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2011 MacBook Pros can support Handoff/Continuity
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GMC 3.0 installed and kexts did not need to be remodded this time around.
My own history:
GMC 1.0 installed -> followed doktordok's Post #609 tutorial and got Handoff working on my 2011 MBA 13"
GMC 2.0 installed -> had to go through the tutorial again to modify IOBluetoothFamily.kext only to get Handoff working again
GMC 3.0 installed -> Did not need to re-mod (the already modified GMC 2.0 kexts)
My own history:
GMC 1.0 installed -> followed doktordok's Post #609 tutorial and got Handoff working on my 2011 MBA 13"
GMC 2.0 installed -> had to go through the tutorial again to modify IOBluetoothFamily.kext only to get Handoff working again
GMC 3.0 installed -> Did not need to re-mod (the already modified GMC 2.0 kexts)
I just tried the 4331 removal restart thing mentioned earlier... and for the first time handoff is up! Handoff enabled: yes, Instant hotspot enabled: Yes. There is the enable handoff checkbox in system pref. as well. MBP early 2011 13' with PB5
You're just moving it to trash then restarting, then moving it back correct?
I've been posting a lot in this forum and I can still get handoff to come up and even go between my Early 2011 MBP and iPhone 5S (though mail won't handoff correctly). But Airdrop has completely stopped working, neither device shows up on the other. I've all the various tips that have worked before and I'm still having issues. Anyone have any suggestions? I've tried to completely start over with this too and I've still had no luck in getting everything working correctly. I know some of you have it working though, so I would love your help!!
I have the right bluetooth card (4CAX), I know that because Knock to unlock works, I've gotten all the things to show up as Yes in system info (bluetooth LE, handoff, airdrop, instant hotspot).
As far as steps go, I've done the following:
- I edit the kext myself, using the instructions provided earlier in the thread.
- I turn on kext dev mode, restart, delete kext, restart, replace kext, input terminal commands, restart. Enable handoff shows up in preferences and things change to Yes. Handoff works for safari, maps, messages, and shows up for mail, but just continues loading the email indefinitely. Airdrop was working on previous betas, but no luck on PB4 or PB5.
- I have also tried to use KextDrop, but have never had success with that method
- After restarting on PB3 and PB4, handoff would still be on but no longer find my iPhone from my Mac, though my phone could still receive things from my mac, so I tried various things recommended to me:
- logging out of iCloud on both devices then back in.
- Resetting my mac keychain so that it created a new handoff encryption key.
- I tried both of these again with DP5, neither made things better or worse, same results.
- I've also done complete reinstalls of the beta and tried completely from scratch with no luck either.
- PB5 did keep working after a few restarts as well as logging back into my mavericks partition, then going back to yosemite.
So as it stands now, you have functional "AirDrop 2.0" and the option to enable/disable Handoff in System Preferences -> General, right?
You've also got "com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360" reporting back after running kextstat | grep AirPort in terminal, correct?
Yes AirDrop is functioning, though neither my Mac or iPhone will show up either in finder on Mac, or when trying to share something on my iPhone.
And yes that reports back as does "com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331" It gives me the following:
49 0 0xffffff7f81731000 0x5d7000 0x5d7000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 (900.19.8) <48 47 46 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
53 0 0xffffff7f81d7a000 0x1f3000 0x1f3000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 (800.20.24) <48 46 12 7 5 4 3 1>
UPDATE: I was on mavericks and had to log out and back in to check this and now handoff only shows up from my iPhone on my mac, I can't get safari, messages, etc. to show up on my phone. Fun fun fun...
Update 2: its back and working from mac to iPhone now. weird. still no airdrop finding though
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Try moving or temporarily trashing the 4331 kext and repairing disk permissions.
Is there a lot of wireless and/or bluetooth activity in your area? Wondering if it's not because of interference or perhaps a faulty 4CAX card. Might as well try PRAM and SMC reset while you're at it.
It shouldn't be the card because of the fact that the other facets of continuity that use BTLE work.
Oh gosh I totally forgot about this, I'm at a University which uses WPA2 Enterprise encryption for their WiFi. This is the type of WiFi that won't connect with video game consoles and stuff like that. Recovery mode on a Mac won't connect to it either, you have to go through ethernet. It always gives me issues. A few weeks ago when I was at home, everything worked flawlessly between my mac and iPhone. I hadn't changed anything since I was last at school, where it wasn't working properly. It may just be something where it's the wifi here. I'll still try some of those things as remedies for while I'm here though! Thanks for your help!
The type of encryption shouldn't interfere with Handoff. With my phone on 3G and Wi-Fi off, Handoff is still working between all devices for me.
Might be worth trying connecting to your personal hotspot/tethering.
I meant specifically for Airdrop. Because it has to have Wifi on. And since I'm on a college campus, the internet load is always high.
I know the handoff stuff will still work. I'll try the hotspot stuff tomorrow. Thanks for your help
Just wanted to say thank you. It worked perfectly after I seaped French for English lol (I was like, why is this not bloody working haha) but now everything works perfectly. Thank you
EDIT: Wierdly it didn't start working all straight after I did this but the features created in one by one over time. Not sure why?! but now I have all of them.
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Cause it may take some time for Handoff Encryption and decrytion keys to populate your Keychain.
I have Handoff working, but SMS and calls don't work. I'm on the same wifi network. Not sure why it's not working. Does certain ports have to be open on the network for everything to work correctly?
Continuity works with the MacBook Pro's from 2011
GREAT NEWS for 2011 MacBook Pro Users!
I don't know if it was shared yet here in this topic but
Yes! Continuity works with the MacBook Pro's from 2011.
I was playing on my playstation when I suddenly got a call. Then I though wtf I heard my ringtone twice and then I saw that notification to answer that call from my Macbook. Bluetooth was disabled on my iPhone 5s, so Continuity works also over wifi.
my systems:
-MacBook Pro early 2011, OS X 10.10 Public Beta 5
-iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1 Beta 1
GREAT NEWS for 2011 MacBook Pro Users!
I don't know if it was shared yet here in this topic but
Yes! Continuity works with the MacBook Pro's from 2011.
I was playing on my playstation when I suddenly got a call. Then I though wtf I heard my ringtone twice and then I saw that notification to answer that call from my Macbook. Bluetooth was disabled on my iPhone 5s, so Continuity works also over wifi.
my systems:
-MacBook Pro early 2011, OS X 10.10 Public Beta 5
-iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1 Beta 1
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Thanks for the great tutorial in post 609
Tutorial works great with my MacBook Air mid 2011 without any hardware change and with Yosemite GM 3.0 and Iphone IOS 8.1 Beta 2.
Very important -> Read it carefully and do exactly what described (I did the whole process 5 times!)
Tutorial works great with my MacBook Air mid 2011 without any hardware change and with Yosemite GM 3.0 and Iphone IOS 8.1 Beta 2.
Very important -> Read it carefully and do exactly what described (I did the whole process 5 times!)
Worked just wonderful for my late 2011 mbp. Highly recommend this eBay listing for the card. http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-MacBook...ort-Extreme-Card-for-2011-2012-/281462221916?
He actually ended up sending me two of them.
He actually ended up sending me two of them.
Would love some help, if you would be so kind. I have run thru the tutorial 4 times, the first time, admittedly, I didn't follow the directions on the last mac-. I am getting the same results (no handoff feature available in General settings in sys pref's).
I tried the above on my MBP early 2011, only different result is that when I remove the AirPortBrcm4331.kext I lose wireless functionality.
Would this failure mean that I have the wrong card installed (it is a 4cax as far as I can tell)? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading...
I have the same comp, and for the longest time I couldn't get it to work. What i ended up doing was putting AirPortBrcm4331.kext in the trash, restarting. Then i put AirPortBrcm4331.kext back, and i had handoff capabilities and wireless functionality.
What is your mac ID? if you have the same as mine, i can send you my edited kext and you can see if it works. To find the #, put
ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk -F\" '{print $4}'
in terminal.