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Handoff Breakdown With Activation Tool
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Just like I explained Here DokterDok's donations on his site go to him alone as they should because of his great work on the tool itself. I am only responsible for the research/writeup/instructions on the OP and any assistance I give here on this forum. Anything anybody gives is incredibly generous and greatly appreciated.
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010, 17" (Model A1297) and unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't look like the BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX would be compatible with it based on the pictures of the existing card in it on iFixIt.
Reason being it looks like the new card has a different number of Antenna, and connector at the bottom am I correct?
Also, I know it's been said that they don't, but I was wondering if there was a specific reason as to why BT4.0 LE USB sticks with the broadcom chipset that work fine for enabling Bluetooth Low Energy do not work?
Interestingly, the default AirPort card works fine with the 4360 drivers:
Many Thanks!
Reason being it looks like the new card has a different number of Antenna, and connector at the bottom am I correct?
Also, I know it's been said that they don't, but I was wondering if there was a specific reason as to why BT4.0 LE USB sticks with the broadcom chipset that work fine for enabling Bluetooth Low Energy do not work?
Interestingly, the default AirPort card works fine with the 4360 drivers:
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52 0 0xffffff7f81cce000 0x5d7000 0x5d7000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 (900.19.8) <51 45 44 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>Many Thanks!
If i had Asked 1$ every time I help in the last 3 months ? i would be rich, damn, i'm too dumb
Thats correct the 17inch are not comparable with upgrades (its not the antennas its that it doesn't fit in the hinge, its too wide. Ill update the op to clarify this.
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If i had Asked 1$ every time I help in the last 3 months ? i would be rich, damn, i'm too dumb
Hah I didn't ask, someone asked me if I was so I figured why not. But I agree I think we would all be rich if people donated $1 overtime we gave out help. Im not trying to solicit people asked, thats why I'm not putting it in the original post and I only reposted my response because people thought that dokterdoks went to me and it doesn't nor should it. I promise I'm not trying to be greedy or cash in hah. I would never have posted anything if people didn't ask.
Non-admin user issue
I gave to DokterDok as well.
One gotcha for those of us who run as non-admin, when the Continuity Activation Tool runs calling sudo and asks for the admin password, since the current user is not admin the terminal starts with that user and you get something like "user not authorized for sudo will be reported".
It would be great if the Tool could figure out in that case that it needs to allow you to manually login in the terminal to the admin account and then run the scripts as then sudo will work.
Is that clear?
I gave to DokterDok as well.
One gotcha for those of us who run as non-admin, when the Continuity Activation Tool runs calling sudo and asks for the admin password, since the current user is not admin the terminal starts with that user and you get something like "user not authorized for sudo will be reported".
It would be great if the Tool could figure out in that case that it needs to allow you to manually login in the terminal to the admin account and then run the scripts as then sudo will work.
Is that clear?
The tool has to modify out of the Systems folder and you need to be admin for that hence the "sudo" commands. But you are correct that would be nice but not a necessity since if you're doing these kinds of edits then you should be the "admin" of the computer.
Understand. It just wasn't in the instructions to login as the admin as opposed to a user. So probably worth adding to the read me/instructions.
How would we know if there is USB circuitry there? This is a photo of the inside of my late 2009 iMac 27" Core i7 2.8GHz. The AirPort card is near the bottom.
P.S. What of the fact that the AirPort card currently connects with only two antennae? It looks like the Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD requires three AirPort antennae and one Bluetooth antenna.
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So there is no hope to my 2011 17'' MBP?
Bahh...
Oh yes there is! New cax card required and this app!
But they are saying that the new card doesn't fit in the BT spot on the 17''... Or did i read that wrongly?
It may if they update those kexts but you should be able to just run the application/modify the kexts again and you'll be good.
I just noticed in the iFixIt comments that someone said:
"Just a note for anyone looking at this guide with a MacBook Pro 17" mid 2010 model (2.6GHz) - this is the wrong guide for your laptop! Search for the MacBook Pro 15" mid 2010 Airport board replacement guide instead. The card is located on top of the optical drive rather than in the bezel - something i found out the hard way when following this
"So I can only assume that the one shown in the guide is newer e.g. a 2011 model and that's the one it's not compatible with?
Having said that, the airport card shown in the guide that's apparently correct for the Mid 2010 17" only has 3 antenna holes not 4, and the holes are in different locations, so I think it still would not work even for that.
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I have a Late 2009 iMac 27" i7 model. I already purchased the Broadcom BCM94360CD. I just ordered this adapter from eBay. It says clearly that this it the adapter for this Braodcom card.
Once it arrives I'll try the install and see how it goes.
Once it arrives I'll try the install and see how it goes.
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mid 2007 macbook pro
Don't sepose its possible to enable hand off on a mid 2007 macbook pro with modefide kexts and/or new HW? thanks
Don't sepose its possible to enable hand off on a mid 2007 macbook pro with modefide kexts and/or new HW? thanks
I used the one here for my 08 iMac here But I have not seen any testing done with any other iMacs. They will work with the new adapter but we don't know if it will physically fit in or if it needs a usb adapter as well.
No the Ax is the BT 2.1 card.
If it does use the Pro 15" card tray then it will work. You can always give it a shot. But I can't really confirm that unless you open up your mac and take a picture so I can see for sure if it has that tray with the card or not.I just noticed in the iFixIt comments that someone said:
"Just a note for anyone looking at this guide with a MacBook Pro 17" mid 2010 model (2.6GHz) - this is the wrong guide for your laptop! Search for the MacBook Pro 15" mid 2010 Airport board replacement guide instead. The card is located on top of the optical drive rather than in the bezel - something i found out the hard way when following this
So I can only assume that the one shown in the guide is newer e.g. a 2011 model and that's the one it's not compatible with?
Having said that, the airport card shown in the guide that's apparently correct for the Mid 2010 17" only has 3 antenna holes not 4, and the holes are in different locations, so I think it still would not work even for that.
Please let me know and I will update accordingly.
Unfortunately that has the wifi card in the hinge so there is no card that size to replace it with.Don't sepose its possible to enable hand off on a mid 2007 macbook pro with modefide kexts and/or new HW? thanks
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Unfortunately you cant really tell from looking at it, with that its truly try and see.
Not using all the antenna clips is fine. I know you can buy extra antennas from places if you really want to fill all of them but you would need to find a place to mount it (much easier for mac pros, not so easy in iMacs)
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I added it to the OP to try and clear up any confusion. Thank you.
UncleSchnitty, thanks for the hard work on this.
A small correction for the list of supported devices: the late 2012 Mac mini is supported out of the box. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6337
Suggest that 'Mac mini late 2012-2014: Works OTB' be added...
A small correction for the list of supported devices: the late 2012 Mac mini is supported out of the box. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6337
Suggest that 'Mac mini late 2012-2014: Works OTB' be added...
The link above is for a BCM94331CD not a BCM94360CD. According to http://www.osxwifi.com/pre-order-ap...ac-bluetooth-4-0-with-adapter-for-macpro-2008
the BCM94360CD includes AC WiFi support while the BCM94331CD does not. If I'm going to go to the trouble of doing all this I'm going the get AC support while I'm at it.