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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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Bluetooth dropping connection issue #88

Closed smwoodward closed 9 years ago

smwoodward commented 9 years ago

I noticed this after Yosemite came out. I have the the GBU521 USB dongle, and it keeps dropping the 4.0 connection. I can watch the icon on the menu bar showing a connection then dropping it. I have a 15" 2008 Macbook pro. Any help would be great.

smwoodward commented 9 years ago

This is my system diagnostic.

--- 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: MacBookPro5,1 Verifying Mac board-id... OK. Short board id detected: Mac-F42D86C8 Verifying OS X version... OK. Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C81f) 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

Press any key to go back to the main menu...

And system information.

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smwoodward commented 9 years ago

A bit more testing it seems to partly work. If I am doing something on my iPad or iPhone it will pop up the icon in the lower left to open it on my mac, but if I'm doing something on my Mac it will not show up on my iPad or iPhone.

I'm not sure if this is related to this other issue that I've noticed since moving to Yosemite. On Mavericks I used this same bluetooth receiver to use Knock to unlock and it worked perfectly. Since upgrading to Yosemite Knock on the Mac seems to loose it's connection very often. Bluetooth Explorer will crash when I try to view the status of bluetooth.

AhmedOsama commented 9 years ago

any fixes or updates ?! As I am still facing the exact same issue