How to Fix iMessage

[ergman]

To summerise... all the post until now and let me get it right as of today 19/10/2014 there is no way to fix iMessage on yosemite 10.10 that just came out.. if i m wrong correct me!

 

[jaymonkey]

@jaymonkey - Although I've been rocking Hackintosh for about two years now, I've never explored Clover and now that I'm all setup with Yosemite + Chimera 4.0, I'm nervous about screwing something up. Is there a rock solid guide for an idiot like myself and are there any downsides that I should be aware of (aside from bricking my machine) in making the switch?

@jminiman ....

Although officially Cover is still in beta it's actually very very stable and the support and tools are getting better every day. Like all things Hackingtosh your experience with Clover will depend on what hardware you have, in many cases Clover can auto detect what needs to be done automatically just like Chameleon, however certain hardware will require further experimentation or manual intervention just like Chameleon and Chimaera do.

If you have a mobo that supports UEFI booting then installing Clover is easy (as long as you understand how EFI booting works which has nothing to do with Clover).

Why don't you clone your existing build to another drive and try installing Clover on that .. ?, that way you've always got a working system to fall back on.

You have to understand that FileNVRAM was written to work around badly implemented code in Chimera and Chameleon, but it was thrown together and relied on some fixed code rather than passing dynamic structures between the boot-loader so somethings did not work (like SystemID injection), so FileNVRAM was modified again with V1.1.3 which fixed the SMBIOS injection but broke NVRAM injection ... which was never fixed which led to the utter mess of version matching.... What does this tell you .... ?

Clover is written from the ground by a group of devs who worked on Chameleon and FileNVRAM, they came to the (correct) conclusion that Chameleon has had its time and decided to start a new boot-loader based on all the knowledge gained from developing Chameleion and its plug in's.

So now only a hand full of devs (such as Tony and MacMan) work on Chameleon which is why its being left so quickly behind as such very few devs are writing and supporting plugin modules for it as it's been superseded in every way by Clover.

Would you rather wait for someone to pick up old code and patch it or use the latest solution that is currently supported and in constant development ...

Sure the learning curve is different but no more so than the early days of Chameleon.

Your choice
Cheers
Jay

 

[Sielski666]

would i have to ONLY chase boot loaders for the iMessage to work or install yosemite with clover?

 

[aberberich]

Hey jay,

quick question, what is the opportune path for moving from chimera/mavericks to clover/yosemite in regards to imessage. Am i better off,

A) Upgrading my mavericks install to yosemite, get it stable using chimera/multibeast , and than install clover?

OR

B) switch the bootloader on my mavericks install to clover, get it stable on mavericks, than install yosemite?

Option A seems ideal to me (assuming i don't sign in my apple ID prior to clover). Opinions?

 

[jminiman]

@jminiman ....

Would you rather wait for someone to pick up old code and patch it or use the latest solution that is currently supported and in constant development ...

What is it that Apple is doing to prevent the iMessage/FaceTime authorization from going through and why can't I just pull off smbios from my (unused) MacBook Pro sitting beside me and just have Apple think I'm connecting with it?

 

[jaymonkey]

Hey jay,

quick question, what is the opportune path for moving from chimera/mavericks to clover/yosemite in regards to imessage. Am i better off,

A) Upgrading my mavericks install to yosemite, get it stable using chimera/multibeast , and than install clover?

OR

B) switch the bootloader on my mavericks install to clover, get it stable on mavericks, than install yosemite?

Option A seems ideal to me (assuming i don't sign in my apple ID prior to clover). Opinions?

@aberberich,

Personally if your not famillier with Clover then I would always go option B, Migrate your Mavericks boot-loader to Clover, that way you'r starting with a known good system that you can use as a base line, once mavericks is booting via Clover and everything is working then simply install Yosemite over the existing Mavericks install (make backup first) using unibeast installer, then reboot via unibeast into Yosemite and Run latest Multibeast and install latest FakeSMC, Audio, Trim .. etc

As long as iMessage was working with your Clover/Mavericks install then iMessage will continue to work under OSX 10.10 ... easy

I've installed OSx 10.10 on five machines using this method.

Cheers
Jay

 

[aberberich]

@aberberich,

Personally if your not famillier with Clover then I would always go option B, Migrate your Mavericks boot-loader to Clover, that way you'r starting with a known good system that you can use as a base line, once mavericks is booting via Clover and everything is working then simply install Yosemite over the existing Mavericks install (make backup first) using unibeast installer, then reboot via unibeast into Yosemite and Run latest Multibeast and install latest FakeSMC, Audio, Trim .. etc

As long as iMessage was working with your Clover/Mavericks install then iMessage will continue to work under OSX 10.10 ... easy

I've installed OSx 10.10 on five machines using this method.

Cheers
Jay

Thanks for the quick reply Jay. I will give it a shot!

 

[Shan916]

After switching to Clover, I am finally getting that message that says to call Apple with the customer code. At least I know its going to work now. I'm having trouble getting support without giving them a serial number. With my most recent attempt, I gave the fake serial number that he couldn't find in the system and I told him I'm away from home so maybe I copied it incorrectly. Finally persuaded him to go on without a serial number and then he transferred me to a Mac specialist. I had already waited 25 mins to speak to the first person and I had to go so I hung up . Last time, I was easily able to get them to fix it without giving the serial number. I am gonna call back when I have at least 2 hours of free time. I think wait times are extremely long because of the Yosemite release.

 

[MysticalOS]

For the USB 3 ports, if you used the USB 3 drivers in multibeast, don't. Don't install anything except for fakesmc, HD audio, and trim. anything else isn't needed on later 8 or 9 series boards. well 9 series need specific fixes for things but that's it. and are clearly labeled as such.

For calling apple, do it during peak times. With 10.10 they are under heavy call volume and are in hair pulling rush mode. When I called I literally waited for 30 minutes to get to first guy, then another 30 min to get to mac specialist (only the mac specialist can fix imessage). Once I got them though they were so backlogged on calls they couldn't wait to just dive in and fix my issues.

It helps though that since I call from my iphone they literally automatically know who I am, and what apple products I own (3 real macs, 1 iphone, two airport routers). in fact the initial guy that answered was like "is this about the airport router you just bought?"). So being an existing customer goes a long way too. They never asked me for a serial, at all. They just asked what I was doing to get message. I said I was trying to log into imessage from a mac pro (which matches my SMBIOS of 3,1). They didn't ask me for a serial, but then again one of the 3 real macs I own actually IS a 3,1 mac pro so maybe they simply assumed, I don't know. Or maybe the call volume they just wanted to get it done and get me off the line. I can say though that both the real mac pro and the hack can use imessage at same time cause they do have two diff serials. My hack pro has a unique serial generated by multibeast. I take great care though that this serial never changes. multibeast will keep writing new serials if you play with SMBIOS for any reason. You'll also get diff serials experimenting with diff boot loaders. PULL YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION WHEN DOING THESE THINGS. the reason so many got banned from imessage is flat out, sending too many serials to apple. Or shared serials to apple being used on 2 or more machines at same time. Keep a consistent serial, and if you change things with a program like multibeast that may change serial on you, go back into your SMBIOS and put your consistent serial back in it before restoring internet connection. App store stays logged in. so the moment you're connected to internet, your serial IS being sent to apple, ensure you don't send them a bunch of different ones is key to avoiding that ban!

 

[aberberich]

just wanted to say that upgrading to clover was SUPER easy honestly. It took me around 20 minutes total and my machine booted perfectly on first try. Checked and my MLB/ROM values remained the same. Currently downloading yosemite to create a unibeast installer. Will post back once i successfully have upgraded!