well, that feature I never succeed.... and I don't care... 'cause I seldom send text message these days...
but other feature is OK. calls, continuity, airdrop~. So to me, its fully worked
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2011 MacBook Pros can support Handoff/Continuity
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well, that feature I never succeed.... and I don't care... 'cause I seldom send text message these days...
but other feature is OK. calls, continuity, airdrop~. So to me, its fully worked
well, that feature I never succeed.... and I don't care... 'cause I seldom send text message these days...
but other feature is OK. calls, continuity, airdrop~. So to me, its fully worked
ah okay...
well it bugs me because i can't even send text message from my ipad both running ios 8.
i just re-check the continuity feature on apple's site.
https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/continuity/
Send any kind of text message from any of your devices.
Coming in October
it appears this feature is still under development...
oh they did it again... I'm very sure it used to work in one of the previous yosemite beta version. well just wait then, there's only 3 more weeks left in october.
No matter how many times I try the various methods of tutorials on here for my 2011 MBP, the 4331 seems to hang around after numerous restarts, with the 4360 not kicking in at all. Not sure where the complications are arising, but as soon as I remove the 4331 and restart, Handoff begins to work and continues to work even after moving the 4331 back into place.
If you're having trouble with the guides on here, or anywhere, try moving the 4331 kext to the trash and restart. If it works, put it back, repair permissions and carry on your way. This has worked as a reliable "kickstart" for the times when the guides don't quite cut it, for whatever reason.
If you're having trouble with the guides on here, or anywhere, try moving the 4331 kext to the trash and restart. If it works, put it back, repair permissions and carry on your way. This has worked as a reliable "kickstart" for the times when the guides don't quite cut it, for whatever reason.
Hi rob3r7o, how did you end up getting this to work on your modified mid-2010 Macbook Pro? What did you edit in the AirPortBrcm4360 binary? Just curious.
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Thanks for the tip. When you were trying the various tutorials, did you try editing the first and last Mac board id in the AirPortBrcm4360 binary? I had a similar issue with my MacBook Air where the 4331 kept popping up, but putting my Mac board id as the last entry as well fixed it.
Stock 2011 iMacs have an Atheros Bluetooth 2.1 EDR chips, according to iFixit. This configuration isn't compatible with the tutorials, which focus on Bluetooth 4.0 LE chips of the Broadcom brand. Your best bet IMO is to find out whether other people with 2011 iMacs successfully made handoff work through a wireless card replacement.
MacBook Pro 2010 + airport BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX ALL WORKS !!!!!
GREAT NEWS for macbook pro 2010 with BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX upgrade.
I have upgrade to yosemite GM 2 and with AirPortBrcm4360 binary modded now i have all OK
Airdrop <-> iphone 5
Handoff <-> iphone 5
Continuity <-> iphone 5
I don't have modify bluetooth kext, just AirPortBrcm binary.
This is how to ( a bit difficult to explain):
ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk -F\" '{print $4}'
only show: Mac-F22586C8
but this value if inserted give error to load 4360.kext
I did a lot of tests and in the end I realized that I need to have:
Mac-F22586C8........
But we can't insert just this value.
because if we insert ascii . (point) then we doesn't have in binari value 00 (zero zero)
so, open AirPortBrcm4360 binary with 0xED
we can see 2 columns: left for binary, right for ascii (i think so)
Search first Mac- number (for esemple Mac-00F345FD546773FA.)
Put the cursor on the . (point) in the right columns and delete all number.
Now we have: Mac-.
write only F22586C8 (IN THE RIGHT COLUMNS)
Now we have Mac-F22586C8.
Look the left columns for cursor, click on it
Now we can write eight pairs of zero: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
if you look now the right columns we can see:
Mac-F22586C8.........
(9 POINT WITH GREY BACKGROUND IN TOTAL)
For safety I made this change to the first and last Mac- found
I hope I explained well, sorry but I do not speak English.
Thank you all for sharing your discoveries.
this is my small contribution
this is the kext modded
http://speedy.sh/xN5A8/IO80211Family.kext.zip
GREAT NEWS for macbook pro 2010 with BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX upgrade.
I have upgrade to yosemite GM 2 and with AirPortBrcm4360 binary modded now i have all OK
Airdrop <-> iphone 5
Handoff <-> iphone 5
Continuity <-> iphone 5
I don't have modify bluetooth kext, just AirPortBrcm binary.
This is how to ( a bit difficult to explain):
ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk -F\" '{print $4}'
only show: Mac-F22586C8
but this value if inserted give error to load 4360.kext
I did a lot of tests and in the end I realized that I need to have:
Mac-F22586C8........
But we can't insert just this value.
because if we insert ascii . (point) then we doesn't have in binari value 00 (zero zero)
so, open AirPortBrcm4360 binary with 0xED
we can see 2 columns: left for binary, right for ascii (i think so)
Search first Mac- number (for esemple Mac-00F345FD546773FA.)
Put the cursor on the . (point) in the right columns and delete all number.
Now we have: Mac-.
write only F22586C8 (IN THE RIGHT COLUMNS)
Now we have Mac-F22586C8.
Look the left columns for cursor, click on it
Now we can write eight pairs of zero: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
if you look now the right columns we can see:
Mac-F22586C8.........
(9 POINT WITH GREY BACKGROUND IN TOTAL)
For safety I made this change to the first and last Mac- found
I hope I explained well, sorry but I do not speak English.
Thank you all for sharing your discoveries.
this is my small contribution
this is the kext modded
http://speedy.sh/xN5A8/IO80211Family.kext.zip
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Nice find rob3r7o, thank you for sharing!
Your steps seem very clear to me. MBP 2010 owners definitely need to be careful because of the 00 binary values that need to be manually added in the procedure. It should also be possible to do a simple text Find & Replace for the Mac-IDs, and after that add the binary zeros.
Hey guys, so the post 609 above only works for macbook air and mini? Can someone point me to a tutorial for macbook pro 2011 with changed airport card to have bt 4.0
PS running GM2
Hi, I've a Mac Mini Mid 2011 i5 with support for Bluetooth 4.0LE.
I've followed all the guides to modify the kext but still do not have the option of activation in settings-> General .. where the hell am I wrong? I read around that it requires a wifi a / b / g / n / ac which I don't have ... that can be the cause? this is the screen that gives me the system information:
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I've replaced the Mac in IO80211Family.kext with mine (Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1)
I've modified in IOBluetoothFamily.kext MacBookAir 4,1 etc... with MacBookAir 1,1
What I've to do? I'm literally going crazy behind this thing..
Thank in advance for who can be helpful..
I've followed all the guides to modify the kext but still do not have the option of activation in settings-> General .. where the hell am I wrong? I read around that it requires a wifi a / b / g / n / ac which I don't have ... that can be the cause? this is the screen that gives me the system information:
I've replaced the Mac in IO80211Family.kext with mine (Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1)
I've modified in IOBluetoothFamily.kext MacBookAir 4,1 etc... with MacBookAir 1,1
What I've to do? I'm literally going crazy behind this thing..
Thank in advance for who can be helpful..
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Your wireless/bluetooth card should be fine. You shouldn't need to have a Wifi AC card to benefit from handoff, continuity etc.
First: As Lem3ssie (original tutorial poster) said, "read, then read, and when you're done reading then read again". A lot of people here -myself first- had to go through the tutorial multiple times to get it right. It's very easy to miss a detail with such long and technical tutorials. And until someone figures out a script to do the grunt work, we're stuck with tutorials.
While re-doing the tutorial, a couple of checks you can do:
1) Be very careful when tinkering with 0xED not to remove or add additional characters.
2) Make sure you added your board-id in the first and last appearences in the 4360 binary.
3) Make sure you modified all blacklisted Macs number to 1,1 in the IO80211Family.kext
Then, if this still doesn't work, I'd suggest to take a more systematic trial and error approach.
1) During the tutorial, reboot after deleting the original kexts.
If this doesn't work, try this:
1) Before putting the IO80211Family.kext into KextDrop, make a backup of it, and then delete IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4331.kext
If this doesn't work, try this:
1) Me or someone else could upload the working hacked binaries (I haven't hacked my GM2 yet). Put them in the their respective kexts, and pick up from step 23 in the tutorial.
Then please post your results. I hope you can get it working and we can pinpoint what went wrong.
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Hey guys, so the post 609 above only works for macbook air and mini? Can someone point me to a tutorial for macbook pro 2011 with changed airport card to have bt 4.0
PS running GM2
The tutorial you mentioned should work fine for MBPro's 2011.
So iv managed to delete my IO80211Family.kext from my computer completely, can anyone recommend how to get it back????
well, that feature I never succeed.... and I don't care... 'cause I seldom send text message these days...
but other feature is OK. calls, continuity, airdrop~. So to me, its fully worked
I was able to get it to work. I tried texting someone on imessage and it say I couldn't and then I got a pop up asking if I wanted to do it and then i got a approval I had to do on my phone. Check imessage settings and your ios8 settings
can you send me the same with my id?
my is
Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1
i've tried the tutorial step by step twice but nothing to do..
Download and unzip : http://we.tl/21hRrUP6E5
Delete IO80211Family.kext from /Systeme/Library/Extensions
Reboot, wifi is now dead.
Copy unzipped IO80211Family.kext to /Systeme/Library/Extensions
Terminal this :
Code:
sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
Code:
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Système/Bibliothèque/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
Code:
sudo chmod -R 644 /Système/Bibliothèque/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-cachesReboot.
Look for Handoff check box in System Preferences.
Yes, did both first and last. Had the same issues on both MBP and Mac mini, but cured it up real quick by temporarily trashing the 4331.
I have a 2011 MBA running Yosemite GM Candidate 2 and followed the tutorial. Everything seemed a success and I now get the option in the General System Preferences (set to enabled). AirDrop between my iPhone 5 (8.1 beta 2) and MBA works, but not handoff or instant hotspot. I have Handoff and Personal Hotspot enabled on my phone, Bluetooth enabled on both devices, connected to same WiFi. Any ideas?
Crazy, instantly after posting this I'm getting Handoff to work
Thanks very much for the tutorial!
Crazy, instantly after posting this I'm getting Handoff to work
Thanks very much for the tutorial!
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Through the iPhone
I think that's because for both SMS and phone calls, the Mac is connecting to the iPhone. So, it's making phone calls and sending SMS messages through the iPhone. That way you can still communicate with people who don't have smartphones. I would say it's so you can still communicate with people who don't have iPhones, but I'm sure Blackberry and Android users can get Skype.
I think that's because for both SMS and phone calls, the Mac is connecting to the iPhone. So, it's making phone calls and sending SMS messages through the iPhone. That way you can still communicate with people who don't have smartphones. I would say it's so you can still communicate with people who don't have iPhones, but I'm sure Blackberry and Android users can get Skype.