Serial number from retired hackintosh for iMessage?

[Connie Mac]

I have an older hackintosh that I've used iMessage with that I'm retiring to a Linux box. To avoid finding a new serial number in Clover Configurator and testing it, can I simply take the serial number associated with the retiring computer and use it for my new hackintosh to get iMessage working with the least amount of effort?

 

[Sniki]

I have an older hackintosh that I've used iMessage with that I'm retiring to a Linux box. To avoid finding a new serial number in Clover Configurator and testing it, can I simply take the serial number associated with the retiring computer and use it for my new hackintosh to get iMessage working with the least amount of effort?

You will need these values more than serial number:
- MLB
- ROM

With those two values you could generate a new uuid and new serial number and iMessage should work again.

 

[Connie Mac]

OK, thanks. Can those also be taken from the retiring hackintosh?

 

[jcds83]

It depends. If your new hackintosh has the same product name for instance iMac14,2, yes but I doubt it's true.
There is an excellent guide about iMessage in the forum.

 

[Sniki]

OK, thanks. Can those also be taken from the retiring hackintosh?

Yes they can, you can just do a imessagedebug and save the output of it somewhere.
When you create the new values you just paste MLB and ROM from your old ones that you backed up and you're good to go.

 

[cjvangoey]

Ideally you're using the same system definition