Jays MonkeyBook Pro - The Ultimate Sony VPC-SE CustoMac Build

[yuchen1211]

Thanks Jay for the guide.

Just follow the guide and upgrade to 10.9.5 and it works fine.

OSX Mavericks 10.9.5

Having just got round to up-dating to 10.9.4 Apple go and release 10.9.5 ...
Oh well no time like the present .....

So I can confirm that OSX 10.9.5 Combo Update works fine on Sony SE MonkeyBook .

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You only need to follow the standard combo update procedure in Post #489.

To Re-Enable TRIM use Multibeast 6.4.2

Cheers
Jay

 

[xXrkidXx]

OSX Mavericks 10.9.5

Update: Not sure why but i could not get the 5Ghz working again, I tried to run Savo's AirPort patches again for the WiFi but still could not get it to work. I restored my patched 10.9.4 IO80211Family.kext and 5G was back again. So I manually extracted IO80211Faimily.kext from the 10.9.5 Combo Update Package using pacifist and re-installed it using Kext Utility then applied Savo's binary once more - and all is fine now. It was probably an issue with file permissions or the kext cache so hopeful it should work for you without problems. remember to repair permissions after you have reinstalled your kexts but before you apply the patches.

Hey Jay, I'm not using a MonkeyBook Pro, but I am using the WiFi card you have suggested. My computer decided to update itself to 10.9.5 last night and I seem to have got everything working again, except for having my AW-CE123H recognized as an AirPort Extreme. It says I have AirDrop Supported but it also says "Third Party Wireless Card". I also extracted the IO80211Family kext and reinstalled it worth kext helper, but it still says Third Party Card. Any ideas?

 

[jaymonkey]

Hey Jay, I'm not using a MonkeyBook Pro, but I am using the WiFi card you have suggested. My computer decided to update itself to 10.9.5 last night and I seem to have got everything working again, except for having my AW-CE123H recognized as an AirPort Extreme. It says I have AirDrop Supported but it also says "Third Party Wireless Card". I also extracted the IO80211Family kext and reinstalled it worth kext helper, but it still says Third Party Card. Any ideas?

@xXrkidXx,

Interesting I had a similar issue after updating to 10.9.5 (see the Update on post #666 ) but put it down to myself, at first I thought that the binary patches no longer worked, but after checking the AirPortBrcm4360 plug-in, I noticed that the version number has remained the same since 10.9.2 so the patches should work.

What worked for me was the following procedure:-

• Extracted IO80211Family kext from the combo update.
• Deleted IO80211Family kext from /S/L/E and clear the Trash
• Run Kext Utility, let it rebuild the cache and quit.
• Reboot OSX
• Run Kext Utility and install IO80211Family kext
• Quit kext utility, and open terminal
• Applied the two binary patches from post #493
• Re-run Kext Utility, let it re-build the cache
• Finally reboot again, and load OSX using the -f flag again

This is a 'belt and braces' method and i'm not sure why i had to do it this way, but it did the job and all is good now, let me know if it works for you.

Cheers
Jay

 

[jaymonkey]

There are two steps left to the perfect.
1. I can't use Break/Scroll or Fn+Break/Scroll to adjust brightness, which works with CyberWalrus's. But I can use F1/F2 of a Apple Bluetooth keyboard to do it.

@pongchang,

Sorry for late reply, Can you see the Brightness slider in Display Settings ?-

If not check out ReHabMans brightness patches, also you should be using fn + Pause/Break & fn + Delete to adjust screen brightness.

2. My Cpu , i7 2.69GHz, only has two states, 800 and 2.69, I use your way to get SSDT with ssdtPRGen but seems not working.

Remove the old script file ('ssdtPRGen.sh' usually in the root of your user folder) and try again using the method on post #594. The gen script has recently been updated to support more CPU's. also be sure to use the Intel Power Gadget to monitor the CPU after installing the SSDT not all 3rd Party apps (such as iStat Menus) show all the intermediate P-States.

Read the instructions on the github hub repo for 'ssdtPRGen.sh' sometimes it is necessary to manually specify Max freq, turbo rate ... etc

Cheers
Jay

 

[rchen29]

Hey Jay,
Did u try the Yosemite GM update? Will it work with our Sony SE Laptop?

 

[RehabMan]

Hey Jay,
Did u try the Yosemite GM update? Will it work with our Sony SE Laptop?

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[jaymonkey]

Hey Jay,
Did u try the Yosemite GM update? Will it work with our Sony SE Laptop?

@rchen29,

As RehabMan's stated above until we get the public release it's best not to discuss it right now ....

I see no reason at this stage why it will not work ....
I will update the MonkeyBook and iMessage guides once it's safe to publish the information.

Cheers
Jay

 

[rchen29]

Got it! This is the first time that I post a message.

 

[rchen29]

Sure! Thanks for your reply.

 

[yuchen1211]

When I tried to improve the CPU P-state method by running the ssdtPRGen.sh, it shows "CPU type may be set improperly(0x0703 instead of 0x0603). My CPU is sandy bridge i7 2.69GHz. Is it correct to using the definition MacBookPro 8,3 for my computer? Despite the warning, the power consumption of my VPC-SA seems to be improved than before.

2. Open a OSX Terminal window.

3. Copy and paste the following command into terminal:-

curl -o ~/ssdtPRGen.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Piker-Alpha/ssdtPRGen.sh/master/ssdtPRGen.sh

and press return, wait while the system downloads the latest version of the SSDT generator script.

4. Before we can execute the script we must change its attributes, copy and paste the following into terminal:-

chmod +x ~/ssdtPRGen.sh

and press return.

5. Ok time to run the script, copy and paste the following command:-

[COLOR=#000000]./ssdtPRGen.sh[/COLOR]

and press return, the script should run and automatically detect your CPU type and generate a new compiled SSDT (aml) and source (dsl) which it will place in your Desktop folder.

6. While the script is running you will be prompted twice, enter 'N' (No) at both prompts.

7. Switch back to Finder and goto your Desktop folder, rename 'ssdt.aml' to 'SSDT.aml', then copy 'SSDT.aml' to your /Extra folder.

8. Thats it, shutdown and restart, your system should boot as normal.


All credit to Picker-Alpha for creating and maintaing the SSDT generator script, and of course the entire Hackingtosh community for all the great work.