How to Fix iMessage

[thedon]

Add me to the list of people this tread helped. It is awesome. It took me a long time but I was building my mavericks at the same time. I know that Yosemite just came out and I already upgraded (My MacBook Pro) to that and I don't care too much for the some of the changes in looks. So on my Mavericks Desktop Ill probably stay for a while. But for me, I went to Clover because my Z87X-OC motherboard must have problems with the Sid bug. And I couldn't get my ROM and MLB values to stay consistent and to the values I set in Chameleon/Chimera. So in clover it was super easy. And I must say, Clover seems easier for basic booting when it comes to fixing this type of stuff. Anyway, even with Clover I still had a few things to fix from the guide. Namely my Ethernet and Wifi weren't numbered right when it comes to the BSD checks. I fixed that with the help of the guide and then verified over and over everything else over 1-2 days of checking per night while just basic tuning. Anyway, long story short, called Apple and after a super long wait (which may help when trying to fix because they don't want to take up more of your time or take time away from the rest of the waiting people), they just fixed it only asking for my Apple ID.
Well I did do a lot of the other things from the Guide, such as the Voice ID and even set up a support ticket before the call. I gave my serial number in that ticket. But alas, its all good.

 

[squidder]

Clover vs Chimera!!!... Let's see now... good advice was to switch to Clover. I recently updated my rig and switched to clover around 6 weeks ago.. fantastic... well at least it was as far as 10.9.5 went,,, Suddenly I upgraded to Yosemite and all went well apart from

* Unable to log in to FaceTime
*Unable to log into Messages
*No sound and now seemingly no kext support whatsoever for ALC898

Referred to Toledas new patching whatever it is... The instructions are more of a mess than what to be done with ... and difficult to find the download links even... When I did I ran the script on a clean install of the OS and got the negative messages about AppleHDA.kext (even though this was a clean install)...I had kext-dev-mode=1 boot flag, patch appeared in Configurator etc..rebooted and of course a nice blank Window where my sound devices should be.. 36 hours trying to get sound workingh with installs and reinstalls...

Upshot of it is.. I deleted Clover from EFI and my OS partition and installed Multibeast... Worked like a charm.. I now have sound, all my Apple apps updated without any problem. I can log into Facetime... but still get the error messages for Messages...

What would I rather have? A System with Sound or one without?... Definitely not the way to go this patching routine if the current evidence is anything to go by... and from googling this issue it seems I am not alone!

So, I could try resolve Messages and Facetime via the Clover Route...if there was a sensible solution to getting Audio Working! If I cannot get it working with the base install how can I also trust Toleda's assertion that with combo updates all one needs to do is run the script each time,,, I think Not!

 

[MysticalOS]

Sounds like you did something wrong. for clover you still install audio with multibeast, you select the option at bottom "optional EFI bootloader support" when using clover.

messages/facetime should work, but you probably didn't copy the working serial you had from chimera over so clover was using a diff serial or something. Or some other misconfigured SMBIOS item.

 

[Wolfie81]

Ive got iMessage working for a good while now. Im just a bit worried with all these new users confused and testing Clover they are not keeping their ROM/MLB values. This leads me to be concerned that Apple might see the sudden 'spike' in those accts needing to be removed and begin suspecting a whole of hack users. They may end up doing something to clamp down on it so...

if you have current MLB/ROM from Chimera USE IT! STORE IT SOMEWHERE safe!!!!

Please don't go through 10 calls to Apple through your experiments and possibly contribute to shutting out future users and the hack community in getting iMessage to work.

 

[aberberich]

fyi imessage worked perfectly for me once i finally got yosemite booting. I checked and made sure my MLB/ROM values pulled over and they did. Huge thanks to Jay and everyone in this thread.

 

[VioletDragon]

i migrated from chimera to clover and my iMessage and facetime works thanks guys

 

[jaymonkey]

So, I could try resolve Messages and Facetime via the Clover Route...if there was a sensible solution to getting Audio Working! If I cannot get it working with the base install how can I also trust Toleda's assertion that with combo updates all one needs to do is run the script each time,,, I think Not!

@squidder,

Create fully patched DSDT - whilst most gigabyte mobs system DSDT does the job and runs OSX, creating a fully patched one will resolve all niggles and give even better stability. Once working install appropriate Audi kext (with DSDT) via latest multibeast.

Cheers
Jay

 

[tonymacx86]

Little status update- don't give up on Legacy bootloaders yet- they do have their advantages.

I know a few people currently looking at Meklort's FileNVRAM code to see if a fix can be compiled for Yosemite. It's only a few days since the OS was launched- I'm sure that can be done- just will take a bit of time and research. Watch this space.

Source of FileNVRAM
https://public.xzenue.com/websvn/listing.php?repname=FileNVRAM

 

[spang1974]

@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

Once again thanks for Guide, your Guide along with Clover Wiki really helped me understand how Clover worked, and the different way it did things from Chimera. By showing me how to inject MLB and ROM values with Clover really clicked and I now have had multiple successes with Clover

Quick question regarding your (5) multiple systems:

Have you generated a uniqued Serial, MLB, and ROM for each system? Does this cause any isuues with iMessage or does it only become a problem if a single unique serial is assigned a diffrent ROM, and/or MLB value instead of remaing persistent?

I have multiple version of OS X installed on (a multi partition drive one hardware system for fun and games, so wan't sure if I should give them ALL the same values or generate unique values for each installation?

Just wanted your informed opinion

Spang1974

 

[Ikyo]

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?

I don't think it would matter which method you used. On my machine, I used the first. I even used Multibeast to get all of the proper Kexts installed. Have you looked at trying the USB install to try Clover?