2020 MacBook Pro stop recognizing all 4 ports immediately after installing Monterey. Couldn’t charge, laptop died, Genius Bar sent it out for new logic board! Tried to fix firmware first - no luck. Not good….
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Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey
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I don't know if this is the same or a related problem. I got a new M1 MBP and decided to get rid of my old 2014 MBP (can not upgrade it to Monterey). I erased the data drive while in Disk Utility (I believe this may have been a mistake). the computer would not boot from a USB install disk for BigSur. After trying it would appear to be bricked. I repowered, cleared PRAM or NVRAM or whatever it is, and did an internet recovery.
This worked fine (except, ugh, I forgot how Mavericks looked), I downloaded the Big Sur OS from App Store. Went into recovery mode, selected Disk Utility, erased the entire drive and formatted with APFS, quit drive utility and installed Big Sur. All went normally thereafter.
It is worth a try. Especially if the installer is getting lost in some quagmire. Not saying this should happen, but what clued me in was reference to older machines Who knows what they were running. If they don't meet minimum Monterey specs, that is on the person installing. Go back to Big Sur.
This worked fine (except, ugh, I forgot how Mavericks looked), I downloaded the Big Sur OS from App Store. Went into recovery mode, selected Disk Utility, erased the entire drive and formatted with APFS, quit drive utility and installed Big Sur. All went normally thereafter.
It is worth a try. Especially if the installer is getting lost in some quagmire. Not saying this should happen, but what clued me in was reference to older machines Who knows what they were running. If they don't meet minimum Monterey specs, that is on the person installing. Go back to Big Sur.
Yeah, my 2019 MBP 16” is having issues with my elgato TB3 dock and an external camera; I can boot without the devices attached and sometimes can attach them post boot to give me my peripherals back (2 monitors, keyboard, USB drives) but oftentimes the laptop just freezes when I attach the TB3 dock.
If I try to boot with the TB3 dock attached it usually goes to black screens and is unresponsive on startup.
If I leave it running over night, I usually find it unresponsive in the morning.
Looking forward to the next update to fix this.
If I try to boot with the TB3 dock attached it usually goes to black screens and is unresponsive on startup.
If I leave it running over night, I usually find it unresponsive in the morning.
Looking forward to the next update to fix this.
SoundsLOL at those blaming "work from home". You don't need to be in an office to test software. This isn't new folks!
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Like your a wfh person and defending lower quality work
My wife has an older macbook air and I have no intention of putting it on that device. If she decides she needs a new computer, it can come installed. In fact it was dicey to put it on this machine.
yeah for all 10 people it happened to.
You can find 10 examples of anything in a sample size of millions.
Can you source the fact that 10 people are affected by this? Or are you just making up numbers to defend.
A couple of days ago I updated my 2015 15" MacBook Pro to Monterey and yesterday my battery got swollen. It's a two year old battery that was put in by Apple in 2019 as a part of a recall. Obviously, I cannot claim any connection here, but it got me thinking...
Your 2019 Mac has it. Before install, check for updates for your current macOS, install them and after you machine is up to date you can upgrade to Monterrey.
Also, before install anything is always safe to check the disk with Disk Utility.
Actually, not completely true, it will try to install but OCLP prevents this, OCLP spoofs the unsupported mac to a newer mac, the problem then arises that the Installer thinks it needs a firmware update, it will most likely brick the Mac, but, it won't due to OCLP preventing the installer to do so.
The best version for your device is the OS that came with it...
Citing an iPhone example:
iOS 7 was released along side iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c
iOs 7 on iPhone 4 was very slow and even after the iOS 7.1 update it is still slow
Another iPhone example:
iOS 9 was released along side iPhone 6s and 6s Plus
iOS 9 on iPhone 4s was very slow and the only way to have it usable again is to downgrade
So from what I can see, both Big Sur and Monterey are best to be used only on Apple Silicon Macs... Unless you're one of the few who did not experience having their device bricked after the update...
Citing an iPhone example:
iOS 7 was released along side iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c
iOs 7 on iPhone 4 was very slow and even after the iOS 7.1 update it is still slow
Another iPhone example:
iOS 9 was released along side iPhone 6s and 6s Plus
iOS 9 on iPhone 4s was very slow and the only way to have it usable again is to downgrade
So from what I can see, both Big Sur and Monterey are best to be used only on Apple Silicon Macs... Unless you're one of the few who did not experience having their device bricked after the update...
Sounds like you're someone who can't work from home trying to insult people that do.
I'm enjoying all the calls for Apple's head in this thread, based solely on a few tweets and forum posts. How many millions of machines were updated successfully (and weren't tweeted about)? And what other information are we missing for those machines that didn't? There's a severe lack of statistical grasp here, and a blindingly quick rush to judgment.
This has happened since 10.4 TIGER. In the case of those times, the bricking came from Application Enhancer.
Now if this is APPLE deciding to brick their computers, then they have turned the macOS into a pile of sheer garbage.
Monterey upgrade bricked my 2020 27" iMac. Phone support could not revive and sent me to Genius Bar, who still has it because they could not revive it either. The status page says they are waiting for parts. So who knows. Could be that the upgrade process triggered some kind of hardware failure.
My 2019 MacBook Pro 16 inch upgraded just fine but I would hold off to be safe for those who didn't update yet.
This is unfortunately an annoying quirk amongst the general population. A few instances of an issue out of millions means that there's an issue.
For everyone else. Let's assume that there were a million installs last week.
There are like 10 tweets with issues. So thats:
10 / 1,000,000 * 100 = 0.001
A GRAND TOTAL OF 0.001 % OF USERS WHO UPDATED THE OS AND HAD ISSUES. This is likely NOT the result of faulty software or else we would have thousands more people flooding twitter.
THIS IS A NON ISSUE
The article mentions ten people who complained (in one specific way). It does not claim that's all people who have this problem. That's your (bogus) claim.