Mid December 2012 Apple shut down the Messages Beta for Lion, soon after many hackintosh users started noticing issues with signing into iMessage. At some point in time, people far smarter than me managed to patch a little used bootloader called Clover to allow us to log into iMessage, but Clover is young and still full of random issues. Honestly, it never liked the system id on my partition, so I was never able to use it. But now, it seems that someone has patched our widely used Chameleon bootloader! I’ve tested it on my own hackintosh, and many users are also reporting success.
The instructions are simple enough, and should only take you 3 minutes + a reboot to implement and test!
- Download the following files to your hackintosh
- Execute the following commands
- Unzip the Chameleon installer, and run it — make sure you install to your boot disk
- Reboot, and try to login to iMessage
cd /Extra/modules
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/FileNVRAM.dylib.zip
sudo rm -rf __MACOSX
sudo rm -rf ACPICodec.dylib
If you have ACPICodec.dylib in your /Extra/modules folder, you need to delete it.
Hopefully this will take care of your issues. If not, it was worth a try! I highly recommend the Insanely Mac Forum for researching any issues you may be having. After all, where do you think I learned how to do this?
Who writes this crap?
Tony Mattke is a network engineer for a financial institution in Indiana. In the past he has worked for ISPs, data centers, networking manufactures, and the occasional enterprise. For feedback, please leave a comment on the article in question. For everything else including fan mail or death threats, contact him via twitter.
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It worked for me, too. Awesome, thanks a lot!
hi there,
when i type the 1st command i get this "mkdir: /Extra: No such file or directory" any idea why
Worked for me too. Thanks.
iMessage reloaded! Thanks a lot, too!
will this work on vmware?
Hey Tony ,
I just wanted to thank you for the quick and effortless explanation to get this puppy working. My macbook pro died last week and I really missed my iMessages.
Thanks again for your guide.
Will this work in a virtual machine?
thx alot it worked for me too :)
Perfect! Worked fine on my 2 hackintosh
thank you very much. it worked.
Hi, I could not get this to work. 1. The file downloads in Safari without a .Zip extension which makes it unable to be opened acording to the 3rd line above. The file that I get is .DYLIB tried to open it, no luck…
I'd like to try this solution as nothing else is working- this iMessage and the dictation issue are the only two that are not working-
Thanks, Don
BTW, no luck with the updated Chameleon
it worked here just as well
cannot find any modules folder in extra
when creating….gives an error…..modules have already been taken