Sleep/Shutdown Issue & Solution

[Kaijun]

_Issue Description_

The laptop can't shutdown/restart after running continually for a long time. (for example watching a 2-hours long movie which stops the laptop to sleep automatically)

and also when i set the "energy saver": display never turns off(and also never sleep), then after several hours, if i click the shutdown button, the laptop can't shut down.(normally it can)

what's stranger is that when i click the restart button, but the laptop shut down actually(but it seems to be not really same as the normal shutdown, it takes a little bit more time)...

and if the laptop runs for a several hours and go to sleep automatically, then it can't be woke up from the sleep state, yeah sleep to death...

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_Solution_

Flash the Intel Management Engine Firmware in the Repo. Thank @savvamitrofanov for his solution commented in this issue https://github.com/Kaijun/Acer-V5-573G-Hackintosh/issues/6#issuecomment-225346907

It has been almost 2 years since we had this problem. Finally we made some progresses!

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_Temporary Solution_

Force the laptop to sleep manually after the start of your laptop. After the power light turns orange, then wake the laptop up. After that, all the shutdown/sleep behaviours will be normal. The phenomenon as the description mentioned won't appear again.

[Kaijun]

@virusak @savvamitrofanov I just tried those three, the Intel ME 9.5 Consumer 1.5MB Firmware v9.5.55.1948 version was successfully flashed! Mac version and Corporate are not allowed to be flashed.

Tutorial:

1. Save this fake image and rename to .zip (Or download files on win-raid yourself: Intel ME System Tools v9.5 r4 and Intel ME 9.5 Consumer 1.5MB Firmware v9.5.55.1948)
2. Copy the extracted files to your favourite partition, I just copied it into my EFI partition easily which is the first partition.
3. Boot to Clover, you will see a small button named boot efi shell or kinda similar
4. run FS0: (depending on the partition you extracted your files in), notice the colon :, don't forget it!
5. run MeInfo.efi, check your current FW Version. (use PageUp, PageDown button to scroll)
6. run FwUpdLcl.efi -F fw.bin to flash the new firmware and wait till it finished.
7. Reboot and enter efi shell again, run MeInfo.efi, check if FW Version was successfully updated to 9.5.51948

I'm also not sure if there're significant improvements. I'll keep my laptop on for the whole night and see if magic happens! 🎉

[Kaijun]

@virusak @savvamitrofanov Holy Fuck, It seems that the shutdown issue was gone. I'll keep testing it in different cases, and see if it was totally fixed as expected

[ghost]

@Kaijun awesome And what about sleep?

[Kaijun]

Still need to be tested, need time :) you can also flash it and see what happens

virusak notifications@github.com于2016年6月22日周三 下午5:09写道：

@Kaijun https://github.com/Kaijun awesome And what about sleep?

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Kaijun Chen

[Kaijun]

@virusak Sleep also seems to work after the laptop was on for 3 hours.

Finally!

[Kaijun]

@savvamitrofanov Thank you soooooo much!!!! 🎉

[Kaijun]

@all @virusak @Majkwin @theguild @sintonwong @savvamitrofanov @zwj0571

Finally we made some progresses!

I updated my repo and uploaded all files including tutorial of new Intel Management Engine, which fixes the annoying Shutdown/Sleep/Restart problems!

Download the latest release and Check https://github.com/Kaijun/Acer-V5-573G-Hackintosh/tree/master/Management-Engine-Firmware

Thank you all & Happy Hacking! 💯

[Silveryard]

So I might jump back in this evening too. These fixes sound pretty cool and I can´t wait to boot El Cap again

[savvamitrofanov]

I'm glad to hear this, that this issue was solved for you guys :)

[ghost]

My curent FW is 9.5.3.1520 LP I'm receiving such error Error 8714: Firmware update not initiated due to file open or read failure when I try to run FwUpdLcl.efi -F fw.bin

Update: now everything works

[Kaijun]

@virusak which model do you have? 573g 573pg?

[Kaijun]

Check the MD5 value of your fw.bin, is it same?

MD5 (fw.bin) = c3fa8e05c5d459d2b397147fbbd90d07

[Kaijun]

@tsoltan @virusak plz test if shutdown works as expected. I also need feedback from you guys!

[ghost]

ok I'm going to do a clean install

[michaelspeed]

confirmed working on my 573G i7 - have not tested sleep yet

-edit sleep working!!

[macmeister1967]

I have working sleep/wake/shutdown, but sleep and shutdown can take 20 seconds or more...

I did have a few moments when it did a near instant shutdown, but not many of those.

I have the V5-573 (NON-G) using that unlocked BIOS you provided in solution #6.

[ef6]

@soltant I have a same error with you

Error 8714: Firmware update not initiated due to file open or read failure

Finally i solve that in windows. You need get the tools Intel+ME+System+Tools+v9.5+r4.rar and run FwUpdLcl64.exe -F fw.bin as admin.

[jcrcarmo]

Greetings to you all! My hackintosh is running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and I was able to fix sleep and shutdown issues with a series of terminal commands. They must be entered in the order listed below. I hope it helps you guys too.

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.securityd ExitTimeOut -int 5

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder ExitTimeOut -int 5

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskarbitrationd ExitTimeOut -int 5

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.coreservices.appleevents ExitTimeOut -int 5

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication ExitTimeOut -int 5

[macmeister1967]

An update from my post of about a year ago... everything still working perfectly as expected - running 10.12.6 now, and all is good.