[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

[bozma88]

@bozma88 replacing NVMe with SATA drive fixed the Hibernate-Corruption issue?
It would be awesome to be able to increase stand-by battery life with hibernation.. let me know!

Sleep power consumption likely unaffected. It's already almost infinite, losing no more than 2-3% per night...

1) At which % do you get red battery icon and which % do you get the low batt popup?
2) RSSI is fluctuating up and down, icons from other networks show different signal strengths, its the active network that will always show at 100% on menubar.
3) Sorry, I meant fn + ins, it reboots instead of sleeping.
4) Will try to fix this
5) I always map caps lock to alt key because old keyboards don't have alt key so I'm used to that

1) 6% I think
2) Never seen that happening
3) you likely have problems in your config. Try latest 10.12.6 beta files
4) remember to disable iServices and change S/N before switching SMBIOS or you might get banned
5) Your choice

 

[rama1981]

Hi!
tried your clover folder with usb.
just changed the SerialNr.

Question:
do I need my patched dsdt? (When the file is in the ACPI folder I get kernel panic)
(need it usually for Appstore EN0 as well)

have following issues.
brightness keys don´t work
idle needs approx. 5W

Thank you for your amazing work!

 

[bozma88]

Hi!
tried your clover folder with usb.

Question:
do I need my patched dsdt?
(need it usually for Appstore EN0 as well)

have following issues.
brightness keys don´t work
idle needs approx. 5W

Thank you

No DSDT...
Everything is hotpatched.
For Appstore and iServices, you need a working Wifi card as EN0 and a properly configured SMBIOS with unique and valid serial numbers. I won't cover the details here.
You have to put the files on USB, add the missing S/Ns in the clover plist, clear caches and reboot.
BIOS 1.3.5 and OS 10.12.6.

 

[rama1981]

No DSDT...
Everything is hotpatched.
For Appstore and iServices, you need a working Wifi card as EN0 and a properly configured SMBIOS with unique and valid serial numbers. I won't cover the details here.
You have to put the files on USB, add the missing S/Ns in the clover plist, clear caches and reboot.
BIOS 1.3.5 and OS 10.12.6.

Bios is 1.3.5. OS 10.12.16.
My serial worked since your thread startet here.
My wifi is the same as yours. - I startet to inject by DSDT a EN0 internal card.
OK - deleted all network preferences including file - now - Appstore works now!

Now idle is between 0,96 and 1,2 W without CardReader
The only issue nowhere brightness keys.
Maybe I deleted an apple kext in S/L/E for Brightness fix 2 month ago...
Have to find my memories....

 

[bozma88]

Bios is 1.3.5. OS 10.12.16.
My serial worked since your thread startet here.
My wifi is the same as yours. - I startet to inject by DSDT a EN0 internal card.
OK - deleted all network preferences including file - now - Appstore works now!

Now idle is between 0,96 and 1,2 W without CardReader
The only issue nowhere brightness keys.
Maybe I deleted an apple kext in S/L/E for Brightness fix 2 month ago...
Have to find my memories....

Remove every usb device, you should see lower idle wattage.
Better to start from scratch if you tinkered with kexts in the past.
Post problem reporting files if you want me to have a look.

 

[jkbuha]

Encouraging news.... good stuff @bozma88

Couple of points:

1) Those of us still on 512b formatted NVMEs will need to wait for a patched 10.12.6 NVME kext or else make one themselves...
2) Regarding 2-3% battery drain at night, when I use your same settings I'm getting about double that (around 6-7%). Not sure if it's only me or due to a slightly different hardware, so I started to experiment with DeepIdle settings as an SSDT injector, which should be natively supported on Sky/Kaby Lake. With this I'm getting (much) less battery drain but when waking up I need to press the power button to resume. Seems like it's in a deeper S-state than previously, though no darkwakes present either. It's not yet LTS-ready for obvious reasons but could be with a bit of luck...

 

[rama1981]

Remove every usb device, you should see lower idle wattage.
Better to start from scratch if you tinkered with kexts in the past.
Post problem reporting files if you want me to have a look.

Thank you! I try!
You are really awesome!

Edit:
without usb and cloud services 0.8 to 1 Watt in idle
Brightness works too.
My XPS works perfect!

 

[zanzy]

Hello, bozma88! Latest update don't show in appstore, and combo update 10.12.6 don't install with text
"This software is not supported on your system"
Did you chanded smbios for 10.12.16 installation?

 

[bozma88]

Hello, bozma88! Latest update don't show in appstore, and combo update 10.12.6 don't install with text
"This software is not supported on your system"
Did you chanded smbios for 10.12.16 installation?

No issues. Maybe you are using a different smbios, maybe affected by the (now fixable) truncation bug.
Post full problem reporting files.

 

[zanzy]

All files from attachments of your post - 10.12.5 hotpatch.

Thank you!