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dokterdok / Continuity-Activation-Tool

An all-in-one tool to activate and diagnose macOS 10.10-12 Continuity on compatible Mac configurations.
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Yosemite Security Update 2015-004 Broke it #245

Closed sparky672 closed 9 years ago

sparky672 commented 9 years ago

I installed Security Update 2015-004 to Yosemite 10.10.5 yesterday. Continuity and Handoff were working fine until this update.

CAT reported that Continuity was "Inactive". So then I activated it and rebooted. Still no Handoff both ways. Then I logged out/in of iCloud on both devices, still no Handoff both ways.

Continuity Phone Calling is still working, it's just Handoff that is totally broken.

Did this last Security Update kill CAT?

--- OS X Continuity Activation Tool 2.0.0 --- by dokterdok

--- Initiating system compatiblity check ---

--- Hardware/OS checks --- Verifying Continuity status... OK. OS X reports Continuity as active Verifying Mac model reference... OK. Known compatible Mac Model detected: MacPro5,1 Verifying Mac board-id... OK. Short board id detected: Mac-F221BEC8 Verifying OS X version... OK. Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F1021) detected Verifying Wi-Fi hardware... OK. A Broadcom AirPort card is active, and is using the Continuity compatible Brcm4360 kext Verifying AWDL status... OK. An AWDL interface is up, Wi-Fi is ready for Continuity Verifying Bluetooth hardware... OK. 3rd party Bluetooth hardware detected Verifying Bluetooth version... OK. Bluetooth 4.0 detected Verifying Bluetooth features... OK. Bluetooth features are Continuity compliant Verifying Bluetooth firmware... OK. Bluetooth firmware version: v14 c4096

--- Modifications check --- Verifying OS kext protection... OK. Kext developer mode is already active Verifying kexts readability... OK. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth kexts were found and could be read Verifying Bluetooth blacklist status... OK. Your Mac model is not blacklisted Verifying Wi-Fi whitelist status... OK. The whitelist is correctly patched with your board-id Verifying old Wi-Fi kext presence... OK. Legacy Wi-Fi driver Brcm4331 was already removed Verifying legacy Wi-Fi card patch... OK. The patch is already done. Old Broadcom Wi-Fi cards may work. Verifying BT4 dongles compatibility... OK. The patch that enables BT4 USB dongles compatibility has already been applied

sysfloat commented 9 years ago

Whats the status of Continuity after rebooting in CAT?

Also is handoff available in System Preferences?

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I installed Security Update 2015-004 to Yosemite 10.10.5 yesterday. Continuity and Handoff were working fine until this update.

CAT reported that Continuity was "Inactive". So then I activated it and rebooted. Still no Handoff both ways. Then I logged out/in of iCloud on both devices, still no Handoff both ways.

Did this last Security Update kill CAT?

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sparky672 commented 9 years ago

The status is as I posted above... shows everything is fine.

Yes, "Handoff" is available (and ON) in System Prefs.

sparky672 commented 9 years ago

After installing the latest version of CAT, here are the diagnostics...

--- OS X Continuity Activation Tool 2.2 --- by dokterdok

--- Initiating system compatiblity check ---

--- Hardware/OS checks --- Verifying Continuity status... OK. OS X reports Continuity as active Verifying Mac model reference... OK. Known compatible Mac Model detected: MacPro5,1 Verifying Mac board-id... OK. Short board id detected: Mac-F221BEC8 Verifying OS X version... OK. Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F1021) detected Verifying Wi-Fi hardware... OK. A Broadcom AirPort card is active, and is using the Continuity compatible Brcm4360 kext Verifying AWDL status... OK. An AWDL interface is up, Wi-Fi is ready for Continuity Verifying Bluetooth hardware... OK. 3rd party Bluetooth hardware detected Verifying Bluetooth version... OK. Bluetooth 4.0 detected Verifying Bluetooth features... OK. Bluetooth features are Continuity compliant Verifying Bluetooth firmware... OK. Bluetooth firmware version: v14 c4096 Verifying Login Item... OK. Login item for Auto Continuity Check is not set.

--- Modifications check --- Verifying OS kext protection... OK. Kext developer mode is already active Verifying kexts readability... OK. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth kexts were found and could be read Verifying Wi-Fi whitelist status... OK. The whitelist is correctly patched with your board-id Verifying Bluetooth blacklist status... OK. Warning: Blacklist not found in the Bluetooth drivers. An OS X update might have made this hack useless. However, your Mac model shouldn't need to be removed from that blacklist. Verifying BT4 dongles compatibility... OK. Compatibility with BT4 USB dongles is not enabled, this tool can fix this if a dongle is plugged in Verifying old Wi-Fi kext presence... OK. Legacy Wi-Fi driver Brcm4331 was already removed Verifying legacy Wi-Fi card patch... OK. The patch is already done. Old Broadcom Wi-Fi cards may work. --- Modifications check ---

sparky672 commented 9 years ago

Okay... this is weird....

I simply installed the latest version of CAT and used the diagnostics (option 2). I did nothing else. Selecting option 1 simply told me nothing was done because Continuity was already enabled.

However Handoff, both ways, suddenly started working again. Wow... I just don't know if it's my hardware, CAT, or simply that Handoff/Continuity is just a VERY unreliable feature. <- probably this last one.