Lenovo Yoga 520-14IKB (80YM) Opencore Hackintosh

A guide for installing macOS Ventura 13.7.2 on Lenovo Yoga 520-14IKB using OpenCore 1.0.3 UEFI.

Note

I'm not an expert in hackintoshing, this is my first Hackintosh, I managed to get everything working in my laptop, your laptop may be different than mine, higher specifications, dedicated GPU, etc, it's not guaranteed to work a 100%, if it's so then this guide may not work for you, be careful and good luck!

Laptop's Hardware

• CPU: Intel i5 7200U Dual-Core CPU (Kaby Lake-U)
• GPU: Intel HD 620 Graphics
• Storage: 500Gb NVME Kingston (Upgraded)
• RAM: 8 GB DDR4 2133MHz
• Screen: 13.9-inch Full HD (1366 x 768)
• Trackpad: PS2 (I2C)
• Wi-Fi: Intel AC3150 Dual Band
• Ports: 1 x USB-C, 2 x USB 3.0, USB 2.0 SD Card Reader, HDMI Display Port

Overview

This laptop is a reasonably spec laptop, I use it for development but I don't recommend it for gaming or video editing, the battery life is max 3 hours, it's good.

What's Working?

• Intel HD 620 Graphics full QE/CI
• CPU power management
• Battery (Cycles doesn't show properly)
• All USB ports
• HDMI port (including HDMI Audio)
• USB Dongle Ethernet
• Audio (including headphones jack)
• Wi-Fi & Bluetooth (including Apple services)
• Internal webcam with FaceTime
• Trackpad with GPIO mode (including gestures)
• Sleep (hibernation, lid sleep, and lid wake)
• Native macOS Hibernation
• Screen Brightness with Hotkeys
• Fn keys and Hotkeys lock
• FileVault Disk Encryption
• Tested on Monterey (require change AirportItlwm.kext) and Ventura

What's Not Working?

• Apple Pay with TouchID, to confirm any purchases you need to type your password instead of using TouchID, more information here
• Wi-Fi in networks with mesh routers (only using Airportitlwm.kext, with itlwm.kext work)

Bugs

• DRM support (iTunes Movies, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime and Netflix, and others) could be fixed in the future, more information here and here.
• Not tested microphone using Google Chrome or Firefox, see Ab2774/Lenovo-IdeaPad-320-14-IKB-Hackintosh#3.
• Screen light-up after wake require a second keyboard click with using battery, this can be fixed but it will break sleep causing an instant wake.

Requirement

• 16GB USB drive
• macOS Ventura image downloaded from the Appstore

BIOS Configuration

Before doing anything, make sure to update your BIOS to the latest version Configuration: SATA Controller Mode to AHCI. Security: Intel Platform Trust Technology, Intel SGX and Secure Boot to Disabled. Boot: Boot Mode to UEFI,Fast Boot to Enabled, USB Boot to Enabled.

Installation

For a complete guide on how to create an installation disk on USB stick follow this link After create disk, mount the EFI partition in your USB, Copy-and-paste the folder EFI from this release's repository and generate MacBookPro14.2 SMBIOS (which is the closest one to this laptop's hardware) and change it, copy to config.plist, reboot your laptop and press F12 to enter BIOS Menu, choose your USB installer and select boot from the USB that shown, it may take some time to boot, after is done, you should see macOS Utilities, choose Disk Utility and erase the drive you want to install macOS on it, click on Erase and type the name that you want, like: "Mac OS", choose the format as APFS and Scheme as GUID Partition Map and click Erase, after it's done, close the window and go back to macOS Utilities and choose Install macOS, click Agree to accept the license agreement, the installation should starts now, your laptop should restarts several times, after it's done, login to your AppleID (for more specific guide please go here), after setting up your laptop, unzip the folder. If you have problems with sleep please go here. Restart, and you're ready to go! After installation disable IPv6 Wifi using command:

	sudo networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Extras (above Ventura)

• After you finish the installation you'll notice that your iMessage and other Apple services aren't working properly, to fix that issue you have to add ROM, MLB and a proper SMBIOS (which is MacBookPro14.2 for this device) in your config.plist, for more information follow this guide from here.
• If you don't like the name of your laptop that shown in "About This Mac", you can change it! Press Shift+Cmd+G ⇧⌘G and copy-and-paste this path: /Users/Username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist, and remember, the word Username Is for your username, now download your favorite plist editor (mine is "PilstEdit Pro"), then you can change to Lenovo Yoga 520-14IKB (80YM) or any name you want.
• Fn keys don't work usually on most Hackintoshes, luckily, YogaSMC can fix this! Not just enabling Fn keys and their abilities, it enables Lenovo features like Conversation Mode to stop charging the battery at %60 to increase it's age, ture Cycle Count reading because macOS ones can be wrong, Fn Mode etc, to get those features, YogaSMC is included inside the EFIs, all you have to do is install YogaSMCNC app and YogaSMCPane from this [link](https://github.com/zhen-zen/YogaSMC/releases.
• The keyboard experience on this laptop is a bit different than a real mac, in order to make the closest to a real mac we need to make a couple of changes, luckily, in the latest VoodooPS2 release, it automatically swaps Cmd to Win, if you want to reverse it, them in System Preferences as shown in the photo.

Credits

• In special [Ab2774] (https://github.com/Ab2774/Lenovo-IdeaPad-320-14-IKB-Hackintosh.git) for EFI provided
• Apple for macOS.
• Acidanthera for most of the Kexts.
• RehabMan for some ACPI patches.
• Steve Zheng for some ACPI patches.
• zhen-zen for YogaSMC project.
• 0xFireWolf for RealtekCardReader and RealtekCardReaderFriend Kexts, and various patches.
• 1Revenger1 for ECEnabler Kext.
• Sniki for some ACPI patches.
• daliansky for some ACPI patches.
• Moh_Ameen for some ACPI patches.
• blackosx for OpenCanopyIcons theme.
• And anyone else that helped to develop and improve hackintoshing.