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How to Restore Native/Vanilla AppleHDA
An EliteMacx86 Exclusive Guide - This guide covers restoring of Native/Vanilla AppleHDA.kextOverview
For most of the time, when you try to fix audio on your hardware, you forget to backup the vanilla AppleHDA. When fixing, if there's any issue, and the audio doesn't works, you try to fix it in other ways. But as the different AppleHDA is installed, so the audio may have some issues. So here's a quick guide to restore the vanilla AppleHDA to your system and then try to fix the audio.
As you're already attempting to install OS X or macOS, so you must be having a bootable USB of the particular version.
For macOS Sierra to macOS Catalina:
1. Plug your Bootable USB
2. Open your USB
3. Right click on "Install macOS Mojave" and select Show package Contents
4. Open Shared Suport folder
5. Mount the Base System.dmg
6. A partition will be mounted on your Desktop
7. Open the partition
8. Navigate to : /Base System/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA
9. Create a folder on your Desktop
10. Name it to "AppleHDA Vanilla or Native AppleHDA"
11. Copy the original AppleHDA from the above location i.e /Base System/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA
For macOS Big Sur:
macOS Big Sur directory isn't writable. So, it's very unlikely that you modify your AppleHDA.kext.
Removing installed (old) AppleHDA version from your system
1. Navigate to : System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
2. Right click on AppleHDA.kext and select "Move to Trash"
3. Empty the trash
Notes :
For macOS Catalina, you'll need to enable the write access. To do that, type the command below in the Terminal.
Code:
sudo mount -uw /; killall Finder
Installing AppleHDA
1. Open Terminal
2. Type:
Code:
sudo cp -R /Users/yourusername/Desktop/Native AppleHDA/AppleHDA.kext /System/Library/Extensions
4. Rebuild caches using
Code:
sudo kextcache -i/
Now you've successfully restored native/vanilla AppleHDA.kext
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