Change CPU name on Catalina

[lrascao]

+1
It's a plist, I've edited mine with ProperTree and it works fine

 

[Bansaku]

Which language/local?

Uhm, how do I find out which one is loaded?

 

[v0id125]

And the file was copied back into place? Your file looks different to mine.

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Here is my file,

@Shaneee Were you able to figure why you have a different looking file than the one above in the pic? I have the same issue.

 

[Shaneee]

@Bansaku What language is your system setup in?

@v0id125 What system version are you trying this on?

 

[Bansaku]

@Bansaku What language is your system setup in?

English (Canada)

 

[Shaneee]

English (Canada)

It'll be en_CA or just en for English Canadian.

 

[v0id125]

@Bansaku What language is your system setup in?

@v0id125 What system version are you trying this on?

iMac1,1 - English (american)

 

[Shaneee]

@v0id125 American English should be en.lproj

 

[v0id125]

@v0id125 American English should be en.lproj

In about my mac - its only displaying Processor: 3.8 GHz and nothing after that. When I open the processor.string file there is no string for that.

 

[Shaneee]

@v0id125 I've not found a definitive way yet to fix that.

 

[Aluveitie]

@v0id125 In the old forums was a detailed post about this issue. In short, Apples Code has a bug where in this case it ignores localization. To fix it you'd have to modify the binary... probably not worth the effort.

 

[v0id125]

@Shaneee @Aluveitie Thanks guys.

 

[wild_eep]

I was able to successfully edit my CPU name, but had to do it slightly different than Shaneee's tutorial.

1. When mounting the root partition, I got the following error:

$ sudo mount -uw / mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Operation not permitted mount: / failed with 77

To overcome this, I disabled SIP by editing my EFI config.plist to change the csr-active-config setting to E7030000 in the NVRAM section.


2. My Processors.strings file was not in an XML format like in Shaneee's tutorial. So I couldn't use a text editor (Atom in my case) to edit the file. Instead, I used ProperTree.

Success!

EDIT: After this was all done, I re-enabled SIP by changing the csr-active-config setting in the config.plist back to 00000000.

 

[Bansaku]

It'll be en_CA or just en for English Canadian.

Well, I copied over the whole damn AppleSystemInfo.framework folder over from my back-up OC system and... I still have nothing displayed under System Info.



Funny thing is in OC the CPU is reported as Intel i5 3.60 GHz. I am guessing this fix only works with OC?

 

[Shaneee]

In Clover you can change the CPU Type to 0x8064 and it'll show as unknown. I think that's the correct value.

 

[slead]

@Bansaku
have the same issue as you, not sure what the problem is, but the machine in itself is working perfectly.

 

[jthunternz]

Great guide! Worked for me, just gotta use some initiative to get it done.

 

[Aluveitie]

@slead if it just shows the frequency Catalina will ignore the localization, it's a bug in the code. You can either patch the binary (there was a post in the old forum explaining the situation) or change the cpu type. This option was just added to the OC master, in the upcoming OC 0.6.2 you could do that.

Apple has fixed this in Big Sur by the way.

 

[Bansaku]

Any Big Sur patches?

 

[Codester]

Any Big Sur patches?

You are going to have to break the seal on your System just to attempt it. It honestly isn't worth it just for a cosmetic change.