't help...
Any ideas?
PS. I'm using MacBook Pro 5,2 17-inch Mid 2009, Samsung 850 EVO SSD, 8GB RAM
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If I install the web drivers and I replace my Radeon 5770 by a GT 1030 I will no longer have the red bug and the sleep bug ?
I tried to install the latest web driver and to put the GTX 1060 of my son in my Mac (PC Card). It boots but there is no graphic acceleration.Maybe do I have to remove the "AMD Patch" but I don't know how to do it.
Tried this a couple of times, rebuilt caches etc., still no joy with the keys
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Did you ever get this fixed, I am having the same issues
So ever since I upgraded to High Sierra, it would appear that I get occasional "NSURLErrorDomain error -1012" followed by "Failed Software Update - Refusing invalid certificate from host: swscan.apple.com" messages.
What's strange is it seems to clear itself up if I start VPN and retry.
What's strange is it seems to clear itself up if I start VPN and retry.
You Rock L Caputo!! Thanks so much! The new Modified.pkg seems to be working! well, almost, the installer made it 98% of the way thru, but then I get an error saying "The installation failed"
upon restart, it appears the update DID install and the system is running 10.13.1
the bad news- Safari doens't seem to connect (Firefox does), Mail doesn't show the contents of mail. app store still is hung on Updates..and who knows what else might not work.
now I def have to figure how to go back to 10.13 if I can. (any easy steps for that?)
But I think it all came close and may or may not work for others who encounter this situation, so I'll post some notes here:
- was a wee bit tricky, had a few hiccups along the way:
I kept on using: Enter pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/macOSUpd10.13Update.pkg ~/Desktop/Expanded wasn't working until I realized it wasn't using the proper name which was :
pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/macOSUpd10.13.1.pkg ~/Desktop/Expanded
-I had to use BBEedit (Text Wranger won't run int High Sierra the website said)
- for some reason I was unable to delete .xml from the file name.. until I Got Info and changed it in there
- in terminal, I then wasn't sure if it worked the first time, but also used the capital D so it
said chmod +x ~/Desktop/Distribution.xml to match the exact file name.
I'm going to restart now and see if the system still works! (maybe the installer did most of it's thing)
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Some people are using Onyx to resolve the Safari, Mail etc issues. Go back a few pages to dates after the release of the update to see what people are saying.
There is no need to type the paths in Terminal just drag the item into Terminal and the correct path will be provided.
BBEdit does say that Text Wrangler won't run but for me it does.
Deleting the .xml extension is just a matter of opening Get Info and deleting the extension.
Again just drag the Distribution file into Terminal after typing chmod +x . The correct path and terminology will be input.
Whenever you are doing updates, system updates especially always back up your mac prior to installing and run First Aid from Disk Utility before and after updating to check for errors.
There is no need to type the paths in Terminal just drag the item into Terminal and the correct path will be provided.
BBEdit does say that Text Wrangler won't run but for me it does.
Deleting the .xml extension is just a matter of opening Get Info and deleting the extension.
Again just drag the Distribution file into Terminal after typing chmod +x . The correct path and terminology will be input.
Whenever you are doing updates, system updates especially always back up your mac prior to installing and run First Aid from Disk Utility before and after updating to check for errors.
Just wanted to chime in and say how great you guys are! I've been using your guides and Dosdude1's guides to get Sierra and High Sierra working on my 5,2 MacBook (not pro) and it's been working like a champ. I reinstalled 10.13 for APFS and it worked like a champ. Upgraded to 13.1, reinstalled the patches, ran the Onyx script and life has been great! I'd even say that it works better than Sierra did.
I just installed 10.13.1 on my early 2008 Mac Pro 3.1
Now I have the Problem, that my RAM doesn't work properly anymore.
I have 8 bars of 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM (the proper fully buffered one with the big heat sinks).
Of my total 32GB Memory, only 8GB is recognized
Anybody has been having the same problem and solved it yet?
I haven't read the whole 94 pages, so apologies if it has been discussed already...
Now I have the Problem, that my RAM doesn't work properly anymore.
I have 8 bars of 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM (the proper fully buffered one with the big heat sinks).
Of my total 32GB Memory, only 8GB is recognized
Anybody has been having the same problem and solved it yet?
I haven't read the whole 94 pages, so apologies if it has been discussed already...
That's not an issue with High Sierra or the patch, but rather a hardware issue with your machine. Reseat all the DIMMs and both memory risers, and see if that helps at all.I just installed 10.13.1 on my early 2008 Mac Pro 3.1
Now I have the Problem, that my RAM doesn't work properly anymore.
I have 8 bars of 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM (the proper fully buffered one with the big heat sinks).
Of my total 32GB Memory, only 8GB is recognized
Anybody has been having the same problem and solved it yet?
I haven't read the whole 94 pages, so apologies if it has been discussed already...