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[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9350 macOS 10.12.1

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nos1609 said:
The same is also true for hibernation.
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I think rehabman's guide has not changed - hibernation is not supported. I will wait until the man with 100K+ posts will say otherwise.
 
KevinGleave said:
Power consumption under OS X with HWP enabled - 1.95W @ 0.49GHZ at idle:
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Power consumption under Windows - 0.56W @ 1GHZ at idle:
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Technically OS X should be providing better battery life, however it has almost 4x increased power consumption even though its reaching and staying at lower frequencies.

Any ideas?
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KevinGleave and Sevinkroff

I made some observations with power consumption:

Package power (simple average while running geekbench)
4.26175260718 (Sierra)
5.82801749271 (windows 10)
> Sierra scores are better

while running geekbench4 compute
6.03297849462 (Sierra)
5.34494408602 (windows 10)
> Windows scores are better
 
Everything is up and running great apart from one thing: SOUND. In windows it uses the realtek drivers and it sound much better. Not only it achieves higher volume but it's more clear as well and does not distort.
If I used the basic windows drivers (intel ones I think), before installing the realtek ones then windows sounds just like osx: BAD.
any chance we can use https://github.com/toleda/audio_RealtekALC ? Would that make a difference?
Has anyone else noticed this?
 
Nomad347 said:
Everything is up and running great apart from one thing: SOUND. In windows it uses the realtek drivers and it sound much better. Not only it achieves higher volume but it's more clear as well and does not distort.
If I used the basic windows drivers (intel ones I think), before installing the realtek ones then windows sounds just like osx: BAD.
any chance we can use https://github.com/toleda/audio_RealtekALC ? Would that make a difference?
Has anyone else noticed this?
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You're crazy... the audio quality with headphones plugged in I have under OS X on my XPS 13 is far better than anything I can achieve on Windows. My audio works completely perfectly.

Use Syscl's script that auto patches DSDT, SSDT, and provides kexts specific to your XPS configuration - everything works perfectly.
 
KevinGleave said:
You're crazy... the audio quality with headphones plugged in I have under OS X on my XPS 13 is far better than anything I can achieve on Windows. My audio works completely perfectly.

Use Syscl's script that auto patches DSDT, SSDT, and provides kexts specific to your XPS configuration - everything works perfectly.
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was not referring to headphones. I am using his configs. Also tried other before. Same result .Do some tests and you'll come to the same conclusion. Audio tends to distort at near max volume.
 
Nomad347 said:
was not referring to headphones. I am using his configs. Also tried other before. Same result .Do some tests and you'll come to the same conclusion. Audio tends to distort at near max volume.
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syscl's AppleHDA patch is very pretty, I use that as my daily drive now!
 
cjfting said:
syscl's AppleHDA patch is very pretty, I use that as my daily drive now!
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It is. I am not saying it's not. I use it as a daily driver as well. And I am really thankful for it. I'm just saying there a difference with the realek one from windows.
 
nos1609 said:
Like four years ago I didn't manage to make a correct dsdt, but at least I DO have EVERYTHING working on my 9350. The only exception is hibernation and TB3, but really I don't think anybody cares about it at the moment.

View attachment 224043

So far got working:
  • sound (no HDMI-audio)
  • brightness (shift+F2/F3 to control use system preferences for now)
  • NVME (@1200W/1500R)
  • touchpad (middle click inverted with right one)
  • touchscreen (no onscreen keyboard popup)
  • camera
  • HDMI (no audio)
  • USB-C
  • USB-As
  • Battery
  • Sleep (no hibernation +hibernation)
  • Bluetooth
  • Wi-Fi (depending on module installed, swapped to DW1830)
  • iCloud, Find My Mac, iMessage etc (You have to find/generate your own serial)
  • GPU QE/CI (4k video no lag)
  • CPU PM(drops up to 0.85 GHz 0.5 GHz)
  • First of a kind there - hassle-free INSTALL (everything is seen at first boot and installs sucsessfully)
So far this might be a kinda universal solution for 9350 line. I'm not saying it's pefect, but it's beginner-friendly and almost fully working out-of-box. Be free to use my CLOVER folder to install and to boot into on a regular basis, as it is my daily-driver one. Any further ugrades will also land there.

As of 12/7/2016 12/16/2016 it's proven working on 10.12.1 and 10.12.2 beta5. Any improvements are welcome;)

As usual credits for kexts used goes to their authors. Many thanks to everyone in these threads to make this pack possible!

Update: added v2
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Only Mac I have is girlfriends 2009 Macbook which is running El Capitan. Sierra is incompatible with it but I have the install .app on it. Can I still make the necessary Clover and Install package for my XPS 13 (i7-6560u Iris 540) using your patches ?

Also which version of Clover are you using ?
 
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Dell XPS 13 9350 System BIOS

XPS 13 9350 1.4.12 BIOS
Fixes & Enhancements
Fixes-
1. Support Apple USB Type-C Monitor.
2. Update PXE boot support for DA200.
3. Update LED status during BIOS recovery
 
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