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[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

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I updated to 10.15.4 and got some GFX issues, so had to update my kext. But in addition, I now cannot get iMessage/Facetime to work. I did the idiot guide and the how to fix. I am able to fix it for a couple of hours but then it stop working. Has anyone had this issue? It is not really sustainable to change S/N, SmUUID every couple of hours...
 
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I updated to 10.15.4 and got some GFX issues, so had to update my kext. But in addition, I now cannot get iMessage/Facetime to work. I did the idiot guide and the how to fix. I am able to fix it for a couple of hours but then it stop working. Has anyone had this issue? It is not really sustainable to change S/N, SmUUID every couple of hours...
In Cloverconfigurator in SMBIOS generate new serial and a new SmUUID and in Rt Variables check "from SMBIOS" and generate ROM.
I had same problem as you but this solved it
 
In Cloverconfigurator in SMBIOS generate new serial and a new SmUUID and in Rt Variables check "from SMBIOS" and generate ROM.
I had same problem as you but this solved it

More specifically, don't use the UseMacAddr0 field for ROM in Clover anymore, but generate your own ROM value (either from your wifi mac address or randomly).

A few weeks back Apple made a change to their servers that places more rigorous checks on the ROM field. I got caught out by this as well, took me ages to figure out that a bug in this machine makes CLOVER set the ROM value to 00000000, which until recently went unnoticed by Apple.
 
I have a 9360 and ordered a WD Blue 1TB because I saw in the first post a SATA III would be better than NVME. But after reading what you guys are recommending now, WD Black... I'm kinda worried if I did the right choice. WD Blue or Black if my main objective is more battery life?
 
I have a 9360 and ordered a WD Blue 1TB because I saw in the first post a SATA III would be better than NVME. But after reading what you guys are recommending now, WD Black... I'm kinda worried if I did the right choice. WD Blue or Black if my main objective is more battery life?

Good choice. WD Blue is excellent for battery life. I have the 2TB version on one 9360 and a 2TB NVMe on another. There's about 8-12% battery life difference, roughly the same gains with proper undervolting.
 
Good choice. WD Blue is excellent for battery life. I have the 2TB version on one 9360 and a 2TB NVMe on another. There's about 8-12% battery life difference, roughly the same gains with proper undervolting.
On the WD Blue did you have to format it to 4k sectors?
 
I successfully got 10.15.4 running on my i5 8GB RAM XPS 3960 running. I still have 2 newbie questions:
- How to disable the boot chime? Tried changing clover and nvram SystemAudioVolume without success.
- I could not get sleep working. Followed https://markperez.dev/blog/install-macos-mojave-xps-13-9360/ but my XPS does not wake up after sleep.
Thank you for your guidance.
 
I successfully got 10.15.4 running on my i5 8GB RAM XPS 3960 running. I still have 2 newbie questions:
- How to disable the boot chime? Tried changing clover and nvram SystemAudioVolume without success.
- I could not get sleep working. Followed https://markperez.dev/blog/install-macos-mojave-xps-13-9360/ but my XPS does not wake up after sleep.
Thank you for your guidance.
Check this

Btw, may I ask, did you use darkvoids EFI or you made your own? I have the i5 8250u and with his EFI I could not boot into macOS, however yesterday I did with my own settings on OpenCore however most hardware was not working properly.
 
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