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General AirDrop-enabling hack for pre-mid-2012 iOS7 iDevices - working great

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Menneisyys2

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Interestingly, this excellent tweak has only been discussed in the iOS7 subforum and not here.

As I've reported at https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18553377/ ,

1, I've thoroughly tested the AirDrop Enabler 7.0+ installer I host at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u...llrec/airdropenabler.178_1.0_iphoneos-arm.deb (so that you can avoid adding (even temporarily) pirate Chinese Cydia repos like the 178 one, linked to in the original thread).

2, on the iPad 3, a full reset is required before it starts be discovered as an AirDrop receiver - a simple respring won't suffice.

3, no video transfer seem to be supported. Still images are transferred just great.

4, no excess power usage.

All in all, it works just great. This means it was simply because of business (but in no way technical) reasons that Apple didn't enable AirDrop in pre-mid-2012 devices. Pretty typical of them, if you ask me...
 
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stevelam

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Same with the ipad mini. Nothing to do with 32/64bit. Pretty obvious with the quick intro of ipad 4 they didn't want to sell any more ipad 3s.
 
darricksailo

darricksailo

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Dec 18, 2012
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I'm a bit confused; what does this hack do?

(I've never tried airdrop since updating to iOS 7; don't have another device to try it with)
 
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Menneisyys2

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goobot said:
I thought iPhone 5 and iPad 4 had it too.
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My bad, sorry - I was too tired. I meant pre-late 2012 devices like the iPad 3, iPad 2, iPhone 4S. (Dunno if it also works on the iPhone 4.)

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darricksailo said:
I'm a bit confused; what does this hack do?

(I've never tried airdrop since updating to iOS 7; don't have another device to try it with)
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Adds (enables) stock AirDrop file exchange support to models like the iPad 2/3 and iPhone 4S. It's like OBEX but Apple-only.
 
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nayan159

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Dec 27, 2013
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Menneisyys2 said:
on the iPad 3, a full reset is required before it starts be discovered as an AirDrop receiver - a simple respring won't suffice.
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Please tell me, what do you mean by Full Reset? If i reset all settings Will my JB remain?
I installed this tweak in iphone 4S. Showing in control centre but can not find my ipad mini.
 
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j4zb41

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Dec 22, 2013
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nayan159 said:
Please tell me, what do you mean by Full Reset? If i reset all settings Will my JB remain?
I installed this tweak in iphone 4S. Showing in control centre but can not find my ipad mini.
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I think he meant a full "restart"...
 
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OutSpoken

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Jun 9, 2009
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Thanks for the deb file but unfortunately installing airdrop enabler on my iPad 3 crashes safari and mail app!

I removed the tweak via ifile but it still doesnt open. Any advice?
 
The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter

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I've tried it multiple times on my 4S (7.0.4), and no joy. It doesn't see my wife's/my iPad Airs (stock 7.0.4). And yes, I rebooted just after I installed with iFile.

It's a bummer, this was one the tweaks I was hoping for once 7.x.x was jailbroken. :-( Here's hoping for 1.0.1.

BTW, I noticed that 'AirDrop' does not show up in the 'restrictions' settings panel like it does on my stock Air. Is this normal?
 
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Truefan31

Truefan31

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Yeah I'm having trouble with it working between two 4s and an iPod touch 5th gen. All jb with the tweak installed
 
w0lf

w0lf

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Feb 16, 2013
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Working for me to share from an iPad 3 to an iPhone 5 and vise versa.
 
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Menneisyys2

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Truefan31 said:
Yeah I'm having trouble with it working between two 4s and an iPod touch 5th gen. All jb with the tweak installed
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Did you reboot them all? As I've explained in the OP, it was needed to get my iPad3 show up as a target.
 
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Enjoylife1788

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Aug 22, 2011
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On my iPad 2, it doesn't seem to find my iPhone 5 nor does my iPhone 5 find my iPad 2. Any extra steps required?
 
Steve-Jobs

Steve-Jobs

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Menneisyys2 said:
Interestingly, this excellent tweak has only been discussed in the iOS7 subforum and not here.

As I've reported at https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18553377/ ,

1, I've thoroughly tested the AirDrop Enabler 7.0+ installer I host at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u...llrec/airdropenabler.178_1.0_iphoneos-arm.deb (so that you can avoid adding (even temporarily) pirate Chinese Cydia repos like the 178 one, linked to in the original thread).

2, on the iPad 3, a full reset is required before it starts be discovered as an AirDrop receiver - a simple respring won't suffice.

3, no video transfer seem to be supported. Still images are transferred just great.

4, no excess power usage.

All in all, it works just great. This means it was simply because of business (but in no way technical) reasons that Apple didn't enable AirDrop in pre-mid-2012 devices. Pretty typical of them, if you ask me...
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I installed Airdrop enabler from cydia to my iphone4 and tried last nite with my Air. It didn't work, devices can't see eachother? any suggestions?

cheers
 
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66775

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Apr 27, 2011
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Apparently it has to do with newer devices (ipad 4, iPhone 5 and so on) supporting dual band/dual stream 802.11n on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies, which iPhone 4 or 4s dont.

Now, Ive seen comments of people getting Airdrop enabler to work (at least partially - one way) with iPad 3s. Maybe those have similar radio chips (or at least close enough) as post mid-2012 iDevices
 
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