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[Guide] Lenovo Z50-70/Z40-70/G50-70/G40-70 using Clover UEFI

Sorry bro but about wifi cards.. do those cardS “Atheros <Ar9565, AR9280 AR5BHB92 > work with Lenovo z50-70 without editing bios??? Also work in mojave?? Thanks

They probably won't work. Lenovo is really strict with these Whitelists. Is there any reason why you are so opposed to patching the BIOS? It's a relatively simple process, once you've collected all necessary files and tools. As long as you don't flash anything before checking thrice that you didn't get errors or forgot some steps, you should be fine.
 
Hi, Just upgraded my Lenovo z50-70 from High Sierra to Mojave. Followed the brave knight's post along with RehabMan. I built the USB from my MacBook Pro using RehabMan's post. All went well except audio. Reboot without caches and then reboot did not fix audio. Looking in /S/L/E I saw that AppleHDA.kext was there and no AppleALC.kext. I downloaded AppleALC.kext from the RehabMan link to AppleALC 1.3.4 and the CodexCommander kext. Installed them with KextBeast. Removed the AppleHDA.kext from /S/L/E. I get the following messages when rebuilding the caches.
"Kext with invalid signatured (-67062) allowed: <OSKext 0x7fa09b4eeb60 [0x7fff9f84c8f0]> { URL = "AppleALC.kext/ -- file:///System/Library/Extensions/", ID = "as.vit9696.AppleALC" }

AppleALC.kext - no compatible dependency found for as.vit9696.Lilu.

AppleALC.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)"

Still no audio found. Help.
 

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Hi, Just upgraded my Lenovo z50-70 from High Sierra to a Mojave. Followed the brave knight's post along with RehabMan. I built the USB from my MacBook Pro using RehabMan's post. All when well except audio. Reboot without caches and then reboot did not fix audio. Looking in /S/L/E I saw that AppleHDA.kext was there and no AppleALC.kext. I downloaded AppleALC.kext from the RehabMan link to AppleALC 1.3.4 and the CodexCommander kext. Installed them with KextBeast. Removed the AppleHDA.kext from /S/L/E. I get the following messages when rebuilding the caches.
"Kext with invalid signatured (-67062) allowed: <OSKext 0x7fa09b4eeb60 [0x7fff9f84c8f0]> { URL = "AppleALC.kext/ -- file:///System/Library/Extensions/", ID = "as.vit9696.AppleALC" }

AppleALC.kext - no compatible dependency found for as.vit9696.Lilu.

AppleALC.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)"

Still no audio found. Help.
AppleALC.kext (all your 3rd party kexts) belong in /Library/Extensions

not sure why you deleted AppleHDA.kext as that is needed for your sound
 
I seem to be getting mixed signals here. I read previous posts that appear to say that AppleALC.kext is the kext for audio in Mojave and AppleHDA.kext is no longer needed. I could be wrong though.
 
OK, just found RehabMan's expanded list of requested data so I reran the collection info and am reattaching the new stuff here.
 

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OK, just found RehabMan's expanded list of requested data so I reran the collection info and am reattaching the new stuff here.
AppleHDA is needed as well as AppleALC for audio to work

make sure your lilu and applealc kexts are the latest versions
 
OK, my face is very red...:oops:. I guess I missed a BIG step in the brave knight's instructions. I re-ran the github downloads and install. I think that I was not in the lenovo.git directory when I ran the install and it didn't run. Everything appears to be working fine. The only thing I did outside the instructions was to remove VoodooPS2Controller.kext as my laptop has the Elan trackpad. Thanks to all for the guides, hacks and assistance.
 
Hello, I've successfully upgraded my 10.14 Lenovo to 10.14.3 yesterday morning, but I did a huge mistake. I turned on FileVault when It prompted, and then, after booting and seeing that everything went well, I shut down my PC and didn't look at it until yesterday evening.

When I booted up my PC, no boot options were found, and with the help of Google I tried to solve It by myself. So I opened the only partition visibile in Clover, the recovery partition. There I can unlock my SSD and with the command "diskutil apfs list" It shows that my "Macintosh HD" partition is still encrypting, so i cannot run the commands to decrypt It (encryption command gives the same error, saying that the drive is already encrypting)

I also tried to disabile FileVault from the password recovery menù, but nothing happened.

I even clicked at the top-left corner Apple logo to select the bootable disk, but it opens Clover normally, without showing the boot partition.

After all those tries, I bumped info a thread here on Tonymac, that had the "apfs.efi" files to update mine, but only for Mojave 10.14.0.

So I looked for another solution and I found the AppleSupportPkg v.2.0.6 (the latest) and copied / overwrited the files in my EFI partition from my Windows drive, but the boot Volume isn't shown tho.

I also don't have another Apple machine to read my disk
And my trial of "APFS for Windows" expired long ago.

So my only hope are you guys here, considering that my volume isn't even shown as corestorage.

Is there a way to resume the encryption process from recovery, to remove it after It finishes?

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Just updated to Mojave 10.14.3. No problems whatsoever.
 
They probably won't work. Lenovo is really strict with these Whitelists. Is there any reason why you are so opposed to patching the BIOS? It's a relatively simple process, once you've collected all necessary files and tools. As long as you don't flash anything before checking thrice that you didn't get errors or forgot some steps, you should be fine.
thanks bro actually I'm scare because I saw this man while downgrading he lost his bios! I do not know if I lost my bios or not!
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-restore-the-BIOS-on-a-Lenovo-Z50-70
so how should I set bios before downgrade?
I mean how to configure the bios setting before trying to downgrade??
 
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