Melvinzill
Member
Hi, so I have an interesting problem. Got in a liquid damaged 16 Inch MacBook Pro for a customer for board repair. Well there is no fixing this thing, it is toast. I sold him an exact replacement 16" as I had a used one. Well he called me next day saying his professional software he uses for work doesn't want to activate. Turns out its bound to a particular serial number. And the company said its like 1000EUR to get a replacement licence (he told me its a 15k piece of software). Not great....
Is there any way to transfer the Serial? On the old Macs I could just reprogram the EFI flash chip and it was a done deal. Well this doesn't seem to be the same on T2 enabled machines. I did see two videos using this programmer (https://www.unionrepair.com/by-t200-t2-data-assistant-for-macbook-read-backup-repair.html), but I have no idea if this is even real (I mean it was just on YT) and if this specialty programmer is the only way to do this... I don't want to drop 200EUR (with import and shipping) to find out this was all complete BS.
Anyone ever tried this before?
Is there any way to transfer the Serial? On the old Macs I could just reprogram the EFI flash chip and it was a done deal. Well this doesn't seem to be the same on T2 enabled machines. I did see two videos using this programmer (https://www.unionrepair.com/by-t200-t2-data-assistant-for-macbook-read-backup-repair.html), but I have no idea if this is even real (I mean it was just on YT) and if this specialty programmer is the only way to do this... I don't want to drop 200EUR (with import and shipping) to find out this was all complete BS.
Anyone ever tried this before?
