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Thanks. I have been away for a while, but now I am back. I will look after the IntelFBPatcher when I can - I was in Europe enjoying some time out, I am back home now but struggling with the time zone difference (5 hours). Where I can look after this? Added in 5 minutes 36 seconds: Thanks! I will for sure look after this. I had even bought a new interesting cable to get 4K@60 in my trip to Europe, tested it before trying any of the suggested patches in this topic. No luck. Maybe when I try one of these patches. I will come back with something after testing! Although right now I am kinda regretting buying this laptop. I bought it just to run some games on Windows, and Windows definitely runs good on high resolution. But the macOS side is getting me a bit of a pain in the ass. Not to mention that this laptop is not very "portable”. I took my iPad Pro for my trip instead of the laptop because it was easier to carry with me. I might try to sell this and try to get another macbook.

I did not replace any panel. Btw are you sure the nvidia gtx 1060 max-q does not work with Mojave? I am still getting only 4k @ 30hz and having screen blackouts/artifacts, using only the Intel UHD630.

For some reason it started to work again without these kexts. color banding is still there though. Added in 1 minute 57 seconds: This is unrelated to this topic - the script is only for eGPU. Added in 6 minutes 2 seconds: Yes, it does work very well. You have to follow a guide so you won't be pairing your apple trackpad and apple keyboards every time you boot in one of them. Unfortunately I can't find the guide on the web, but I found something similar to what I remember to have done here: https://github.com/Soorma07/OS-X-Bluetooth-Pairing-Value-To-Windows-Value Added in 4 minutes 17 seconds: For external 4K display and HDPI mode enabled, I can only get it to 30hz. I need 60hz or else I might have some problems with my external display (I have seen some glitches while using before). I tried latest LILU + WEG and bootflag -cdfon enabled (enablehdmi20 property is already on my config). No luck. I don't want to try Floris's Mac pixel clock patcher because it hasn't been updated for 10.14.3, and anyway, WEG is supposed to do the same for me. I think that the problem might be the HDMI Cable, it isn't a hdmi 2.0 cable so I need to buy one and verify.

I haven't found a fix for the color banding issue yet. For hibernation, I simply turned it off for now. It corrupted once one of my external drives (it was formatted as exFAT). Currently I have one BIG issue. I can only boot to macOS when my G7 is plugged in to the wall charger. When I am on battery, it never ends booting or, doesn't boot at all. I have to plug in the power and then it magically boots normally. I have no idea of what it could be.

[ref]vinhtq115[/ref], no luck with the color banding issue? As of now I have only two issues, the color banding and the hibernation. When the computer sleeps while I am away from the keyboard, It’s pretty difficult to come back, I had a 1TB external hd plugged in and it was inaccessible even after coming back. I could read the data from other computer, but never from the G7. It was a ext4 formatted hd just so I could read/write from both OS (win/mac). Now I have formatted the drive as NTFS, I can r/w as long as I have Tuxera NTFS installed on mac. But the hibernation is quite scary.

Here's the customised SSDT-UIAC. Requires black G7 model and DW1560/Broadcom BCM94352Z M.2 card to work. SSDT-UIAC.aml.zip

I can share. But I am not convinced it is good - the USB speeds are making me scratch my head off a bit. I just edited the port number for bluetooth, the rest is left as it were before. I will upload it later, but you need to have the DW1560 card installed for it to work. Framebuffer patches, I had no success in it. I don’t know yet how to do it properly. My first attempt left me with a darker display (reverted back later). For now the color banding isn’t a big issue for me, so I will leave it until someone makes an easier solution or explain in plain english how to do the framebuffer patching. I still think it has to do with the EDID. One of these two things are the cause of the problem. Currently I am installing Xcode and later I will tidy up the Windows installation to run rFactor 2 - the reason I bought this model. Otherwise I’d have chosen an easier model to hack. Added in 4 minutes 8 seconds: Sleep needs to be fixed as well. I left it on before xmas dinner and when I went back it didn’t turn on. Also, I had an usb 1tb storage plugged in, so when I rebooted, it refused to mount. Mounts well on my macbook air and also when I booted to windows, but not macOS. Turns out it was in exfat format, so i made a backup in other computer, formatted as NTFS and copied everything back. I can live with a NTFS usb drive, just need to have Tuxera NTFS installed where I may use it.

The SN is there, same as in Clover. What is not on iMessageDebug is the board serial number, used for MLB, even though I had set one for it in Clover. Added in 20 minutes 22 seconds: I finally did it! I had to reset my network settings and preferences, then rebooted and tried to sign in... fuck yeah, worked!! Now I have a 100% working system. Amazing. Added in 20 minutes 57 seconds: [ref]vinhtq115[/ref], I also found a solution for your color banding problem. I haven’t tried yet, but I think you need to do framebuffer patching.

Yes, I did. Generated new ones, saved config plist, rebooted, checked imessage debug, still no board serial number, even though I set MLB and ROM. I think one of them uses macAddr0. I am now trying to create a new SSDT-UIAC for my system. Meanwhile, I noticed that the blue color of the selectors in macOS UI is a bit purple. Yours too? Edit: fixed the SSDT. What happened is that who did it, might have had a typo (or the white G7 has a different port). Black model with the LCD display has the bluetooth on port HS07, instead of HS09. Changed it, rebooted normally and bang! USB ok, bluetooth ok, wifi ok. Camera ok. Sound ok. What is left for us now is the color issue on display and try to make iMessage/Facetime work. I still cannot figure out why the board serial number comes out hidden/unset in iMessage debug.

The system definitely needs a new SSDT-UIAC, when I removed it I had the bluetooth back, but I lost my USB ports functionality. How rude! I need to learn a step by step on how to make a new one just so I don’t lose the Bluetooth. Meanwhile I will keep a backup of that file for future problems.

[ref]vinhtq115[/ref], I keep getting an error message with the activation and to try again later. I think it will not work until I find out why my iMessage Debug returns the Board Serial Number with XXXXXXXXXXXX instead of the value I generated in Clover. I have NVRAM working, any variable I set up to it still holds when I reboot so i know it works. For some reason, MLB/Board Serial Number is XXXXXXXXXXXX. I have even checked several times the Clover panels to find out if I had left something behind.

[ref]vinhtq115[/ref], I’ve found a few things that might help you with your issue: I booted without any option set in my config.plist (iGFX, no inject Intel, no ig platform id) BUT using the Whatevergreen + Lilu kexts. System booted and the igpu was detected correctly as UHD 630 and correct RAM. But still got your color banding! I then reverted back because sometimes I boot to a black screen. To sum up, clover and WEG does have the info on UHD 630. Maybe it’s an issue with the framebuffer. I am still trying to get BT, iMessage to work... UPDATE: I’ve managed to get Bluetooth working. I just removed the SSDT-UIAC.aml out of my EFI folders (I saved a backup of it somewhere first). And rebooted. VOILA! My initial thoughts were right, it was the SSDT. I might need help to make a new one. Or I might not need it at all. I haven’t tested yet what else could have been affected by what I did. I will now try to make iMessage/FaceTime work, and then I will be super happy if it does. But I am a bit worried with trying too much - I don’t want to get blacklisted by Apples servers. I will try a bit tomorrow.

I have a Macbook air, but I want to sell it after.

I decided to leave BT for a while and focused on trying to get iMessage working. I generated the values required, and they do keep on boot, except for the board serial number. I cant make it stick. For some reason iMessage does not work.

Same result here, with a 40” Samsung 4K TV, no color banding even though I don’t get a 4K image on it. The Dell laptop display is a LED IPS, full hd display. However it shouldn’t happen. So far, I haven’t found a way to make BT work.

Ah, same on my Launchpad then. I didn’t think it was an issue but a limitation of intel gfx.

Maybe it requires a new SSDT after I switched to a DW1560 wifi/bt card? Jesus, I have no idea how to do it if that's the case.

After upgrading to Mojave and adjusting my clover config plist, I managed to get sound working somehow, before your post. Anyway, The only thing I have not working now is the bluetooth, I have installed the BCM94352Z Dell DW1560 card, WIFI works straight out of the box now, but I don't have any bluetooth. The bluetooth pane is not even shown in system preferences panes. I have spent an entire week trying to make the whole system work, so far almost perfect. As for color banding issue... what's that? I don't have any issue using Launchpad.

I have a G7 too, and followed your guide point by point, even used the same versions for OS, Clover, kexts. Still, I can't get sound working, nothing, nada. Any ideas? I also want to upgrade to Mojave later.