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[Guide] macOS Sierra(10.12.2) on Dell Inspiron 5547

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ccarizzo

ccarizzo

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Motherboard
14-5447-A11
CPU
I5-4210U
Graphics
HD Intel® 4400 / AMD Radeon R7 M265
Mac
  1. MacBook Pro
Mobile Phone
  1. Android
Hi everyone,

This guide is a humble "thank you" for all the help and information I got here when I was trying to install Sierra on my laptop. :)

Q: What works?
A: Audio, Video, Wireless, Ethernet, Screen Brightness, Keyboard And Touchpad, Battery indicator.

Q: What does not work?
A: Bluetooth: Stays always on, but doesn’t work.
A: Awaking from Sleep (after a long time): Displays along with Clover Boot Screen a message above the HDD, saying “OS X SIERRA - HIBERNATED”. When I select the HDD, a progress bar appears overlapping the screen and when it goes 100% nothing happens. I need to force the shutdown, pressing the power button for some time and power on again.

P.S: Possible solutions for these two problems are welcome ;)

Specifications:
Dell 5547

BIOS: vA08
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U - Haswell
Ethernet: Realtek RTL 8106E
Wireless: Dell Wireless 1707 Card (802.11BGN + Bluetooth 4.0, 2.4 GHz)
Card Reader: Realtek RTS 5179
Graphics: Integrated Intel Graphics 4400
Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 M265 GB (disabled)
Audio: Realtek ALC3234
Touchpad and Keyboard: Dell Touchpad and Keyboard
Intel(R) 8 Series USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 - 9C26
Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0


STEP 1: Creating Bootable USB
Create a Bootable USB with the latest version of Unibeast. You can follow this guide here.
Download Multibeast and the files attached to this guide and save them on your USB.

STEP 2: Configuring BIOS Settings
Press F2 and set the right values for BIOS

1. Load Optimized Defaults pressing F9.
2. In Advanced Tab:


Plug USB, press F12, select the USB and go through the process. (See the guide link above)

STEP 3: Pos Installation with Multibeast
Install Clover Bootloader using Multibeast Sierra Edition.
Check the following:

1. Quick Start:
  • [x] UEFI BOOT Mode.
2. Drivers:
  • Disk:
    • [x] Intel Generic AHCI SATA;
  • Misc:
    • [x] FakeSMC Plugins
    • [x] Fake SMC HWMonitor (Optional)
    • [x] NullCPUPowerManagement.
  • USB:
    • [x] 3rd Party USB 3.0
3. Bootloaders:
  • [x] Clover UEFI Boot Mode.
4. Customize:
  • [x] MacBook Pro 6.1 (worked for me)
5. Build it.
6. Reboot.

STEP 4: Making things work
For:
  • Keyboard And Touchpad:
    Using: SmartTouchpad_V4.6.5.zip
    How-to:
    1.     Remove any existing 'ApplePS2Controller, AppleACPIPS2Nub, ApplePS2Keyboard' kexts already installed in '/System/Library/Extensions '.
    2. Open Kext Wizard and install the kext provided.

  • Wireless:
    Using: Dell-Wifi-1707(A9565).zip
    How-to:
    1. In System/Library/Extensions, delete IO80211Family.kext and IO80211FamilyV2.kext.
    2. Open Kext Utility and install corecapture.kext and CoreCaptureResponder.kext.
    3. Open Clover Configurator and mount your EFI partition.
    4. Go to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.12 (create the folder if needed) and paste IO80211Family.kext provided.

  • Ethernet:
    Using: RealtekRTL8100.zip
    How-to:
    1. Goto /System/Library/Extensions and delete the any old RealtekRTL8100.kext installed (if you’re not doing a fresh install).
    2. Recreate the kernel cache (just open Kext Utility).
    3. Open System Preferences and delete the corresponding network interface, e.g. en0. If you forget this step you might experience strange problems with certain Apple domains, iTunes and iCloud later.
    4. Install RealtekRTL8100.kext with Kext Utility.
    5. Reboot.
    6. Open System Preferences again, select Network and check if the new network interface has been created automatically or create it manually now.
    7. Configure the interface.
  • Battery indicator:
    Using: ACPIBatteryManager.zip
    How-to: Install ACPIBatteryManager.kext with Kext Wizard.
  • Graphic Card:
    Using: FakePCIID.kext, FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext and config.plist right values.
    How-to:
    1. Using Clover Configurator, mount EFI Partition.
    2. Load the config.plist from mounted EFI/Clover/ using "Import Configuration".
    3. Set Devices/FakeID/IntelGFX to 0x04128086.
    4. Set Graphics/ig-plataform-id to 0xa260006.
    5. Export Configuration > Save.
    6. Copy FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIIDIntelHD_Graphics.kext to EFI/Clover/kexts/Other.
    7. Install both FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIIDIntelHD_Graphics.kext with Kext Utility.
    8. Reboot.


  • Audio:
    Using: VoodooHDA.kext.zip (v.2.8.8)
    How-to:
    Install VoodooHDA.kext with Kext Wizard.
P.S: You can try patch AppleHDA or another approach. Tell me if it works, please.


  • Screen Brightness:
    Using: DSDT Patch.zip
    How to: I followed this video for patching. [link]

    P.S: You can apply other patches if you want, I only used the graphics_PNLF.

Update 25.04:
Please follow this guide for extract DSDT, this is the right way to do it:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/


:)
 

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Great Guide!!!
Is your video working 100%? Mine is usable but has some annoying artifacts and glitches.
Could you please post your config.plist?
 
Thank so much. Have body try patch AppleHDA to fix headphone sound? I'm not good in this. So thank for a good job again.
 
ovflowd said:
Really nice!

I recommend you specifically explain what is working, and what is not.

As example, you didn't specified if only Intel HD Graphics are working. And not if AMD are working. (Far I know AMD R7 2XXX Isn't compatible).

Also which Wireless Patches are those?

Are you using SMBIOS for MacBookPro 11,1?

Specify on your thread that this is only for Intel Core i5. On my case is i7 and wouldn't be compatible using your ACPI tables...
Click to expand...

AMD is not working. It's not compatible.

As for wireless I found some information here, so I google the AR9565 and there was a number of videos teaching how to do it:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1707_(DW1707)
 
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ccarizzo said:
The focus was not to teach how to extract, but to show how to make brightness work.
You can extract with clover as well, sure.
Thank you.
Click to expand...
sure, but even so, its using the wrong approach, you should link to the clover guide to properly disassemble and then back here, for appropriate patching
 
aaray said:
Great Guide!!!
Is your video working 100%? Mine is usable but has some annoying artifacts and glitches.
Could you please post your config.plist?
Click to expand...

Sure, here.
 

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I have the notebook dell 5547, but I could not understand about adding dsdt backlight (graphics_PNLF.txt). Could you please download your patched dsdt? tks (sorry google translate)
 
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