[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9350 macOS 10.12.1

[nos1609]

Finally got sound working and no system reinstall after reboot like with ALC. A little bit more testing and gonna roll out the v3.
Also now added monitoring of CPU temps, voltage etc.
Currently getting around 4-5 hours on QHD with firefox/spotify usage.

 

[ic3dm4n]

Hi,
Only problem is that I experience bad battery life.

I've tried to enable HWP and use that instead but it yields the same battery life as with SSDT.
It is giving me 4 HRS battery life under OS X, when in Windows I can get easily 7/8 hours under the same usage (web browsing).

Through HWSensors it reports I'm using ~2.5W total CPU, and CPU frequency keeps spiking from 500 or 700MHZ to 2+ GHZ randomly even though there is nothing open and its idle.

I used smbios MacBook9,1. I set this from before installation.
Then generated SSDT with Piker's script.
[[ I think ]] changing smbios after installation matters and affects the script.

I'm now using HWPEnabler.kext., setting the default value at 64001C01.

The difference:
Using HWPEnabler.
1. Idle frequency drop to 0.5 .. The graph looks ugly- erratic.
2. operating temperature is around 5 degree C lower
3. most probably better battery life

Using SSDT
1. Idle at 1.0 .. the graph when idle looks like a flat line - like the laptop is sleeping
2. no CPU state lower than 1.0
3. higher GeekBench 4 results than with

You can play with HWPEnabler's default values for performance or for efficiency.

Note:
I did not remove SSDT.aml;
HWPEnabler sometimes gets lost after sleep. You need to do some sleepwatcher stuff to reload it.

 

[duguzuyang]

Finally got sound working and no system reinstall after reboot like with ALC. A little bit more testing and gonna roll out the v3.
Also now added monitoring of CPU temps, voltage etc.
Currently getting around 4-5 hours on QHD with firefox/spotify usage.

I sitll can not get sound from headphone, speaker works fine.

 

[nos1609]

I sitll can not get sound from headphone, speaker works fine.

Yes? same thing, I saw your comment on github. Hope the fix gonna be ready soon. At least it doesn't destoy my partition like AppleALC, and no need for manual tweaks like VoodooHDA

 

[0Olympus0]

Boot verbose, show photo. Attach EFI/Clover folder as ZIP (omit 'themes' folder).

So in a weird chain of events I booted verbose and whenever I touched the track pad it spammed errors. I tried to install again I avoided the track pad and it seems to have installed without issue. Then when I try to boot from the fresh install on the SSD it threw an error stating the hardware was not compatible. I got around this with a -no_compat_check flag and that got me passed that error. Now when I boot it gets to:

The it throw that circle with a cross bar icon and says waiting for root device. I would post that screen shot, but the text becomes extremely distorted when the icon appears.

I have attached my clover folder.

 

[RehabMan]

So in a weird chain of events I booted verbose and whenever I touched the track pad it spammed errors. I tried to install again I avoided the track pad and it seems to have installed without issue. Then when I try to boot from the fresh install on the SSD it threw an error stating the hardware was not compatible. I got around this with a -no_compat_check flag and that got me passed that error. Now when I boot it gets to:

The it throw that circle with a cross bar icon and says waiting for root device. I would post that screen shot, but the text becomes extremely distorted when the icon appears.

I have attached my clover folder.

What device are you booting to?
"waiting for root device" indicates a problem discovering the device from which root must be mounted.
If you're booting a system partition on USB, indicates a USB problem.
If you're booting a system partition on a SATA device, indicates a SATA problem.
If you're booting a system partition on an NVMe device, indicates an NVMe problem.

 

[0Olympus0]

Alright, so through some google searching and trial and error I have it booting and running as expected, but my wi-fi adapter is not displaying in the network settings pane.

I swapped in the DW1560 from Dell and pulled the correct FakePCID kext straight from Rehabmans repo and installed them to S/L/E and to my clover Kexts folder as a back up incase I messed up the first time. My clover folder is still the same as posted earlier.

Any suggestions.

 

[Silence720]

Finally got sound working and no system reinstall after reboot like with ALC. A little bit more testing and gonna roll out the v3.
Also now added monitoring of CPU temps, voltage etc.
Currently getting around 4-5 hours on QHD with firefox/spotify usage.

Hi - I have the 6560 and using your v2 and thank you for all of your work. One of my problems is that when I reboot after a fresh install with kexts my hard drive won't reboot and it requires another fresh install. I can't determine what's causing it but it started when I started using your clover. I thought it could be the audio? Your version of voodoohda is the only one where I was able to get the headphone jack to work so was thinking it could be something to do with it?. I have tried leaving hwp off because I know that has caused some people some issues and still have the same.

It happens when I close the lid, open it and then restart.

Thanks!

 

[RehabMan]

Alright, so through some google searching and trial and error I have it booting and running as expected, but my wi-fi adapter is not displaying in the network settings pane.

I swapped in the DW1560 from Dell and pulled the correct FakePCID kext straight from Rehabmans repo and installed them to S/L/E and to my clover Kexts folder as a back up incase I messed up the first time. My clover folder is still the same as posted earlier.

Any suggestions.

Attach ioreg as ZIP: http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/58368-guide-how-make-copy-ioreg.html. Please, use the IORegistryExplorer v2.1 attached to the post! DO NOT reply with an ioreg from any other version of IORegistryExplorer.app.

Provide output (in Terminal):

kextstat|grep -y acpiplat
kextstat|grep -y appleintelcpu
kextstat|grep -y applelpc
kextstat|grep -y applehda

Attach EFI/Clover folder as ZIP (press F4 at main Clover screen before collecting). Please eliminate 'themes' directory. Provide only EFI/Clover, not the entire EFI folder.

Attach output of (in Terminal):

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u /

Compress all files as ZIP. Do not use external links. Attach all files using site attachments only.

 

[itzmedavid89]

Hey guys im currently having a slight issue with my Dell Xps 13 9350 not being able to find my MyDigitalSsd NVMe 240GB.

I can see the NVMe when I push F12 under the legacy section

Im able to boot off of my USB drive and navigate through the installation but when I select disk utility to format my SSD it doesn't display my newly installed NVMe SSD.

Note: My MVMe is fresh out of the box with nothing installed on it.

I've been roaming around the forums and I can seem to figure it out.

I've downloaded the Clover.zip file from maxexcloo on page one and i followed his instruction on how to replace the /EFI/CLOVER/ folder with the one attached to this post.

Thanks!