Making A Hackint0sh. The Samsung N130

Update:  I've got WiFi working!  I bought a Dell 1397 B/G/N WiFi Half-Mini PCI-e card and it working perfect with OSX right out of the box.

A word of warning for anyone that is going to install OSX on to their N130, REPLACE THE ORGINAL HARD DRIVE.   If you wipe the factory hard drive it will be very hard to reinstall Windows if you every should need to. You'll need to buy a 2.5" SATA hard drive to replace the factory one.

My video on removing the case

Second: not everything works 'out of the box' in OSX. Audio, WiFi, and Ethernet DO NOT WORK, also the computer DOES NOT sleep like a normal Mac would when you shut the lid of the laptop. I was able to get audio working and I am buying a replacement WiFi card, one that is compatible with OSX. So then my only problem would be the computer not sleeping, but hopefully someone smarter than me is working to that.



First off I followed this guide to get 10.6 on to the N130. Gizmodo Hackintosh

That's well the easy part. The next step is upgrading to 10.6.2, which as I'm sure you know Apple disabled Atom support in 10.6.2 but there's an easy fix. Next just follow this guide to keep Atom support in 10.6.2 Meklort Guide

I've made a dedicated page on one of my personal sites to store the files you (and I) need to get the N130 working.

Now it gets hard... First off audio doesn't work, WiFi doesn't work, and Ethernet doesn't work. With some help I was able to get audio working perfectly headphone jack and all!
So you have to install tons of crap to get audio working but I guess it's worth it to have sound running...

1. Install Apple Developer Tools (Xcode) it's free from Apple but you have to have an Apple ID and download an 800MB file.
http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html

2. Next you need to install a crap ton of drivers, I don't know if they all work together or hell if just one is working but my audio is working and I installed them all. I don't remember the order, and I don't think it matters but you need to install:

- AzaliaAudio.pkg
- Full Sound 10.5.7.pkg
- HDAEnabler.kext
- VoodooHDA.kext

(You can download all the files from me)

So that's a total of 5 files if you include Xcode. The .pkg will install themselves but kext files are drivers and I use Kext Helper B7 to install the kext files. After that audio should be working just fine, you might find the volume a little low so go to: System Preferences/Sound/Output you'll see a bunch of "Analog PCM #0" devices turn up the 'Master' and 'PCM' all the way up and that should help.

Edit: Here's a picture of Sound in Sys Prefs.  Unfortunately you know have tons of these "Analog PCM #0" devices...  The only two that seem to matter are the first two: 'Master' and 'PCM'.  Turn PCM all the way up, then select 'Master' and then set the volume at your desired level.  Another bad thing is, the PCM and Master reset every time you reset your computer...


Internet is still not working on my N130 but I have an external USB WiFi card that I found some drivers for so I'm using that for now. I also have my iPhone hacked and I use the built-in tethering to get internet on the go. The internal WiFi card (Realtek RTL8192E) I can't find support for, my plan is to buy a replacement card that works natively with OSX, and I'm still on the hunt for the "best" card for OSX. If you start looking for a card you'll need a Half Mini PCI-e WiFi card. The "Half" and "Mini" are import when looking, I've already bought 1 card that didn't fit...

Hope all this helps, if you need anything more just ask, I'll share what I find and please do the same.


Here Are My Resources:
www.hackintosh.org
www.insanelymac.com
www.mydellmini.com
www.meklort.com
www.stellarola.tumblr.com
www.osx.mechdrew.com/blog

Size Does Matter.

• TV - $1,600
• Xbox 360 - $450
• Knowing my TV is (probably) better than my opponents - Priceless.
  

I made a bit of an upgrade to my A/V setup today. Today I replaced "Old Faithful" with a new Samsung 50" 1080p DLP. Man it's amazing how much of a difference (almost) doubling your screen size makes. If anyone's close to buying a new TV, I would strongly recommend the DLP rear projections. They are the best TV for the money, and at only 11" deep and 64lbs it rivals the dimensions of most Plasma's and LCD's displays.

All of this just in time for Halo 3...

My New Phone: The Samsung M620 "Upstage".

Here's the newest (Samsung) phone in my long history with Sprint, how about a recap: the 6100, A460, N400, A500, VGA 1000 (Some of you might be familiar with this), A700,and the A900. Now the M620 makes lucky number eight and to be clear, they have all been great phones I just have a bit of a turn over ratio... You know like 10 cars in 11 years of driving, but I really like my newest one.

I've got some pics of my new toy below:

The "Front" Phone side.

The "Back" iPod side.

This shows the flip button, to flip between sides, along with the hold/lock button.

This is interesting, this picture is of the included "battery wallet" that extends continuous talk time by 6 hours. The phone does NOT have a removable battery, and some people really bitched about that but the phone has a rather good battery life anyway, amazing compared to my last phone (A900) that wouldn't even last a whole day. At any rate, it's really nice and a great free accessory that they could have easily charged $80 bucks for.

These last shots were comparing my "old" A900 to the M620, as you can tell it's a lot smaller. It's about half the height and half as thick, I feel like I'm talking on Derek Zoolander's phone!

Now, compared to the iPod and iPod Nano you can kinda get a feel for its size. As wide as the Nano and as tall/thick as the iPod it is truly a tiny device.

So far I'm enjoying it, it's small but that not a bad thing. If you looked at all my other phones you'd notice that this is my first non-flip phone, so it'll take some getting used to but I'll be ok.

The Samsung F520 Dual-Slider and Touchscreen.

These are pics of the new phone I'm going to buy from Samsung the F520. I know it's not as cool sounding as the iPhone or even the RAZR but damn does it have cool features...

First off it got a touchscreen, cool. You navigate through the menus with your finger and when you're ready to make a call just slide down the number pad and away you go. Now as shown in the first pic, (and mentioned in the title) this thing can slide out to the side for a full QWERTY keyboard plus the number that you'll get if you slide out to the bottom of the phone.

The F520 is also equipped with music, video, photo, and internet capabilities for those that must have music, video, photos, and internet on the go...

(Via: Engadget)