Handoff Breakdown With Activation Tool

[slgarza]

Excellent! many thanks!

You need the BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX. order it online but make sure that is the exact model they are sending you, and when you get it double check and make sure. Ive seen a lot of people who ordered them and were sent the older card.

I don't think you can get it at an apple store to be honest.

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Thats strange, I have not seen that issue before. Ill look into it and if I find something Ill let you know. Normally when it works it just works.


Whats your email ill send them to you.

 

[Gewch]

EDIT - I just re-read the initial post. I now see the special note about earlier 13" MBPs have the card in the hinge.

Mid2009 MBP.

 

[UncleSchnitty]

Sorry - I tried reading the whole thread and must have missed it...

I was hoping to enable this on my Mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro.

Is this compatible? I saw in the initial posting that it was supported with the replacement BT4 card. Are there any other components I need to make this work?

Thanks in advance!

No, yours is not. The original post excludes the 13" because most of them had it in the hinge of the screen. Sorry. Unless you fabricate a way to relocate your wifi card you are out of luck.

 

[abetancort]

These BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX cards are really selling like crazy right now, which is causing prices to rise very rapidly.

I just purchased one 12 hours ago. Since then, the seller has doubled the price on Ebay.
Another seller I had my eyes on has more than tripled the price in the last few days!

I would encourage anyone looking to buy one of these cards to do so quickly before prices rise even more.

Then as in the Stock Market is not time to buy but sell; so if you're cold headed wait until the first wave washes out and sellers see a dramatic drop in demand, prices will go even lower than before the surge... Keep in mind that of all the users of Mac, people like you willing to fumble with hardware and hack the system software are a tiny minority so the demand is very limited.

The only thing, we are all want things yesterday so the apparent demand is high although the real one is low (when you intersect the Mac users willing to hack with systems software and the one willing to mess with the Hardware).

In most Apple Support (official or unofficial) (other than Apple Genius) and for the faint of heart if you bring your own hardware they are usually willing to install it for a fee (no guarantees on the installed hardware than checking if it got loose afterwards); that is why there's a grey market for Apple parts.

 

[PhaseOne]

they all do this

you can't pair phone and computer

Ah, I see. My bad.

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I will try to apply the 1.0.2. version to see if my issue gets fixed. Is there any procedure to remove the former version, or do I just need to run the new .app like I did when installing for the first time?

 

[UncleSchnitty]

Then as in the Stock Market is not time to buy but sell; so if you're cold headed wait until the first wave washes out and sellers see a dramatic drop in demand, prices will go even lower than before the surge... Keep in mind that of all the users of Mac, people like you willing to fumble with hardware and hack the system software are a tiny minority so the demand is very limited.

The only thing, we are all want things yesterday so the apparent demand is high although the real one is low (when you intersect the Mac users willing to hack with systems software and the one willing to mess with the Hardware).

In most Apple Support (official or unofficial) (other than Apple Genius) and for the faint of heart if you bring your own hardware they are usually willing to install it for a fee (no guarantees on the installed hardware than checking if it got loose afterwards); that is why there's a grey market for Apple parts.

I can attest to this, when I got 2 different ac/4.0 apple cards (one for a Mac pro one for my air) over the summer they were both around $40 now looking this week they are around $90. The more people buy at once the higher the price goes. After the people who are going to upgrade do it the price will bottom out and as time goes on machines that need it will be retired and something better will be out. So if you want to save money right now is a don't buy. If you need what you want right now well then you pay a premium

 

[t2t]

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to give you some feedback to what happened to me:

• Correct Card Apple Broadcom WiFi Wlan Bluetooth BT 4.0 Card BCM94360CD
• Correct Adapter (from OSXWifi)
• Correct Procedure: I Followed ALLLLLLLLLL instructions
• NOTHING - The DAMMMM thing would not work

I have an Early 2009 MacPro, and I installed all Developer Previews of Yosemite (the current install is an update from the 1st). I believe this could be the cause of the issue.

According to the instructions I should have it working without the Kext Hack, but at first it didn't happen.

In my case what SOLVED THE PROBLEM was logging out, restarting the mac, and loging in again in ICLOUD.

This is very important since just checking and unchecking stuff would not do the trick (like icloud Keychain).

So, if you are desperate, and don't know what else to do, just do as mentioned, or, create a new user, and fully enable icloud for him.

Cheers,

Thiago

 

[mlh6040]

Late 2009 Mac Mini +

Hello according to the instructions on the Continuity Activation Tool I ordered a BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX but it will not fit. The original bluetooth card in the 2009 Mac Mini is longer by an inch or so. There is only one hole on the BCM94331PCIEBT4CAX to screw it down which leaves it loose and moving around. Also the antennas for the bluetooth pop off very very easy. I finally gave up... Is there another Bluetooth 4.0 card that will fit my 2009 Mac Mini or does anyone have instructions on how I can get this one to work.

Thank you!!!

 

[ncapela]

Hi Guys!

Can someone explain me please?

I own a MacBook Pro 15" Mid2010 with no Bluetooth 4.0
I was watching this thread for days and waiting to my adapter to arrive to activate HandOff feature.
Yesterday I installed IOS 8.1 on my iPhone 5 and suddenly my MacBookPro starts ringing at the same time as I receive a call in my iPhone.
Doesn´t this feature require a Bluetooth connection? No Bluetooth connected!!!

And wen I want to call some one, just dial the number a there he goes...

Thanks in advance

 

[PhaseOne]

Hi Guys!

Can someone explain me please?

I own a MacBook Pro 15" Mid2010 with no Bluetooth 4.0
I was watching this thread for days and waiting to my adapter to arrive to activate HandOff feature.
Yesterday I installed IOS 8.1 on my iPhone 5 and suddenly my MacBookPro starts ringing at the same time as I receive a call in my iPhone.
Doesn´t this feature require a Bluetooth connection? No Bluetooth connected!!!

And wen I want to call some one, just dial the number a there he goes...

Thanks in advance

The call receiving feature does not need Bluetooth.

 

[ncapela]

The call receiving feature does not need Bluetooth.

So, What´s the need to put a new adapter?

 

[UncleSchnitty]

So, What´s the need to put a new adapter?

This from the original post

First you need to know what this does. This enables Handoff a feature of Continuity but they are not the same.

Continuity is in charge of Calls and Messages (both iMessage and Texts) being sent to your mac or other iDevice, and Airdrop(computer to computer). For continuity these steps are NOT required.

Handoff is in charge of opening an application on your iOS device then continuing it on another device (i.e. open an email and continue it on your mac) as well as instant hotspot and Airdrop (computer to iDevice). This guide will activate these features as long as you have Bluetooth 4.0 LE

 

[ncapela]

This from the original post

Thank you UncleSchnitty, just figured out now!!!
Best regards!

 

[UncleSchnitty]

Thank you UncleSchnitty, just figured out now!!!
Best regards!

No problem

 

[cjoz]

Handoff mid 2010 mbp

Can anyone suggest a source for detailed instruction on the hardware upgrade on a mid 2010 15" mbp to enable handoff. I have purchased the suggested chip; however, looks like I need an additional antenna and a mod airport card tray.

 

[JTToft]

Can anyone suggest a source for detailed instruction on the hardware upgrade on a mid 2010 15" mbp to enable handoff. I have purchased the suggested chip; however, looks like I need an additional antenna and a mod airport card tray.

- Ifixit has an excellent guide for the replacement itself. As for any extra antennas or alternative trays, I'm afraid I can't help.

 

[cjoz]

- Ifixit has an excellent guide for the replacement itself. As for any extra antennas or alternative trays, I'm afraid I can't help.

I have opened up the machine. I am not replacing with the same card. The new card doesn't fit in that black bracket and there are three antenna wires where as the new card supports four. Need some kind of mod.

 

[logname]

So how do you i deal with this

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Become super user. The instructions for Lion will apply for you.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528

Once you enable root user, in the terminal you will type su and then the password you chose when prompted. Your prompt will look like this when you are root.

sh-3.2#

I recommend you disable root user after you are done with the Handoff Activation steps.

 

[mrteo]

Hi,
First of all, thank you very much for your effort.
But, I'm having the same problem on the same machine as this guy.
The only Handoff feature working is Airdrop.
I tried first with the manual procedure and then with your tool, but the result is the same.

Any advice?

Hi UncleSchnitty!

thanks a lot for your guide! Have a MBA mid 2011 here. BT LE is supported and LMP ver is 0x6.

Following your guide I now can enable Handoff from System Preferences.

Unfortunately despite multiple reboot and having signout from bot my MBA and my iDevices I still can see any sign of handoff presence (I'm trying to create email or cal on my iOS but nothing, also no hotspot presence in my wifi list).

I don't think I have to rebuilt permission or reinstall the kext as otherwise I wouldn't have the option to enable it right?

 

[logname]

Hi,
First of all, thank you very much for your effort.
But, I'm having the same problem on the same machine as this guy.
The only Handoff feature working is Airdrop.
I tried first with the manual procedure and then with your tool, but the result is the same.

Any advice?

OK, so I had everything working beautifully and then for an unrelated reason I had to do a SAFE BOOT. After that I found the Handoff option was gone. No problem I thought, I'll just go through the procedure as I did before and put it back (mental note, avoid SAFE BOOT). Only problem was, it wasn't working the second time around.

So I carefully examined what I was doing differently or if anything deviated from the explicit instructions. It wasn't necessary to re-create the modified IO80211Family.kext and IOBluetoothFamily.kext files, I already had those from before and they were correct (I verified using find in 0xED).

What I found was that I was skipping a step, because it worked the first time, but it didn't work the second time. What I was missing was the step to first delete the IO80211Family.kext and IOBluetoothFamily.kext files after backing them up.

"6. Copy the files below to your desktop and then delete the originals. Make an extra backup copy of the 2 files in a separate folder just in case something doesn't work.
Code:
IO80211Family.kext
IOBluetoothFamily.kext"

So if the tool isn't working for you, go to step 29 of the manual procedure, do that step and then start over from step 1 making sure you follow every step verbatum, whether you think it makes sense or not.

These instructions are good and do work. I see no reason you should not be able to get this working on a Mid 2011 MBA if you're following the instructions exactly. I have a Mid 2011 MBA and it has worked twice now. As far as Handoff not working perfectly every time, as opposed to not working at all, it's more likely an Apple issue that will be resolved in updates.

Note: I had some sudo commands ignored just as rafaelo experienced, so I enabled root user and became super user to issue all commands. Should not have to I know, but I did and it worked.

How to enable root:
The instructions for Lion will apply for you.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528

Once you enable root user, in the terminal you will type su and then the password you chose when prompted. Your prompt will look like this when you are root.

sh-3.2#

I recommend you disable root user after you are done with the Handoff Activation steps.

 

[TomH TX]

Let me first say a tremendous thank you to all who have made this possible.
I have read ALL 25 pages of this thread, AND two other related threads.
I have an early 2011 MBP 15".
I ordered my CAX card, which arrived today, and I have verified that it is the correct card.
SO: I am hoping to try the hardware install, and then the 1.0.2 patch tomorrow.
However, for purposes of summarizing, I just wanted to make sure I was understanding the sequence:
1. Replace my BT 2 card with the 4.0 CAX card per the ifixit video; and then
2. Run the 1.0.2 program.
??: Do I need to do anything in between, after I power up my MBP with the new card?, or just go straight to finder and run the decompressed zip file?
??: AFTER the batch completes, do I go into settings to activate handoff?
I am asking because I am not entirely clear on which of the original 27 or so steps have been replaced with the 1.0.2 program.
Again, sincere thanks for all of the hard work on this.
Tom

 

[logname]

Correct If it shows in pref. then you're good to go. You should repair permissions from disk utility (its good practice and knocks something off the troubleshooting list)

Troubleshooting:

1:Make sure your keychain is enabled under Preferences-> iCloud on both devices.

2:Make sure you iDevices have a charge over 25% (sometimes it turns handoff off if battery is too low)

3:Make sure Handoff is enabled under Settings-> General-> Handoff on iDevices

4:Make sure they are on the same wifi network and bluetooth is on on all devices.

I'm not finding I need to have Keychain enabled to do this, and Apple doesn't say it's a requirement. What makes you suggest it? If it was needed in the beta, it doesn't seem to be needed in the release and having it enabled doesn't seem to improve reliability at all (Handoff is currently somewhat inconsistent regardless).

 

[UncleSchnitty]

Let me first say a tremendous thank you to all who have made this possible.
I have read ALL 25 pages of this thread, AND two other related threads.
I have an early 2011 MBP 15".
I ordered my CAX card, which arrived today, and I have verified that it is the correct card.
SO: I am hoping to try the hardware install, and then the 1.0.2 patch tomorrow.
However, for purposes of summarizing, I just wanted to make sure I was understanding the sequence:
1. Replace my BT 2 card with the 4.0 CAX card per the ifixit video; and then
2. Run the 1.0.2 program.
??: Do I need to do anything in between, after I power up my MBP with the new card?, or just go straight to finder and run the decompressed zip file?
??: AFTER the batch completes, do I go into settings to activate handoff?
I am asking because I am not entirely clear on which of the original 27 or so steps have been replaced with the 1.0.2 program.
Again, sincere thanks for all of the hard work on this.
Tom

All you have to do is put the card in, check in system report that you are getting wifi and bluetooth to show up then run the program. Thats it.

I'm not finding I need to have Keychain enabled to do this, and Apple doesn't say it's a requirement. What makes you suggest it? If it was needed in the beta, it doesn't seem to be needed in the release and having it enabled doesn't seem to improve reliability at all (Handoff is currently somewhat inconsistent regardless).

Activating it seemed to help with the initial handshake between devices, a lot of users said it helped force the handshake, so i put it there as a troubleshoot. Obviously if you are not having issues you don't need it enabled anymore. For that matter for just handoff to work you don't even need to be on the same wifi network but it helped when initially configuring.

 

[logname]

Activating it seemed to help with the initial handshake between devices, a lot of users said it helped force the handshake, so i put it there as a troubleshoot. Obviously if you are not having issues you don't need it enabled anymore. For that matter for just handoff to work you don't even need to be on the same wifi network but it helped when initially configuring.

Got it. Thanks for the explanation!

 

[TomH TX]

All you have to do is put the card in, check in system report that you are getting wifi and bluetooth to show up then run the program. Thats it.

Fantastic! Thank you very much.
Tom