2011 MacBook Pros can support Handoff/Continuity

[Jacooch]

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Everything I have read indicates that the 2011 Models need the new BT 4.0 Card. I know FOR SURE that Early 2011 does, as that is the one I have.

John

 

[Fearz]

Everything I have read indicates that the 2011 Models need the new BT 4.0 Card. I know FOR SURE that Early 2011 does, as that is the one I have.

John

So the tutorial mentioned in this thread only works with the new BT card?

I thought I can have it work with the current / original BT card attached to my MBP late-2011?

 

[mrbyu]

So the tutorial mentioned in this thread only works with the new BT card?

I thought I can have it work with the current / original BT card attached to my MBP late-2011?

That is the case with the MBA mid-2011, because it has the exact same chipset as the 2012 model, so as for that, it's just a pure software restriction because of inconceivable reasons. But on the 2011 MBP you need to swap the wifi chip indeed.

 

[simonsi]

I know FOR SURE that Early 2011 does, as that is the one I have.

Doesn't seem to be that easy, I too have an early 2011 and Call Handoff works straight out of the box....System Info lists Low Power, Handoff and Instant Hotspot as all "No"....

 

[Apple_Robert]

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No. You need a hardware upgrade as well as the kext file hack.

 

[Jacooch]

Doesn't seem to be that easy, I too have an early 2011 and Call Handoff works straight out of the box....System Info lists Low Power, Handoff and Instant Hotspot as all "No"....

Yes, mine did call handoff as well, but it won't do the app handoffs, as far as I know. And that is why I did the hardware upgrade so I can use full handoff functionality. Call handoff works with my iPad 2, but apps will not. So my guess is that fir me, to get full handoff capability I needed to hardware and kext modifications.

Others are much better versed to answer then I, maybe they can add to the conversation.

Check out this article:http://gizmodo.com/why-your-old-mac-cant-use-handoff-in-os-x-yosemite-1647840672

 

[mihll]

I have Handoff switch in preferences but don't work

Thanks for your tutorial. It's amazing. I have Handoff switch in system preferences now but it doesn't work. I noticed that the only thing which work is sending files from Mac to iPhone by AirDrop. (but can't send from iPhone to Mac) Icons of the programs which i use on iPhone simply don't appear in my dock. Does anyone have a solution?
PS. Sorry for my bad english. I'm still learning

 

[mrbyu]

Thanks for your tutorial. It's amazing. I have Handoff switch in system preferences now but it doesn't work. I noticed that the only thing which work is sending files from Mac to iPhone by AirDrop. (but can't send from iPhone to Mac) Icons of the programs which i use on iPhone simply don't appear in my dock. Does anyone have a solution?
PS. Sorry for my bad english. I'm still learning

Hey, did you do the final steps of logging out of your iCloud account both on the Mac and iPhone, restarting them and then logging back in? And also, after that you have to have your bluetooth enabled on both devices!

 

[mihll]

Hey, did you do the final steps of signing out and in of your iCloud account both on the Mac and iPhone? And also, after that you have to have your bluetooth enabled on both devices!

Yes. I logged out, restarted device, and logged in on my Mac and on my iPhone. I have Bluetooth turned on on both devices. I think it's weird that only sending from Mac to iPhone works. Mac seems to see iPhone but iPhone doesn't see Mac. PS. I have 2011 Mac Mini.

 

[mike817]

When you upgrade the bluetooth card, is it recognized automatically or do you need to make the kext changes to make it work? I'm concerned about a future update restoring the default kext and knocking out wifi and bluetooth access.

 

[Ledgem]

MBP early-2011, iPhone 4S, call make n take worked out of the box.

System Info lists Low Energy, Handoff and Instant Hotspot as all "No"....and Phone Handoff works with BT turned off on the MBP....

In Yosemite FaceTime settings the Cellular checkbox text refers to the iPhone needing to be "close by and on WiFi"....so is BT needed at all???

Has anybody worked out how it works yet? Obviously FaceTime is involved, WiFi too but is the "close by" reference for proximity/security and supposed to be enforced by BT? Is the audio to the phone over BT?

Posted in the Handoff thread, would be better there...

Handoff specifically refers to starting a document on one device and being able to continue it on another. Handoff is one feature under the umbrella of Continuity. The call relay feature that you're asking about is also a feature of Continuity, but not Handoff. To answer your question, nobody knows for certain how it works, but it seems to be a relay over wifi. If Bluetooth is involved, it doesn't require Bluetooth 4.0.

 

[Mannydog]

I have a Mid 2011 MBA. Tried the tutorial 3-4 times.
No Enable Handoff, No Airdrop (Airdrop show up in finder, but no computer are there). I can make and receive call though.

Terminal shows this as below.

Does that mean my first KEXT was accepted, but the 2nd wasn't?

 

[Dmal99]

Ive tried everything i can think of, done the tutorial several times,

i have a Mac mini with original hardware, with the 0x6 blutooth hardware from mid-2011 and i cannot get the enable handoff box to appear in the general options no matter what.

my neck hurts from hours at this, I'm literally at my wits end. any help would be greatly appreciated. my mac id # is Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1

thanks to anyone who can figure out why its not working...

 

[BSpider]

Yosemite Public release

Hello,

is there a final guid to make it work with Yosemite public release on MacBook Pro 13' Late 2011 (8.1) ?


Thanks,

 

[MacVidCards]

Ive tried everything i can think of, done the tutorial several times,

i have a Mac mini with original hardware, with the 0x6 blutooth hardware from mid-2011 and i cannot get the enable handoff box to appear in the general options no matter what.

my neck hurts from hours at this, I'm literally at my wits end. any help would be greatly appreciated. my mac id # is Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1

thanks to anyone who can figure out why its not working...

more than likely operator error

uncleschnitty has a separate thread, follow it

 

[rcoriat]

Hi!

The tutorial is perfectly explained, but it doesn't seem to work in my mac .
I tried it 3-4 times following every step.

My mac id # is Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2 and it is a MacBook Air Mid 2011.
I wonder if anyone could tell me if there is another procedure or if I made a mistake with the IO80211Family.kext or IOBluetoothFamily.kext files?

Thanks!

 

[ola!]

I have a mbp 13' early 2011. the only things i had to edit were in IO80211Family.kext
maybe for 15' you need to do it in the IOBluetoothFamily.kext as well, but for me i didn't have to.
For a while i couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting handoff to work. eventually i realized that i was misreading a part of the directions. I tried it again, following it word for word, and it worked perfectly.

Hey i have the mbp 13 inch early 2011 as well. Where did you find the instructions?

 

[mrbyu]

Hi!

The tutorial is perfectly explained, but it doesn't seem to work in my mac .
I tried it 3-4 times following every step.

My mac id # is Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2 and it is a MacBook Air Mid 2011.
I wonder if anyone could tell me if there is another procedure or if I made a mistake with the IO80211Family.kext or IOBluetoothFamily.kext files?

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Thanks!

Hey! Why do you have the "Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2" line in the IO80211Family.kext like 10 times in a row? I'm pretty sure it didn't look like this on mine, as per the tutorial you just have to replace the first one and the last one, not all of them.

 

[Lem3ssie]

Everything I have read indicates that the 2011 Models need the new BT 4.0 Card. I know FOR SURE that Early 2011 does, as that is the one I have.

John

Right, it has a Wifi 802.11 N/BT 2.1+EDR card

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But on the 2011 MBP you need to swap the wifi chip indeed.

It's the entire card, which is a BT/Wifi card, but to be precise it's the BT part of the card (BT 2.1+EDR) that needs an upgrade, as continuity/Handoff relies on Wifi and BT 4.0 LE.

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Hey i have the mbp 13 inch early 2011 as well. Where did you find the instructions?

#609 or look for my posts, i posted many many times.

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Hello,

is there a final guid to make it work with Yosemite public release on MacBook Pro 13' Late 2011 (8.1) ?


Thanks,

No final guide as the whole procedure hasn't change since i made it a couple months ago.

Look for #609.

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When you upgrade the bluetooth card, is it recognized automatically or do you need to make the kext changes to make it work? I'm concerned about a future update restoring the default kext and knocking out wifi and bluetooth access.

No it won't, unless a driver update, but it's been a few weeks since the driver has been updated, and it's a 2 mn job to tweak it when you know how to, meaning reading tutorials.

 

[j7451339]

I have the handoff option on my macbook late 2011 13'
but I cannot connect bluetooth to my iPhone 5S to use handoff.
dose anyone else have the same problem?
what should i do?

 

[duboubou]

Hello,

I've tried this tutorial three times but still no Handoff/Continuity available plus my bluetooth is now broken, when attempting to visit the Bluetooth menu of OS X a “Bluetooth: Not Available” error is displayed while the menu bar items icon has a squiggly strike through it. I don't know what to do.

Thanks.

 

[leon.guan]

Confirmed the process worked for my mid 2011 macbook air too. It's not working at the first begining, and then I deleted the kext files and reboot, then install the modified kext, run the two commands, and then reboot, then it's working.

 

[seratbabu]

Hi all, I have mid-2011 MBA. The first time I went thru the tutorial nothing worked. I tried again with a couple of restarts in between and I got the handoff option in settings. I still had some issue with the icloud account (multiple email ids). Even though I had the same account on my iPhone 6+ and my MBA things did not work. It took a few more restarts (like some one suggested) and sign out from iCloud on both MBA and iPhone and here I am now -

1. Hand off of safari and Mail works.
2. Personal hot spot works (it worked at least a few times) but some times I don't see it coming
3. Air drop works from MBA to iPhone and from iPhone to MBA. Only thing I noticed is it shows my first contact in address book as client for airdrop. I am guessing that's because I have several email ids configured on my iCloud snd alphabetically this is the first contact
4. Making calls from MBA works.
5. Receiving calls from MBA - does not work. The MBA does not ring
6. Send and Receive SMS from MBA- does not work

I will try more - I must be missing some setting.

Update 1- Receiving calls now works. I removed the setting of iPhone calls from FaceTime app settings on both iPhone and MBA and restarted both. After restart I turned them on again.

Cheers!

 

[ourcore]

Hi all, I have mid-2011 MBA. The first time I went thru the tutorial nothing worked. I tried again with a couple of restarts in between and I got the handoff option in settings. I still had some issue with the icloud account (multiple email ids). Even though I had the same account on my iPhone 6+ and my MBA things did not work. It took a few more restarts (like some one suggested) and sign out from iCloud on both MBA and iPhone and here I am now -

1. Hand off of safari and Mail works.
2. Personal hot spot works (it worked at least a few times) but some times I don't see it coming
3. Air drop works from MBA to iPhone and from iPhone to MBA. Only thing I noticed is it shows my first contact in address book as client for airdrop. I am guessing that's because I have several email ids configured on my iCloud snd alphabetically this is the first contact
4. Making calls from MBA works.
5. Receiving calls from MBA - does not work. The MBA does not ring
6. Send and Receive SMS from MBA- does not work

I will try more - I must be missing some setting.

Cheers!

5 and 6 don't need BT 4.0 LE.

 

[mrbyu]

5. Receiving calls from MBA - does not work. The MBA does not ring
6. Send and Receive SMS from MBA- does not work

SMS-relay will only be available as of monday with iOS 8.1, so it's not an issue.
Receiving calls works on my MBA, it even worked in the betas without any modification (no wonder, as I understand call relay uses plain wifi, no special chip needed).