[Guide] Dell XPS 9560 Mojave VirtualSMC, I2C Trackpad, Clover UEFI Hotpatch

[blazinsmokey]

Please don't mess with the UEFI hidden settings. I bricked my XPS 9550 doing this in the past. Particularly don't mess with MSR register and DVMT Preallocation settings. Extremely risky and don't want your laptops turning into paperweights. I was lucky enough to have mine under warranty when I did mine and got a replacement but you may not be so lucky....

Noted, I think you may be right, I changed bunch of TB settings to weekend and still no luck. Probably should change them back. Honestly pretty stupid of me to try TB even though I don't have any TB devices.

Hi,
I wanted to update my 9560 with your files. Everything is fine, except Battery life isn´t that great. But when I try to attach my UAD Apollo Twin & my Satellite Octo both devices can´t connect.

I updated my bios & the Tb3 Firmware, but still no luck...

When I connect the device, or both devices, you can see that the Tb3 Port is shown in ioreg. When it´s not connected TB3 is not loaded at all.

I´m sadly running out of ideas here. I already had it running for me than a year. Sadly even when I go back to my old setup TB3 is not working anymore...

Try clearing your nvram a couple times and plug in the TB devices at clover boot menu. Switching files and updating may leave entries in nvram that may affecting your TB devices. If you don't use usb-c maybe give the tb3-v1 a shot. Sorry can't be of much help as I don't have TB devices.

 

[mazakiss]

Hi,
I wanted to update my 9560 with your files. Everything is fine, except Battery life isn´t that great. But when I try to attach my UAD Apollo Twin & my Satellite Octo both devices can´t connect.

I updated my bios & the Tb3 Firmware, but still no luck...

When I connect the device, or both devices, you can see that the Tb3 Port is shown in ioreg. When it´s not connected TB3 is not loaded at all.

I´m sadly running out of ideas here. I already had it running for me than a year. Sadly even when I go back to my old setup TB3 is not working anymore...

Hi. So back then you had TB3 working with your apollo soundcard, right? Cold boot only? Which config works for you back then?.

Yes, like blazinsmokey said, remove all TB and TYP-C SSDT in patched folder, clean NVRAM, reboot. Then replace these files clean NVRAM again and reboot. I had to do this many times to get it back.

Please, when you get it back, can you (re)post your OIReg and report testing with your device attached, please? We search for a long time for people having TB3 device to test, so if you can kindly do it, could be great. Thanks.

 

[antagon]

Thx for your help.
In my case I needed to walk the long way:
Reinstalled Windows, updated BIOS and TB 3 firmware, clean installed Mojave and finally, after everything was back, I cloned my old system from my external backup back to the internal disk.
I don´t know why F11 or any other route i tried was not succsseful...

Without any TB3 SSDT, I couldn´t daisy chain my two devices, just the satellite connects.
I use now SSDT-TB3-V1 and both devices work great. I can unplug them without a system crash but hotplug doesn´t work reliable and when it works it just shows the Satellite device, not the Appollo...

I use 14.5 right now. In High Sierra 13.6 i had the trackpad working perfectly like a real apple track, the multi gestures like three finger drag are sadly gone in 14.5.
Any idea how I get it back?

 

[blazinsmokey]

Thx for your help.
In my case I needed to walk the long way:
Reinstalled Windows, updated BIOS and TB 3 firmware, clean installed Mojave and finally, after everything was back, I cloned my old system from my external backup back to the internal disk.
I don´t know why F11 or any other route i tried was not succsseful...

Without any TB3 SSDT, I couldn´t daisy chain my two devices, just the satellite connects.
I use now SSDT-TB3-V1 and both devices work great. I can unplug them without a system crash but hotplug doesn´t work reliable and when it works it just shows the Satellite device, not the Appollo...

I use 14.5 right now. In High Sierra 13.6 i had the trackpad working perfectly like a real apple track, the multi gestures like three finger drag are sadly gone in 14.5.
Any idea how I get it back?

Thanks for the info, I think I may revisit that SSDT and see what we can do about TYPE-C working with that SSDT.

If your config is like mine, fix track pad, rebuilding kext cache and permissions should do the trick.

 

[wladdych]

Is anyone have success with three- and four-finger gestures ?

 

[nikoel]

Is anyone have success with three- and four-finger gestures ?

Yeah. Virtually everyone in this thread - all gestures work by default
The only weird behaviour is hardware click. If you find that it plays up then change your double click speed

 

[wladdych]

Yeah. Virtually everyone in this thread - all gestures work by default
The only weird behaviour is hardware click. If you find that it plays up then change your double click speed

is anything special needed to do in order to make it work?
four-finger up guest doesn't show desktops for me (but with external apple trackpad - do)
also two-finger back/forward in safari also not working
ps. i'm using blazinsmokey's latest clover

 

[blazinsmokey]

is anything special needed to do in order to make it work?
four-finger up guest doesn't show desktops for me (but with external apple trackpad - do)
also two-finger back/forward in safari also not working
ps. i'm using blazinsmokey's latest clover

Try rebuilding kextcache and repair permissions and then reboot.

 

[wladdych]

Try rebuilding kextcache and repair permissions and then reboot.

thanks! i've missed this thing. is there are any way to make f1-f12 work as function keys by default? i have this option in BIOS, but under mac os i need to use fn+fX combinations

 

[killswitx]

Hi. I need more info. Too many factors here.
How old is your battery?
Do you use your laptop mostly on battery?
After boot, in activity monitor, is there any app or daemon running in the background pumping energy?
What are your bios power setting? battery profile? Mine is adaptive.
Was it always like that or suddenly your battery capacity drastically decreased?
If you have windows, is the battery life the same?

1) If you have windows installed on another partition (or disk) do this to check your actual battery capacity:

How to calibrate your laptop's battery and fix inaccurate wear info

The issue I've been coming across recently seems to be mostly with Dell's XPS line of laptops, though it can certainly affect others: My new XPS 13 9370,

www.ultrabookreview.com

If your capacity is above 90Wh, don't proceed to full discharge. just do a cmos reset (see below).

Do this once maximum and read carefully. Respect the 3 to 5 hours necessary to cool down the battery after full discharge.

2) Once done before switching on your laptop, disconnect the battery and do a cmos reset by holding power button 1 to 2 min to fully discharge the mobo capacitors.

3) Do a full test at idle disabling sleep and report the time until nearly full discharge.

4) remove ADP1 ssdt in patched folder. reboot. clean nvram at clover screen. reboot. put back ssdt. reboot. clean nvram, reboot, shut down. Reboot.

This improved my battery life. In my case it was a new battery that needed just to be calibrated.

5) If all of this fails. Try a clean install.

Thanks for detailed answer, was soo busy unable to look into this. My battery would be 1yr and something old and haven't been using it mostly on battery. I have checked bios and had adaptive set and it also says my battery life is excellent and that is 100% charged. Don't have windows never really used it went removed straight as I was getting this lap only for hackintoshing .

I think it went down drastically would believe before it would be aronund 5-6hrs maybe even 7hrs kinda close to what it would be. Well I see I had been fans going crazy last while is there anything I should check with undervaluing? or maybe fans are dirty and need a bit clean up? something else I should look at? I usually do simple stuff Firefox some terminal open few other windows ram might be half used nothing to extensive really no gaming at all. Cheers!