CAT doesn't patch the IOBluetooth.kext in Yosemite because 'abort' after 'failed to disable the blacklist'

[Andrej-Antipov]

Please include the following information.

• OS Version: 10.10.5
• Mac model: Mac-F22C8AC8 (MacBook6,1)
• Dongle or replaced card?: Dongle
• Used dongle/card: GMYLE Broadcom 20702A3 firmware: v14 c4096 Internal Bluetooth 2.0 disabled by hardware hack - contacts isolated on mainboard PRAM variable bluetoothInternal... set up by command line Your Issue: Because described above the CAT don't see the USB dongle and I force the install with option -f in command line with contitool.sh. In 10.11 - 10.13.4 it works and handoff works as expected. But 10.10 has not a blacklist for bluetooth and with option -f the process stops almost in the begin

Steps done to try to fix the issue:

I used a dirty hack and made a change in the script contitool.sh in section

Silent helper funcition that determines whether patching the file is appropriate

I changed the last 'echo' = '0' to '1'

if [ "${lmpVersion}" == "6" -a "${donglePresent}" == "1" -a ! -z "${brcmKext}" -a ! -z "${patchableFileOutput}" ]; then

check ok, go ahead with the patching

        echo "1"
    else
        #check didn't pass, patching would not be effective
        echo "1"
    fi

And the IOBluetooth.kext patch done anyway with normal installation of CAT But it is not good.

And yet I changed the section

Verifies if a USB Bluetooth dongle is active by comparing the internal Bluetooth controller info with the active Bluetooth controller info. ...

....

return the dongle status

if [ ! -z "${internalBtControllerId}" -a ! -z "${activeBtControllerId}" ]; then
    if [ "${internalBtControllerId}" != "${activeBtControllerId}" ]; then

in the last string changed '!=' to '==' don't ask me to confirm usb dongle... but it's never mind

[Andrej-Antipov]

After 'dirty hack' the continuity works because the IOBluetooth.kext has patched in the normal installation.

But ./contitool.sh -f still aborted yet anyway - needs fix in the script.

[Andrej-Antipov]

Now full discribe. On mainboard I isolate some pins of the combo wifi+bt connector to power off internal bluetooth After that the variable bluetoothInternalControllerInfo disappears from PRAM and I manually add it value into PRAM The CAT normal Installation won't work with this because don't find a dongle is plugged in. And I used the ./contitool.sh -f command to force this issue. It worked on 10.11 - 10.13 but in 10.10 it is not work because Normal Installation in Yosemite looks that After that we see no handoff After my 'dirty hack' installation OK And handoff is ok, and the PRAM variables set OK But if the ./contitool.sh -f worked as expected it would not have to do this dirty hack with my respect