Create a Recovery Partition And Enable All Features Of iCloud and iMessages

About:

This guide will explain how to enable all features in iCloud and iMessages on your Hackintosh. iCloud is a cloud storage solution provided from Apple since Mac OS X 10.7.2. It allows users to seamlessly have access to various files types including  documents, email, notes, calendar on multiple systems. Also included is Back to My Mac and Find My Mac. iCloud can be accessed from either a Mac or there iCloud website found here.

Accreditation:

Eep357’s post found here
Black OSX’s post found here
Joel Bruner’s post found here
Lebowski’s post found here

Index: 

Part 1A: Ethernet Built In With DSDT/SSDT
Part 1B: Ethernet Built In With No DSDT/SSDT
Part 2: Serial Number
Part 3: Installing The Latest Bootloader
Part 4: Recovery Partition
Part 5: iMessages
Part 6: Creating NVRam
Part 7: Boot File Not Hidden

Guide:

Part 1A: Ethernet Built In With DSDT/SSDT

1. Review my guide here

2. Go to:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

3. Remove:

NetworkConfiguration.plist

4. Restart

5. Log into iCloud

Part 1B: Ethernet Built In With No DSDT/SSDT

1. Go to your root of your drive and locate your Extra folder:

2. Open your Extra folder and locate the following file:

3. Add the following to your org.chameleon.Boot.plist:

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>

4. An example of org.chameleon.Boot.plist:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”&gt;
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>npci=0x2000</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>

5. Save org.chameleon.Boot.plist

6. Go to:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

7. Remove:

NetworkConfiguration.plist

8. Save org.chameleon.Boot.plist and restart

9. Log into iCloud

Part 2: Serial Number

1. Download Champlist found here and a special thank you to the developer(s) of this App.

2. Open up your Downloads folder in Finder and locate this DMG:

3. Double click DMG to mount and then following screen will appear:

4. Now drag Champlist to the Applications folder

5. Open Launch Pad and locate this App:

6. The following menu will appear:

7. Click on SMBios and the following menu will appear:

8. Click on Serial Generator and for the first box select the SIMBios that you are currently using and for the second box choose any setting.

9. Next click on save and enter your password:

10.  Restart and attempt to log into iCloud. If the log in is unsuccessful repeat 5 trough 10.

Part 3: Installing The Latest Bootloader

1. Download the latest Chameleon Bootloader here or manually here (Recommended)

2. Go to your download folder and locate the following package:

3. Open the install package and get to the following screen:

4. Click on Customize:

5. Click on FileNVRAM-title or using the manual method locate the modules folder and copy FileNVRAM and create a folder in your Extra folder called Modules and put the file there:

6. Click on Install:

7. Restart two times before continuing to Part 4

Part 4: Recovery Partition

1. Download RecoveryHDUpdater_xxxxx.dmg

For Lion: here or here

For Mountain Lion: here

2. Mount the DMG by double clicking on the DMG

3. Run RecoveryHD Updater.command:

4. The following screen should appear:

5. Drag the HDD icon of your boot drive into the window:

6. Press enter

7. Once complete restart

8. Go to iCloud and check in Back To My Mac and if you can select the box with out a error  the edit is working successfully.

9. Continue to Part 5

Part 5: iMessages

1. Log into iMessages and if you receive a error stating to call Apple go to iTunes or Appstore and add a valid Credit Card

2. Continue to Part 6

Part 6: Creating NVRam

1. Log into every Apple application that requires you to use your Apple ID at this time

2. Download com.nvram.root.plist found here

3. Open Terminal:

4. Type in:

Sudo su

5. Press Enter and enter your Password

6. The following screen should appear:

7. Type in:

Open /Library/LaunchDaemons

8. Press Enter

9. The following folder should appear:

10. Copy com.nvram.root.plist that you downloaded into this folder and then close the folder

11. In Terminal type in:

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.nvram.root.plist

12. Go to iCloud and check in Find My Mac:

Note You May Be Prompted To Enable Location  Services You Must Enable This

13. In Terminal type in:

sudo nvram -p > /var/log/nvram.log

14. Go to your Extra folder:

15. Remove the folder Modules and the file nvram:

16. After restart verify that Find My Mac check box is still selected and that you are still logged into iMessages. If so the edit is working Successfully.

Part 7: Boot File Not Hidden

1. If the file Boot is not hidden at the root of the drive open Terminal:

2. Run the following command:

sudo chflags hidden /boot

3. Enjoy