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2011 MacBook Pros can support Handoff/Continuity

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ulfthomas

macrumors newbie
Oct 20, 2014
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Scratching my head

Hi All,

And thanks to everybody who's contributed to this work-around :)

I went all yiiippiiii when I found this tread and happily went about modifying the required files only to find that it simply does not work - for me. :confused:

My setup:
- mid 2011 MacbookAir (13-inch)
- MBA id: 742912EFDBEE19B3
- System Profiler listed YES, YES, YES on bluetooth and Supported, Supported on Wifi
- Modified both IO802 and IOBluetooth ("Allow Handoff..." available, and checked, within System Preferences)
- Incoming and outgoing calls works
- No continuity
- No AirDrop from Iphone 5S (IOS 8.0.2) to MBA
- MBA can Airdrop to same Iphone
- Same Iphone can Airdrop to other iphones

What I have done:
- Reset, and retried the .kext modifications several times
- Downloaded a pre-edited IO802...kext file (specifically for my mac-id)
- Signed out of icloud and reboot both devices
- Keychain is active on both devices

My first attempts at this was yesterday morning so the devices have been running for a solid 24 hours with this setup without them "hooking up".

What to do next? :)


Regards,

Thomas
 
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Merks

macrumors member
Jul 9, 2011
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I have an EARLY 2011 MBP,
When I first installed Yosemite, everything was fine, no slowdown, nothing. After I edited these two kext's, it seems that everything is slowing down considerably!

I mistakenly jumped the gun and just started changing the kext's from the tutorial without having the "part" already. Is there a connection here? My M$ office takes at least 2 minutes to open up Word, safari takes a few seconds to load pages/switch between windows (noticeable difference from Mavericks), and overall things have slowed down.

Did I mess something up in the kext, is this just my 2011 MBP being too slow to run Yosemite, or is this something that a reformat would fix?
 
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JohnyIve

macrumors newbie
May 1, 2010
6
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Lem3ssie said:
All you need to do if you download one of my file is :

remove your Mac id from the name of the kext so it matches IO80211Family.kext.....
<snip>

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Just wanted to reply and thank you Lem3ssie. I still don't understand what I did wrong with the IO802 file, but the one you provided for me did the trick!!

Thank you.
 
Lem3ssie

Lem3ssie

macrumors regular
Aug 19, 2014
123
1
JohnyIve said:
Just wanted to reply and thank you Lem3ssie. I still don't understand what I did wrong with the IO802 file, but the one you provided for me did the trick!!

Thank you.
Click to expand...


Of course it did, i've made it.:cool:

PS: If you wanna thank me, gimme a job, i'm no designer but I can learn ,fast.
 
borgusio

borgusio

macrumors 6502
Jul 22, 2011
300
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kormo said:
Could you do your magic wit this KEXT for minis too?

Macbook Air and Mac Mini needs IOBluetoothFamily editing, remember.
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I have a mini - don't understand this point though. How will the process exactely change? Would someone be so kind to re-post the correct steps for a Mini?

Thx
 
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rafalovitch

macrumors newbie
Oct 20, 2014
3
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i need your help plz...

i done a workaround on my mid 2011 MBA ... when i got to step 25. ("25. Go Back to Terminal, and type the following commands. Wait for each one to finish.
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-caches")
it told me:"Toms-MacBook-Air:~ orirafa1$ sudo kextcache -system-caches
Can't create kext cache under /Users/orirafa1 - owner not root."
is there a fix ? i'm afraid to restart my mac...
plz help ! my email is rafalovich.tom@gmail.com if it helps...
thanks a lot !
i fixed it (no problem), everything works except the calling feature. does anyone know why ?
 
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tenente

macrumors newbie
Oct 20, 2014
3
0
Italy
Problem kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

Hi,

I have mac mini mid 2011 and I have follow the tutorial at post #609 until step 26. Go Back to Terminal, and type the following commands. Wait for each one to finish.

Code:
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

I'll post the result:

sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
/ locked; waiting for lock.
Lock acquired; proceeding.
kext file:///System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/ is in hash exception list, allowing to load
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is not valid; omitting.
AirPortBrcm4360.kext has invalid signature; omitting.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
AppleBluetoothHIDMouse.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
AppleBluetoothMultitouch.kext is missing dependencies (including anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
IOBluetoothFamily.kext is invalid; can't resolve dependencies.
/System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext - missing load info or dependencies array in applier function.
/System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext - missing load info or dependencies array in applier function.
Can't resolve dependencies amongst kexts for prelinked kernel.
Failed to generate prelinked kernel.

but instead in the next command (sudo kextcache -system-caches) I haven't had errors.

When you restart the bluetoorh clearly did not work and did not appear in Preferences -> General the option of enabling handoff.

Who can help me? Thanks! :(
 
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maclove4life

macrumors regular
Oct 17, 2014
206
1
I'm a noob when it comes to this.. Could anyone make YouTube tutorial? I'm so confused after reading previous posts... What wifi card do I need? I have mbp 15 late 2011
 
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j7451339

macrumors newbie
Oct 18, 2014
3
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I got the handoff option on my macbook 2011 late 13'.
But it still not work .
what should I do?
 
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Wrong Turn

macrumors member
Aug 14, 2013
51
15
I have an early 2011 MBP with a replaced WIFI.
But my old brain gets lost fairly quickly in this tutorial.
If anyone please could help me it'll be much appreciated.
My id is:
Mac-94245A3940C91C80
 
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seratbabu

macrumors newbie
Oct 19, 2014
4
0
rafalovitch said:
i done a workaround on my mid 2011 MBA ... when i got to step 25. ("25. Go Back to Terminal, and type the following commands. Wait for each one to finish.
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
Code:
sudo kextcache -system-caches")
it told me:"Toms-MacBook-Air:~ orirafa1$ sudo kextcache -system-caches
Can't create kext cache under /Users/orirafa1 - owner not root."
is there a fix ? i'm afraid to restart my mac...
plz help ! my email is rafalovich.tom@gmail.com if it helps...
thanks a lot !
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Do you have admin privileges on the Mac?
 
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slazh

macrumors newbie
Oct 19, 2014
9
0
Wrong Turn said:
I have an early 2011 MBP with a replaced WIFI.
But my old brain gets lost fairly quickly in this tutorial.
If anyone please could help me it'll be much appreciated.
My id is:
Mac-94245A3940C91C80
Click to expand...

If you look through this thread, you will probably find what you are looking for.... As far as I know Lem3ssie already postet a KEXT to your Mac-ID
 
FocusAndEarnIt

FocusAndEarnIt

macrumors 601
May 29, 2005
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First post's instructions worked great for a 2011 Late MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.0 with an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.1.
 
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mgivnish

macrumors newbie
Oct 20, 2014
2
0
Can someone on here advise me on this:

I updated my late 2011 MacBook Pro with a new airport card (as spec'ed within the very first post), followed the instructions within the very first post and while hand-off/continuity are working, my wireless network is still 802.11n and not 802.11ac of which both the new airport card and my Time Capsule support. How can I get my wireless network to be 802.11ac?

THANKS!
 
FocusAndEarnIt

FocusAndEarnIt

macrumors 601
May 29, 2005
4,627
1,108
mgivnish said:
Can someone on here advise me on this:

I updated my late 2011 MacBook Pro with a new airport card (as spec'ed within the very first post), followed the instructions within the very first post and while hand-off/continuity are working, my wireless network is still 802.11n and not 802.11ac of which both the new airport card and my Time Capsule support. How can I get my wireless network to be 802.11ac?

THANKS!
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You cannot get 802.11ac with your Mac, unfortunately. The most you can do is to upgrade the bluetooth to 4.0 LE, which you seem to have done.
 
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