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2011 MacBook Pros can support Handoff/Continuity
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The handoff option shows in my system preferences under general in dp6 with the hacked dp5 kext but i can't confirm that it works as i haven't got iOS 8 on my iPhone
I hope you're right, cause i can't get it working even with DP5 .kext anymore.
Airdrop works but no Handoff or Continuity.
anything else on this... I just got the card installed and all good to go with i0s8 and i upgraded to dp6 before i got to the end of this thread.. damn.
hey teal shark. do you and Manic Harmonic at least know what was changed in DP6 to make it not work? So that way when we get final builds we can get it to work.
hand off not working on my other mac either so prob part of the build
all other features working using dp4 version
all other features working using dp4 version
I'm afraid that, outside of hex editing some Mac IDs into the driver file, any system changes on this level are outside of the scope of my capabilities. At the very least, it appears to be a widespread issue and not just limited to those of us whom have switched out boards.
You absolutely can! Manic Harmonic shows you what to change back in post #118:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/19344855/
will that work for dp6 I'm confused didn't you guys already do this?
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Mac-94245B3640C91C81Mac-94245A3940C91C80Mac-942459F5819B171B mine are the same as the pic already... I'm confused so this is not fixable?
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any ideas on how to fix it for DP6???
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Mac-94245B3640C91C81Mac-94245A3940C91C80Mac-942459F5819B171B mine are the same as the pic already... I'm confused so this is not fixable?
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any ideas on how to fix it for DP6???
Sorry, was confused. There may currently be a major handoff bug in DP6 that is affecting a lot of people, us included. We just have to sit back and wait for Apple to fix in in the next DP (if there is one) at this point.
EDIT: Or maybe not, see below for more info:
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Apple changed something with dp6. The board ids aren't visible anymore, but I can see in Hopper that the next is still checking for them somehow. So I need to figure out how they're doing it.
Really Apple? Why is this such a big deal to you? Do you honestly think any of us are going to go out and buy a new Mac just for that one feature? If people are replacing their wireless cards and using hacked kexts to get this working, OBVIOUSLY it's because they can't afford or don't want to get a new Mac anyway.
For now just use the old DP5 kext. I'm not very knowledgeable with disassemblers so maybe someone else can take a look at it and figure out how to nop the board id check. @pokenguyen perhaps you can figure out how they're doing it?
Really Apple? Why is this such a big deal to you? Do you honestly think any of us are going to go out and buy a new Mac just for that one feature? If people are replacing their wireless cards and using hacked kexts to get this working, OBVIOUSLY it's because they can't afford or don't want to get a new Mac anyway.
For now just use the old DP5 kext. I'm not very knowledgeable with disassemblers so maybe someone else can take a look at it and figure out how to nop the board id check. @pokenguyen perhaps you can figure out how they're doing it?
I had replaced the DP5 kext with the DP6 one when it came out, so if someone still has the DP5 one handy, I'd be quite thankful for a repost. 
wait so the one at the beginning of this thread wasn't the dp5 one? or the other one thats linked in this thread?
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does the dp5 kext work on dp6?
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does the dp5 kext work on dp6?
is there something special that needs to be done before or after adding board id to the kext, i added my macs board id by editing the kext and replacing the first id but it didn't work and i didn't get the handoff option in system preferences so i ended up using the modified kext file instead and it worked
Can you please post the exact one your referring to that worked? You have dp6?
the dp5 kext shows the enable handoff in dp6, but yosemite dp6 handoff docent work with iOS 8 even the once that don't need the hack i think its because theres no iOS 8 beta 6 yet
I had replaced the DP5 kext with the DP6 one when it came out, so if someone still has the DP5 one handy, I'd be quite thankful for a repost.
You can find DP4 and DP5 .kext in previous pages :
http://d-h.st/zIA
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3677670/IO80211Family.kext.zip
I have no luck even with DP5 .kext. Airdrop works but no Handoff nor Continuity, weird i can see Handoff option is System Preferences.
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This is correct.
There's a check to make sure that iOS and OS X are running the same developer preview, if they are not then handoff disables itself.
I assume this was originally intended to prevent people from running iOS DP4 with OS X DP5.
How about Public Beta? probably that's the reason Handoff have not worked for me....
Handoff working with last .kext update :
56 0 0xffffff7f8195b000 0x5d2000 0x5d2000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 (900.18.3) <55 50 49 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
Phone calls are possible through my Mac, not wifi call but GSM calls. I also can send sms via Messages. And i can confirm in ios 8 that it really is a sms that has been sent, not an iMessage.
So no Continuity but Handoff.
56 0 0xffffff7f8195b000 0x5d2000 0x5d2000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 (900.18.3) <55 50 49 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
Phone calls are possible through my Mac, not wifi call but GSM calls. I also can send sms via Messages. And i can confirm in ios 8 that it really is a sms that has been sent, not an iMessage.
So no Continuity but Handoff.
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