- Joined
- Jun 4, 2021
- Messages
- 18
- Motherboard
- Clevo PB70EF-G
- CPU
- i7-8750H
- Graphics
- RTX 2070
When you say "pick a Mac Model..." I assume you don't literally mean pick a "iMac" desktop model, and that I can pick a "MacBookPro" model right?You are going in the right direction if indeed it is a laptop, pick a Mac Model as near as possible to your machine specs. In doing that, you need to pick a S/N and MLB that will emulate a real Mac Model when you log into Apple Services.
Formulating a SmUUID is very easy as it is done for you in Clover as well as the S/N and the MLB. As you know ROM is your MAC address also easily found on your system. All these elements must be correct and in place for the machine to be recognised by Apple Services and not flagged as a security risk.
What I advise is, if you do generate new data (i.e S/N, MLB etc etc) you must remove the old previous machine from iCloud to dispel any conflicts between the old and the new which may further compromise the ability to log into the Services.
I've deleted everything possible several times with multiple reboots, and now it seems the common fail point is the SmUUID. I know this because it always says "failed" next to System-ID in the iMessageDebug. I'm not sure how I can possibly be getting this wrong since there are so few steps to get to that point and Clover should be doing everything for me.
To summarize what I do to get where I am, here's what I'm doing after deleting everything and starting over:
Opening Clover, mounting EFI, loading config.
When I load the config, I see the boxes filled with all the #s from my previous failed attempt. (should these be empty if I'm trying to start from scratch?)
Then after confirming correct settings under Rt Variables, I head to SMBIOS tab and select MacBookPro15,1 (or 15,3) for my powerful laptop. I'm not sure if MacBookPro15,1 or 15,3 is better for me. My actual CPU is an i7-8750H. From the drop down menu, 15,3 shows i7-8750H attached to it. But if I generate a serial with 15,3 selected, the serial in EveryMac is correctly formatted but it is NOT an i7-8750H; all the models listed on EveryMac are newer and from 2019. If I instead select 15,1 from the dropdown menu, it does NOT have i7-8750H attached to it but it DOES generate a serial that does have an i7-8750H per EveryMac.
Anyway, after copying a serial whether with 15,1 or 15,3 and confirming it's formatted correctly on EveryMac, I then then copy the serial into checkcoverage site and confirm the serial number is not valid.
Finally, I quit Safari, click Generate New next to SmUUID several times, save Clover, quit Clover, reboot.
Then when I run iMessageDebug, I get hit with the System-ID: failed.
I'm just completely at a loss here. If Clover is generating things for me and it's valid on everymac and not registered on checkcoverage, I don't understand how I'm messing this up.