Imessage and facetime just stopped working

[greenhobby]

Hi,

I've been using iMessage and Facetime successfully for literally years on my Hack. Same Serial numbers/type and all across many upgrades. Recently iMessage and Facetime just stopped working. I did change my apple password recently. Maybe that has to do with it? Messages go green (not blue) and then stop all together with a 'can't authenticate' error. I'm running 10.15.4 and followed the idiots guide a number of years ago to a T. I changed my serial to try and see if somehow it was blacklisted. After I changed the serial number, iMessage worked again but for only a day.

Is something new going on at Apple where they are checking compatibility now after a password change? I have real macs and they are all fine with the same account.

-gh

 

[greenhobby]

Hmmm, it seems that Hemon was on the right track. I just upgraded from 5107 to 5109, and iMessage/Facetime are working. I didn't change any kexts or my model number 18,3. -gh

Now it "seems" to work 100%. I can now use iMessage and FaceTime.

I made this:

– Update to Clover 5109 (newest version).
– Deleted "EmuVariableUefi.efi" since I noticed that I don't need it with my motherboard.
– Changed from iMac 14,2 to iMac 15,1.

I will update the post if I have again problems.

Thanks!

 

[greenhobby]

Ugh, unfortunately it stopped working again. Seems Apple is doing something to reject authentication after a day or so. Sigh...

 

[P1LGRIM]

Seems Apple is doing something to reject authentication after a day or so.

Nonsense.

Your symptoms are typical of what happens when native NVRAM support or emulation of it is missing.
Suggest you test for that first.

 

[greenhobby]

Ok, that sounds promising.

The instructions on page 1 of the 10.15.4 update say update Clover to 5107+ using MultiBeast. I tried this and couldn't figure it out to just update Clover. Sigh. Is there a post somewhere that explains exactly how to update Clover to include Emulated NVRAM prior to an upgrade?

So what I did was used Clover Configurator to update to 5109 and I'm guessing it didn't install the Emulated NVRAM version.

Thanks in advance for helping! -gh