After doing some research for the past few hours there might still be chance for the 2011 macbook pros to get the features that require bluetooth 4.0 / LE
As it turns out the 2011 MacBook Pro can use the same Airport/Bluetooth card as the mid 2012 Macbook pro and its user replaceable so by replacing the 2011 macbook pro Airport/Bluetooth card you should have the ability to use Handoff/continuity
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after replacing your bluetooth card with a bluetooth LE/4 card
make sure the bluetooth card is BCM94331PCIEBT4
CAX
if it docent have the C then its a bluetooth 2 card which wouldn't work
do the following
1. on your desktop press command+shift+g
2. type: /system/library/extensions/
3. find: IO80211Family.kext in the extensions folder and copy it to your desktop
4. on the new copy show package contents > Contents > PlugIns > AirPortBrcm4360.kext > show package contents > Contents > MacOS > open AirPortBrcm4360 with 0xED
5. Text search Mac- it should be followed by a number
6. type the below code in terminal this will show your board id example early 2011 macbook pro is Mac-94245B3640C91C81
Code:
ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk -F\" '{print $4}'
7. replace the first number in your kext with the number u get in terminal
8. save it
9. go to terminal and paste:
Code:
sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
10. delete the original IO80211Family.kext in system>library>extensions
11. restart
12. your wifi will not be working after restart
13. use kextdrop to install the modified kext
14. restart
15. your wifi should start working again after installing the kext and restarting
16. go to system preferences > general and there should be an option to enable handoff
these are the exact steps i did with OS X Yosemite gold master candidate on a 13 inch early 2011 macbook pro and got handoff working with my iPhone 5s running iOS 8.0.2
