macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Luckygreek]

I noticed that to but mine on both my iMac 9,1 and my MacBook 5,2 ran hot to until I reinstalled the backlight and nightshift patch then it is running better now

Not all that hot, just 10˚ or so unless I press the system which is to be expected.

 

[DaniloGeekDude]

Open your machine and ensure the secondary display cable is connected to your logic board. That is what the camera, WiFi, and Bluetooth modules go through.

Thanks @dosdude1 (and @BookEmDanno on a later similar post). I did find the cable disconnected. So i re-attached the cable, and upon powering off, both bluetooth and camera are now recognized and working. However, my WiFi is showing on the menubar with an "x" and drop down says "WiFi: No hardware installed".
System report does show software wifi 13.0.

Thanks for additional suggestions.

 

[TimothyR734]

Thanks @dosdude1 (and @BookEmDanno on a later similar post). I did find the cable disconnected. So i re-attached the cable, and upon powering off, both bluetooth and camera are now recognized and working. However, my WiFi is showing on the menubar with an "x" and drop down says "WiFi: No hardware installed".
System report does show software wifi 13.0.

Thanks for additional suggestions.

maybe when you opened your MacBook to connect the cable you accidently knocked a wire off your wifi card

 

[BookEmDanno]

Aloha @dosdude1,

I downloaded your new version 1.1.2 of the Mojave Patcher.
I ran into a problem upon booting up on the USB to install and patch an unsupported MBP5,5.
Looking at the verbose boot messages, it got stuck with this message(s).

"Process(143) crashed: Opendirectoryd. Too many corpses being created"

Sounds "creepy" with reference to the "corpses" 😳
Anyway, process number reached a high number, so I had to power off.

Mahalo!

Never mind. I found a solution to bypass this creepy issue.
I had to delete existing cache (mbr_cache) on /var/db/caches/opendirectoryd/

 

[dosdude1]

Thanks @dosdude1 (and @BookEmDanno on a later similar post). I did find the cable disconnected. So i re-attached the cable, and upon powering off, both bluetooth and camera are now recognized and working. However, my WiFi is showing on the menubar with an "x" and drop down says "WiFi: No hardware installed".
System report does show software wifi 13.0.

Thanks for additional suggestions.

Open System Preferences, select Network, then hit Apply at the bottom. WiFi should work then.

 

[HackDaBox]

Hey guys , firstly thanks so much for all your hard work! I have successfully installed Mojave on my MacBook Pro 6,2 which was not officially supported. I did have issues with so sound and no iSight etc but reinstalling the patched from the utility resolved all these.

What I can’t figure out is software updates. I had beta 3 and it worked but would not find any software updates so I downloaded beta 5 and patched it to a USB and installed that over the top. Now I have beta 5 but it won’t find beta 6 which came out today. Do I need to use the macOSDeveloperBetaUtilty or the macOSPublicBetaUtility to access the new updates or should the software update patch do the trick ?

Thanks for
Any help regarding this issue and keep up the good work !

 

[arqueox]

Installed DP6 clean, restore my data with time machine. Everything went fine. Then I received the night shift update and installed. Now I am stuck at apple boot logo. Just went again to my USB stick to rebuild caches but the same.
Never happened this to me. Any solution without having to reinstall the system again?

 

[TimothyR734]

Installed DP6 clean, restore my data with time machine. Everything went fine. Then I received the night shift update and installed. Now I am stuck at apple boot logo. Just went again to my USB stick to rebuild caches but the same.
Never happened this to me. Any solution without having to reinstall the system again?

when you did the clean install did you do the post install patches and force rebuild cache from the patcher before you restored your backup sometimes a reboot works to and sometimes it does take a bit to boot after a clean install

 

[arqueox]

when you did the clean install did you do the post install patches and force rebuild cache from the patcher before you restored your backup sometimes a reboot works to and sometimes it does take a bit to boot after a clean install

No, same issue as before when update from dp4 to dp5... I had to erase corebrightness and replace it for the patched one using single user mode to fix... I forgot that issue with night patch... But now is all good. sorry for repeating myself, but I forgot what happened before for the same problem. Thnx anyway

 

[BookEmDanno]

Software Update from Dev Preview 5 to Dev Preview 6 ~ 2 cases:

1. On an MBAir4,2 --- Booted on Mojave partition, applied macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtilty, update showed from System Preferences | Software Update, downloaded about 3.06gb, and updated online. No issues.
2. On an MBPro5,5 --- Booted on High Sierra partition, used @dosdude1's Mojave Patcher v1.1.2 to download new beta version about 6.01gb. Installed via USB boot into the Mojave partition, ran post install, rebooted to the new version, and re-ran patch update. No issues.

I guess my point is that you have 2 options to upgrade --- (by online) and (by using @dosdude1's patcher).

Isn't Mojave so much cool and fun? Mahalo.

 

[arqueox]

Software Update from Dev Preview 5 to Dev Preview 6 ~ 2 cases:

1. On an MBAir4,2 --- Booted on Mojave partition, applied macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtilty, update showed from System Preferences | Software Update, downloaded about 3.06gb, and updated online. No issues.
2. On an MBPro5,5 --- Booted on High Sierra partition, used @dosdude1's Mojave Patcher v1.1.2 to download new beta version about 6.01gb. Installed via USB boot into the Mojave partition, ran post install, rebooted to the new version, and re-ran patch update. No issues.

I guess my point is that you have 2 options to upgrade --- (by online) and (by using @dosdude1's patcher).

Isn't Mojave so much cool and fun? Mahalo.

Yeah it's nice but I am enrolled as developer beta profile and I never receive an update, but always the full version of the OS... I don't know why this happens and no one seems to not having this issue too. So, I have to wait and see if there is someone that can explain to me what's wrong

 

[Badruzeus]

It is interesting, so even on supported mid 2012 mbp grey status bar and finder bar are present, though quite rarely.
Let's hope this is just beta version bug (such as font smoothing but which is present on retinas as well), or someone could solve this issue!

It affected on NVDAGF100~ (Fermi) as well under Mojave, with all vanilla Ge* NVD*.kext on SLE for sure.
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Are there any changes in macOS Mojave beta 6?

As what I hear, no longer need to patch or replace this *.plugin with Beta 6 on Core2Duo mac:

Spoiler

/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin

Have you @ASentientBot did test with this? 🙂
#EDIT: Still need to replace "com.apple.telemetry.plugin" from 10.13.x or binary patch.

 

[jackluke]

As what I hear, no longer need to patch or replace this *.plugin with Beta 6 on Core2Duo mac:

Spoiler

/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin

Have you @ASentientBot did test with this? 🙂

I have upgraded on the same Macbook7,1 to DP6 (from DP5 upgrade size 3,71 GB) but I've replaced quickly the telemetry.plugin without taking a backup of the beta 6 updated one.

Maybe could you check inside yours:
/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.telemetry

if com.apple.telemetry unix exec has this last (or a previous) compiled date/time : 4 July 2018 1:26 PM (This represent the last modified/compiled date on High Sierra 10.13.6)

If so then you are still using an older High Sierra telemetry plugin.

If it has a late July or early August month date : please upload your file and I'll give a try.

I guess it is still mandatory replacing the HS telemetry.plugin , unless apple done a gift to all the C2D Mac owners.

 

[flygbuss]

I downloaded the beta-download-utility from the developers page and my software update says ‘.. enrolled..’ but it only offers me the public beta 5 now. Have been on DP 5 from the patcher before? What do i have to change?

Thank you!

Edit: Accidentally installed the public beta tool instead of the developer one. ups, my bad. 🙄

 

[Badruzeus]

I have upgraded on the same Macbook7,1 to DP6 (from DP5 upgrade size 3,71 GB) but I've replaced quickly the telemetry.plugin without taking a backup of the beta 6 updated one.

Maybe could you check inside yours:
/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.telemetry

if com.apple.telemetry unix exec has this last (or a previous) compiled date/time : 4 July 2018 3:27 PM

If so then you are still using an older High Sierra telemetry plugin.

If it has a late July or early August month date : please upload your file and I'll give a try.

I guess it is still mandatory replacing the HS telemetry.plugin , unless apple done a gift to all the C2D Mac owners. If this is, can expect also a fix on transparencies in "light mode

Oops, spoken too early here.. sorry, seems only worked on 1st install then problem happens again, so you're right.. still need to replace with 10.13.x has or patch it. [#EDITED my prev. Post]

 

[jackluke]

Oops, spoken too early here.. sorry, seems only worked on 1st install then problem happens again, so you're right.. still need to replace with 10.13.x has or patch it. [#EDITED my prev. Post]

They are usually during a major upgrade to update only the unix exec files (or all the Contents) inside their folder structures /Contents/MacOS/ while still keeping an old modified date of their kext/framework/plugin root folder, same thing happened to me with AppleHDA.kext folder was dated 2017 but inside /Contents/MacOS/AppleHDA was already been updated to late July 2018, so needed to replace from HS AppleHDA to get it working again on Mojave beta.

 

[Appleak]

Hi Guys I can now confirm autoplay in dev beta 6 Mac Appstore also videos on sites is working on my iMac 11.2 amd4600 🙂

 

[ctaylora1231]

I was able to update to pb5 through the system update preference pane. I did have to reapply the patches with my USB installer before it would finish the updates. But after that it booted into Mojave with no issues. But Like always, after updating, it broke the Continuity patch. I had rerun the Continuity Activation Tool twice before system preference stated that hand off support is active. I am using the CAT from the Beta branch on Github. I have not been able to get all Continuity features to work ever since updating to pb2. I did get an error running CAT;
Verifying Login Item... 47:51: execution error: Not authorized to send Apple events to System Events. (-1743)

like everyone else here on this thread,I am very grateful for @parrotgeek1 and @dosdude1 hard work. I hope that they will consider adding the continuity activation tool to the Mojave installer patch.

 

[donluca]

Has anyone tried to use an eGPU with a Metal supported GPU on Mojave? Did it solve the sluggishness problems due to the lack of hardware acceleration? In particular, there's script name set-eGPU.sh which will let you force all apps (Finder included?) to render using the eGPU.

 

[Czo]

Has anyone tried to use an eGPU with a Metal supported GPU on Mojave? Did it solve the sluggishness problems due to the lack of hardware acceleration? In particular, there's script name set-eGPU.sh which will let you force all apps (Finder included?) to render using the eGPU.

On my iMac (Mid 2011 with a Radeon HD6970) when i attach an eGPU to it (Radeon Rx480) the internal screen leaving black when i try to use Mojave. eGPU still worked/working fine under HS (without this script, only windows visible on the monitor that are attached to that eGPU are rendered with eGPU, with this script i can run anything on eGPU when displaying content on my iMac's screen under HS). When i test this eGPU on a iMac 2012, it working well under Mojave and/or HS. So, i think, to enable screenbuffer copy (from eGPU's buffer to main GPU's buffer) the main GPU need to be running with full acceleration enabled.

 

[Frantisekj]

Installed on MacBookPro 4,1 4 GB RAM, 256 SSD with already upgraded wifi module. Everything seems fine. Speed is OK with SSD. iSight seem to work. Just short test.
Only issue is in iMovie where I can not see preview of evects, subtitles etc until i hower mose over. Can be lack of VRAM, only 256 MB here.
Want to test old iTunes that were able to purchase iOS Apps. One I expect could have problems.
Otherwise Apple must be happy to see this machine on beta list and getting tons of beta reports from me lol.

 

[donluca]

On my iMac (Mid 2011 with a Radeon HD6970) when i attach an eGPU to it (Radeon Rx480) the internal screen leaving black when i try to use Mojave. eGPU still worked/working fine under HS (without this script, only windows visible on the monitor that are attached to that eGPU are rendered with eGPU, with this script i can run anything on eGPU when displaying content on my iMac's screen under HS). When i test this eGPU on a iMac 2012, it working well under Mojave and/or HS. So, i think, to enable screenbuffer copy (from eGPU's buffer to main GPU's buffer) the main GPU need to be running with full acceleration enabled.

Thanks for reporting. We're discussing this possibility on the egpu forums here: https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/sc...macs-on-macos-10-13-4/paged/22/#post-26327280
Feel free to contribute if you want, we might be able to see if a solution arises.

 

[flygbuss]

Apparently the glitches from the context menu are not connected to the beta.
First screenshot is beta 18A353d on my MBP 8,2 late 2011 and the second one is the same beta on my supported nMp.

The grey highlight frame is missing as well..

 

[Michael Filipan]

Hi. I have a MacBook Pro 15 mid 2009 2.53 GHz (MacBook Pro 5,4)and I installed Mojave. One issue I have is that it becomes really hot and loud even when you aren’t doing anything. I checked Activity monitor for CPU and energy which usage was really low with and no apps were opened. Do you think that’s fixable?

 

[0403979]

Hi. I have a MacBook Pro 15 mid 2009 2.53 GHz (MacBook Pro 5,4)and I installed Mojave. One issue I have is that it becomes really hot and loud even when you aren’t doing anything. I checked Activity monitor for CPU and energy which usage was really low with and no apps were opened. Do you think that’s fixable?

Try installing a fan control app and using your fan speed for a temporary solution.