Big Sur --> your Mac OS version is to old

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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Big Sur --> your Mac OS version is to old #475

Open aude-sapere opened 4 years ago

aude-sapere commented 4 years ago

Have you tried these steps?

Is there already an open topic for this issue?

Please include the following information.

OS Version: 11.0
Mac model:Macbook pro late 2011
Dongle or replaced card?:BCM94331PCIBT4AX
Used dongle/card:BCM94331PCIBT4CAX Your Issue:I upgrade the card to get full BT 4.0 support as in Macbook Mid 2012. The system profiler shows the correct card as also the new BT Version 4.0 (v06) When I try to use your tool I get the information that my Mac OS is too old to use this tool. I use actual DP5 Big Sur.

Steps done to try to fix the issue: I have used different Versions of Barry K. Nathans micro patcher, had whitelisted the machine, but no positive result. On Catalina the tool is working. Can you do a change to get V 11.0 (Big Sur) working?

devburke commented 3 years ago

Not a programmer, but my understanding is that this is because since macOS versions for so long were numbered 10.X, a lot of software only checks the X, so on 11.0, it looks like it's version 0. The OS is supposed to be able to identify itself as 10.16 to avoid this issue, but I guess it's not a bulletproof solution.

I don't know if anyone's working on this anymore, but it sounds like it would be a simple edit to the macOS version check.

devburke commented 3 years ago

By the way, does it work on Catalina? I've got an old Mac that's patched to run Catalina that I'd love to use this on, but it can't upgrade to Big Sur without breaking most of the useful functionality.

splaquet commented 3 years ago

I've gathered from order posts that it can work. Personally, I wasn't successful. To finds working solution, I ended up digging deep into the OpenCore & Clover Configurators.

STCMXN-JPY commented 2 years ago

same. macOS Big Sur 11.6.7

--- OS X Continuity Activation Tool 2.6b6 --- by sysfloat
original by dokterdok

--- Initiating system compatibility check ---

Verifying Mac model reference... OK Verifying Mac board-id... OK Verifying OS X version... NOT OK. Your OS X version is too old to work with this hack. Aborting.

STCMXN-JPY commented 2 years ago

Anyway, when I attached the f switch, the installation was successful. eg.) sudo /Applications/Continuity \ Activation \ Tool.app/Contents/Resources/contitool.sh -f