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I come with what appears to be great Christmas news!
I've been following the feed for quite some time now but never had iMessage working as I came to the iMessage game after the security crackdown. As I understand, from this thread as well as some from Insanely, currently we do not understand the 17 character MLB but we do seem to have sussed out the 13.
I decided that I would take the plunge and attempt to have a go with the 13 character MLB.
As of now my Hackintosh has been running for 24 hours with fully working iMessage, FaceTime with Handoff allowing me to make calls via my iPhone (I know its not too long but more than the few hours experience by those with incorrectly formatted MLBs). As a result of this success, I felt I should share my method.
First off I followed this guide down to the T, which is fantastically looked after by Jay. As results of this my Network en numbers were all good, I had generated a new smUUID and had used Clover Configurator to set up my Smbios as a MacPro 4,1 with a valid 11 character Serial number which was not registered. Having done all of the well-documented steps it was time to move onto the trickier steps of the ROM and MLB.
To obtain my ROM, I used the Apple Mac hack app which was very easy to use and just followed the steps, detailed on the app its self. From my understanding the Apple Mac Hack app obtains the ROM from the systems's mac address I used the app as i found it to be an easy method of setting my ROM while allowing me to evaluate the app at the same time.
Finally it was time to tackle the MLB to get this value I read through the thread on InsanelyMac (I would add a link but i think its against the rules to do so) which provided a comprehensive overlook of the MLB issue in hand for both the 13 & 17 character MLB. Toward the end of that particular thread, it became apparent that some of the developers there specifically Hanger1 in particular had developed a shell command that would enable the generation of a 13 character MLB. This shell command is downloadable from the InsanelyMac thread that Jay linked to earlier here and is found on the 14th page of the thread as of uploading. I followed the procedure as detailed within the shell command and was given my MLB. I was wary of the generator as previously they have simply been red herrings but as the MLB generated appeared to match the pattern I had expected from reading the detailed work done by others on Insanely I decided to take the next step. Calling Apple.
Once I had restarted my system and checked that my values remained constant by using iMessage Debug I tested my iMessage and to no surprise I was given a customer support code. This is as expected as the MLB must be on Apple's white list for it to enable access to iMessage. As I was fairly sure that my detail should all check out I decided, I would call. Upon making my call the support technician is spoke to was well aware of the issue and "had helped several others with the exact same issue". I've got a feeling that apple may be vary aware of our little community. After relaying my apple ID and serial number to them, they were able to get me log in within minutes!
So now, I wait and see. Fingers crossed that this is more than a fleeting moment of success!
Other bits of information that may be useful.. I'm using clover r2079 as my boot loader. Hope this helps!
Merry Christmas everyone
Rkool
I've been following the feed for quite some time now but never had iMessage working as I came to the iMessage game after the security crackdown. As I understand, from this thread as well as some from Insanely, currently we do not understand the 17 character MLB but we do seem to have sussed out the 13.
I decided that I would take the plunge and attempt to have a go with the 13 character MLB.
As of now my Hackintosh has been running for 24 hours with fully working iMessage, FaceTime with Handoff allowing me to make calls via my iPhone (I know its not too long but more than the few hours experience by those with incorrectly formatted MLBs). As a result of this success, I felt I should share my method.
First off I followed this guide down to the T, which is fantastically looked after by Jay. As results of this my Network en numbers were all good, I had generated a new smUUID and had used Clover Configurator to set up my Smbios as a MacPro 4,1 with a valid 11 character Serial number which was not registered. Having done all of the well-documented steps it was time to move onto the trickier steps of the ROM and MLB.
To obtain my ROM, I used the Apple Mac hack app which was very easy to use and just followed the steps, detailed on the app its self. From my understanding the Apple Mac Hack app obtains the ROM from the systems's mac address I used the app as i found it to be an easy method of setting my ROM while allowing me to evaluate the app at the same time.
Finally it was time to tackle the MLB to get this value I read through the thread on InsanelyMac (I would add a link but i think its against the rules to do so) which provided a comprehensive overlook of the MLB issue in hand for both the 13 & 17 character MLB. Toward the end of that particular thread, it became apparent that some of the developers there specifically Hanger1 in particular had developed a shell command that would enable the generation of a 13 character MLB. This shell command is downloadable from the InsanelyMac thread that Jay linked to earlier here and is found on the 14th page of the thread as of uploading. I followed the procedure as detailed within the shell command and was given my MLB. I was wary of the generator as previously they have simply been red herrings but as the MLB generated appeared to match the pattern I had expected from reading the detailed work done by others on Insanely I decided to take the next step. Calling Apple.
Once I had restarted my system and checked that my values remained constant by using iMessage Debug I tested my iMessage and to no surprise I was given a customer support code. This is as expected as the MLB must be on Apple's white list for it to enable access to iMessage. As I was fairly sure that my detail should all check out I decided, I would call. Upon making my call the support technician is spoke to was well aware of the issue and "had helped several others with the exact same issue". I've got a feeling that apple may be vary aware of our little community. After relaying my apple ID and serial number to them, they were able to get me log in within minutes!
So now, I wait and see. Fingers crossed that this is more than a fleeting moment of success!
Other bits of information that may be useful.. I'm using clover r2079 as my boot loader. Hope this helps!
Merry Christmas everyone
Rkool