How to Fix iMessage
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jaymonkey do you think it will stay like this generating normal MLB and ROM and Serial numbers or will apple change it again?
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@jbamford,
I'd like to think that Apple learnt a valuable lessen last year .... when they locked iMessage down to point where people turned to using cloned values, it caused massive problems for Apple from both from a security and support desk point of view, it must have played havoc with their systems ....
I'm sure that Apple gains a lot from the debugging and innovation that the Hackingtosh Community has, even if they wont admit it. It makes more sense for Apple to work alongside the Hackingtosh community rather than work against it ...
The Hackingtosh community helps a lot with Mac 3rd Party software and hardware, Nvidia is a good example...
I wonder how many new customers Apple got because someone turned their PC into hackingtosh ? ... for most a hackingtosh allows a frustrated or curious PC user to sample OS X without expense .... if they like it they'll buy into it with the on-line services and mobile devices such as iPad & iPhone ....
Hopefully someone true to the Apple ethos told the suits to back-off ..... at least thats what i'd like to think.
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Absolutely couldn't agree more - I used to be solely a follower of the Bill Gates movement and still dabble a bit, but since I started messing with the Hackintosh scene, not because I couldn't afford a real mac, but loathed the idea of shelling out all that dough and quite limited to what parts I could tinker with or upgrade. Besides since then I have a lot of purchased Apple software,a library full of Apple purchased Films and Music, my wife and I both have Mini-iPads and iPhone 5's, so its still a win-win situation for Apple.
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@jaymonkey I needed to test my own sanity so I used my ROM and MLB from my real Mac (kept the system off any network connection). I used iMessageDebug2 to get the ROM and MLB numbers (from real Mac) and pasted them into the Rt Variables page of Clover Configurator (on Hack). BTW, I'm importing my config.plist file from Hard Drive/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist. I left SIMBIOS as it was with Board Serial Number field left blank. I then saved the new config.plist closed Clover Configurator & then reopened and imported same config.plist to check that the changes had been saved. They were! I rebooted (no network connection). Once rebooted I checked iMessageDebug2 and the exact same 16 character Board Serial Number appears. Also, and I think this is a critical clue, the old ROM value also appears in iMessageDebug, not the new one. So, how do I proceed? Is this a cache file causing this? Could it be related to the "other system MacPro 3,1" with Mavericks that exists on another drive altogether that might be causing some glitch? I have seen no one with this exact issue. Frankly, I'm stumped!
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@RandomNumber,
Make sure your system is booting via UEFI and using /EFI/EFI/Clover .... if not and you still have an old legacy boot-loader in the root of your os x then it could be that your inadvertently booting from that and not the clover config .... just a thought, i've seen this many times .... I've even read about systems booting from forgotten usb drives plugged in the back....something to check.
Enable show all files and look for a file called 'boot' in the root of your OS X Start-up Partition (not the EFI Partition), if its there then delete it and fix your BIOS/UEFI config to boot from the EFI Partition with Clover on it.
I've also seen where people install Clover in legacy and UEFI mode, they think the system is booting via the EFI partition so edit the config.plist in /EFI/EFI/Clover, but the system is in reality booting from the OS X startup partition and the /EFI/Clover folder ....it's an easy mistake to make when starting out with Clover and unfamiliar with PC UEFI/EFI booting.
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@jaymonkey
Just to be clear if I was not before. This is NOT a UEFI Board. I have installed Clover using Legacy method. Does that change things?
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The same advice still stands but even more so if your board is not UEFI ....
Booting Clover in non UEFI mode from the EFI Partition is slightly unusual but not un-heard of , I do it with my Sony Laptop - it's sort of a Hybrid boot mode .. the BIOS boots the boot-loader stub from from the root of the EFI Partition, You can tell if you installed Clover in this mode if there is a 'boot' file in the root of your EFI partition :-
As I said this is a special case and usualy needs to be supported by a special flag in your BIOS, On my Sony's H2O BIOS the option is called 'Boot EFI first'.
By installing Clover on the EFI partition but booting in legacy mode you could be complicating things for yourself, check to see if you have a /EFI folder in the root of your OS X Startup drive, if there is and it has a Clover sub folder then the chances are that your system is booting from there and not from the EFI Partition.
Copy your edited config from /EFI/EFI/Clover to /OS X Startup drive/EFI/Clover - or re edit it, if this turns out to be the case then i would delete everything from your EFI partition or reformat it from the command line.
Please note that this issue is really off topic, as its a Clover issue not iMessage, if you continue to have Clover problems you should post your questions in to the appropriate thread.
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odd no my iMessage stop working and went to text only. even though it was working earlier. my mac have changed network name on its own, i feel it is related to when the machine went to sleep
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