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Mountain Lion (10.8) Unable to sign into App Store, iCloud or FaceTime

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Hi,

I have an Asus p6x58d premium machine that is dual booting win7 and mountain lion. I was able to install 10.8 onto a drive using unibeast. I do not use chameleon, but boot off the unibeast usb drive to choose the hackintosh drive when I want to boot into the Mac. The unibeast install did not, however, have the yukon ethernet kext, and so I had to manually install it using kextbeast (using the IONetworkingFamily.kext file). I also used the latest multibeast to install the HDA audio for the built in ALC 889 audio. I have not been able to log into the App store or iCloud, getting "an unknown error has occurred". I also cannot log into facetime, getting "The server encountered an error processing registration. Please try again later."

For facetime I tried editing the /etc/hosts.equiv file as some web tutorials have suggested, but with no success.

I have seen a number of suggested fixes for the icloud/ appstore suggesting to run EFI Studio. I ran both the 1.o and 1.1 versions, added an ethernet device, and had the software write to com.apple.Boot.plist. These instructions then said to add the key which gets added by EFI tools to the com.apple.Boot.plist file in /Extra - but I do not have such a directory (as I do not run chameleon, and do not have a DSDT for my asus p6x58d premium board). I went on to delete the network file from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directory, and removed all my devices from the network control panel. I then rebooted and added back my network connections, starting with the ethernet connection. Despite doing all of this, I still get the above mentioned error for logging into icloud and the appstore.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be a huge help.

Cheers,

GH
 
I have the same exact issue as you, went down the same exact rode. If I come across the fix I will let you know.

I think you might be on to something with the ethernet kext, I am using the AtherosL1cEthernet.kext myself. But then again, everything worked in SL and Lion like a dream.
 
Could this serial issue also cause Quicktime to not work right? With 10.6.8, I was able to watch WMVs that were embedded an an asx file from work, but I haven't been able to do so since I did a clean install of 10.8.
 
try this
quote from tonymac:
Issue: Can't log into iCloud.
Solution: Update to latest Chimera

Issue: Still can't log into iCloud- first time setting it up on any device.
Solution: Change /Extra/smbios.plist serial number- for example:

Code:
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>G88451235J4</string>​


change 845123 to something between 750xxx to 905xxx

Code:
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>G88451005J4</string>​


then reboot. After setting it up for the first time- you will be able to return your serial number to the previous MultiBeast default.
 
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solbergw said:
I have the same exact issue as you, went down the same exact rode. If I come across the fix I will let you know.

I think you might be on to something with the ethernet kext, I am using the AtherosL1cEthernet.kext myself. But then again, everything worked in SL and Lion like a dream.
Click to expand...

I managed to finally get it working, there is some good information in my thread that may help.


http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...re-facetime-messages-unable-authenticate.html
 
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ive done everything yet i could only get icloud and app store to work, messages and facetime still wont allow me to login successfully
 
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