How to Fix iMessage

[heryts]

how can i use in chameleon?

i can't change uuid.

sudo nvram 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:ROM=%11%11%11%11%11%11
sudo nvram 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:MLB=1111111111111111

 

[sherlocks]

sudo nvram 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:ROM=%11%11%11%11%11%11
sudo nvram 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:MLB=1111111111111111

always thank you. i have a question.

can we permanently use your key?

 

[heryts]

always thank you. i have a question.

can we permanently use your key?

i need to test it, just don't sign oout

 

[sherlocks]

i need to test it, just don't sign oout

what is sign out? is it logout?

i can use imessage through your key.

 

[elgipsy]

Jay,
I have one additional question: I do not get the lastpart about backing up the /Extra file…. Let’s assume I set up iMessage, if Ineed to format etc, after rebuilding the Hackintosh, I need to generate a S/N& SM UUID and then just replace the new /Extra folder with the one I backedup?
I was planning to wait for Yosemite to activate it again(if it works at some point) but I might do it before, I just fear the blacklist thing as I wouldn’t like to find out that my iDevices have been affectedby doing this and that I cannot use iMessage etc on them.
Thanks for any input you can give J and KUTGW!

 

[jaymonkey]

Jay,
I have one additional question: I do not get the lastpart about backing up the /Extra file…. Let’s assume I set up iMessage, if Ineed to format etc, after rebuilding the Hackintosh, I need to generate a S/N& SM UUID and then just replace the new /Extra folder with the one I backedup?
I was planning to wait for Yosemite to activate it again(if it works at some point) but I might do it before, I just fear the blacklist thing as I wouldn’t like to find out that my iDevices have been affectedby doing this and that I cannot use iMessage etc on them.
Thanks for any input you can give J and KUTGW!

@elgipsy,

No need to generate a new S/N & SM UUID on a re-install of OSX, after running Mulibeast just replace the contents of the /Extra folder with the relevant files form the backup you made (Multibeast automatically generates the /Extra folder and a random S/N if you use a 'Easy Start' option), since your backup of '/Extra' will have the same SM UUID injection and S/N values iMessage should still work so no risk of a lock-out on your AppleID.

Cheers
Jay

 

[rad-we]

@rad-we,

This method is a work around for when UUID (SM) injection does not take using the method outlined in the main guide, having looked into it, it seems more suited to those using clover boot-loader rather than Chameleon/Chimera + FileNVRAM (which is not available under clover).

Having said that it does seem to work with FileNAVRAM as long as you are using the old version (1.1.2) I think for Chimera users this should be considered as last resort as normally the method in the guide should work which does all the injection for you.... but as we know it does not work for a few users so this method could still be useful. However I am not sure using using values from another MAC is a good thing, I still think that you should try and use unique values, i could be wrong but when OSX 10.10 goes public with all the new iMessage features then it would not surprise me if those using cloned values may run into issues ....

@Jay I got blocked again. There must be something else wrong. Could you please update the guide taking into account imessage_debug and its output as a check?
For example, I get:

2014-07-18 19:44:06.993 imessage_debug[4692:507] Gq3489ugfi: <xxx 122c7dd9 105b6f62 ce9f349a 40>
2014-07-18 19:44:06.995 imessage_debug[4692:507] Fyp98tpgj: <xxx 0f3efa5a a65c14bb 66830aa2 24>
2014-07-18 19:44:06.995 imessage_debug[4692:507] kbjfrfpoJU: <xxx 2ad0f8d2 24d36746 60ff517b 52>
2014-07-18 19:44:06.995 imessage_debug[4692:507] IOPlatformSerialNumber: xxx
2014-07-18 19:44:06.996 imessage_debug[4692:507] IOPlatformUUID: xxx-E95E-54C1-ACB6-9F09A3F4623A
2014-07-18 19:44:06.996 imessage_debug[4692:507] board-id: Mac-F42C88C8
2014-07-18 19:44:06.996 imessage_debug[4692:507] product-name: MacPro3,1
2014-07-18 19:44:06.996 imessage_debug[4692:507] xxx-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:ROM: <00000000 00000000 00000000 00>
2014-07-18 19:44:06.997 imessage_debug[4692:507] xxx-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14:MLB: xxx_UXYL4Q803
2014-07-18 19:44:06.997 imessage_debug[4692:507] oycqAZloTNDm: <xxx 9614c2e6 7bda55f1 90187be5 d4>
2014-07-18 19:44:06.997 imessage_debug[4692:507] abKPld1EcMni: <xxx 328db95d 0728be55 9915351a 4a>

while my chameleon.plist is:

        <key>SMsystemuuid</key>
        <string>xxx-8004-bd05-4006-e40700080009</string>

(the serial is matching in chameleon.org).

IOPlatformSerialNumber and the first part of the MLB both begin with CK9, but the following numbers are different. In chameleon.plist I injected the value I get back in IOPlatformSerialNumber, not the one in the beginning of the MLB.

Could you spot any issue? I don't want to call Apple unless we find the problem that breaks the association every few weeks. It cannot be Apple itself.

Thanks

 

[heryts]

@rad-we

i have some experience while using chameleon regarding SMsystemuuid, its better that you don't have this value on chameleon boot.plist or smbios.plist

why

while i put smuuid value in smbios it just generating new nvram-smuuid.plist, so we will get two nvram-smuuid.plist extra folder, the problem is when we delete the old one, then we will have new random MLB and ROM value every reboot, and you can't modify MLB and ROM value,

to fixed it, don't delete old nvram-smuuid.plist, just let it have two nvram-smuuid.plist or i suggesting you to delete SMsystemuuid value in smbios and/or chameleon boot.plist, because actually we don't need it on chameleon, we just need same MLB and ROM value if you once activated it

you can see at my value, it doesn't need random value or something like that, what we need is registered by apple server, the value could come from real mac, or by contacting apple care

and you can see both have different platformuuid but both have same MLB and ROM value and both can be used to activated iMessage

 

[heryts]

@ vira web

you can use darwin dumper tool to dump nvram value and get MLB and ROM

 

[goofygames]

Thank you for this guide. After 2 days of trying i finally got it to work using this guide. Part 2 is what fixed my new Hackintosh build running OS X Mavericks and iMessage is working awesome. Thanx again. By the way i am fairly new to this and the guide was very easy to follow.