I take that back @Feartech, you might have been right. I decided to do another clean Catalina install using the 14,2 smBIOS with my old serial number and smUUID from Sierra. Unfortunately, when I booted up the reinstall using FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext, all of my USB2 wound up on...
No luck. Switching to 14,2 resolved my laggy mouse and keyboard issue on initial boot, but didn't fix the "USB Accessory Needs Power" problem. However, what does work is removing USBInjectAll.kext and installing FakePCIID.kext + FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext. All of my ports seem to work perfectly with...
I had originally posted this in the Catalina Desktop Support forum, but I think it should probably be here (Mods, feel free to delete the other post). I just finished a clean Catalina install with Clover and am getting the "USB Accessory Needs Power" message when plugging flash drives, iPhones...
Success! Thanks so much YoshiMac.
I disabled the port limit patch in my config.plist using Clover Configurator, but is it best to leave the built-in port injectors disabled?
This is super helpful - I've been using this in tandem with @RehabMan's guides. I noticed that you didn't enable the USB2 ports that pair with your SSP3,4,5, and 6 ports. I'm assuming that the only issue with doing this is that those ports will be USB3 only i.e. USB2 devices won't be recognized?
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