{"id":8718,"date":"2023-07-29T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2023-07-29T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T23:40:18","slug":"hp-elitebook-840-g7-hackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/hp-elitebook-840-g7-hackintosh.html","title":{"rendered":"HP EliteBook 840 G7 Hackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200b<\/em>After a few weeks working on my HP EliteBook 840 G7. I decided to make a guide for anyone who has this laptop. It’s not a perfect MacBook Pro 16,2 but I really like it because it’s does last a long time with the battery in Ventura.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The specs: i5-10310u, 16GB, 500GB (changed to WDC Black 1TB), Intel AX200 WIFI and BT combo (will be replaced with BCM for aidrdop and camera).<\/em><\/p>\n

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What’s working<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

– Graphics full acceleration.<\/em><\/p>\n

– WIFI & BT fully working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Keyboard and Trackpad Working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– All USB ports working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Speed Steps Working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Battery Working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Sound working but no MIC.<\/em><\/p>\n

– No Micro SD card reader.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Backlit Keyboard Working.<\/em><\/p>\n

– HDMI only works perfectly with USB-C adapter.<\/em><\/p>\n

– iMessage, FaceTime<\/em><\/p>\n

– For camera we can use iPhone when we replace the BCM94360ng as Bluetooth & Wifi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Not Working<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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– Camera: Black Screen although detected as HD camera.\u00a0<\/s>For camera we can use iPhone when we replace the BCM94360ng as Bluetooth & Wifi with FACETIME.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– F3 & F4 doesn’t work with backlight (will try to patch)<\/em><\/p>\n

– Sleep OK, Wake problem NO KEYBOARD and screen takes a long time to wake.<\/em><\/p>\n

– To fix this I disable the sleep, turn off the screen and close the lid, it last quite long compare with sleeping.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I always prefer Clover over OC because dual booting on the same drive is excellent on Clover vs OC. For Clover I can use different config.plist instead of get stuck with the wrong boot like OC, must use other usb boot drive. I like HP bios because it allows you to boot from EFI file instead of the whole partition which is great. I use OC to reset NVRAM since Clover NVRAM clear is not working very well.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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I use Clover V5151 instead of 5153 because it works.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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While working on this specific laptop, I noticed the USBMap.kext didn’t generate correct USB ports which I had to modify it to get the USB-C and USB-A to work correctly. The sign is when you plug in the iPhone on USB-C ports, it doesn’t read, only charge. The same with USB-A ports, they don’t load external hard drives, just the usb flash drives. The USB power was defined the same.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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– Download the macOS Ventura 13.3.1 installer.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Create a usb installer with clover boot loader.<\/em><\/p>\n

– If you have problem while installing up to the 12minutes mark and it hangs, it’s the hard drive problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

– with correct kexts, ACPI, EFI files you should be installing macOS Monterey, Ventura without any problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

– The graphics Platform-id should be 09009B3E.<\/em><\/p>\n

Use iPhone As Camera<\/em>
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MacBook Pro16,2.zip<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n