iMessageDebug For Mac

If you are running OS X on a Hackintosh, applying the latest system updates might lead to iMessages connection issues: you receive a notification that your Apple ID cannot be used with iMessage, and a Customer Code that should help you fix the problem (contacting support does not help).

However, if the application still works on your computer, simply make sure that you do not perform any action that will make you log out from the account, including system updates: when trying to get back in, you will most likely encounter the aforementioned problem.

To fix this problem, you must make sure that your OS X installation is using the same system IDs as a previous build that had a working iMessage application. iMessageDebug is a small Mac OS X utility that runs in the Terminal, and is capable to quickly extract this information.

iMessageDebug will provide details about the following parameters: the Mac model, the Board-id, the Serial Number, the Hardware UUID, the System ID, the ROM, the Board Serial Number, and more.

To make sure that everything works smoothly after updating the OS on your Hackintosh, run the iMessageDebug app first and save the available information to a text file. You should also use the Clover boot loader, since it can preserve and update critical kernel extensions.

The next step is to actually run the OS X updater, and then check if the system IDs match the iMessageDebug text file: the Hardware UUID, the Serial Number, the Mac Logic Board, and the ROM values should be the same.

Going through these steps ensures that your iMessage app will also be accessible on the updated OS X installation, but if you need to learn more about the whole process, please visit the developer’s website.