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Modded Continuity Activation Tool (BTLE cards) with El Capitan is working

LewisChapman said:
I do apologise if I'm being a bit dull here, a lot of this language is above me. I just run the (brilliant) CAT and it has always worked for my MBP 2011.

Since TRIM can be enabled in El Cap natively, does that not suggest that we have a good chance at permanently enabling continuity on older devices by taking advantage of this method?
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Good question, Lewis.

It would be good to hear from the gents who have worked on the Continuity Activation Tool. Unless I have missed it somewhere on the github, I haven't seen any talk about revamping the tool for El Capitan.

I have tried to manually activate Continuity, so as to avail myself of Airdrop and Handoff. I have been unsuccessful. That may be in large part to user error. :D

I hope that we can get rocking again with the upgraded card, as it does seem plausible.
 
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For anyone still having trouble to enable Continuity manually, I modded the original CAT 2.0 a bit to kinda support 10.11. I only tested it on two 2011 MBP's yet. Not sure about MBA since there doesn't seem to be a blacklist in the Bluetooth kext anymore.

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Please report any working/non working models. Use at your own risk and keep backups of all your files!

E: fixed the app not doing anything
 
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r4ndy said:
For anyone still having trouble to enable Continuity manually, I modded the original CAT 2.0 a bit to kinda support 10.11. I only tested it on two 2011 MBP's yet. Not sure about MBA since there doesn't seem to be a blacklist in the Bluetooth kext anymore.

Download

Please report any working/non working models. Use at your own risk and keep backups of all your files!
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I turned off SIP, and tried the mod on my late 2011 MBP. When I initiate CAT, the terminal window pops up with

Username-MacBook-Pro:~ root#

It doesn't appear anything else happened. Other than turning off SIP to test, I did not do anything else.
 
r4ndy said:
For anyone still having trouble to enable Continuity manually, I modded the original CAT 2.0 a bit to kinda support 10.11. I only tested it on two 2011 MBP's yet. Not sure about MBA since there doesn't seem to be a blacklist in the Bluetooth kext anymore.

Download

Please report any working/non working models. Use at your own risk and keep backups of all your files!
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When I go to run this I am being prompted with “Continuity Activation Tool 10.11 modded” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Have I skipped a step?
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
I turned off SIP, and tried the mod on my late 2011 MBP. When I initiate CAT, the terminal window pops up with

Username-MacBook-Pro:~ root#

It doesn't appear anything else happened. Other than turning off SIP to test, I did not do anything else.
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Oops, I guess I should't have renamed the tool itself. Rename it to "Continuity Activation Tool" and it should work fine.

LewisChapman said:
When I go to run this I am being prompted with “Continuity Activation Tool 10.11 modded” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Have I skipped a step?
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error on my part. Download the new version.
 
r4ndy said:
Oops, I guess I should't have renamed the tool itself. Rename it to "Continuity Activation Tool" and it should work fine.



error on my part. Download the new version.
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Doing that got the program to start. Doing a check with the program before starting the process got all "OK except the last one (pertaining to dongle, which I don't use). Started the process and it is showing root-conitool.sh(and will show head,tr, bash, awk over and over) .conitool.sh-158x30 It has been showing that for about 5 mins now. Is that normal? Looks like it is stuck in a loop to me.

By the way, thanks for doing this. It is much appreciated.
 
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BasicGreatGuy said:
Go to preferences and toggle to install from anywhere. A lot of times that will resolve that kind of message. Once it is installed, toggle back to default.
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This worked, thank you for this - strange how OSX would tell me the file is 'damaged' as if OSX just wants you to get rid of it!
 
r4ndy said:
Oops, I guess I should't have renamed the tool itself. Rename it to "Continuity Activation Tool" and it should work fine.



error on my part. Download the new version.
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I have run the CAT and confirm it is fully operational. Thank you very much for this, great work. I hope others are willing to try this!

Will the GitHub CAT page be updated with this file?
 
LewisChapman said:
I have run the CAT and confirm it is fully operational. Thank you very much for this, great work. I hope others are willing to try this!

Will the GitHub CAT page be updated with this file?
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Glad to hear it worked. Could you please state your Mac Model and your method (upgraded card, dongle)?

I could send a pull request and see if the dokterdok accepts it.
 
r4ndy said:
Glad to hear it worked. Could you please state your Mac Model and your method (upgraded card, dongle)?

I could send a pull request and see if the dokterdok accepts it.
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I have a Macbook Pro Late 2011 (MacBookPro8,1) with a BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX card installed (chipset:
20702A3, FW version: v149 c5831). I hope this is enough information.

Thanks again.
 
Im using a mid 2011 macbook air and i got the check box to show up under system prefs>general but its still not working.
 

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TMB651 said:
Im using a mid 2011 macbook air and i got the check box to show up under system prefs>general but its still not working.
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Did you log out of iCloud on your Mac, reboot, and then log back in? Sometimes, it takes logging out of Mac and iPhone and back in, for it to start working. I had to do that twice before Airdrop showed and then Handoff. Some people running the El Capitan DP 1 have reported that they couldn't get handoff to work. Whether they had upgraded cards or stock machines, I don't recall.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
Did you log out of iCloud on your Mac, reboot, and then log back in? Sometimes, it takes logging out of Mac and iPhone and back in, for it to start working. I had to do that twice before Airdrop showed and then Handoff. Some people running the El Capitan DP 1 have reported that they couldn't get handoff to work. Whether they had upgraded cards or stock machines, I don't recall.
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I did log out of icloud on my Mac but didn't reset it or long out of iCloud on my 6plus or air 2. I'll give it a try.
 
whenever i try to run
sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0"
i get
-sudo: nvram: command not found
can anyone help me ,and when i try to boot into recovery mode it just sits on a apple splash screen with a progress bar that don't move ...early 2011 macbook pro 13 inch with updated card
 
Bigpearl said:
whenever i try to run
sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0"
i get
-sudo: nvram: command not found
can anyone help me ,and when i try to boot into recovery mode it just sits on a apple splash screen with a progress bar that don't move ...early 2011 macbook pro 13 inch with updated card
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Sounds like you have a buggy install of El Capitan. Try reinstalling and then boot to recovery, click on utilities and turn off SIP (System Integrity Protection), reboot, and then run the modded CAT.app
 
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