Unfortunately I don't have this device anymore, looking for anyone that can maintain it, PR are welcome!
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT HAPPENING DURING USING THIS REPOSITORY
PLEASE FOLLOW DORTANIA OPENCORE INSTALLATION AND USE THIS ONLY FOR REFERENCE
https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/
A LOT OF PEOPLE REPORT THEIR LAPTOP UNABLE TO TURN ON (BRICK) AFTER DOING NVRAM RESET
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Processor | 8ᵗʰ Generation Intel ® Core™ i7-8665U |
| Display | 13.3" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS, anti-reflective, touchscreen |
| Graphic | Intel UHD 630 |
| Ram | 16 GB Soldered |
| Storage | Samsung SSD PM981 |
| Micro SD Card Reader | Realtek |
| Wifi + Bluetooth card | Intel ® 9560 802.11AC + Bluetooth 5.1 |
| Webcam | via usb internal (720p) |
| I/O | 2 USB C 2 USB A Microphone Jack |
| Sim card reader | Yes |
| Name | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 🟢 | Patched with CPUFriend |
| Graphic Card / Display | 🟢 | Sometimes will give blank screen after boot, hard restart will solve that |
| Audio | 🟢 | |
| Storage | 🔴 | Since there is so much problem opencore + PM981 drive, i end up to change the drive to SSD Adata XPG SX8200 PRO 256GB M.2 NVMe |
| Sleep | 🟡 | No USB power, sometimes sleep broke sound input |
| Power / Battery / Charging | 🟡 | Slow charging, probably need battery patch (Need help!) |
| Wifi | 🟡 | Hard to correctly connect to 2.4Ghz hotspots. Slower. Kext related |
| Bluetooth | 🟡 | Can't connect to Bluetooth 4.0, Kext related |
| USB | 🟢 | Not patched yet |
| External Display | 🟢 | Works both using Thunderbolt usb c or HDMI |
| Pen + Touchscreen | 🟢 | Touchscreen just feel more natural than using Touchpad (Touchpad gesture enabled) |
| Trackpad | 🟡 | Scrolling using trackpad while hovering link will opening that link in browser |
| Touchpad | 🟡 | Touchpad feel unnatural, probably need change to VoodooRMI (Need help!) |
| Smart Card Reader | 🟢 | |
| Android USB Tether | 🟢 | |
| Fn Key | 🟢 | Please install YogaSMC app + SystemPreference panel |
| Sim Card Reader | 🔴 | |
| Tablet mode detection | 🟢 | Please install YogaSMC app + SystemPreference panel |
| Battery indicator | 🟢 |
- Disabled:
- Always on USB
- Wake on LAN
- Wake on USB
- Intel TXT
- Secure Boot
ONLY FOLLOW THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING
- Make sure you have same spec above
- Follow BIOS / UEFI Configuration
- Follow dortania opencore installation guide to make usb bootable
- copy paste the EFI folder there
- Follow dortania guide to fill Serial Number and UUID to the config.plist inside EFI folder (If you use ProperTree, don't do clean snapshot!)
- Boot!
- Battery patch (Hopefully will fix slow charging issue)
- Change VoodooPS2 to VoodooRMI (Hopefully fix unnatural touchpad issue)
- SIM Card reader
- Sleep sometimes broke sound input
- Upgrade to latest opencore
Here the list of some reference i use to create this EFI folder
- Thinkpad brightness key fix: https://github.com/acidanthera/BrightnessKeys
- Touchscreen fix: https://github.com/acidanthera/VoodooPS2/tree/2.2.2 (Note: Disable
VoodoInputand useVodooInputfromVoodoPS2Controllerinstead) (2ndNote: Only VodooI2C and VoodoI2CHUD) - Battery indicator fix (Just need to download kext, don’t need to do battery patch): https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-ACPI-Battery-Driver
- YogaSMC for some fn key functionality fix: https://github.com/zhen-zen/YogaSMC
- HoRNDIS for android usb tether.
- 1 Download and install jwise/HoRNDIS#133 (comment) (I don’t know if this required).
- Use HoRNDIS kext from here: https://github.com/mendax1234/ThinkpadX390-Opencore-EFI/tree/main/EFI/OC/Kexts/HoRNDIS.kext/Contents\
- Card reader fix: https://github.com/cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx