[Guide] Toshiba Z30-A macOS 10.12.1 [UEFI mode]

[jlsantos]

Guide updated for Catalina: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-toshiba-z30-a-macos-10-15-2-catalina-uefi-mode.291446/

This guide is for Toshiba Z30-A.
You don't need very knowledges to install this on your own Toshiba Z30-A because you just need to follow the steps and use my files.

Specifications:

• 4th Generation Intel Core i7-4510U (up to 2.59 GHz)
• 8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
• Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400
• 256GB Solid State Drive (Toshiba NVMe)
• 13.3 inch
• Broadcom BCM94352Z M.2 NGFF WiFi Card

What Works:

• Battery Indicator
• Display Brightness Slider (FN+12 and FN+HOME)
• Graphics (Intel HD4400 Acceleration)
• Keyboard
• Sound
• NVMe SSD
• Power Management
• Touchpad (multitouch)
• Video Output (HDMI and VGA)
• Webcam

What Doesn't Work:

• Default Wireless Card (replace with this one: BCM94352Z)

Errors Fix

• SSDT-3.aml: Apply "Remove _PSS placeholders"

DSDT Patchs

• "Fix _WAK Arg0 v2"
• "HPET Fix"
• "SMBUS Fix"
• "IRQ Fix"
• "Audio Layout 3"
• "RTC Fix"
• "OS Check Fix"
• "Fix Mutex with non-zero SyncLevel"
• "Add IMEI"
• “USB3 _PRW 0x06D”
• “Brightness Fix”
• “Rename GFX0 -> IGPU”

SSDT-10.aml Patchs

• “Rename GFX0 -> IGPU”

- First you need to create the Sierra USB installer following the great tutorial from here https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...sierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564

- Download EFI Mounter v3 and mount the USB EFI partition.

- Remove the appleps2controller.kext from USB/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Others and copy the VoodooPS2Controller.kext from PostInstall.zip to the same place you removed the appleps2controller.kext.

- Boot the USB Installer and install Sierra normally(name the partition of installation to MAC, any doubt just search the forum for "how to install Sierra"

- After installation completed, boot again with USB installer and select MAC disk to bootup.

- Download Multibeast, open it, select Quick Start and select UEFI Boot Mode, choose Build option and click on Install

- After install Clover with Multibeast, open EFI Mounter v3 and replace the EFI folder with the one inside PostInstall.zip

- Install all the kexts inside the kext folder with Kext Wizard.
- Reboot, and voilá, you have Sierra working perfectly well on your Toshiba Z30-A.

- Enjoy it like i'm enjoying.

Credits:
- Many thanks RehabMan for such support on patching and everything related with this hack and not forget your great patience...
- Dr. Hurt for such a underfull Alps touchpad that just works perfectly
- All the people of this great community for the kexts i'm using it.

 

[RehabMan]

This guide is for Toshiba Z30-A.
You don't need very knowledges to install this on your own Toshiba Z30-A because you just need to follow the steps and use my files.

Specifications:

• 4th Generation Intel Core i7-4510U (up to 2.59 GHz)
• 8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
• Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400
• 256GB Solid State Drive (Toshiba NVMe)
• 13.3 inch
• Broadcom BCM94352Z M.2 NGFF WiFi Card (waiting to come)

What Works:

• Battery Indicator
• Display Brightness Slider (FN+12 and FN+HOME)
• Graphics (Intel HD4400 Acceleration)
• Keyboard
• Sound
• NVMe SSD
• Power Management (wake up only work with usb mouse)
• Touchpad (multitouch)
• Video Output (HDMI)
• Webcam

What Doesn't Work:

• Default Wireless Card (BCM94352Z - default card must be replaced with this one)

- First you need to create the Sierra USB installer following the great tutorial from here https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...sierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564

- Download EFI Mounter v3 and mount the USB EFI partition.

- Remove the appleps2controller.kext from USB/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Others and copy the VoodooPS2Controller.kext from PostInstall.zip to the same place you removed the appleps2controller.kext.

- Boot the USB Installer and install Sierra normally(name the partition of installation to MAC, any doubt just search the forum for "how to install Sierra"

- After installation completed, boot again with USB installer and select MAC disk to bootup.

- Download Multibeast, open it, select Quick Start and select UEFI Boot Mode, choose Build option and click on Install

- After install Clover with Multibeast, open EFI Mounter v3 and replace the EFI folder with the one inside PostInstall.zip

- Since this hackintosh have problems with sleep (disable it, and you can steel have 9h of battery life). For that just go to terminal and run this 3 commands:

• sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

• sudo pmset -a sleep 1500 (just to confirm that the laptop will not sleep till 24h when using it with battery)
• 
  
• sudo pmset -a disksleep 1510 (just to confirm that the laptop will not turn the HDD off till 10m past 24h when using it with battery).

- Reboot, and voilá, you have Sierra working perfectly well on your Toshiba Z30-A.

- Enjoy it like i'm enjoying

Credits:
- Many thanks RehabMan for such support on patching and everything related with this hack and not forget your great patience...
- Dr. Hurt for such a undefull Alps touchpad that just works perfectly
- All the people of this great community for the kexts i'm using it.

Keep in mind only you can use the files in ACPI/patched. Others will need to patch their own.

Hopefully, you plan to document the patches that need to be applied...

 

[jlsantos]

Keep in mind only you can use the files in ACPI/patched. Others will need to patch their own.

Hopefully, you plan to document the patches that need to be applied...

Guide updated with patches needed

 

[iBROX]

Hey,

Newbie here with a Z30-A as well looking at putting Sierra on it.

* Does the onboard LAN adapter work?
* I understand I need to change the WIFI card to a BCM94352Z ?
* USB3 work ?
* iMessage work ok ?

Thanks.

 

[jlsantos]

Hey,

Newbie here with a Z30-A as well looking at putting Sierra on it.

* Does the onboard LAN adapter work?
* I understand I need to change the WIFI card to a BCM94352Z ?
* USB3 work ?
* iMessage work ok ?

Thanks.

Only WiFi card doesn't work

 

[iBROX]

Only WiFi card doesn't work

That's not too bad then, off to purchase a compatible card then

 

[iBROX]

Only WiFi card doesn't work

Do you have a cellular modem card in your z30-a ?

 

[jlsantos]

Do you have a cellular modem card in your z30-a ?

Yes, but I don't use it.
Only I can say it's that is very stable

 

[liteon6x]

Hey,

Newbie here with a Z30-A as well looking at putting Sierra on it.

* Does the onboard LAN adapter work?
* I understand I need to change the WIFI card to a BCM94352Z ?
* USB3 work ?
* iMessage work ok ?

Thanks.

I am not imessage will work with this
since u didn't do anything make it work
like edit the serial numbers and such.

 

[iBROX]

Great. Thanks guys!