I recently set up my hackintosh with Mac OS catalina 10.15.4 and everything works fine except iMessage and FaceTime. I followed the OpenCore guide and I have tried all the fixes like changing Mac serial numbers, snUUID etc. I also inserted my MAC address in my config and fixing en0. Is there any way I can get them to work?
(Ps. app store and icloud work fine but airdrop keeps crashing)

My specs are : Amd ryzen 2700
16 gb ram (3000 mhz)
Asus b450-m mobo
RX 590 gpu

I'm running a Gigabyte Aorus z390 Ultra on OpenCore 0.6.1with Catalina. I've been trying to get my head into USB mapping and have been battling along with USBmap to create a new USBports.kext but have yet to succeed. When I restart to map the second set of ports they don't appear even though NVRAM appears to be working ok.

I do however have a .aml for the USB ports from when I used Clover and Mojave. Can I use this with OpenCore and Catalina? I worked great under the old system. Don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to! Thanks.

Edit: (I have read through the Clover conversion guide, but I didn't make this clear and I'm unsure where to add it in my config.plist to just try it!)

im using opencore 0.5.9 on a b450 motherboard, is it safe to update the new OS update 10.15.7 without the opencore crashing or even touching the EFI?

I want to use the (old) Apple in ears with my Hackintosh. Or basically any headphones with an integrated mic. I‘m on a Z390 Designare and I have two separate plugs for mic input and audio output. So I got an adapter merging both into a single „4 pin“ cable but I can’t get the Microphone to work.

I don’t know what the problem is, maybe I didn’t get the config.plist or maybe this is a common issue that can be solved with different settings or third party programms.

I only know, the microphone is in fact working. How do I go about solving this?

Wierd issue. Gateway dx4860 desktop tower bios boot menu can't see uefi bootable hackintosh USB drives but sees bootable windows 10 installer USB in boot menu.

Tried with olarila pre-made hackintosh installer and installer I made myself both not being found.

Keep in mind both hackintosh installer usbs are found when i go into boot mode on my Dell latitude e7250 laptop

Any suggestions

I have been developing Android apps on my Windows i5 4th gen 8GB machine and it runs fine. Now, I am thinking to dive into iOS development. And for that I need a Mac machine.

I was thinking of going with Mac Mini 2020 i5 model but the only thing that concerns me is the lack of graphics card in it.

I have read somewhere that Hackintosh is not very reliable in terms of XCode and all. I've never used an apple product before so can't decide which one to go for.

Is a hackintosh (same price segment as mac mini) better or should I go with Mac Mini 2020 i5 for iOS dev mainly?

As of right now I have a pretty comfortable install. MacOS itself is completely vanilla and about 70% of my work has been done in the ACPI space of my laptop where I've been creating my own SSDT's to take care of the legwork.

I'm actually working on a fork of rehabman's HP Envy patches to convert the whole process to OpenCore and to use tools and extensions that are being maintained. With this in mind, I figured I should get my shit together and ask some questions that could save me the headache later.

In the original patch, the SMBIOS used was for the MacBookPro11,1. While this was fine and all for most cases, back in 2015 I decided to become stupid as fuck and drop big cash on a CTO laptop from HP. The processor in my system is an i7-4720HQ.

Looking at the models on EveryMac I saw that the 11,1 CPU's were a little below my spec, so I decided to opt for the MacBookPro11,2 SMBIOS as the i7-4870HQ is close enough to my configuration.

But, when generating the serial info I noticed the platform key was G86R but every Mac I've found with the 4870HQ and no dGPU was G3QN. All hopped up on Adderall I managed to figure out a method to pretty much generate only valid serial numbers and after sifting through the ones with validated purchased I selected mine, got the board serial and uuidgen'd a SysUUID.

I guess my question is was all that just a waste of time? Does the serial/board serial contain any information that macOS will use to configure power management? I understand how and why you should select the right SMBIOS but I've never heard anything about matching with a specific model.

Hello! I recently built a Z490 computer with the following specs: - Intel i7-10700 with an iGPU - MSI Z490-A PRO - 2x Corsair 8GB 3200Mhz RAM

I created the High Sierra installer with Unibeast using the guide on tonymacx86, but when booting the installer from the USB, it gets stuck at "end randomseed+++++++". When booting the same USB on a H97 computer, it works fine and the install is successful.

Things I've already tried: - Configuring BIOS according to MSI hackintosh guides online - Applying all the possible Aptio fixes separately - Applying the Free2000 fix - Shuffling RAM sticks around in the computer (Both in either As or Bs or one stick in either the first or the second slot) - The KALSR fix in the Dortania guide, got a slide value of 128, but didn't work.

I read online that this is a memory problem, but none of the proposed fixes or .efi files seem to work.

Has anyone had this problem on an MSI Z490 system, and if so, what was the fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks