Apple Devices

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iCloud: Could Not Communicate With Server

icloud failed to log in

I was using Clover 5142 to boot macOS Big Sur on my HP Envy 13 without Ethernet. The DW1620 module keeps having en0 builtin false instead of true due to the config setup. When the en0 is not builtin, I couldn’t login to iCloud server. In order to login to iCloud Server, the wifi or

Prevent macOS Monterey To Upgrade Automatically

monterey screen

The new macOS Monterey’s came out, most of the new features were written for the M1 CPU which Intel CPUs don’t benefit but many components were dropped and it’s not working very well with the new Monterey. Many people forgot to turn off the auto update that caused the update to crash the system and

macOS Monterey 12.1 On HP EliteBook 820 SkyLake

Monterey macOS 12.1

The macOS Monterey 12.1 has been released and I tried it out on my hackintosh HP EliteBook 820 SkyLake and HP Envy 13 KabyLake, they both boot and work well successfully using Clover r5142 bootloader. I did try the OpenCore 0.7.6 but it broke my system.  The only problem with Monterey 12.1 is the DW1820

How To Mount R/W NTFS USB hard drive in Big Sur

FUSE NTFS mounted

Since Big Sur security is too tight, I can’t anymore. So I found a way on the internet to mount external USB NTFS hard drive to write and read from it, sometime it works, sometimes it doesn’t .. I still need to install macFuse and brew.sh to install ntfs-3g but I need to use different