So here’s what I did, in detail, to get it working. Android works for Wi-Fi flawlessly, but plug in an Android phone to your High Sierra Mac and enable it, and you’re likely to be met with a big flat nothing. It’s actually a carrier thing, to be fair to my roaming partner, but it sucks having paid for data to find that you can’t use it except on your device, so iOS was out. My problem (and it could well be yours) is that my roaming SIM provider doesn’t always allow for any tethering (Wi-Fi hotspot or USB tethering) on iOS in some countries. Now, from a practical viewpoint, this is much easier if you’ve got an iPhone.Īpple stuff talks to Apple stuff pretty natively, to the shock of nobody. The solution: Pair up the phone over a USB cabled connection instead. ![]() That’s the situation I’m about to find myself in at a conference with many other tech journalists. All of a sudden, your smartphone’s link to your laptop isn’t worth much, as it struggles to connect, or send any meaningful quantity of data packets. Within the oddities of Wi-Fi on both Macs and Droids, it all works pretty well.Įxcept when it doesn’t, like for example if you find yourself in an area with a lot of Wi-Fi saturation. If you’ve got a Mac running High Sierra (or, as far as I can gather, Sierra, although that’s not the case I’ve tested for), you can pair up an Android smartphone by sharing over Wi-Fi. ![]() Or in other words, I could have used this stuff earlier so I figure you might benefit as well. I’m writing this guide largely because I’ve just taken a few hours to work this out myself, and while I can’t take credit for every step, I couldn’t find all these instructions in one place. So, this is actually my 79yo father's laptop, and now he's going to be forced to replace a perfectly working device - shameless.It is possible to use an Android handset in USB tethered mode with a Mac running High Sierra, although there are a few hoops to jump through. It began, and then quit, citing it couldn't download required files. Matter of fact, in internet recovery, using CMD-OPT-R, it gives me only the option of Installing Lion, which I chose, just to see, and it wouldn't install that either. macOS is lightyears beyond Windows, and Apple's hardware is amazing, but the fact I can't get High Sierra installed onto an eligible machine is no coincidence in my opinion. As a computer repair shop owner, I'm really frustrated with this type of stuff. If I'm installing from a USB drive, the machine shouldn't even need to contact recovery servers. I've tried internet recovery, and two different High Sierra install USB drives. I have tried changing the date, updating/syncing the date with Apple. There is NOTHING WRONG with this MacBook. You can download the DMG for Sierra and install it first and download High Sierra and create a flash drive for it.Ĭlick to expand.Well, I give up. You may need to create a new High Sierra bootable installer. ![]() You can download and create a flash drive installer for High Sierra by either using a Sierra or Mojave Mac. Make sure that you connect first to internet either by wi-fi or ethernet cable then use the High Sierra flash drive. All of these I tried on MacBook Pro 2015.Īnother thing, checking for security updates for High Sierra through the App Store no longer works but I was still able to download security updates for Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra, which is odd since they are all older than High Sierra.Īll of what I mentioned above, I have performed in 2023 and it is really weird. It still works when trying to download and install Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey. Installing High Sierra using internet recovery no longer works.
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