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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Swapped the .3 dyldƒ with the orig. in .6b1, reboot, installed "News OpenCL Patch", reboot. News and + continue to function. Great work by Minh_Ton, jackluke, ASentientBot and the dosdude1 for the timely patch.
Just FYI, you don't have to swap the "dyld" folder and install the patch. They are different ways of doing the same thing.
Putting OpenCL.framework to Whitelist did not change the News app behaviour on my MacBook5,1. Still no sign of News+. It is nice to know that now I have OpenCL support for it in case it will work in the future.
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I successfully applied APFS ROM patch on my MCP79-based machine. The boot time is now under 40 sec, and I can have multiple bootable APFS partitions. One of the downside of the software based solution(APFS post install patch) is that if you add HFS+ bootable partition say with the Snow Leopard it will default to it at the startup regardless of what you have selected as the startup disk.
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I successfully applied APFS ROM patch on my MCP79-based machine. The boot time is now under 40 sec, and I can have multiple bootable APFS partitions. One of the downside of the software based solution(APFS post install patch) is that if you add HFS+ bootable partition say with the Snow Leopard it will default to it at the startup regardless of what you have selected as the startup disk.
Yep, you're right I've tried from an i5 cpu this from Terminal and get exactly that answer :
sudo /App*/Text*/C*/M*/TextEdit
Illegal instruction: 4
instead without "sudo" works quietly from Terminal:
/App*/Text*/C*/M*/TextEdit
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Have you tried from AppStore's Preferences to disable Video Autoplay ?
I remember it was a very earlier workaround for some GPUs to avoid New App Store "Discover pane" crash.
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MacBook Pro 13'' Mid 2009 (macbookpro5,5), Mojave. Problems with CPU temperature. MacBook cpu hitting 90 degrees Celsius immediately after booting in OS, then fan cooling start working at max 6200 rpm, and don't stop until MacBook will go off. CPU temperature when I'm not using MacBook about 80-85 degrees. Before installing Mojave I've been use Yosemite, and there was no problem with that. Also, I removed my battery because of damage, could it affect?
Everything works perfectly and as expected after updating to 10.14.5 on my Macmini5,1 (Mid 2011, i5) - including Flurry and Chess.
Can't really test News as it's empty for me in Europe.
App Store seems stable and smooth.
Cinebench CPU score is exactly the same (2.48). GPU test is not working.
But I had to install the update in Target Disk Mode from a supported Mac, otherwise I got an unsupported device error.
I only tried the official Combo update, as I'm cloning the system to various devices.
Any ideas on how to bypass the apparent compatibility check of Combo Updates?
Can't really test News as it's empty for me in Europe.
App Store seems stable and smooth.
Cinebench CPU score is exactly the same (2.48). GPU test is not working.
But I had to install the update in Target Disk Mode from a supported Mac, otherwise I got an unsupported device error.
I only tried the official Combo update, as I'm cloning the system to various devices.
Any ideas on how to bypass the apparent compatibility check of Combo Updates?
For using News.app from a non targeted region just open Terminal and copy/paste:
open /App*/News.app
After from the Dock, select the app and "Keep in Dock".
Almost surely you won't have the "News+ tab".
And yes, there is a way to do a manual "Combo Update" but involves editing the Distribution file and manually pkgutil expand the payloads to a temp folder and then rebuild a custom Combo.pkg and/or overwrite that path content to your Mojave root drive.
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Thanks, but I meant I don't receive any content.
I thought Apple is actively blocking me from seeing content with its com.apple.geod.xpc
Just type from the upper-left "little magnifying glass" anything you want example:
News+
macbook
apple
And any other key-word, it will find any free web newspaper indexed by http://apple.news
Shame on me. Thank you for this News 101.
I already modified the macOS-whitelist.txt and so far all looks good.
Not too smooth (~30fps) but far from stuttering.
That's right, even using an i5 cpu, News.app appears to be enough heavy for GPU/CPU load, and sometimes I get even less than 30fps .
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I just checked your app-crashlog, and you have a Metal GPU, so it's really weird your New App Store crashing. Maybe you should try a Nvidia Web Driver.
But I assume you haven't used any "Video Patch" right ?
Because for GTX 770 you have to not use any Video Patch, that should work OOB.
If you used the "Video patch" then you should unpatch completely and it's not simple to go back from that point since you have to unpatch and use the original .5 Mojave of these:
IOGraphicsFamily.kext , IONDRVSupport.kext , IOAccelerator*.kext , AppleGraphics*.kext
OpenGL, GPUSupport and CoreDisplay frameworks
Resuming, with a Metal GPU all those listed should be NOT patched.
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Off-topic question: (probably for dosdude1)...
I have an iMac 11,1 that OWC discovered several years back was capable of 32GB Ram. I did that upgrade, and it's been working great.
I also have a Mac Mini 6,2 (late 2012) which is quad-core i7 w/16GB Ram currently. There is a report posted somewhere (I forget where) asking Apple to update the EFI bios to support 32GB, since the HW/Platform can technically support it. Apple is not going to update the EFI. Is this possible to hack and push like the APFS ROM patch? It would be awesome to take the late 2012 Mini to 32GB Ram...especially for those of us using it as a server...
[edit] Here is the openradar post: http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=6147266599452672
I have an iMac 11,1 that OWC discovered several years back was capable of 32GB Ram. I did that upgrade, and it's been working great.
I also have a Mac Mini 6,2 (late 2012) which is quad-core i7 w/16GB Ram currently. There is a report posted somewhere (I forget where) asking Apple to update the EFI bios to support 32GB, since the HW/Platform can technically support it. Apple is not going to update the EFI. Is this possible to hack and push like the APFS ROM patch? It would be awesome to take the late 2012 Mini to 32GB Ram...especially for those of us using it as a server...
[edit] Here is the openradar post: http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=6147266599452672
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"News OpenCL Patch" worked. Thank you guys. No crash anymore. 
Seemed like undoing the orig. folder swap and applying the "News OpenCL Patch" from the patch updater would be the simple way to go on a .6b1 install. By the time I saw the Terminal info post, the patch had arrived. So I opted for the undo folder swap. Thanks for the tireless efforts. This is a useful and interesting project keeping tons of old Macs away from the recyclers, worldwide.
@jackluke was right. Launching News app from unsupported regions can be done by Terminal with open /App*/News.app. However, if you want to get News+ pane, just change your Apple ID (iCloud account) region to the United States (just a workaround). Got it tested using all of my family members' Apple ID (I am in Vietnam). I DO NOT RECOMMEND this workaround for those who have their credit card in their Apple ID.
EDIT: You can also change the region into UK or Australia; however, US is the best to get News+.
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Well done! So that's the right explanation, the "News+" feature is linked to the "AppleID iCloud account" region rather than the Mojave's System Preferences "Language & Region" or apple geoIP localization. I don't intend to change it since is expectable that from 10.15 the Apple News service should be extended worldwide.
Dosdude, thank you for the wonderful tool. I’ve been using a patched 2010 iMac with an upgraded Nvidia card for more than six months, and you have saved me the unnecessary upgrade to a new system.
I do have a request for your patch updater tool:
Could you provide an option to permanently disable the option for legacy video card patch? I upgraded my iMac to a Metal compatible Nvidia card, yet I get asked by Patch Updater constantly to install the legacy video patch. All it takes is one instance of accidentally pressing return when this notification steals the focus, and my iMac is toast. Also, when you pull up the list of installed patches using CMD-I, and select multiple patches, the button should change to “Reinstall Selected” instead of reinstall all.
This happened to me yesterday, and the end result was that I had to swap out my new card to get the system working again. I tried everything I could thing of before resorting to this option. I’m happy to provide more details, but suffice it to say, the patched installer simply wouldn’t work until I put in the old video card. This was the case even though I had a bootable patched usb installer, a working high sierra partition, a separate HD partition with just the patched installer, and even though I was able to remote desktop into the broken Mojave partition, which loaded fine but with no display.
Thanks for listening.
I do have a request for your patch updater tool:
Could you provide an option to permanently disable the option for legacy video card patch? I upgraded my iMac to a Metal compatible Nvidia card, yet I get asked by Patch Updater constantly to install the legacy video patch. All it takes is one instance of accidentally pressing return when this notification steals the focus, and my iMac is toast. Also, when you pull up the list of installed patches using CMD-I, and select multiple patches, the button should change to “Reinstall Selected” instead of reinstall all.
This happened to me yesterday, and the end result was that I had to swap out my new card to get the system working again. I tried everything I could thing of before resorting to this option. I’m happy to provide more details, but suffice it to say, the patched installer simply wouldn’t work until I put in the old video card. This was the case even though I had a bootable patched usb installer, a working high sierra partition, a separate HD partition with just the patched installer, and even though I was able to remote desktop into the broken Mojave partition, which loaded fine but with no display.
Thanks for listening.
Just for curiosity which Nvidia Metal GPU you have installed on your iMac 2010 ?
I guess what you ask is feasible, essentially from what I see around mainly Nvidia GPU are used as Metal GPU Upgrade, so maybe adding simply some check if a Tesla driver is loaded with kextstat | grep GeForceTesla (OR AMDRadeonX3000 OR AppleIntelHDGraphics OR AppleIntelHD3000Graphics) then a "Video Patch" is prompted, else not prompted.
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I have a GTX 765 with the dell/alienware firmware. Thank you!
Here is a simple script I made for example.
It just checks for the most popular non-metal GPUs (they are essentially 4), I had to specify separately the IntelHD since the 4000-5000-6000 use the same naming and are Metal supported, while "Nvidia Tesla" should include all the Nvidia GPUs accelerated in this thread.
If you are using a Metal GPU, then you'll receive 4 "No " output lines .
edit: I've used a funny way to check (by choice) without using any conditional constructs, counter or boolean, just "grep" appending a string to kextstat acting as a counter.
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I have same Mac App Store crash issue on supported Macbook (MacBookPro11,1).
Mac mini 4,1:
Installing MacOS 10.14.5 or OTA 10.14.6 Beta 1 using the MacOS Mojave Patcher Tool works very well. After the install the MacOS Post Install Patches are applied for the Macmini 4,1 followed by a Reboot. The system boots just fine. On the desktop pops up the Patch Updater with a Legacy Video Patch. This patch is applied followed by a Reboot, but unfortunately the boot hangs forever with the apple on a white screen and progress bar without any progress. If the Legacy Video Patch is ignored and not applied everything seems to be OK.
Also the News app seems to work properly without any intervention.
Installing MacOS 10.14.5 or OTA 10.14.6 Beta 1 using the MacOS Mojave Patcher Tool works very well. After the install the MacOS Post Install Patches are applied for the Macmini 4,1 followed by a Reboot. The system boots just fine. On the desktop pops up the Patch Updater with a Legacy Video Patch. This patch is applied followed by a Reboot, but unfortunately the boot hangs forever with the apple on a white screen and progress bar without any progress. If the Legacy Video Patch is ignored and not applied everything seems to be OK.
Also the News app seems to work properly without any intervention.