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Continuity activation tool no wifi Patch#
Continuity activation tool no wifi full#
Continuity activation tool no wifi Bluetooth#
Continuity activation tool no wifi mac#

I have subsequently ordered another two from a different Chinese eBay seller. The first gave me AC wifi but no BT, and the second neither wifi nor BT.

Continuity activation tool no wifi mac#

I ordered two (from a Chinese seller on eBay) with mini pcie adapter cards for my two mac pros. My experience is that not all these cards/with adapters are created equal. This is a great find from MacRumors, the tool was created by some of their enterprising forum members and works as advertised. The following is a list of Macs that will work with the tool, though as noted earlier some may require a different hardware adapter:

Continuity activation tool no wifi Bluetooth#

Typically, a Mac must have Bluetooth 4.0 compatibility to have the feature accessible. Since you can enable Handoff on some Macs with the help of a simple tool, it makes you wonder why Apple didn’t support those Macs to begin with, but there very well could be a reason that isn’t immediately obvious. You can also open Safari or Mail app on the iPhone or iPad to trigger the current session handoff to the Mac with OS X yosemite. You can test the feature by having someone call your iPhone, it will now ring on your Mac if it wasn’t before, and if you didn’t turn off the Mac ringing feature already (you probably soon will if you get a lot of calls). With the feature now possible to enable, you’ll have to follow a few additional onscreen steps to get it all working, including enabling the feature in System Preferences on the Mac, being sure it’s on in iOS, then logging out and back into iCloud on the Mac again. This is completely unsupported by Apple, so you may want to back up your Mac before trying it out. Hit 1 to begin the activation process and follow the onscreen instructions.įor what it’s worth, I had to run the tool twice to get the Handoff feature to actually show up in the System Preferences and then start working on a 2011 MacBook Air, but your experience may be different. The utility requires you to right-click and choose “Open” to get around the developer warning, then runs in the Terminal.

Get the Continuity Activation Tool from GitHub.

Continuity activation tool no wifi full#

The full Mac compatibility list is below. The two Macs that will get the most use out of this immediately since they don’t require a hardware change are the 2011 MacBook Air line, and the 2011 Mac Mini line, and you’ll obviously need an iOS 8 device as well.

Continuity activation tool no wifi Patch#

There are no workarounds and no patch is expected to change this, an AirPort card upgrade is required.There are a few Macs that can use this utility right out to the box to enable the Handoff feature, whereas some other Macs would require a hardware change to a newer Bluetooth card, making it somewhat impractical unless that was on your upgrade agenda anyway. The System Diagnostic feature of CAT tells which Wi-Fi brand is active.

Atheros Wi-Fi AirPort cards will prevent Continuity from working even when adding a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle.

This is a known issue, no workarounds have been identified yet.

Instant Hotspot currently doesn't work reliably when using a dongle.

A few examples: Asus BT400, IOGEAR GBU521, GMYLE, and many others.

The recommendation is to look for dongles based on the Broadcom BCM20702 chip, which are similar to the ones used by Apple in their Continuity compatible Macs.

Inatek Nano) are not compatible with CAT.

Bluetooth 4.0 dongles based on the Cambridge Silicon Radio CSR8510 A10 chip (e.g.

It will only reactivate OS kext signature protection if it is sure that all system kexts installed are signed and valid, to prevent potential boot time issues with 3rd party tools or hardware.Ī few important notes about using CAT with USB Bluetooth 4.0 dongles:

It firsts looks for previous backups made with the tool, and if it can't find any, kexts from the OS X Recovery Disk are reinstalled.

Uninstall: Rolls back any changes applied by the tool.

System Diagnostic: Produces a report of the current system parameters influencing Continuity.

Activate Continuity: Does a Continuity compatibility check, makes a backup of the Systems kexts before and after patching, applies patches relevant to the current configuration.

Seit kurzem gibts das Continuity Activation Tool in Version 2.0, welche auch USB BT4 Dongles (mit Einschränkungen) unterstützt.