How to Fix iMessage

[JoJoBoi]

New Hackintosh build here. Ethernet is set to en0. iMessage debug does not show any null or failed statements. Tried to sign in with an iCloud account being used since iPhone 4s came out. Got the customer code. Called in to let Apple register it. However, the same customer code still comes up. I restarted the computer several times and even shut it down for a few days but same customer code still pops up. I followed every step of the idiots guide and also injected Clover 64variable that was mentioned a few pages back. Very sad I can't get this to work so far but will keep trying. Any tips would be really appreciated but it seems like I am one of many that are having issues this year.

 

[Sniki]

New Hackintosh build here. Ethernet is set to en0. iMessage debug does not show any null or failed statements. Tried to sign in with an iCloud account being used since iPhone 4s came out. Got the customer code. Called in to let Apple register it. However, the same customer code still comes up. I restarted the computer several times and even shut it down for a few days but same customer code still pops up. I followed every step of the idiots guide and also injected Clover 64variable that was mentioned a few pages back. Very sad I can't get this to work so far but will keep trying. Any tips would be really appreciated but it seems like I am one of many that are having issues this year.

Everything is correctly configured,my father apple ID and my Sister Apple ID worked on first try,it just send a code to allow iMessage/Apple ID to *this mac* on their iPhones and no problem,but none of my 3 apple id`s worked.
Called them 2 days ago,he said ok i registered your apple id man,you can go home now and enjoy your imessage and facetime.
i told him i have same problem with two of my other apple ID`s and have some purchases on the others,i gaved them the others and their customer codes.
He said that 3 of them should work now without a problem.
it`s been two days,still same customer codes,feels like it signed in for 2-5 sec then customer code pops up.

Unfortunately i don`t have an iPhone,my wife,father and two sisters have iPhones but i think setting up keychain or those two step verifications through trusted devices might make it work but you know how pain it is to backup all content on an iphone for just me to get my account on one of them to make iMessage work (if it does work) and then restore all the stuff back.

Im waiting for a response from someone who has an idea and hopefully a fix for this,atleast it makes me feel better and give hope when i know that im not alone.

 

[mirceax12]

I'm using iMessages with my iPhone without any problem, so.. as long as this works I think it should work on my laptop too, maybe I'll give them a call tomorrow.

 

[Sniki]

I'm using iMessages with my iPhone without any problem, so.. as long as this works I think it should work on my laptop too, maybe I'll give them a call tomorrow.

If you don`t have your iPhone as a trusted Device on your Apple ID maybe you should do that and give it a try.
When i tried the Apple ID of my father it moment i pressed sign in,it gaved me a window to add the code from trusted device (which in our case was his iPhone 5),the code showed up on iPhone (like when you pair a Bluetooth device) and i added the code on the sign in window on my Laptop and boom it signed in,the moment i signed in it popped another window on his iPhone * You can now use iMessage on your Mac * and a small window map location of the mac,tried sending,receiving: everything worked,Tried Facetime,also worked.
Tried my Apple ID`s,none of them,all of them do give me a customer code.
When i try his apple ID again,it just signs in and no problem,everything works.
He doesn`t even have any credit card at all.

 

[mirceax12]

The app on mac requested the trusted code, but even with this it still doesn't work, annoying

 

[ssprod]

Greetings.. following this guide step by step, I seem to always be getting "Error: Invalid serial number (reason: invalid week number)" when running simpleMLB.sh. Any suggestions as to why this is happening, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[xoplague]

Greetings.. following this guide step by step, I seem to always be getting "Error: Invalid serial number (reason: invalid week number)" when running simpleMLB.sh. Any suggestions as to why this is happening, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks.

Just a guess but I'd imagine the week number corresponds to the location of manufacture. So, there are known ranges of valid dates. Have you tried to generate a new serial in the Clover wizard?

 

[ssprod]

Just a guess but I'd imagine the week number corresponds to the location of manufacture. So, there are known ranges of valid dates. Have you tried to generate a new serial in the Clover wizard?

Thanks for the quick reply... Yeah, tried a bunch of serials that cleared the 2 step "check" process, but when I run the MLB.sh file in terminal in order to grab a valid Board Serial Number, terminal gives me the error.

 

[xoplague]

Thanks for the quick reply... Yeah, tried a bunch of serials that cleared the 2 step "check" process, but when I run the MLB.sh file in terminal in order to grab a valid Board Serial Number, terminal gives me the error.

Sounds like you could possibly have put something in "Board Serial Number" you shouldn't have. Re-read the section in the thread about MLB (It is different from the serial number and you should have different values for serial and board serial AKA MLB)

The MLB Value Should be 13 digits in length if you have an 11 digit OS X S/N or 17 digits long if you have 12 digit OS X S/N. It is made up of a series of alpha-numeric characters much like the OS X Serial Number (see Chapter 4.1). 13 digit MLB's are associated with Pre 2011/12 hardware and its syntax/format is largely understood where as more recent Apple hardware use the 17 digit MLB format which is still not fully understood - yet.

As of Oct 2014 Clover & Clover Configurator developers have altered the automatic way of generating and injecting ID's for OS X ... On the RT Variables page is a ID Generator/Calculator which will attempt to extract your systems SmUUID (System-ID) along with other key values and generate/calculate a full set of OS X ID's for your system.

The ROM & MLB sections are very long but they are worth carefully reading. You do not need a shell script to generate an MLB because Clover can already do that out of the box.

 

[HiroThreading]

Thanks for the quick reply... Yeah, tried a bunch of serials that cleared the 2 step "check" process, but when I run the MLB.sh file in terminal in order to grab a valid Board Serial Number, terminal gives me the error.

I'm getting the same issue.

My serial number passes the first two "checks" and I've generated a SmUUID, but simpleMLB.sh gives me the same error message.